Worst job you have ever had?

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I know it has probably been done before, but following on from the other job related thread, I thought it would be fun to find out what is the worst jobs you chaps have had?

When I was at Uni many moons ago, I spent 4 months being a dustman. Used to go home stinking of crap as expected.

Surprisingly, I have regretted doing much 'better' jobs than that in the past.

It was quite good fun actually.
 
Checkout boy at a chavvy supermarket (Food Giant). Soul-destroying, mind-numbing boredom. Highlight was the day we were quiet and they let me do shelf-stacking for an hour instead. Fortunately it was only a summer job, I don't know how people do that **** full time :(

Fully star swearies!
 
Delivering coal, came home every evening and took ages to get cleaned up. In my current job (painter+decorator), i work in a dairy doing maintenance. Nothing but the smell of sour milk and cream, plus the amount of water on the floor means you need welly boots, even inside.
 
Probably working reception (lost my Man Card for 6 months over that) part time in a very upmarket health club whilst studying. Dealing with incredibly ugly, stupid and impossible pompous ***** on a daily basis. Gordon Brown also use to come in now and again for a sauna. He never offered his swipe card, greeted anyone or asked for a towel, he just reached over the counter and took it. It was the type of place where rich old wives would come in for personal training and sitting in the lounge afterwards, trying to outdo each other with their wealth. I got so bored and felt so sorry for these empty souls, my feet killed me, wages was disastrous and the environment toxic and depressing.
 
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Worst job(s) have been on a couple of occasions where I've tried to be a door to door salesman type, once with vouchers for activity days and once for charities. Absolutely soul-crushing work because I simply didn't believe in what I was meant to be doing so while I could give the patter I was never likely to do well and quit a very brief period each time.
 
When doing some agency work.. sent me to a car factory. My job was to take the moulded carpet bits off the machine that moulded them (from flat sheets) and put it on a pile... all day. It was so noisy you had to wear ear plugs and the guy I was doing it with had the IQ of a brick wall. I didn't go back after that first day.
 
Sorter for a firm that dealt with financial documents that had to sent world wide, dealing with documents from such banks as Societe Generale, Deutsche Bank, ABN AMRO (lol) and the like, it was like a working for the post office sans the union. It sucked, but it was my first job, who knew that my next career path would take me to being a Network Engineer for Deutsche Bank. Strange world.

Things would've looked rosier if I learnt how to spell 'Deutsche' though.
 
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Sweeping a garage forecourt in the autumn when there were 12 monster trees adjoining, and finishing up by cleaning the toilets...
...on a Friday night after school
...next to where everybody waited for the buses to get home

after which I valeted the parts vans that smelt so strongly of battery acid you feel like throwing up

Saturdays were ok though and it gave me a full time job over 2 summers sorting out new cars for August 1st

Characterbuilding...
 
17 and at college; collecting trolleys for a well known supermarket, you wouldn't believe how quickly those trolley points fill up, it was a nightmare, coupled with the fact it was on a saturday and sunday morning and i was hungover/still smashed everytime.
 
Working in a pub. I'm not very sociable at the best of times but when one guy tried to grab my boob and the boss just said it was to be expected I just couldn't handle it. Was the only job I never worked my notice, if someone grabbed me again I would've smacked them!
 
installing cctv in tower blocks, the kinda tower blocks that need cctv installing in to deter the anti social behaviour of the inhabitants. it got a bit wearisome after awhile after treading in yet another human turd "deposited" in a stairwell...
 
The 'worst' I suppose was doing piecework, it was really dull but a couple of my friends also worked there which made it more tolerable. Also the fact that half the employees were OAPs or complete retards meant the piece-rate was low enough that if we knuckled down we could get around £10 an hour which back in 1998 was pretty good!

Some of the stuff we did was:

Putting 'subscribe here!' stickers on Mills & Boone letters, putting in an envelope and put the subscriber address sticker on.

Folding Microsoft booklets (that was awesome, £15 an hour :D)

Folding 8 x RSPCA Christmas Cards, put with 8 x envelopes and then into a plastic sleeve and seal

Putting together Advent calendars with a glue gun

You get the picture...
 
Chicken counter at Tesco. Was horrible cleaning up and also just having to stand up behind a counter all day.

The guy I worked with hadn't cleaned his teeth ever.

Also they gave me shifts where I would work in the morning, go home for a couple of hours then come back, without a car that was 10 times worse. It was only supposed to be part time but they would literally phone me up every day and beg me for overtime.

Lasted maybe a month.
 
3 weeks working for Sayers the bakers after I crashed my mum's car and had to pay up for the excess.

That was rubbish.

Did a shift in the rough end of Wallasey, with the ****** all selling knocked off gear from the back of their clapped out cars in front of the shop. It was benefits day, so it was pretty busy. All the school kids came in at lunch causing no end of trouble. The till was inside a little perspex cage to keep it out of harm's way. Fun times.
 
Rich_L said:
The 'worst' I suppose was doing piecework, it was really dull but a couple of my friends also worked there which made it more tolerable. Also the fact that half the employees were OAPs or complete retards meant the piece-rate was low enough that if we knuckled down we could get around £10 an hour which back in 1998 was pretty good!

Some of the stuff we did was:

Putting 'subscribe here!' stickers on Mills & Boone letters, putting in an envelope and put the subscriber address sticker on.

Folding Microsoft booklets (that was awesome, £15 an hour :D)

Folding 8 x RSPCA Christmas Cards, put with 8 x envelopes and then into a plastic sleeve and seal

Putting together Advent calendars with a glue gun

You get the picture...
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That sounds rough! But I have done a similar thing, but unfortunately fir me, we weren't on price work, PPH was £6.50, but I was 14! Decent pocket money. Mundane jobs really add character!
 
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