Worst job you have ever had?
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Sounds just like most call centre work in general. Soul destroying stuff. The complete lack of freedom in your working day really makes it feel like a prison more than anything.
Trolley dolley at a local garden centre. I went in thinking i'd be doing a few gardening type things, instead they stuck the girls on the checkout and the guys pushing trolleys around and loading cars. The 20p tips made it all worth it... Did one day, called in sick the next weekend and then left the weekend after having got paid for both days. 
I was working at a fitness club at the same time for more money so...
Best jobs, my summers picking strawberrys/soft fruit from around 13-17. As we were paid by the punnet (and given "danger" money for things like gooseberrys) I ended up on around £10 an hour for sitting out in the june sun for 4 hours picking fruit every weekend.
Other best job was for my internship. Sent to Africa and given money for the few days I was on my own to sustain me and when at the camp all the food and drink you wanted. Spent the days doing interesting stuff and driving around in all manner of vehicles in the sand dunes thinking "some people would pay good money for this", while I was on pretty good pay. Oh, I also worked 6 weeks and got paid for 9 (due to rotations) . I'm still trying to get a full time job doing that now I've graduated... 
I was working at a fitness club at the same time for more money so...Best jobs, my summers picking strawberrys/soft fruit from around 13-17. As we were paid by the punnet (and given "danger" money for things like gooseberrys) I ended up on around £10 an hour for sitting out in the june sun for 4 hours picking fruit every weekend.
Other best job was for my internship. Sent to Africa and given money for the few days I was on my own to sustain me and when at the camp all the food and drink you wanted. Spent the days doing interesting stuff and driving around in all manner of vehicles in the sand dunes thinking "some people would pay good money for this", while I was on pretty good pay.
Oh, I also worked 6 weeks and got paid for 9 (due to rotations) . I'm still trying to get a full time job doing that now I've graduated...
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worst job for me was a manager of a pizza shop when i was 19, it was in a right **** hole.had people od inside my shop before and had people thretern me if i phoned an ambulence they would hit me with a baseball bat (very real) but i just threw the electorinic shutters down and hit one with a leg of a chair and phoned the ambulence never ever went back to that shop tho
also had random people coming in saying give me a free pizza or the windows go through and surely enough they went through
i do feel for you, i always have my kp's run ragged and there wages are just appauling,
also had random people coming in saying give me a free pizza or the windows go through and surely enough they went through
i do feel for you, i always have my kp's run ragged and there wages are just appauling,
Soldato
My current job. The MD's son is becoming the manager of our small factory on retirement of the Technical Director. There's a daily power struggle between the two, and the rest of us (5 blokes) get caught up in it all. The worst thing is he's been there 20 years, and he really doesn't know his back end from his elbow. Staff morale is very low a lot of the time.
It's been like this for several years, slowly worsening. I can't leave at the moment which is driving me nuts, due to needing to stay at least another year so I can base the final project of my HND on something I know plently about, i.e. industrial endoscope manufacture/design.
There really is nothing redeeming about the job, even the pay sucks.
It's been like this for several years, slowly worsening. I can't leave at the moment which is driving me nuts, due to needing to stay at least another year so I can base the final project of my HND on something I know plently about, i.e. industrial endoscope manufacture/design.
There really is nothing redeeming about the job, even the pay sucks.
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Neither do most people, but they have to in order to pay rent/mortgage, bills, food etc.
Worst job - PETsMART warehouse assistant. Being an animal lover I was appauled at how they treated their animals.
Soldato
no job.
Working in a furniture store. Always had to look busy despite maybe having an average of 3 customers per hour. Saturdays were great though as I used to go help the delivery guys. Hoovering every morning, trying to look busy on long days and rubbish pay. Was soul destroying at times but I'm sure there are worse jobs.
Another call centre bot. It was for a large hotel chain and there was such an enthesis on sales and call effecientcy and what they called your conversion rate which was how many calls lead to sales.
It wasnt too bad as on the weekends none of the managers were in, just a "Team Leader" which was basically who ever'd been there the longest. We use to have a little tele in the corner so would put saturday morning TV on. If it was a nice day we'd hardly get any calls so was quite nice just sitting there chatting to people sometimes.
I always tended to ignore the managers and the push to make sales, if people want a hotel they will book it, if they are just phoning to order a brochure what can you do?!
It wasnt too bad as on the weekends none of the managers were in, just a "Team Leader" which was basically who ever'd been there the longest. We use to have a little tele in the corner so would put saturday morning TV on. If it was a nice day we'd hardly get any calls so was quite nice just sitting there chatting to people sometimes.
I always tended to ignore the managers and the push to make sales, if people want a hotel they will book it, if they are just phoning to order a brochure what can you do?!
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Packing CDs. The tedium was unbearable. 11 hours stood in the same spot placing a cd into a box.
Soldato
M&S.
Soldato
Kichen work. Good banter, but ultimately the hours were too long and it was too tiring.
Beat this then
When I was young I got a job at a sewage plant. My job was to wait until they lowered the interesting contents in one of their pits, and after putting on a rubber-like suit that went up to my waist, I had to climb down into this pit and paint thick black anti-corrosive paint onto the inside of the wall of this pit. Think I was paid £3 per hour for that.
When I was young I got a job at a sewage plant. My job was to wait until they lowered the interesting contents in one of their pits, and after putting on a rubber-like suit that went up to my waist, I had to climb down into this pit and paint thick black anti-corrosive paint onto the inside of the wall of this pit. Think I was paid £3 per hour for that.
Man of Honour
In sharp contrast to the people who've nominated call centre work as the worst, I worked in one for about 9 months part time and maybe I was just lucky but it was very easy for most of the time so I managed to read a lot of books and got paid about £7 an hour (which was at least £2 more than I'd have got at most other jobs) for doing so. It was however an inbound only call centre and it did leave me with the bad habit of often forgetting to introduce myself properly.
Working as an "assistant" to the head rackets manager of a David Lloyd club when I was 16-18. I've never met a worse bunch of *******s in my entire life.
I was essentially bullied and used as a centre piece by all of the managers, uptight, ex-military officer, egotistical **** heads for nearly 2 years before telling them to stick it.
It really opened my eyes to how the world works. As a kid you have this naive view of the "adult" world being responsible and civil, however what I experienced in that place changed that view forever.
Oh they all happened to be from London too, which obviously made it 100% worse
I was essentially bullied and used as a centre piece by all of the managers, uptight, ex-military officer, egotistical **** heads for nearly 2 years before telling them to stick it.
It really opened my eyes to how the world works. As a kid you have this naive view of the "adult" world being responsible and civil, however what I experienced in that place changed that view forever.
Oh they all happened to be from London too, which obviously made it 100% worse
Data Entry!
Not officially a job as I was on work experience with college. I was supposed to be shadowing the IT guy but they took on two people by mistake. First week I got the short straw and had to sit in a room of old women entering numbers. Lasted two days before I told them to sling it.
I was then relocated to Notts Uni's IT Department and had a great 5 weeks messing around with the uni computers.
Not officially a job as I was on work experience with college. I was supposed to be shadowing the IT guy but they took on two people by mistake. First week I got the short straw and had to sit in a room of old women entering numbers. Lasted two days before I told them to sling it.
I was then relocated to Notts Uni's IT Department and had a great 5 weeks messing around with the uni computers.
Safeway, in the chilled department.
Only because you did 5am - 2pm shifts, usually straight in from a club, and the first job you had to do with put up the BBQ chickens in the spit oven. Which involved stinking slimy chickens being skewered. Never good!
Funnily enough, it was also my best job. Met all my good friends there, not a care in the world, first time with disposable income etc
Only because you did 5am - 2pm shifts, usually straight in from a club, and the first job you had to do with put up the BBQ chickens in the spit oven. Which involved stinking slimy chickens being skewered. Never good!
Funnily enough, it was also my best job. Met all my good friends there, not a care in the world, first time with disposable income etc
Insurance Telesales.
Answering the phone, doing quotes, asking the same questions about 100 times, when you finished with the call, another would come through.
you did have a button that said not ready, however it would be logged and the manager would shout at you as it would affect your sales target, lame pressuried job, with impossible targets that you couldn't reach, speaking to pikies who wanted a quote on a farrari or a nissan skyline suped up.
Answering the phone, doing quotes, asking the same questions about 100 times, when you finished with the call, another would come through.
you did have a button that said not ready, however it would be logged and the manager would shout at you as it would affect your sales target, lame pressuried job, with impossible targets that you couldn't reach, speaking to pikies who wanted a quote on a farrari or a nissan skyline suped up.