Worst job you have ever had?

IT Telesales

doing B2B even when reaching your sales target they would moan about not making enough calls or not being on the telephone for long enough. Saying that they always wanted me to right the conversation up which normally takes at least 30 minutes to right up. :confused:


it was decent pay (£8.50 and hour if i remember right) but still no job for me :)
 
Orange Peel said:
Data Entry!

sit in a room of old women entering numbers.
Click to expand...

Almost the same here. Was an IT Placement in 1987 where I was meant to be supporting the development of a database but this 'support' was actually typing in telephone numbers from the Leeds Yellow Pages.
 
Working in Burger King for a few weekends when I was 16. Used to have to get up at 5 AM to be in town for 7 AM then working until 2 PM. Was made worse by the fact if it was quiet you had to go on a break and you didn't get paid for it so on the Sundays I usually only got paid for a few hours (that system was ruled illegal a week after I left).

Was made even more fun when we were working in the Drumchapel area for it so ended up having to deal with all the jakies and a couple of times we heard the horror stories of them being found in the toilets shooting up or overdosing, or when a staff member was sacked for stealing a bag of burgers.
 
As a student,summer job in the Co-Op laundry in Romford. Had to open incoming laundry parcels for sorting.
Had a bucket next me into which I emptied the poo in old mens pyjama trousers.
 
Travelling 3 hours to London every monday and coming back late friday night then starting it all over again the next week for £12 an hour working as 3rd line support in central London!

4 months left and I'm already going crazy... It's so expensive living in central London on the wage and staying in a crappy hotel on your own as no-one else from work lives in London is boring! Plus the internet is £15 a NIGHT in the hotel so work won't pay for it and o2 mobile broadband is shocking that it's hardly worth using!

I have to say though, that if my old work mates were staying in the same hotel full time with me it would actually be quite fun as we would be out each night, but on your own in a shoddy holiday inn its such a wasted opportunity and quite boring after a few months as I just long to get back for the weekends as I'm missing out on doing stuff during the week back home.
 
Another shout out for the soul destroying repetition and awful pay of call centre work and also washing dishes in a resturant when I was 17. Only worked over the weekends but it 4 days to get the smell of food off my skin.
 
Filing clerk for the Legal Aid Board.

The day went one of two ways;

Collect files at 8am and take them to the vaults in another building.
Throw them at the back of a random table already overflowing with case files and take it in turns with the other clerk to sleep at the desk, making sure the boss didn't catch either of us. If we couldn't sleep then we would throw paperclips at the magnet we'd taped to the ceiling and see how long a chain we could get before it fell.

or

Collect files at 8am and take them to the vaults in another building.
Throw them at the back of a random table already overflowing with case files and go to the pub. Nurse 2 drinks an hour at £2 per drink. Earned £4 per hour. Net loss £130 per month for travelling expenses.

I lasted 2 months.

So, if anyone has had legal aid, I'm part of the reason that no files can ever be found.
 
I've worked at BK but that wasn't actually too bad in retrospect although only did 2 evenings a week generally.

The worst job I've had was Stock Controller at Laura Ashley, I had to be in at half 6 every morning to receive the delivery and then unpack and sort everything ready to go out onto the shelves and if I got it all done I'd have to replenish the shelves. Maybe it was because I was the only guy working there but it was the loneliest most depressing job I've ever done, just stuck in the store room on my own, no radio, no distractions, just clothes to hang up.
 
Actually, the worst combination of jobs I had was Trolley boy & bar staff.

Used to work weekends Tesco 2-10pm then travel in to town straight after and work the bar of a nightclub 10:30pm to 4am. Obviously, I didn't get a weekend :(

Pay was half decent for what it was, and I met some good friends in the 2 jobs but the weather could be brutal and it was so draining! Used to hate looking out the window and seeing it raining.

Serving the cute drunken slags and the banter was the only thing that made me keep going back to the bar. Left both when I graduated, but I'd never wish anyone to work 2 jobs unless you need the cash.
 
Tomato factory. I was on the start of the line tipping tomatoes from boxes into a big funnel that went onto a conveyor belt. The other person was off sick so i had to tip tomatoes into my side, dash around to the other side and tip another box. This is all i did all day with a 30 minute unpaid lunch break.

I had to pay for the shared minibus to the factory and pay for my uniform which came out my wage

I was there one day, i never did get charged for the minibus or uniform. I would have got really fit if i stayed there for a few weeks i think.

I worked in a warehouse tipping wagons and organising boxes for 2 years during summer and whenever i could to get some money together to afford uni. It was actually ok there, some great people and had a laugh bombing around the warehouse on pump trucks and cleaners :)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom