Worst job you have ever had?

Working as a mini cab driver, long hours, dealing with stupid customers and chavs that wanted to stop at cash points and fast food outlets every 5 minutes. Not to mention people that did a runner sometimes. I suppose it would have been not so bad if I wasn't self employed with a massive costs to cover each week, hence working long hours 6/7 days a week.


Worst times ever.
 
Started for BR as a Carriage Cleaner > people treat the Coach's like carp, especially local haul at week end's. You name it l cleaned it up, and had to be carefull for syringes(druggies) were left down the side's of seats and in the waste bin in the toilet.

But after three year's became a Shunter then a little later Train Driver.
 
'Warehouse Operative' Sundays 8-5 (or sometimes till 9)

Soul destroying stuff, get list -> put stuff on list in box -> seal box -> repeat.

Day after I realised I had been working there a year I handed my notice in.
 
During college I worked for a local charity who sold toiletries packaged by the blind. My job was to cold call people from the phone book and sell these products!

The "office" was a corner of a warehouse room and while my boss was nice and everything the job itself was worse than having your testicles stamped on by a horse that's just been stamped on by something larger, perhaps an elephant.

The only saving grace to it though was that 2 of the girls that worked there I went to college with so it was alright.

I delivered Dominos Pizza for a while after and that was actually quite fun - surprisingly but you had to wear the godawful "uniform" and cap the whole time.
 
semi-pro waster said:
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.
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Job I have now (my first "real job" after dropping out of college) is similar to this - help desk support center where people call us or write us when they have a problem with PC or some request, and we do it.Good pay, fun job, plenty of free time, good bosses, listening music all day and surfin web..dream job : ).Been here 15 months and would like to stay here for a while, at least till I save some money to create my own bussiness or something.
 
Telesales for me.

I lasted a weeks training, did one call and then just quit as I was being a total hypocrite.

I hate it when people phone me so why should I phone them.

I needed a job aswell but I'd rather starve than do that job.
 
_dogma_ said:
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!
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HONK HONK!
 
Worst has got to be McDonalds.

Rubbish pay, rubbish hours, terrible managers.

Went home smelling of grease and could feel grains of salt under my feet in the shower. Gross.

I haven't eaten at one since I worked there 8 yrs ago and theres a reason for that... :eek:
 
nighoftheeighth said:
Worst has got to be McDonalds.

Rubbish pay, rubbish hours, terrible managers.

Went home smelling of grease and could feel grains of salt under my feet in the shower. Gross.

I haven't eaten at one since I worked there 8 yrs ago and theres a reason for that... :eek:
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What did you do there? I work grill side and don't really get these problems :confused:

Worst problem I've had at work is also at McD's, when dealing chavvy cretins who are absolute slobs when eating and have no respect for anyone or anything.
 
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Wow, i actually feel really lucky compared to some of you.

'Worst job' would be Argos when I was at college. It was not that bad as a lot of college friends also worked their but a lot of the time it was bad;

You'd go in and look at the rota to see what you would be doing for your shift. 'Tills' was rubbish, because of the way they install the tills you'd have to stand up (sometimes 8hours+) throughout. You had to ask EVERY customer if they wanted an 'Argos Card', which was a con. I felt bad signing up people for 30%APR credit cards. Luckily I only done about 10 in the few years I was there. Which was shockingly bad considering 10 a week was seen as ok for each employee!
 
shauncr91 said:
What did you do there? I work grill side and don't really get these problems :confused:

Worst problem I've had at work is also at McD's, when dealing chavvy cretins who are absolute slobs when eating and have no respect for anyone or anything.
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Chips / Fries at very busy branch, I'm embarrassed to have ever been employed by them.

I would work 10 hours straight and guaranteed the floor manager would approach me 10 mins before my shift ended and plead for another 4 hours. Talking as if the world would end if I said no.
 
My 'worst' job was washing up in a restaurant for 4 years, I didn't hate the job at all though, was a good laugh most of the time. I've never had a job that I didn't like to some degree.
 
_dogma_ said:
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!
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Surely the employer is in breech of something there? It's expected?

Okay fine. Get a bunch of gay people in, tell them he likes to be molested and profit!
 
nighoftheeighth said:
Chips / Fries at very busy branch, I'm embarrassed to have ever been employed by them.

I would work 10 hours straight and guaranteed the floor manager would approach me 10 mins before my shift ended and plead for another 4 hours. Talking as if the world would end if I said no.
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Ah if it was a busy branch I can understand, I was at Meadowhall for Christmas (Busiest in country afaik), and the kitchen was horrible, can just imagine getting smelly from it and I asked to work with customers, enfuriating but cleaner :p

Back at a small store now and it isn't too bad.
 
In the early days of printers, printer auto-refillers were expensive. A company had a broken their 'auto-paper feeder' for their lazer, and guess what -- getting a temp in was CHEAPER than buying a new one!!

So my brother got a temp job, literally waiting next to the printer with a pile of paper. Whenever the printer light started flashing, he had to feed one sheet at a time into the manual feed slot. When it wasn't flashing, he had to stand there like a plum, doing nothing, not allowed to read or talk, just look at the light .. for anything up to 2 hours until someone wanted to print something else.. That was the whole of the job requirement.

Being a bright kind of character, after 35 minutes he'd managed to FIX their auto feeder using cardboard that he'd found lying around(!!). It worked perfectly. He'd made the paper feeder work again. Hoorah?

Nope - the boss gave my brother an 'absolute rollocking' because he wasn't 'employed to fix it' .. made him deconstruct his perfectly functioning paper feeder, and go back to 'standing waiting for the light to blink'. He found out later the boss had felt 'embarrassed because HE'D failed to fix the paper feeder', so had it deconstructed before BIG BOSS saw it! :(

Nice. The 'look at the light waiting for it to flash' job! My brother managed 4 days!
 
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eggyoke said:
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 :p :D
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Oddly I worked as a general body in a fitness club from 16-18 and I loved it. I was employed to begin with to clean machines but started doing stock, other random cleaning and towards the end HSE. I could essentially work when I wanted and do what I wanted when I wanted (as long as I had everything done that needed to be done).
 
It's got to be between working for a company called cotswold chemicals, tesco or sainsburys

At cotsword chemicals i was moving around 25litre containers of oil, acid and other assorted chemicals then i had to ride my bike home for about 2 miles there and back in the middle of summer which was boiling hot and knackering

At sainsburys i was working nights, some nights it was alright but around christmas time working on the fizzy drinks aisle was absolute hell

And finally tescos was just another soul destroying weekend job for peanuts
 
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