Worst job you have had in your life.

NTL call centre.
Horrible building, more like a warehouse with zero natural light, erratic shift patterns, and senior staff who wouldnt know one end of a PC from the other. Staff were trained for a few weeks though many had little or no troubleshooting experience which would result in lots of irate customers calling a premium rate line only to recieve completely misguided attempts to resolve their problem.
I was employed to provide tech support for the dial up service but in reality this turned out to be receiving death threats from irate BT customers who had to have their calls routed through NTL in order to be able to use their dial up service. The billing setup was a farce so people were often understandably peeved before they got through to the poor sod who would have to try and sort it out.
I managed to last 9 months which to date is my shortest stint anywhere, but I was losing the will to live.
 
Kitchen porter at a hotel. Hated it. They'd sometimes have an event going on in conference & banqueting as well as in the restaurant so I'd very quickly get rushed off my feet. They only ever had the one kitchen porter on as well even when it was really busy.
 
pieplough said:
Amazon warehouse, terrible environment to work in. Bosses treated all staff with suspicion, and the threat of losing your job or getting a disciplinary "Point" on your record were the only motivational tools used.

Entering and exiting the premises you were searched by security staff by firstly going through an airport style scanner then if that rang getting scanned with a hand held metal detector. Could rant all day about that place...
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Ditto, would not want to work there again.
 
timebomb26 said:
Dishy at a small bistro in Whistler. <snip>
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A housemate of mine was also a Dish Pig when I lived in Whistler. He absolutely hated it, but for some reason he just wouldn't quit because he liked the other staff, then he would drink his earnings away with them in the restaurant bar.

He got so fed up, that one night he drank himself into a total stupor, then used a knife to cut his thumb, with the intention that he would be injured and wouldn't be able to work.

When he woke up next day, he was in pain, but went into work anyway. He now had to wash dishes with a thumb that absolutely killed! We never understood why he wouldn't just quit!

Quite a few typical Ski Resort jobs can be quite soul destroying to be fair.
 
Working in a call centre for T-Mobile in Scotland, having to explain pro-rata bills 100-200 times a day and none of my colleagues could understand me very well. :(
 
Silver service waitress at a military site. Had to be all 'proper', like "Yes sir, no sir, would you like potatoes with that sir" and work with a bunch of pervy squaddies. One of which picked me up and wanted to drop me into a sink full of water as a joke.
 
Nexus said:
A housemate of mine was also a Dish Pig when I lived in Whistler. He absolutely hated it, but for some reason he just wouldn't quit because he liked the other staff, then he would drink his earnings away with them in the restaurant bar.

He got so fed up, that one night he drank himself into a total stupor, then used a knife to cut his thumb, with the intention that he would be injured and wouldn't be able to work.

When he woke up next day, he was in pain, but went into work anyway. He now had to wash dishes with a thumb that absolutely killed! We never understood why he wouldn't just quit!

Quite a few typical Ski Resort jobs can be quite soul destroying to be fair.
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Man that sounds awful. I was lucky to have a cruisy ski rental job during the ski season. I went to the USA for a couple of weeks in the summer and then spent two weeks watching the World Cup. After that I realised I still needed to pay rent!
 
Car wash. Hot, sticky, walking around in an orange boiler suit all day covered in a thin film of chemicals from them being floating around in the air.

Nothing to do all day if it was raining, no lunch break if it was busy, circa £100 a week. This was only about 11 years ago and that was definitely **** all money then. 45 hour week for just a shade over a ton. Bleh!

Still, there are much worse jobs out there.
 
Probably the one I have now. I've done some crappy jobs but nothing beats having to smell/touch sewage. Sometimes it's not so bad and you get used to it but some of the more 'unique' smells are made of pure death. Then there's the idiots who throw baby wipes down the toilet. If your one of these people you should be thrown into the sewer and then made to foot the bill. Always annoys me when the people responsible get away with it.
 
Making those cement posts for fences the big 8 ft ones. Was in a terrible drafty cold unit with some old Git. We use to pour cement into the heavy metal moulds, chuck in a few metal bars, We'd do loads & when they were dry we used to get one on each end turn them over & bang them out on the workbench. They weighed an absolute ton & the cement overflow around the edge used to cut you to bits no matter what gloves you wore. The old boy I worked with had done it years & had hands of iron & just chucked them about & being on the other end you had to keep up or you got hurt/sacked/ended up Gay.

Wierd as one of the best jobs I ever had was Head cow man when I was banged up as a kid. :p I loved those heffas & even named a few after X girlfriends. :D
 
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