What's been your Worst Job Ever?

PurpleBerry

What's the worst job you've ever had? Can be because of the actual work or the people there, or the journey to/from or whatever.

Winner gets the coveted Worst Job Ever trophy...


Tell!

hussey

Neesa wrote: »

What's the worst job you've ever had?

Yore Ma

Can be because of the actual work

She was quite demanding alright

or the people there

there was a queue yes

Captain Ginger

hussey wrote: »

there was a queue yes

Sorry about that, I let a few of my mates skip up the the top with me.

digitally-yours

Thats an interesting thread

Mine was "burger King" Grafton street while studying in college.

and guess where I worked after that

right opposite

in Brown Thomas

what a contrast !

Puddleduck

Possibly working in the pound and having to put nice doggies to sleep

lolly22

Mine is pretty similar. Was at the vets where i live. AS well as many other things he made me do he always left the dead animals for me to sort out. he appologised when i quit for being so tough (i was 16 at the time) was very tough job and never again!!

akamossy

Telesales, quit after 2 days :pac: i still have nightmares about it haha

kittensoft1984

Telesales job years ago.

well was hired as telesales agent and then was stuck doing orders and stuff. Also the boss was a b*itch! Left after 4 months

akamossy

kittensoft1984 wrote: »

Telesales job years ago.

well was hired as telesales agent and then was stuck doing orders and stuff. Also the boss was a b*itch! Left after 4 months

Haha well you lasted longer than me, although my issue wasn't with the bosses, they were lovely, it was with the work. If i had to ring one more person i think i would have went crazy

PCB

recruitment consultant......was fine until i realised that they are seen as the scum of the professional world. they are easily the biggest pack of brainwashing pyramid scheme liars i have ever come across. they are the dirt of society. and ia ctually thought it was great until about 6 months in when you start to see the underbelly and them screwing people over. the sooner we are rid of all recruitment companies the better

Kold

Labouring for my Dad when I was 14. He had me working in some woman's garden and we were moving bags of pond scum. Took all my will power not to wretch every time I moved a bag.


I also worked for that 'Gallop Marketing' lark for 1/2 an hour before I realised it was a bunch of horse****. Marketing my arse, it was the gayest f*cker in the world exploiting teenagers to go door to door.
Jeez, half an hour in that gaff was bad enough.

Solarball10

Hmm I've had 2 awful jobs....worked in a frozen food factory when I was 16, it was the most monotonous and COLD job ever! Just had to fire pies on a moving line all day....hated it, although the money was ok...got fired after a week for taking a long lunch break, hehe...was glad to get outta there!

That summer, I was a dish washer-upper in a hotel...bleurgh. The big huge pots were the worst to clean...worked there for 2 months and just didn't bother going in 1 morning, and that was it

Solarball10

PCB wrote: »

recruitment consultant......was fine until i realised that they are seen as the scum of the professional world. they are easily the biggest pack of brainwashing pyramid scheme liars i have ever come across. they are the dirt of society. and ia ctually thought it was great until about 6 months in when you start to see the underbelly and them screwing people over. the sooner we are rid of all recruitment companies the better

nooooo really? I was kind of interested in working in that field

Heisenberg.

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Munya

Working as "housekeeping" it was so tiring, boring and demeaning.

funk-you

Testing and repairing PCB's in 3com when i came out of college. 12hour shifts of the most mind numbingly boring experience ever. Had a biffo as my supervisor who was an anal retentive f/ck too.

If you were in the queue to clock in and the clock went to 08.01 while you were waiting he'd give you **** for being late.

-Funk

faceman

I was the mopper in a Belgian "live peep show" for 2 months. I would pop in inbetween shows. Paid well but tips were poor.

PCB

ozzyoh wrote: »

nooooo really? I was kind of interested in working in that field

look i did quite well out of recruitment while i was in it but after a while you realise that it's a losers profession of throwing enough sh!te against the wall and hoping some of it will stick. its a sales job full of cheesy unskilled bosses. its no better than a pyramid scheme to be honest. any job where you are promised 80,000 per year when you have no experience obviously is a bit dodgy. they have no concept of loyalty and any given company turns over more people in week thanmost places would in a year. im really embarassed to have it on my cv

JaneyMc

Data entry.... I lasted 2 days, someone had a go at me for no particular reason, not even my boss and I said I wasn't taking that crap and left.

Terry

faceman wrote: »

I was the mopper in a Belgian "live peep show" for 2 months. I would pop in inbetween shows. Paid well but tips were poor.

How much do jizz moppers get paid?

I worked in a box factory at the end of a conveyor belt. My job was to make sure the cardboard was stacked neatly on the pallets.
Great if you are hungover, but I wasn't drinking much at the time, so I found it extremely tedious.

On the plus side, I was earning ~£400 a week for doing it.

Quazzie

Mine was a summer job in a pork production factory and it was my job to scan the belly's and look for cancerous or odd growths and then cut them off before sending the belly to be processed.

Not a nice thing to do when ya got served up a fry every morning for brekkie

AckwelFoley

I never really had a really crap job, but i read in Pi that pighead paid for his education as a fluffer on the low budget gay porn movie lord of the rings

Caoimhín

Chicken slaughter house.

Not nice, still get flashbacks.

hussey

snyper wrote: »

I never really had a really crap job, but i read in Pi that pighead paid for his education as a fluffer on the low budget gay porn movie lord of the rings

ah now, you could have much better titles there

• 40 gays in 40 nights
• 50 First rapes
• Requiem for a Cream

Titles

c4cat

once worked for a greengrocer delivering produce. was sacked within 2 hrs of starting cos I crashed the van as I was driving out of the yard.

had a job in a london call centre working for westminster council taking calls from distraught people who had their cars towed for illegal parking. I used to answer the call with "Good morning vehicle pound how can I make your day today?" then once I located their car I would break the bad news telling them it would cost then 270 QUID to retreive their cars. Imagine the abuse I got down the line then!!!!!

zuchum

Domino's Pizza.

I was sixteen. They paid less than 6 Euro an hour. They only made you come in for maximum four hours per shift and always during the busiest times. I was emergency taxed, so I only earned 3.20 an hour or so. I worked in a hot kitchen answering phones and entering orders constantly on a computer system that hadn't been explained to me.

Everyone in there hated me because they were all trying to get stuck into my friend who was a girl who got me the job, and they assumed I was her boyfriend. I wasn't. No one spoke English.

I was in charge of the money coming from walk in orders as there was no cash register. No one explained how it worked to me though. I got it wrong.

It was a 40 minute journey from my house which cost at least one hour of my wages.



Free pizza though....niiiiiiiiiiice

s14driftking

worj=ked on a pig farm:(smell was unreal final straw tat made me pack it in was when they tried to make me work over the xmas

MJOR

I hated it my God mind numbing telesales and the rejection:rolleyes:

taidghbaby

s14driftking wrote: »

worj=ked on a pig farm:(smell was unreal final straw tat made me pack it in was when they tried to make me work over the xmas

a friend of mine did this and had to **** the bores to get em eh.......going, so he says!

Krsnik87

Working on a helpdesk... Most horrible job I've had, sit infron of a PC that doesn't work for 9 hours taking abuse for the people upstairs. Just cannon fodder really...

DenMan

I worked for two screaming Libyan men in Malta. It was TV production work and was very demanding. However it did make me want to follow a career in Film/TV even though looking back on it now they were a$$holes, seeming to think they were all important, when in reality were actually quite minor at home. Probably the reason they went to Malta in the first place. It toughened me up, that's for sure. It had a kind of strange motivational effect on me (and I still need to work harder on my motivational skills!!!)

s14driftking

taidghbaby wrote: »

a friend of mine did this and had to **** the bores to get em eh.......going, so he says!

its true man

kmart6

Telemarketing/sales....cunt of a company to work for!

Captain Darling

taidghbaby wrote: »

a friend of mine did this and had to **** the bores to get em eh.......going, so he says!

Sounds very stimulating. *ahem*








/I'll get my coat.

Demeyes

The worst job I ever had was in a factory when I was 16/17. I worked there for 2 summers on the factory line. It was hard work moving heavy steel boxes in and out of shakers all day long. The whole process was about 3/4 minutes long and was the same all day every day. I worked around really nasty chemicals. I hated it and got paid pretty poorly for my trouble. To top it off, the bosses there put people under stress the whole time pretty unnecessarily.
I've worked a few other jobs since and the difference is huge.

Slash/ED

I was one of those people who tries to sell you scratch cards as you walk around minding your own business on Henry street. I was the ultimate sell out...

PCB

Slash/ED wrote: »

I was one of those people who tries to sell you scratch cards as you walk around minding your own business on Henry street. I was the ultimate sell out...

that actually looks like the worst job on earth. did you ever see the tools that are really into it. it shud be legal to spit on them

Slash/ED

PCB wrote: »

that actually looks like the worst job on earth. did you ever see the tools that are really into it. it shud be legal to spit on them

I worked with a couple of them. Strange people away from the street, but seemed to think of themselves as artists when out there...

MJOR

Quazzie2002 wrote: »

Mine was a summer job in a pork production factory and it was my job to scan the belly's and look for cancerous or odd growths and then cut them off before sending the belly to be processed.

Not a nice thing to do when ya got served up a fry every morning for brekkie

puke

mike65

Mine was retrieving lobsters from Jayne Manfields bum.

Mike

Duggy747

Here was a job I had to put up with for 2 years.

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I was floor staff and the only reason I kept it was to pay for college . 12 hour shifts, 1/2 hour break (which you could be called from if the place got busy), dealing with arrogant customers, the usual. You never had a day off as you could be rung by a high-up guy and be told to go in and work for 8 hours...........on your day off.

But you were so expendable that you would be fired in a second and a Polish lad would be there to take your place. I'd seen so many of my managers fired for such miniscual things like kicking a Lidl football in the warehouse. You were timed how quick you could unload an over-loaded pallete, had to keep an average of 35 items per minute scanned through your till, pack stacks of unstackable bags of carrots in such a time-frame and fashion, keep pallets lined up straight with the tiles of the floor - despite the tiles been layed down crookedly, do not talk to any person for no more than 20 seconds.

Cuz lunch was so short we were forced to buy their shìt and eat it. Problem was the microwave and kettle were Lidl products and were always broke but we were always refused to have them replaced.

A very depressing place!! I refuse to even shop in the place anymore because of the sheer lack of acknowledgement for the employees or customers, dirty German bastards!!

Rozabeez

First job was in a play centre for children, had to cook, clean, host birthday parties, supervise play equipment, deal with narky parents, reception work etc. Nasty.

After that I worked in Clarks, measuring childrens awful smelly sweaty feet for 3 months, with a bunch of people I didn't quite get on with.

Now I work for Dunnes Stores, in the ol' footwear/lingerie dept.

Puddleduck

Rozabeez wrote: »

First job was in a play centre for children, had to cook, clean, host birthday parties, supervise play equipment, deal with narky parents, reception work etc. Nasty.

After that I worked in Clarks, measuring childrens awful smelly sweaty feet for 3 months, with a bunch of people I didn't quite get on with.

Now I work for Dunnes Stores, in the ol' footwear/lingerie dept.

Poor you, I worked for dunnes way back when...those baxtards

PeadarofAodh

Stationary shop in Blackrock...horrible, horrible experience. Manager was an absolute witch. After a couple of weeks just decided enough was enough and started responding to her demands as honestly as I felt like...got fired a few days later thankfully.

Only job I've ever been fired from and was delighted. I'm a genial, polite person but had had enough. Told her what I thought of her and she said I was never to come into the shop again. Damn...

A_M101

Housekeeping in a guest house when I was 16. The guesthouse was popular with stags and hens so I'd repeatedly have to clean up loads of spilt drink and puked in toilets. Hidious.

Worked a job last year (horse-riding director in an American summer camp) that started at 7.30 am and ran to 9 pm with 2 hours worth of breaks which I often worked through. I spent the whole summer in a daze of tiredness.

Puddleduck

A_M101 wrote: »

Worked a job last year (horse-riding director in an American summer camp) that started at 7.30 am and ran to 9 pm with 2 hours worth of breaks which I often worked through. I spent the whole summer in a daze of tiredness.

That job sounds cool...maybe minus the children and horrible hours..but still!!

A_M101

Puddleduck wrote: »

That job sounds cool...maybe minus the children and horrible hours..but still!!

Yeah, it kind of was. The job itself was great...outside, sun, horses, children but the hours and facilities where rubbish!

kittensoft1984

akamossy wrote: »

Haha well you lasted longer than me, although my issue wasn't with the bosses, they were lovely, it was with the work. If i had to ring one more person i think i would have went crazy

I still work in telesales - love my job now.

Had someone call me the other day about a recruitment job.....told him in no uncertain terms were to go!

garp

I had to clean/chip cement off about 10 tons of bricks. (someone miss-read the plans for a goverment building and they had to be taken up) They were Italan bricks and were quite costly. It was a crap job that lasted two weeks, but on the plus side there was no boss about and it was a nice summer.


que breaking rocks in the hot sun, I fought the law......

Pompey Magnus

I got a job on a building site in London a few years ago in which I was told to wait in a massive ploughed field and sign delivery dockets from trucks that would arrive over the day. On the first day I think about 4 trucks arrived. It was mind numbingly boring because I had no newspaper with me, no iPod, and I was the only person there stuck in the middle of a giant, empty construction site. Also London has proper summers unlike here, it was roasting and there was no shelter.

I spent the day looking for interesting stones in the field. A couple of the truck drivers that arrived were Irish, when I told him I was from Westmeath he was confused as to where that was. I think he must have left Ireland before the county was partitioned.

Quazzie

Depeche_Mode wrote: »

I got a job on a building site in London a few years ago in which I was told to wait in a massive ploughed field and sign delivery dockets from trucks that would arrive over the day. On the first day I think about 4 trucks arrived. It was mind numbingly boring because I had no newspaper with me, no iPod, and I was the only person there stuck in the middle of a giant, empty construction site. Also London has proper summers unlike here, it was roasting and there was no shelter.

I spent the day looking for interesting stones in the field. A couple of the truck drivers that arrived were Irish, when I told him I was from Westmeath he was confused as to where that was. I think he must have left Ireland before the county was partitioned.

Probably a plastic Paddy