Worst Job!

soph

What is the worst job youve ever had ?

Mine defo has to be working in a call centre.. i only lasted few wks, was a total nitemare

TheBigLebowski

A call centre as well. A very very dodgy call centre.

LegacyUser

Ad sales for a dublin event guide. **** job, combined with 2 hours travelling each way and 30+southsider snobby staff!

Nightmare, I lasted 2 months!

Catsmokinpot

soph wrote:

What is the worst job youve ever had ?

Mine defo has to be working in a call centre.. i only lasted few wks, was a total nitemare

lol im in one 3 years now, 3 long, tedious, annoying, years. somebody kill me now!

worst job i ever had was working in a kitchen, didnt mind the work, it was the going down to the fishmongers, getting 2 buckets of live lobster, bringing them back to the restaurant and having to cook them alive. you used to be able to hear them screaming in the pot but then i realised it was their skeletons cracking from the heat

Nightwish

Mine was cleaning tables in a coffee shop for 3 pounds an hour. I worked an 8 hour shift with only 30 mins break and I was always assigned to the smoking section, which made me stink of cigarettes and I was coughing solidly for a week after I quit...I had lasted 2 and a half days

rainbow kirby

My worst job was working in Super Valu for 3 pounds an hour 5 years ago. The management treated us like crap, and liked to screw with your pay on occasion.

Sam Vimes

maplin electronics. all because the manager was insane. and he wasn't even predictably insane. one minute he'd be laughing and joking and the next he'd be biting your head off for some unknown reason.

he unplugged the phones so he could sleep
he didn't take any calls unless it was the area manager
he never came out to deal with customer complaints
he randomly insulted the staff. for example,
he said that one looked like a junkie and when another asked to be given a new uniform that wasn't too small for him and was told that he should lose weight

in april a girl asked for 4 days off in august and was told that it would be completely impossible and if she wanted to go on her already paid for holiday she should quit. she did. then someone else was given the same time off with no hassle.

my friend had to leave in september for the same reason. he asked for a weekend off with three weeks notice. the manager said it would be impossible, so he handed in his notice. the manager then left a message on his voicemail (straight to voicemail so he wouldn't have to talk to him) reminding him that his contract specified 4 weeks notice. for no other reason that to piss him off. and in april, the manager had said he could have any time after august 27th off.
on the week my friend asked for off, the manager rostered him anyway even though he knew he wouldn't be in. And he rostered an extra person clearly showing that he could have easily given my friend the day off

two polish people worked there and he banned them from speaking polish in the shop, even on their break. he once phoned in on his day off to remind the assistant manager to stop them speaking polish.


he wouldn't let us use his computer to check the maplin website for order codes so the only refence we had to find thousands of items in the back room which was a very out of date catalog. a staff member offered to bring in a crappy old computer of his own and was told he couldn't. (everything in the back room was arranged by order code. with a code you can find somethig in ten seconds, without it, ten minutes)

on his computer, he stole bandwidth from the wireless network in the shop next door.

if you went in to ask him about a refund or something he'd keep you there while he yammered on about random crap for about ten minutes because he liked the sound of his own voice. all while the customer was waiting.

he used to get very annoyed because i "spent too long with customers".

i'll add more as i think of them

Rb

Spar in May,lasted two weeks. It was just such a boring job, and 8 hours of standing in the one spot sucked.

Sam Vimes

ah yes, the only staff member who didn't actively avoid him (they were often seen laughing and joking with each other) asked for a few more hours over the summer. when the guy started part timers got paid double on a sunday, but since then its changed to time an a half. the manager said that if he wanted a few more hours he'd have to accept time and a half from then on. petty and pointless. the guy just liked to annoy ppl

cournioni

I'm not going to name the job I did, but all I have to say is factory, chickens, lost two stone in three months working there, and **** pay.

Not nice at all.

dundalk cailin

me it was working in a canteen at 14 for 3 pounds an hour..there was 4 of us preparing lunch for 250 hungry men (i was too young to appreciate the male : female ratio!!!) other than that, my jobs have lasted 2.5 years, 2 years, 8 months, and 6 months (ive got good references )

biko

Cleaner in a hospital, ugh

faceman

I worked in a adult theatre in brussells. I didnt have half a degrading job as the "jizz moppers" did. They go into the boothes every hour or so when there are no punters in them.

Mr.75

Stop moaning:

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Terror that drifts beneath the Tigris
Anthony Loyd
He wanted to be Jacques Cousteau, but an Iraqi diver now collects corpses



As a boy Salam Farhan was captivated by the sight of crystal water, silvery fish and treasure that were the stuff of The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau on television. So it was natural that he should become a police diver. But now his days are spent beneath the Tigris in a world of mud and near-darkness feeling for corpses with his hands.
“I’m living in a horror film all the time. Sometimes the faces of dead guys stare into my mask or I reach into blackness and grab a hand,” says Salam, 31, one of 14 police divers. “My life isn’t like the TV show. I feel shocked and sad and sometimes nauseous. It’s our reality and it’s tough.”



Under Saddam Hussein’s regime he was mostly repairing broken filtration systems and turbines. But since the US-led invasion of Iraq his work has been more or less confined to recovering murder victims from the oily river.

It’s not just dead Iraqis he finds in its depths, which can be as much as 24 metres (80ft). Salam has pulled up two dead US soldiers, a donkey and cart, and any number of personal possessions.

“One time,” he says, “I touched something huge down there that started moving. I never found out what it was but it was large, alive, and as scared as me.”

Looters have stolen most of the river police’s equipment. Of their 14 boats only four still work. Salam and his team wear torn wetsuits, cheap face masks and flippers.

Their depth dials and compasses are broken and their oxygen compressor leaks so badly that they can remain under water only for 15 minutes before having to surface and recharge their tanks. “You should taste the oxygen,” says Ali, another diver. “Its more like bad garlic than air.”

Coalition sentries stationed in bankside watchtowers along Baghdad’s Green Zone sometimes fire at the police boats, mistaking them for insurgents. And there have been so many rebel attacks on the river police that they have had to move every one of their eight posts to safer locations. Even as Salam speaks at his new riverside base at Jadria, central Baghdad, the radio crackles to warn of an attack on colleagues upstream.

Things are little better when his shift ends.

“I leave all my uniform here and go back to my house in civilian clothes,” Salam says. “I say nothing of my job to anyone.”

Recently his team has been recovering corpses from the al-Aima bridge stampede in August when more than 1,100 Shia worshippers were crushed or drowned. But it was a task in late July that really got to him.

The divers were called to an area of the Tigris near the city’s Selman Park where 20 victims of a death squad were floating in the reeds.

“There were policemen and national guard among them,” Salam says quietly. “Some blindfolded, some handcuffed and bound, some shot, some with their throats cut. Among them was the naked body of a young woman who had been raped and decapitated. I started crying.”

Just occasionally though, among the horror appears a glimpse of what first drew him to diving. “I had a job on the other day in the lake at Habbaniyah where the water is clear,” Salam says. “Ali, my mate, went down first, then came out quick and told me to dive in and see something normal. I dived and down there was a fish, quite big, but just an ordinary fish. It was the most joyful moment, the one thing I’d seen which looked like it was from Jacques Cousteau. I told everyone. I told the world about it.”

this has led to the people on the yorkshire dive forums to start to collect some money and dive gear to send to the iraq police divers

http://www.yorkshire-divers.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=27377

Setun

EDIT/ unfortunate order of post

Sorry I just remembered my first job which put me off work for numerous years. Worked picking strawberries/ raspberries a while back, I think I was getting 8p per punnet. There were these mod-like characters who made sure you weren't messing/ wasting time. People just threw their punnets at each other as they were gettin sweet FA for their efforts anyway. Bloody mayhem.:)

LMAO

I had such an awful job this summer, I couldn't imagine there ever being a worse one. It was literally hell on earth. Sometimes to cheer ourselves up me and my mate would try and think of even worse jobs we could have been doing, but it was hard. Maybe sewage workers or something.

The worst thing was the actual job, as a maid. There were only ever 2 of 3 of us on per day, to clean an entire hotel. We were literally worked almost to death. The speed we had to work at was horrendous, you were always under this awful stress in case a guest arrived and a room wasn't ready or something. The physical hard work was really demanding, the hotel didn't have lifts so we had to run down corridors and up and down stairs with huge piles of laundry, every 5 minutes, since there was no laundry cart. We had to clean toilets with no gloves, and clean right inside, using the same cloth we used for the sink etc. We found some really disgusting things in the bathroom bins like condoms stuck to the bottom and had to pick them out without gloves. The hours were brutal as well, we worked all day from 8.30 to 5 with only an hour for lunch, then we got a break from 5 to 8 for dinner etc, and had to work again until 10pm!! This evening shift was a lot more pleasant, as it was just restocking and checking everything was OK, but we shouldn't have had it at all. 8.30-5 is more than enough hours as it is. We literally had no life outside work.

Another awful thing was the fact we lived at the hotel, which was basically just a reason to pay us crap wages (500/month) since the rent was 'included'. It was this awful dusty little hut which was unbearably hot and sticky and this rancid bathroom used by all the staff, with a permanently blocked toilet and no soap etc. The meals were disgusting, usually we weren't given enough and would be so starving we'd have to go to the rip off grocers in the village to get crisps to fill us. Breakfast was a hard bread roll, or nothing at all, and bitter coffee if you were lucky. The village was so boring, there was nothing to do and no transport out of it at all! Not even taxis. So we were trapped there 24/7.

Forgot to mention this is in France, so add the normal language barriers and general difficulties on top of a demanding job and awful lifestyle.

Probably the most awful thing was the way we were treated by other staff, mostly the other maids. They bullied us to death, gave us all the work and generally tried to reduce us to tears. You actually wouldn't believe the way they treated us in a million years, it was pure cruelty. I'm no sensitive wuss but it was nearly more than I could take.

Honestly it was almost worth it just to be grateful to have a normal lifestyle again. My life seemed like a dream for a few weeks after I left!! Its kinda worn off now, but I doubt I'll ever have a job that bad again.

Takeshi_Kovacs

check out some of the jobs some poor people had to go through hundreds of years ago http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,7-2004442076,00.html
Groom of the stool is particularly nasty....

ratboy

i once circumcised cows in Vietnam, painful memories.

OLDYELLAR

Toy factory
So Boring , the majority of the staff were horrible , the managers were horrible and only for I was really REALLY stuck for cash theres no way I would of lasted the 5 months there , I remember me and the girl beside me almost crying with joy the day we were handed our notice.

Makes me realise how lucky I am now.
Putting 8000 dices into 8000 games of monoploy daily really didnt motivate me.

Sparky

milkboy, 20quid for 3 days, and early sunday mornings.
Im gald those days were over.

Hey oldyellar
/waves

Nasty_Girl

I think the Iraqi corpse thing is the worst posted so far.

I think anything to do with dead people or hospitals would be awful...

galwaydude

try working for a certain call center company in swords

Nightwish

I'm sure working in a call centre is a terrible job, but could someone please elaborate on how bad it actually is? I'm not trying to trivialise how its "hell" or anything I'm just curious as to what goes on in that kind of a job that makes it terrible.

The Sweeper

Vegetable telesales.


...seriously.

wexhun

picking stones out of fields!

nome

i worked in call centre once, it wasn't really that bad at all, supose it was for a leading bank so they had to treat the staff well, paid well 2! only god few a irate callers. but in all, quite liked the job!

TempestSabre

Nightwish wrote:

I'm sure working in a call centre is a terrible job, but could someone please elaborate on how bad it actually is? I'm not trying to trivialise how its "hell" or anything I'm just curious as to what goes on in that kind of a job that makes it terrible.

Its like battery hens laying eggs.

mad m

Worked in Eastern Health board for a year,one day sent to a job were the lady of house was Incontinent. We were doing the whole place up for her and putting shower/toilet facilites in her room.First day I met her she got up from her chair,struggled to walk towards me to say hello and piss was flowing down her leg.

She picked up a plastic bag and wiped herself with it,ugh! She was also half blind and we threw our bags on a bed in front room one day to which she thought it was one of us sleeping on it and started to shout in the room at bags "Get up out of my bed".

Jesus it was a long month,she wore nappies somedays and another day she went into her bed and she struggled to get up into it and called me to ask for help to lift her leg into bed.I looked in and she had no nappy on and I didnt know where to look as she was half in bed.Went in and helped her in... **Shiver down spine** I want my mammy

Alana

Comander vimes that's fu(king awful.

All my bad jobs have just upset my stomach...

Hmm lets see, worked in a deli in a supermarket-allegeric to some foods, so that was fun, let see what rash I get today shall we, also the smell of coleslaw makes me want to vomit&has on occasion induced vomit-very strange but if I even glance at it I feel sick. Then I worked in the bakery, ants EVERYWHERE...very hygienic,ho hum-haven't thought of chocolate eclairs in the same way since...crap managers, crap pay, crap conditions, but discount on and easy access to alcohol, meh I was 15 what else was there to do...

Also, it wasn't the worst job I've ever had but I worked in a particular department of a large department store one which deals exclusivly with women....seeing old ladies nude or near nude 6 days a week is not something I want to do ever again-shudder. Pay was pretty good and got the odd bit of commission or something free, but the amount of hassel that you got from high and mighty nouveau riche type wagons was just soul destroying ...and if it wasn't being moaned at over them being too large to fit into a size 18 equivilant and it being your fault, it was them telling you their life story-just a shop assistant, not a psychiatrist...sigh. You're empathetic the first few times, but after that, you grow numb as you hear it all the time, and it was that that made me leave.

That and I also had a bit of a psycho department manager, she was only ever around once in a blue moon as she was off at fashion shows and the like.Very strange woman...

slipss

When I was 13 I delivered milk every friday, saturday, sunday and bank holiday from 2:00am till 5:30am in Neilstown and parts Clondalkin.

The van driver was held a syringe point and robbed 2 times. So he started bringing a sword in the van, then the next time some1 tried to open the van door he held it to the glass and told them to get away from the van and they ran off, then later that night the same fella walked up tap on the window with a shotgun in his hand ordered the driver out and took off in the van.

We rang the gaurds and they showed up after 40 mins, this was in January so we were left freezing our asses off, and the gaurds found the van burnt out in a different estate came back and told us they had another call so we'd have to get a taxi home.

Either that or those 3 weeks I worked at MacDonalds one summer.

Sparky

slipss wrote:

When I was 13 I delivered milk every friday, saturday, sunday and bank holiday from 2:00am till 5:30am in Neilstown and parts Clondalkin.

The van driver was held a syringe point and robbed 2 times. So he started bringing a sword in the van, then the next time some1 tried to open the van door he held it to the glass and told them to get away from the van and they ran off, then later that night the same fella walked up tap on the window with a shotgun in his hand ordered the driver out and took off in the van.

We rang the gaurds and they showed up after 40 mins, this was in January so we were left freezing our asses off, and the gaurds found the van burnt out in a different estate came back and told us they had another call so we'd have to get a taxi home.

Either that or those 3 weeks I worked at MacDonalds one summer.

im glad to say only the ould fighting words were passed in my same experiences doing milk rounds.
although chrismas time was great, loads of tips from customers and on occasions the nice looker half dressed.
But seriously terrible job in the winter months.

galwaydude

does collecting turf in a bog when younger count. The back would be sore for days after.

Lafortezza

Fluffer on a bestiality pr0n film

Kernel32

wexhun wrote:

picking stones out of fields!

I have done that many many times when I was younger. I got my first summer job when I was 12 working on a large farm. I was making the princely wage of 1 pound an hour and I did all sorts of manual labour. I actually enjoyed picking stones on the corn and wheat fields. Back in those days (18 years ago) there was no such thing as protection for underage workers. I would often work 60hours a week in the summer and I never got one days holiday. The thing is I loved every minute of it, even when I was up to my neck in muck picking carrots because it was too wet to get the machinery in the field.

The job I hated was years later when I worked in a meat factory. No windows, boring as hell, it was soul destroying.

The Song Thrush

Paperboy... summer 2000. Had to be in at 7am six days a week (including Saturday) and got paid a measly 20 pounds a week. I quit after two weeks or so anyway.

Victor

Alana wrote:

Then I worked in the bakery, ants EVERYWHERE...very hygienic

Actually ants are fussy, the much prefer to occupy clean places than dirty places.

Cabaal

Catsmokinpot wrote:

lol im in one 3 years now, 3 long, tedious, annoying, years. somebody kill me now!

worst job i ever had was working in a kitchen, didnt mind the work, it was the going down to the fishmongers, getting 2 buckets of live lobster, bringing them back to the restaurant and having to cook them alive. you used to be able to hear them screaming in the pot but then i realised it was their skeletons cracking from the heat

Yet you love it so much you left and then came back
poor lobster's

I worked in a Centra store once since I was stuck for money, boss was a wanker and in the end I basically told em to f*ck off and stop treating their staff like ****e.
Good feeling overall

Cabaal

April Magnificent Swag wrote:

We had to clean toilets with no gloves, and clean right inside, using the same cloth we used for the sink etc. We found some really disgusting things in the bathroom bins like condoms stuck to the bottom and had to pick them out without gloves.

Yeah I don't know but that would have made me quit straight away.

OLDYELLAR wrote:

Makes me realise how lucky I am now.
Putting 8000 dices into 8000 games of monoploy daily really didnt motivate me.

Hmm I wounder where you worked :v:
*cough* Hasbro *cough*

soph

faceman wrote:

I worked in a adult theatre in brussells. I didnt have half a degrading job as the "jizz moppers" did. They go into the boothes every hour or so when there are no punters in them.

that is ACTUALLY worse than my old job ! you win in my books! FAIR PLAY... yeuuuckkkk. magine the smelll. .euuuww

Siogfinsceal

faceman im speechless after reading that - yuck!!!! I worked in a butchers and constantly stank of blood. At 15 I worked in a shop and was left in charge of opening up, deli, working the tils, stock ordering and taking, newspapers - basically everything!! Worst of all they made me work on the night of my leaving cert results

xzanti

I did this thing one summer where you go round with a big heavy sports bag full of cheap merchandise and try and flog it in industrial estates, pubs basically anywhere they would let you past the front door... It was a complete scam, the ad said "Opertunity to Earn €200 a day" which looked great but unfortunately nobody would buy the bloody stuff so I made about €8 for probably the hardest days work Iv ever done My legs were hanging off by the end of it.. Not nice

masteroftherealm

^^ProSales^^
Th evilest people on the planet!!

working for eircom selling talktime enough said!!!!!!:(

galwaydude

galwaydude wrote:

try working for a certain call center company in swords

which one?

Steve_o

The guy who stands between the escalators at the top in a shopping centre looking down making sure people aren't messing on it!!! Now thats gotta be soul destroying!!

Tha Gopher

How can you fcukers quit jobs after 3 days and just walk into a new one? Its no wonder nowhere wants to employ an Irishman unless they have to, you lazy fcukers have been poisoning our reputation for years.

Ive served my tour of duty in McDonalds AND I work in a call centre. Call centre is a bit boring at times but the pay is animal. I actually do feel sorry for our customers, the company isnt the best ran, and our abillity to help them over the phone can often be hampered by the fcuking search function on the computer database not working properly. Dont think Id use the company tbh. Just wondering but do any other CC operators like it when an Irish person calls? Most of our customers are English/Scottish, but about 3% of calls are Irish, and the Irish generally like to have a bit of a laugh and a joke on the phone.

Its all good until you lose the run of yourself 2 mis into the convo and start talking to some lad from the northside like a mate because thats the way hes talking to you, and the supervisor overhears you saying "yeah no problem bud" or something like it

Then occasionally you get caught with a caller who tells you her life story and you cant manage to change the topic to anything relevant, its like a 12 hour episode of Gerry Ryans show.

Mackers is tiresome, hard enough work for sh1t pay and little managerial respect, but the craic you have there is mad.

BTW Im not naming names, I dont want to lose my cc job, it pays too well (as well as confirming to me that 3rd level is a pile of bollix, most of my work crowd have degrees etc and theyre on my wage level)

LegacyUser

Tha Gopher wrote:

How can you fcukers quit jobs after 3 days and just walk into a new one? Its no wonder nowhere wants to employ an Irishman unless they have to, you lazy fcukers have been poisoning our reputation for years.

(as well as confirming to me that 3rd level is a pile of bollix, most of my work crowd have degrees etc and theyre on my wage level)

I went to college for 5 years, I have 2 HND'S and a degree, they weren't handed to me, I worked for them, and you can be damn sure I am not gonna waste my time in a job I don't like, why should I?
So that I don't make irish workers look bad? What? Surely the only person I need to worry about looking bad is myself?????

Oh, and I can't speak for other 3rd level graduates, but I know I am paid considerably more (5k more) then those without a degree. Don't know if thats the case everywhere, but it is here.

xzanti

Another bad one was my last job actually... Working in a finance company in the Revenue department.. In a prefab in the middle of a building with no natural light, no air conditioning, no internet, no email, no MS applications whatsover, just a set application for data entry, no mobile phones,.. We werent even allowed have a pen in the room for security reasons.. All our PC's where protected by finger print ID.. It was like working for the CIA only not as interesting.. Suicidal stuff

bringitdown

Place the DVD in the box, repeat.

It sucked, but paid the bills when I was in Oz.

godtabh

I worked for a plumber and he had a big job on the refit of the UCI cinemas in Tallaght.

He disconnected the urinals, I thought to replace them. But instead it was for me to wash the connecting pipes that came out of the urinal.

Some of the piss settles there or what ever and leaves a residue. These toliets had about 5 years of residue build up. It was disgusting! The smell alone made me wretch. This went on for a couple of nights. I dunno how I didnt get sick (prob cause I couldnt eat anything after the first time!).

And all of this was part of my work experience for 4th year. The only saving grace was I got paid £200 pw (for about 6 weeks!) for it which was about £190 more than every one else got!

annR

I cleaned toilets for a while in Germany. Anything involving other peoples bodies etc is tough . . . ..I think the toughest job ever would have to be emergency services who have to clean up after car accidents etc. And the one about the incontinent old lady . . .nursing etc must be hard sometimes.