Best and worst minimum wage jobs?

pepsi1234

It seems the only jobs around these days are minimum wage jobs.
I currently work in a coffee chain and it's pretty bottom of the barrel work. You have to serve a never ending queue of customers, make coffees, do the tills, prepare food and then clean the whole place afterwards! The fifteen minute break isn't too hot either.
I'm not averse to hard work but there must be easier gigs around.
Are clothing shops good to work in?
What about sales advisors in phone shops? (I've a technical degree so this might help)
Dunnes and Tesco jobs don't look so bad? (or maybe I'm wrong....)

Corruptedmorals

The Dunnes I work in at the moment is finally not understaffed, but there's neverending queues of people so no-one gets off tills..so we get out hours after the shop closes because the floor is a mess. It's stressful, horrible and so exhausting. I hear grocery is better but not much. Breaks and lunches are good though. I'd recommend different shops before I'd recommend that.

the_syco

Worked in Vue, Liffey Valley there a few years back. Pay was €16,000 a year. Great craic, but not for everyone. Some hated the place, but they were mainly those who didn't like doing any work. Shifts were all over the place, rarely got weekends off (was working there full time), and the customers ranged from nice, to the scum from the local halting site who would try to get in free every day. Only moved on as the I got a good job in tech support. That, and the new job paid about €4,000 more a year.

mikemac

Kitchen Porter
In facts most roles in hotels.

Management are tyrants, chefs are bullies and you'll be left at a sink scrubbing pots with nobody to talk to but the wall in front of you.

Some the chefs I dealt with could reduce Gordon Ramsey to tears, why are kitchens the only workplace in Ireland where this is tolerated? :mad:
Finishing up at 1am some nights, clearing out drains, washing bins and getting dizzy from fumes from the detergent in the power washer. Management wouldn't let you use air conditioning when power washing the floor as it's wastes electricity. You'd be leaving dizzy on fumes some days

wantolose

:mad:

mikemac wrote: »

Kitchen Porter
In facts most roles in hotels.

Management are tyrants, chefs are bullies and you'll be left at a sink scrubbing pots with nobody to talk to but the wall in front of you.

Some the chefs I dealt with could reduce Gordon Ramsey to tears, why are kitchens the only workplace in Ireland where this is tolerated? :mad:
Finishing up at 1am some nights, clearing out drains, washing bins and getting dizzy from fumes from the detergent in the power washer. Management wouldn't let you use air conditioning when power washing the floor as it's wastes electricity. You'd be leaving dizzy on fumes some days

Yes, I have to agree, kitchen porter is one of the most thankless jobs ever and you work your butt off, and for some reason everybody thinks a kitchen porter is stupid...how dare they!

_Kooli_

wantolose wrote: »

:mad:

Yes, I have to agree, kitchen porter is one of the most thankless jobs ever and you work your butt off, and for some reason everybody thinks a kitchen porter is stupid...how dare they!

One of my first jobs was a kitchen porter. Horrible job.
The things you see in the kitchen. Would put you off eating out.

mayoireland

ye are luckly i lost my job 3 weeks ago cant find anything at all

pepsi1234

I certainly don't want to work as a kitchen porter!

Crabzork

Kitchen posters are often called dish pigs.i wouldn't mind it right now myself

Also worked in Dunnes Before and wasn't a big fan of it at all. Management were all over the place and no one really seemed to know what was going on. Very frustrating, and they always seem to be understaffed (they're never actually understaffed. They've got the amount of staff they want, they just would rather put as much pressure on as few people as possible instead of lightening the load on some others).


Very frustrating job altogether and certainly something I would not return to.


I'm currently doing a FAS course but want to try and get a job for when it's over. Thing is, Im in Drogheda and the only shops you can really apply to are either huge stores (DID, Argos, Smyths, etc.) where every Tom, Dick and Harry are sending CVs, or they're small stores (pound shops and the likes) where if you're not an immediate relation to, or banging one of the people working there, you haven't a hope.


No wonder so many went down the taxi route.