Worst job u'v ever had??

sarah88

hey not sure if this thread has been started elswhere! i'm sure we'v al been in a job that we'v hated, for me it was a trollydolly with irishrail , so glad to be gone!:)

mikemac

Kitchen porter in a hotel

The head chef made Gordon Ramsey look like a pussy, I was swore at every hour of the day and had pots and pans thrown at me. But the head chef abused everyone, even the chefs working with him.
In an office you'd be sacked for that, in a kitchen it's accepted???

Standing over a steaming sink for hours at a time and I was too tall so my back was fcuked from bending over.
Having to power wash the kitchen every night, took aaaaages
Emptying bins in the summer and getting stung alive by wasps

The waiters and waitresses reckon they are above you, gave orders and counted all their tips in front of you.
And I earned the princely sum of 2.50 punts an hour in 1999 :pac:

Rockery Woman

I worked part time in a restaurant when I was a teenager (in 1992). It was an awful place. Some of my most interesting tasks included straining vinegar from the tables through a sieve to remove dead flies, then returning same vinegar to the tables. Also when people ordered soup, they would get a basket of brown bread with it - if it wasn't eaten by the customer it was never thrown away, simply used for the next customer.

The dishwasher water was only changed every 2 days so everything was washed in the same manky water...., also some of the dinners (eg lasagne) could be kept on display for a week on the bain maire! Cream was scraped out of old cakes and buns and replaced with fresher stuff if it was sour. I never ate there, even though I was entitled to a free dinner!!!!:eek::eek::eek:

I also worked for an accountant in 1995, the pay was £80 per week, I asked for a pay rise after 3 months and the boss said he might give me a £5 a week raise after Christmas (it was August). I got offered a much better job with a starting rate of £165 per week (bear in mind at that time it was a reasonable wage - this was long before the minium wage came into effect). When I was handing in my notice my boss asked me how much will my new job be paying - when I told him he nearly got sick!!! ha!:D

I have been in my current job for over a decade. The money and conditions are very good. I am very fortunate, but probably deserve it after all the **** jobs I had in my teens!:)

the_syco

feelingstressed wrote: »

Standing over a steaming sink for hours at a time and I was too tall so my back was fcuked from bending over.

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And I earned the princely sum of 2.50 punts an hour in 1999 :pac:

Ya c*** :P Was only getting £2 punts an hour back in 1999, but I was outside the kitchen, peeling carrots, washing spuds, cooking spuds (in the steamer), and any odd job that the chef didn't want to do himself. Learnt a bit about cooking, and that I'd never work in a kitchen again.

Flyer1

Call centre work :mad:

redzerdrog

ikea co-worker

amdublin

Rockery Woman wrote: »

Some of my most interesting tasks included straining vinegar from the tables through a sieve to remove dead flies,

Um how would a fly get into vinegar in the first place??? Into every single bottle of vinegar on every table?

*confused*

amdublin

redzerdrog wrote: »

ikea co-worker

Oooh! Tell more!

8-10

Flyer1 wrote: »

Call centre work :mad:

+1

brutal

Rockery Woman

amdublin wrote: »

Um how would a fly get into vinegar in the first place??? Into every single bottle of vinegar on every table?

*confused*

They were little tiny black flies, the place was full of them, they used to get into the sprinkler top of the vinegar bottles and drown - hard to imagine but true!

doolox

Working on the output end of a Solderwave machine also expected to do visual inspection on freshly soldered circuit boards and stop the machine by shouting out to the operator to do so.

Hot, smelly difficult and drudgy work.

The second was milk roundsman to factory canteens in the age of glass bottles.

On domestic rounds the customers were very good at washing the bottles for return, not so with canteen workers.

The smell of sour milk from the bottles, often not returned for weeks at a time, was gutwrenchingly nauseating.

CiaranC

8-10 wrote: »

+1

brutal

Ive worked 9/10 hours shifts in the dishpit for peanuts, being the only english speaker in the entire restaurant, washing thousands and thousands of dishes a day and wading up to my neck in pure filth and its not even a patch on the horrors of working in a call centre.

epgc3fyqirnbsx

Insulating attics in Australia where it was 50c + up there, would drink 5 litres of water a day and not piss all day, was meant to wear protective clothing as it was fibreglass we were using but it was too hot so we just wore shorts and a hell of a lot of talcum powder. Only took about 90 mins to do each attic and we'd do three a day and spend about an hour in between driving around in the van having a perv but that 90mins was rough, very rough. Felt like crying climbing up into every attic

Also worth a mention is my summer as a barman in a hotel, was getting paid for 40 hours a week and working 60-70. They promised the time off in lieu, after june and july I was owed all of august and they wouldn't even give me a day so I walked. A very well know hotel it was too, delighted to hear they got taken to an employers tribunal shortly after

peasant

Gutting herrings in a fish factory.
Freezing cold, dripping wet and the smell ...
Scales everywhere ..the tea, the rollies, the clothes (my overalls would stand up by themselves after three days)
Lousy pay
The people were real good craic though