Worst job ever?

Setun

Worked in a golf club as a cleaner/dogsbody in my mid teens. Members included Sean Fitzpatrick and the likes - cleaning up after his bowel movements was a grim affair.

admiralofthefleet

lounge boy. got £2 an hour and we often worked til after 2 am at the weekend even though we werent paid after half 11, bar staff just used and verbally abused all of the lounge staff

Darraghnormal

Claasman wrote: »

Worst job ever?

would have to be selling doors, door to door.


Thank you bb

haha! Bing bong "hi im selling...oh sh*t you have one"

mightysurveyor

Alter boy in a small little parish working with a really friendly priest.

It was our little secret

KeithM89_old

A fudge-packer.....

spoonface

I worked in a kibbutz for a Summer during which I had various jobs including:

-Going round opening up manholes for my co-worker to fumigate the cockroaches within. We opened up one and it was the motherload - literally 100's of cockroaches scurrying every which way when the light came upon them

-Digging a grave

Einstein

Worked in the manufacturing line in 3Com in blanch when they were there. 12 hour shifts using a scanner to scan motherboards and network cards to ensure they'd been through the correct quality departments.

Scan - replace - scan - replace - scan - replace...think i lasted week and a half...

Giggernaut

Working in music shop.

I remember being really excited at the prospect of working in the store because it resembled the music store from "High Fidelity".

Alas I lasted a three days I couldn't take dusting and organizing cds. The only conversation I had with customers was to show them where the top 20 single/albums were located.

The manager would only allow the latest popular releases to be played in store i.e Ronan Keating/ Faith Hill or some other shi*te for 8hrs .....on repeat

Ruu_Old

Nothing too bad, some people could handle it fairly well. Selling Discover business cards, the amount of people tearing stripes off me was ridiculous. Apparently Discover treats their customers like sheet.

There is a meter as well, like other call centers mentioned, you can't spend very long on a call. If the percentages are in red on the screen, you know that you better hurry your arse up and start selling very fast. You had to do about 20-25 sales to earn any kind of good money. I used to sell around 3 or so every day in an 8-5 shift and every day was worse than the one before. I stuck it out for 4 months and packed it in.

cooltown

For me it was working in Tesco for work experience.
It was the worst experience ever. I still remembe it I tought that I was going to be in an office or something instead I was in the store room waiting for lorries to deliver goods then I had to un load them in the freezing cold and it was in December during the x-mas rush. I remember they should have being 3 guys working with me but they just sat down and did nothing and let me do all the work. I did this for two weeks and all I got paid was a tin of roses!:mad:

W.Shakes-Beer

working in retail sucks the balls no matter what.

AAAAAAAHHH

cooltown wrote: »

For me it was working in Tesco for work experience.
It was the worst experience ever. I still remembe it I tought that I was going to be in an office or something instead I was in the store room waiting for lorries to deliver goods then I had to un load them in the freezing cold and it was in December during the x-mas rush. I remember they should have being 3 guys working with me but they just sat down and did nothing and let me do all the work. I did this for two weeks and all I got paid was a tin of roses!:mad:

This wins funniest story of the thread.

mikemac

Procter & Gamble in Tipp.

For a factory floor job, I had to pass two technical aptitude exams, two interviews, a medical and a drug test.

I was terrfied, thought this must be a complex job with hi tech machinery and they recruited the best people around, hundreds and hundreds applied for these jobs.
I spent the first few months packing boxes and sweeping the floor :rolleyes:

Waterproof mascara will destroy your clothes, the stuff is like superglue. As for lipstick, it stinks and it's messy. Days I left work scrubbing my lipstick off my face.
You'd spot the P&G workers around town, they were the ones with shoes like the colours of the rainbow, splattered with lipstick

We sterilized machinery with Isopropyl alcohol. 70% solution
Went into work sick and hungover and one whiff on the alcohol and I vomited on the floor

Even now when I'm in Boots if I see Max Factor lipstick I can decode what the label, stock, country of origin and batch in seconds.

CoalBucket

Worst job I've had was working in a sock factory, not even making socks just ironing them.

Not with an iron and board either but with foot shape irons that you put the socks on.

There was 12 foot shaped irons on the bench and had to put the socks on each one and by the time I got to the end had to take each one off and put them into pairs.

8 hours a day for 3 months in the hottest summer I can remember. Being paid with a small wage packet and third degree burns.

Rubberlegs

sensibleken wrote: »

are you being sarcastic? Isnt that normal. Ive never been paid for lunch when i was working at an hourly rate and always had to buy my own lunch. Never heard of anywhere any different

Wasn't bein sarcastic at all:(. My first restaurant job at 16, I wasn't docked pay for lunchtime, and could take whatever I wanted to eat for free on breaks. So you can imagine the indignant head on me when this wasn't the case, in the next place. This is going back a long time now, and I've not done waitressing since then, so obviously things have changed. Or I just really lucked out in the first job....

mle1324

d.pop wrote: »

worked in a printing factory in Israel putting elastic bands around bundles of gas bills. There was a little number in the corner of each bill, you started at one and when you got to 500 you put an elastic band around the bunch and into a box, then 501-1001, 1002-1502 etc etc, went on for 8hrs at a time on a shift from 04:00 to 12:00, the boss would randomly pick out bunches to check that you were following the numbers correctly, if you weren't you'd have to pause the machine sort it out and start again, down time was added on to your shift. Guy who had the job before me hung himself out the back of the plant, to this day i swear it was because of the job, he did it for 6 months, i lasted about a week and nearly went mental.

Worked something similar to that before too during the summer except it was on a folding machine and I didn't have to count the leaflets but never again would I do it, between the machine jamming and trying to fan/air out the pages after they were cut on the guillotine it was a nightmare.
At one stage I was doing twelve hour shifts (standing) in order to get these RSA leaflets sent of to Mayo or somewhere like that, made a good few bob from it though.

Blackjack

73Cat wrote: »

Or I just really lucked out in the first job....

For Jobs, yep.

TheUsual

Picking tomatoes for two summers.
That's hard work in a glasshouse in the summer sun with nasty chemical sprays and the complete gimps I had to work with. I never had a fist fight with them but I never took any **** either.

Any job after that is gravy.

sensibleken

mle1324 wrote: »

Worked something similar to that before too during the summer except it was on a folding machine and I didn't have to count the leaflets but never again would I do it, between the machine jamming and trying to fan/air out the pages after they were cut on the guillotine it was a nightmare.
At one stage I was doing twelve hour shifts (standing) in order to get these RSA leaflets sent of to Mayo or somewhere like that, made a good few bob from it though.

worked in a packaging plant in ballymount for a while. job was basically put a plug into a bag and pass it to the next bloke.

the work was boring but the job was great because of the craic youd have.

once on a lads birthday we shrink wrapped him to a pallet and put him up on the forklift for hours, aparantely thats a common one. having a treasure hunt for the radio and refusing to do any work untill we found it (by that time the place was closing down and we were all losing our job so feck em)

Saint_Mel

In my Australia backpacking days I got a days work in a warehouse. When I arrived the job was sweeping dead cockroaches out of the place as the exterminators had been in the day before.

Also had a day in a printing factory stocking the production line stations with junk mail leaflets. Worked with a lot of lads from SE Asia who kept screaming at me, and anyone who passed by, that I was in the IRA and trying to bomb the factory.

Had 3 days work in another warehouse. Day 1 was loading up 2 40ft trailers with stuff. We were called in for a 2nd day as the boss realised he had got things mixed up so we had to unload the trailers and then Day 3 was loading the correct stuff on the correct trailers.

Shizzle work but it paid for porter

Caoimhín

Right through university in England I worked weekends in a chicken slaughter and processing factory. We were sent in on weekends to clean up after the week. This involved using a powerhose to clean off the guts and blood from the walls, machinery and floors.
The blood vats were full and the blood was jelly like, we had to climb the slaughter machine and powerhose off the blood, guts and grease.

They would get busy around Christmas and were were put on the slaughter line, hanging the poor chickens by the legs before they would get their throaths cut. As the chickens were killed and went around on the conveyor a little Indian lad was standing up on a box, pulling the eggs from the dead chickens. And placing them carefully on a tray.

I thought little of this until were were told that there was a free breakfast for us in the canteen. Bacon and eggs.....

The smell would get into your pores and you would stink for days. When the heating would come in the university classroom, the place would stink of a slaughter house

The only good point was that ANY job I have ever done since has been a walk in the park compared to that death factory, i still have nightmares.

Leadership

I was a military engineer in the British Army and these were my worst jobs during my service.

• Upgrade of a Kenyan sewage system where I spent the afternoon up to my waist in a small towns waste repairing a pipe. I contracted Hepatitis A as a result.
• In Bosnia we took over a factory that was used as a field hospital by Serbian forces the day before. There were rotting limbs and old blood soaked bandages everywhere that we had to clear up.
• Had to paint grass green and trees brown for a week prior to a visit by the queen to our barracks.
• In Gulf war 1 I was in the first vehicle through the Iraqi anti tank defenses in a combat engineer tractor. Just one hour before the breach the Colonel visited us and told us that at least 10 Iraqi tanks would open up on us so be quick to break through. Also gave us a "last request" of a hip flask of whiskey (alcohol was band in Saudi) and as good as said we would die trying.
• Last 8 years of my career was a bomb disposal tech and served over 3 years in Bosnia, in my last tour of Bosnia I was hit by fragmentation mine which ended my career as I sustained serious injuries.

MajorMax

cooltown wrote: »

For me it was working in Tesco for work experience.
It was the worst experience ever. I still remembe it I tought that I was going to be in an office or something instead I was in the store room waiting for lorries to deliver goods then I had to un load them in the freezing cold and it was in December during the x-mas rush. I remember they should have being 3 guys working with me but they just sat down and did nothing and let me do all the work. I did this for two weeks and all I got paid was a tin of roses!:mad:

What did you expect?

mle1324

MajorMax wrote: »

What did you expect?

Probably the same as I expected :P....Turn up on the first day and get to do the job that you are there for ( As i expected in the garage that I did mine in) but instead you spend most of the week holding a sweeping brush!

73Cat

73Cat wrote: »

When I was 19 worked in a restaurant in town. You weren't paid for your hour's lunchbreak AND you had to buy your own lunch. How very dare they:mad:. Needless to say, I only lasted the week.....

are you serious???

Pyr0

Leadership wrote: »

I was a military engineer in the British Army and these were my worst jobs during my service.

• Upgrade of a Kenyan sewage system where I spent the afternoon up to my waist in a small towns waste repairing a pipe. I contracted Hepatitis A as a result.
• In Bosnia we took over a factory that was used as a field hospital by Serbian forces the day before. There were rotting limbs and old blood soaked bandages everywhere that we had to clear up.
• Had to paint grass green and trees brown for a week prior to a visit by the queen to our barracks.
• In Gulf war 1 I was in the first vehicle through the Iraqi anti tank defenses in a combat engineer tractor. Just one hour before the breach the Colonel visited us and told us that at least 10 Iraqi tanks would open up on us so be quick to break through. Also gave us a "last request" of a hip flask of whiskey (alcohol was band in Saudi) and as good as said we would die trying.
• Last 8 years of my career was a bomb disposal tech and served over 3 years in Bosnia, in my last tour of Bosnia I was hit by fragmentation mine which ended my career as I sustained serious injuries.

Got any other cool stories?

scopper

I still think site work is the worst. I used to be a quasi-labourer but with the added awkwardness of being one for a carpet fitting company so I was constantly out of the loop about what was what (and half the battle in working on a site is just knowing who to ask). Anyway this job involved me convincing nutters stoned 19 year old Celtic Tiger sparks to hurry up so I could glue a floor around them (for the tiles) When working indoors I sometimes had to walk boxes of tiles up 4-5 flights of stairs and often while people were working in offices doing their normal job. Perhaps the worst bit of working on sites when you are close to people in their office jobs is you feel slightly dirty and not in a good way :P

On the complete opposite end all this labouring earned me an education during which I enjoyed a wonderful few years leafing through tax forms and numbering them for reasons I will never quite understand. I've also filed masses of forms in the same job - a process that ought to be used at Gitmo.

These days all this work has put me in a position where I can look back and smile at it, but I also wonder how I didn't go spare.

d.anthony

Leadership wrote: »

I was a military engineer in the British Army and these were my worst jobs during my service.

• Upgrade of a Kenyan sewage system where I spent the afternoon up to my waist in a small towns waste repairing a pipe. I contracted Hepatitis A as a result.
• In Bosnia we took over a factory that was used as a field hospital by Serbian forces the day before. There were rotting limbs and old blood soaked bandages everywhere that we had to clear up.
• Had to paint grass green and trees brown for a week prior to a visit by the queen to our barracks.
• In Gulf war 1 I was in the first vehicle through the Iraqi anti tank defenses in a combat engineer tractor. Just one hour before the breach the Colonel visited us and told us that at least 10 Iraqi tanks would open up on us so be quick to break through. Also gave us a "last request" of a hip flask of whiskey (alcohol was band in Saudi) and as good as said we would die trying.
• Last 8 years of my career was a bomb disposal tech and served over 3 years in Bosnia, in my last tour of Bosnia I was hit by fragmentation mine which ended my career as I sustained serious injuries.

Brilliant! That's hilarious. It's often said that the Queen thinks the world smells of paint, as there's always someone painting something within 50ft of her!

Slig

Leadership wrote: »

I was a military engineer in the British Army and these were my worst jobs during my service.

• Upgrade of a Kenyan sewage system where I spent the afternoon up to my waist in a small towns waste repairing a pipe. I contracted Hepatitis A as a result.
• In Bosnia we took over a factory that was used as a field hospital by Serbian forces the day before. There were rotting limbs and old blood soaked bandages everywhere that we had to clear up.
• Had to paint grass green and trees brown for a week prior to a visit by the queen to our barracks.
• In Gulf war 1 I was in the first vehicle through the Iraqi anti tank defenses in a combat engineer tractor. Just one hour before the breach the Colonel visited us and told us that at least 10 Iraqi tanks would open up on us so be quick to break through. Also gave us a "last request" of a hip flask of whiskey (alcohol was band in Saudi) and as good as said we would die trying.
• Last 8 years of my career was a bomb disposal tech and served over 3 years in Bosnia, in my last tour of Bosnia I was hit by fragmentation mine which ended my career as I sustained serious injuries.

I thought I had some fairly crap jobs in my time but they dont seem so bad when they never resulted in me getting blown up.

BigAliens

CMpunked wrote: »

Did you ever have any of these?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdIbKzBB1X8

I got asked for the "Gippo" before.didnt know about fonejacker at the time so was caught out by it.
caller:"can i get the nuymber for the gippo in dublin 1?"
me:"sorry mate, i cant see a listing for the gippo, what type of company is it?"
Prick: Its a courier service,I think its on O'Connell St."
*after some intensive searching"
me:"Still nothing for the gippo,just wana double check how your spelling it"
prick:Yeah its G........P........O, the gippo"

I hadnt a clue what had just happened