Worst Job you ever had...

Sir Osis of Liver.

Mine was picking stones in a giant field for the whole summer holidays to clear the way for a golf course for rich folk.
We were paid the princely sum of 90 pence an hour to gather rocks into a net nitrate bag and pour them into a trailer while the foreman whipped us with a stick if we started slacking off.
Jesus the 80"s were sh1t.

Well ,what was your worst job?

thecatspjs

Production line in a mayonnaise factory. Worst 4 hours of my life.

BOHtox

thecatspjs wrote: »

Production line in a mayonnaise factory. Worst 4 hours of my life.

It was absolute hell, manns

Rosy Posy

Cloakroom attendant in a nightclub- freezing cold by the door all night long, fights abuse and muppetry at chucking out time when idiots lose their tickets and can't accept they'll have to wait til the end, and when it's all over you have to clean the place...shudder...

The Backwards Man

Curator of a small museum for the summer as part of the student summer job scheme, those were the days. I had four visitors in the five weeks.

oldyouth

Taking the staples out of bundles of application forms for a mobile phone company and putting them in one big stack. Literally, there was no more to it than that. Gave it until 4pm and walked. Should have walked at 9.30am but I thought it was some form of initiation prank and I didn't want to give in

keith16

Door to door sales. Young and naive, I turned up for this exciting opportunity not knowing what was involved.

Worst day ever. Never went back.

Mint Sauce

oldyouth wrote: »

Taking the staples out of bundles of application forms for a mobile phone company and putting them in one big stack. Literally, there was no more to it than that. Gave it until 4pm and walked. Should have walked at 9.30am but I thought it was some form of initiation prank and I didn't want to give in

How did you stop the stack of staples toppling over?

stampydmonkey

Market research for a new company in the wastewater treatment industry. All day cold calling and mailing people who don't want to know you. Don't know how call centre/sales people do it.

Also site testing software and inspection procedures for septic tank inspections..lovely work!

oldyouth

Mint Sauce wrote: »

How did you stop the stack of staples toppling over?

Touche :P

Perhaps I was in the right job for my talents

tritium

I've had some crappy jobs- selling scratch cards on the street, working in a junkie infested part of Dublin. Strangely I think the worst, purely for structure and management, was an office job dealing with women's healthcare. Management were obsessed with giving themselves new titles and pay rises as often as possible while doing nothing to develop folks who worked for them. The senior layer was mainly female and I've never seen a more misandristic bunch.

Strangely I stayed a while because the regular staff were mostly sound.

Captain Slow IRL

Glass collector in a niteclub.

Drunk people are arseholes, especially when you're sober. I had one bitch, with a chip on her shoulder, try and knock me over a few times while I was carrying stacks of glasses to/from the bar. I was also bound to clean the toilets at the end of the night. When I finally had enough and left (on good terms with management), my ex-boss deciced to bar me from the pub/club. :mad:

truebluesac

I remember when i was an apprentice we had to earth the structral steels for a big factory in lixlip . It was all external work in january .howling wind , Snowing ,the steel was freezin cold to the touch and just couldnt get the heat into me .

Boaring work and what made it worse it was dark when we started and dark when we finished . No life as all i wanted to do was go home and jump into the fire

Surveyor11

Picking strawberries one summer. Back breaking, sh!te money and I got sick of eating strawberries

BillG

Telesales, cold calling. Spent two days at it when travelling around New Zealand in my youth. I hate being on the end of these type of calls so at the end of two days I couldn't live with myself any longer.......ugh!

Littlehorny

Done a couple of weeks in a chicken farm, 5000 chickens in a shed, it took the first ten minutes of the day just to get used to the smell and you don't want to know what came out of my nose when I blew it, fuppin horrible stinky hot work and all for the princely sum of 6 pound per day!

dj jarvis

working for a contract cleaning company , some of my tasks included cleaning the mortuary/ postmortem room , and the chapel or rest where family's view their dead , there would be regularly people laid out in open coffins while i polish the floor

i was 16 at the time :P

shankespony

Can Concur with Phat Cat on this one, this company had a whole thread to itself once.

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Worst: Page7Media (Car Buyers Guide, Menupages, InDublin). Terrible pay with long hours complemented by possibly the most poisonous atmosphere and psychologically manipulating management imaginable. Horrendous place to work.

mike65

NSFW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpxJu4uJff4

shankespony

Sorry, didn't mean to drag up old thread mods,

Here goes

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showt...php?p=63146415

kult

security dealing with travellers animal all day long

wp_rathead

Food Runner in a 5 star hotel restraunt

snobby bastards the lot of them

fathead82

The 2 days I worked in supermacs.
I decided to quit on the second day when i seen myself in the bathroom mirror,mopping up piss,wearing that stupid hat!

CrazyRabbit

Moderator/Moderator Manager on another forum. No pay, on-call to respond to reported posts/threads 24/7, constant complaints by argumentative trolls who deliberately broke rules & it was impossible to know who was brown nosing, and who was genuinely being nice.

Pang

Polishing silver. The fumes were unreal.

starlit

Not a job per se but helping to pick gooseberries and black currents was no easy job then top and tail them ah the joys of country living thank goodness don't have them anymore! Avoiding nettles and not get stung or bitten or scratched was a task in itself.

Guy:Incognito

truebluesac wrote: »

Boaring work

What were the pigs for? :-)

efb

Trainee Supermarket manager- hell on earth. I didn't mind fruit and veg picking when I was younger

longhalloween

Working in a bar and restaurant on long island on my j1.

In at 9 to sweep, mop and clean the toilets. Get changed into formal clothes at half 11 and start bussing tables at 12. Do that for 4 hours, then get an hours break before doing the dinner rush till 11 or 12 at night. Then home to bed.

Rinse and repeat for 6 days a week x3 months. Only got to see new york on my last week there.

smcgiff

Three very long long months back in my student days working in supermacs, Limerick. My manager said to me 'You don't respect me...' I didn't think it right to turn up the next week considering my response.

Reindeer

Repoman in Texas. I quit after the third time I was shot at. Was a hell of a lot of fun stealing trucks and cars until then, though.

calanus

Working at an oyster farm for a year which was in actual fact quite enjoyable until I contracted terrible shellfish poisoning from handling dead oysters and not scrubbing those fingernails after work. Bedridden for a month!

Gummy Panda

Stunt cock

The amount of pineapple I had to eat daily has put me off pineapple for life

Ace Attorney

Customer service representative for a UK based broadband company, awful, awful job two weeks of inadequate training of diagrams not even related to the job, and then lobbed on the phones. What a shyte job, i was convinced our section of the callcentre was the buffer for rest of the place, Solid abuse down the phone for 9 hours a day, everyday! ''ya irish fuks" "paddy cnuts" etc etc, our breaks were timed, we had one 15 minute break and a 45 minute break for 9 hour day, we had to set our phones when we went on our breaks so the management would know if we were back late or on time from the breaks, 20 people started the same day i did, i stuck it out for 3 months and when i quit there was only 3 people left that started the same day i did. i just got up out of my seat, put down my headset after a a flurry of abuse down the phone and turned off my computer and left and went on the beer for the day. fcuk that place i never went back

Liamario

Thatdoesnt looksafe tome AHHHHHHH wrote: »

Customer service representative for a UK based broadband company, awful, awful job two weeks of inadequate training of diagrams not even related to the job, and then lobbed on the phones. What a shyte job, i was convinced our section of the callcentre was the buffer for rest of the place, Solid abuse down the phone for 9 hours a day, everyday! ''ya irish fuks" "paddy cnuts" etc etc, our breaks were timed, we had one 15 minute break and a 45 minute break for 9 hour day, we had to set our phones when we went on our breaks so the management would know if we were back late or on time from the breaks, 20 people started the same day i did, i stuck it out for 3 months and when i quit there was only 3 people left that started the same day i did. i just got up out of my seat, put down my headset after a a flurry of abuse down the phone and turned off my computer and left and went on the beer for the day. fcuk that place i never went back

AOL?

thecatspjs

Thatdoesnt looksafe tome AHHHHHHH wrote: »

Customer service representative for a UK based broadband company, awful, awful job two weeks of inadequate training of diagrams not even related to the job, and then lobbed on the phones. What a shyte job, i was convinced our section of the callcentre was the buffer for rest of the place, Solid abuse down the phone for 9 hours a day, everyday! ''ya irish fuks" "paddy cnuts" etc etc, our breaks were timed, we had one 15 minute break and a 45 minute break for 9 hour day, we had to set our phones when we went on our breaks so the management would know if we were back late or on time from the breaks, 20 people started the same day i did, i stuck it out for 3 months and when i quit there was only 3 people left that started the same day i did. i just got up out of my seat, put down my headset after a a flurry of abuse down the phone and turned off my computer and left and went on the beer for the day. fcuk that place i never went back

With regards to jobs like this, and other similar ones mentioned throughout the thread. Is there any long term staff in these places (Outside of management)? I know there are times when 'a job is a job', and you have to stick it out for a bit, but I couldn't imagine working in a place like that for more than a couple of months.

Ace Attorney

Liamario wrote: »

AOL?

No wasnt them, dont know how boards feels about naming companys on here but it sounds like miss-cali :P

thecatspjs wrote: »

With regards to jobs like this, and other similar ones mentioned throughout the thread. Is there any long term staff in these places (Outside of management)? I know there are times when 'a job is a job', and you have to stick it out for a bit, but I couldn't imagine working in a place like that for more than a couple of months.

as far as i know there were 5-6 long term staff outside management that were there that had their own section because they had not transfered over to the company fully yet or something like that, our section was 20 all new people and it felt like we were the sacrifice to distract the lions

unattendedbag

Thatdoesnt looksafe tome AHHHHHHH wrote: »

Customer service representative for a UK based broadband company, awful, awful job two weeks of inadequate training of diagrams not even related to the job, and then lobbed on the phones. What a shyte job, i was convinced our section of the callcentre was the buffer for rest of the place, Solid abuse down the phone for 9 hours a day, everyday! ''ya irish fuks" "paddy cnuts" etc etc, our breaks were timed, we had one 15 minute break and a 45 minute break for 9 hour day, we had to set our phones when we went on our breaks so the management would know if we were back late or on time from the breaks, 20 people started the same day i did, i stuck it out for 3 months and when i quit there was only 3 people left that started the same day i did. i just got up out of my seat, put down my headset after a a flurry of abuse down the phone and turned off my computer and left and went on the beer for the day. fcuk that place i never went back

I could have wrote this myself. Very high turnover of staff. You can get promoted too manager in a few weeks if you put in any bit of effort.

HelpImAlive

thecatspjs wrote: »

With regards to jobs like this, and other similar ones mentioned throughout the thread. Is there any long term staff in these places (Outside of management)? I know there are times when 'a job is a job', and you have to stick it out for a bit, but I couldn't imagine working in a place like that for more than a couple of months.

I work somewhere similar and there are a good few permanent staff who have been there for over 3/4 years. Off my head in my campaign of 20, there are 12 of them.

mojesius

Call centre.

I worked in one in London for a big car rental company, customer service.

They had big screens everywhere with the number of calls queuing. When a call went over 30 seconds waiting, the screens started flashing red and the supervisors would start shouting 'CALLS QUEUING', even if everyone was already on the phone.

The supervisors used to sit at the end of the pod, looking over 8-10 people. Complete micro-management. We used to get pulled into the manager's office if you were even a minute late logging in, even thought you always ended up working past your shift because it was so hectic.

We took 60 calls each on a quiet day, over 100 on a busy day. I used to get the 'stupid Irish c*nt' and 'paddy b*tch' stuff down the phone all the time. The rudest were the posh toff older Londoners and gangsta boy racers - Both fúcking horrible to deal with.

The hours were pants as well, shift work, really erratic. The pay was so crap that you had to work at least two weekend days overtime a month, just to be able to go out a night or two.

I got promoted to supervisor after 2-3 months (an extra 3 grand a year) and I was expected to start screaming at my coworkers. My day was spent doing 'manager escalation calls' (i.e. placating the rudest and most irrational customers) all day. Quit after three weeks of that.

Joe Exotic

Off this bird in a pub toilet in dublin she was all teeth:D

Sam Kade

I suppose it doesn't help that most of the posters on this thread are lazy b@stards and hate any type of work other than sitting on their arses all day.































Only joking :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

mockler007

being on the dole for a month was my worst job ever

padma

Delivering coal on a horse and cart when I was about 11. My eyes flared up on me itching red, they were like two pissholes in the snow.

Another job was delivering letters and telegrams for the post office all around Limerick on my bicycle. One day I fell off my bike and met a lovely girl who I lost my virginity to, although she did have the consumption.

The worst of all was writing and delivering threatening letters for a loan shark, who died one day, I robbed her black book of all her customers, threw it into the Shannon and made my way to America where I became a teacher.

Worst for me was Dell in Limerick in the 90's, long hours and noisy factory floor.

wazky

padma wrote: »

Delivering coal on a horse and cart when I was about 11. My eyes flared up on me itching red, they were like two pissholes in the snow.

Another job was delivering letters and telegrams for the post office all around Limerick on my bicycle. One day I fell off my bike and met a lovely girl who I lost my virginity to, although she did have the consumption.

The worst of all was writing and delivering threatening letters for a loan shark, who died one day, I robbed her black book of all her customers, threw it into the Shannon and made my way to America where I became a teacher.

Worst for me was Dell in Limerick in the 90's, long hours and noisy factory floor.

In fairness Frank, you came round the corner too fast on that bike of yours.

green_bow

milking cows in new Zealand for four months

Sam Kade

padma wrote: »

Delivering coal on a horse and cart when I was about 11. My eyes flared up on me itching red, they were like two pissholes in the snow.

Another job was delivering letters and telegrams for the post office all around Limerick on my bicycle. One day I fell off my bike and met a lovely girl who I lost my virginity to, although she did have the consumption.

The worst of all was writing and delivering threatening letters for a loan shark, who died one day, I robbed her black book of all her customers, threw it into the Shannon and made my way to America where I became a teacher.

Worst for me was Dell in Limerick in the 90's, long hours and noisy factory floor.

Frank told some lies in that book of his :rolleyes:

Sam Kade

green_bow wrote: »

milking cows in new Zealand for four months

Try it for 20 years

Sirsok

Funeral insurance salesman in an outbound call centre situated over a macdonalds in melbour ne

padma

Sirsok wrote: »

Funeral insurance salesman in an outbound call centre situated over a macdonalds in melbour ne

That would be dead hard to do.

mattjack

truebluesac wrote: »

I remember when i was an apprentice we had to earth the structral steels for a big factory in lixlip . It was all external work in january .howling wind , Snowing ,the steel was freezin cold to the touch and just couldnt get the heat into me .

Boaring work and what made it worse it was dark when we started and dark when we finished . No life as all i wanted to do was go home and jump into the fire

Mercury Eng. Elec apprentice ?