Worst job?

McIrish_

My worst job was McDonalds.


Oh god, that job was slave labour. Minimum wage (barely), always busy, worst cleaning jobs, bad managers, complete bull **** everyday

By far the worst place to ever work. Never had a job that compared to it or even came close.....

mfergus

McIrish_ wrote: »

My worst job was McDonalds.


Oh god, that job was slave labour. Minimum wage (barely), always busy, worst cleaning jobs, bad managers, complete bull **** everyday

By far the worst place to ever work. Never had a job that compared to it or even came close.....

I used work there and thought it was great Craic!

wazky

mfergus wrote: »

I used work there and thought it was great Craic!

Admit it, you were his manager, weren't you?

Doom

1st year apprentice in any trade, 36 punts was my take home pay in 1993 :-(

McIrish_

mfergus wrote: »

I used work there and thought it was great Craic!

Which McDonalds?

Blue Crystal

Cleaning Michael Barrymores pool was a low point for me

ham_n_mustard

i worked in a cold storage unit for a while. temperatures were always below -20C, got down to about -40C when the fans were on. you got a special suit to put on so you didnt die. that was pretty shíte, especially if you had a cold as you could feel the snot freezing in your nose. on the up-side, we got a free pizza for lunch every day.

Mariasofia

McIrish_ wrote: »

My worst job was McDonalds.


Oh god, that job was slave labour. Minimum wage (barely), always busy, worst cleaning jobs, bad managers, complete bull **** everyday

By far the worst place to ever work. Never had a job that compared to it or even came close.....

They wud have treated ya better if ya whipped out your Iphone 5s :-D

Sunnyisland

McIrish_ wrote: »

Which McDonalds?

O the farm

fermanagh_man

Turkey factory

Worked 21days non stop one Christmas when I was 17

It was the best motivation for the following summers exams

NuckingFacker

Putting up industrial pallet racking. We used to call it "Iraq". Imagine the hardest, most exhausting work going then add a level of hell and you're close. The pays crap too. And it's dangerous.

jackboy

Cleaning nightclub toilets the morning after. The horror. Broken pint glasses in toilet covered with six inch layer of excrement. **** and puke on walls and floors.

El Guapo!

jackboy wrote: »

Cleaning nightclub toilets the morning after. The horror. Broken pint glasses in toilet covered with six inch layer of excrement. **** and puke on walls and floors.

Your username is missing an "S" in the middle.

Jawgap

fermanagh_man wrote: »

Turkey factory

Worked 21days non stop one Christmas when I was 17

It was the best motivation for the following summers exams

Not quite the gobbling you were expecting to get?:D

Me - working for a pest control contractor - 4 weeks laying poison in sewers.

Also spent a few months digging trenches for BT in the City of London - hard wok, but great craic and loadsamoney!

biko

Picking grapes in Oz.

The Backwards Man

Lifting fcuking stones from a fcuking farmer's fcuking field.

NoCrackHaving

Working in a pizzeria in a place with effectively no labour law, routinely did 14-15 hour days 6 days a week and was only entitled to a 20 minute break that whole time. Also was the only native English speaker there so all my co-workers were talking away to each other in either Spanish or Russian. So **** job, **** pay and no crack with other people, ****ing crap job.

Akrasia

I used to work in an insurance claims call-centre where I was in charge of the declined claims calls. My job was to call people and tell them that their claim had been denied. All day long I was either making people very angry, or making them cry.

For €8.65 an hour

And this was for a really heartless insurance company who were making obscene profits and often declining claims for very unfair technicalities

The only thing that kept me sane was that I got to (quietly) tell people how they could get their claims decision reversed (like Mr Incredible did)

Banjo String

biko wrote: »

Picking grapes in Oz.

Oh that was a right cnut of a job.

Mine was working for a creep in Sydneys northern beaches. Attic suckers was his company name:pac:

fcuking horrid.

theteal

McIrish_ wrote: »

My worst job was McDonalds.


Oh god, that job was slave labour. Minimum wage (barely), always busy, worst cleaning jobs, bad managers, complete bull **** everyday

By far the worst place to ever work. Never had a job that compared to it or even came close.....

Don't forget the smell. The uniform was like a sponge to it. The only way to get rid of it was with petrol and a match. The mother used to wash it, then carefully place it in the bottom of the wardrobe so it wouldn't affect my actual human clothes. . .the effort was futile!

14 years later and that's still my most prominent memory. Don't do it, kids.

hedzball

stripped out an old military morgue before for rewiring..

watching the plumbers pull out the old tables and the ubends full of bone teeth blood hair...

worked ina slaughter house for 3 years and that wouldnt even tickle me compared to the few hours among human bits...

Seaneh

Doing telesales in ICT-Eurotel in Athlone.


You know all those credit card companies and banks who are paying back hundreds of millions because they miss sold payment protection insurgence to millions of people in the UK?

We did a lot of that stuff.
Selling people who had no ****ing need for the stuff package because every sale was a €1 top-up to my ****ty min wage pay.


soul destroying work.

Daqster

biko wrote: »

Picking grapes in Oz.

Picking Potatoes in Lusk.

dmc17

McIrish_ wrote: »

Which McDonalds?

Ronald's

dd972

How about just titling it the ''Call Centre / Telesales'' thread and being done with it? :pac:

prince of peasants

I worked in Subway for a while. A miserable hellhole. The managers were so tight that they counted how much bread was made and how much was sold. This meant that lunch's were not free and staff were only entitled to a six inch sub at a discount.

I found a way to beat the system though. A disproportionate amount of eastern Europeans use to come into the shop with rewards cards filled to the brink with points in the hope of getting free lunches. I came to the conclusion that their friends were giving them these from other subway restaurants.

Seeing them coming in getting free lunches made me mad and I nipped it in the bud quite quick. I use to tell them that the rewards card machine was not detecting points but 'I will have a look anyway'. Unknown to them it was working and I would take their points and make a sale that I would take for myself at the end of the day. Most of them would leave upon discovering that the rewards card machine was not working totally unknown to them that I had just stole the points from their rewards card which I would later claim as a sandwich for myself(most of the time) or a sale.

I was screwing them over while at the same time remaining an honest employee to my managers. It was probably the only highlight of the job.

Strawberry picking was also a miserable whore of a job not to mention having to walk home a three mile walk at the end of the evening and getting 20 pound after a fortnight of work/slave labour.

jjbrien

Working for a well known amercian owned travel company in Dublin back 10 years ago pure slave labour worked there for 3 months was worked to the bone and got 0 thanks for staying late etc without extra pay. Never again.

xploderz

I was a boards.IE moderator for a few weeks, exhausting thankless work - never again

jjbrien

xploderz wrote: »

I was a boards.IE moderator for a few weeks, exhausting thankless work - never again

They pay you for that?

marzic

proctologist... bummer

Frynge

Cleaning grease traps.

AlanS181824

Ah Jaysus, don't I have a lot to be looking forward to eh?

JillyQ

Stacking shelves in quunsworth (tesco)

rawn

I was a cleaner in the National Aquatic Centre one summer after my LC. Unclogging hair from drains by the handful, fishing poop out of kids pools, unsticking used tampons from the ceilings of the changing cubicles. Eugh. All for about €10 an hour, which was actually pretty good at the time, but still wasn't worth it.

Green Giant

Worked in a kitchen at a pub grub place and left after 3 weeks because it was unbearable. Had a few 10-hour days with 30 mins for lunch and no other breaks, had my hours written in as '12-finish', meaning I didn't know when I'd be getting out of there. The work was soul-destroying, under pressure from the moment I walked in there and it didn't help that I was hopeless at the job. The money wasn't worth it, either.

What really tipped me over the edge, though, was one of my co-workers who took a dislike to me before we were even introduced. While everyone else would appreciate that I was trying and would make the effort to chat away to me during the day, she never had a good word to say about me and made no attempt to make me feel welcome. She would just bad-mouth me the whole time.

The day I left that kitchen for the last time was one to savour.

Littlelulu13

I worked in a restaurant that had ancient uniforms (silk blouses with shoulder pads) and we were not allowed talk to other staff unless it was work related. So if there was nothing to do everybody stood in silence. They were so tight too that they grumbled about giving leftovers from carvery etc for staff lunch.

One day when it was really quiet I asked would I take my lunch rather than going when it would be very busy. The manager gave out to me and told me I had cheek to even ask such a thing when somebody else was already on their lunch. So I said no problem and twiddled my thumbs for an hour with nothing to do until it was my turn and enjoyed my lunch watching everyone else under pressure trying to serve everybody.

It really was the worst place in the world!!!!