What's The Worst Job You Ever Had?

fryup

CBear1993 wrote: »

I used to get this all the time as a QS when working for an employer.

whats a QS ?

DopeTech

fryup wrote: »

whats a QS ?

https://lmgtfy.com/?q=whats+a+qs

CBear1993

Picture a burning building, the fire is costs escalating. You are the only person with a small fire extinguisher trying to keep the project under budget. TYou are judged on your ability to keep it under budget, even when the rest of your team couldn't give a hoot, and spend spend spend.

frozenfrozen

fryup wrote: »

whats a QS ?

the woman on room to improve who goes no dermot you can't spend 400k when their budget is 230k

razorblunt

pgj2015 wrote: »

Did you never get any kind of revenge on her?

She's a Scottish sectarian bigot milking cows on a farm in New Zealand, job done.

The Tetrarch

I was the audit senior on the annual audit of Dunnes Stores.

The Tetrarch

frozenfrozen wrote: »

the woman on room to improve who goes no dermot you can't spend 400k when their budget is 230k

To which Dermot replies, "They won't be able to live with themselves unless they overspend by miles".

raclle

CBear1993 wrote: »

I used to get this all the time as a QS when working for an employer. It meant that I moved around 3-4 jobs in the space of a couple of years, even though I didn’t want to be jumping around. I’d miss maybe a sick day every 6/7 weeks and I completely understood why I had to leave in the end. Couldn’t help it despite talking to a professional and trying a whole range of measures.

The minute that alarm went or even if I woke naturally, my first thoughts were to ring in sick and turn off my phone to avoid the day. Watching the clock when you’re in there, not being able to apply your focus to doing your tasks.

It only changed this year as I started working for myself / family business. But I have had to go out onto the job market again due to the pandemic. And I am absolutely worrying about this is going to come back.

All the signs are there that I need to do something else for a career

I want to do this next year. Can you give some insights into why you don't like it?

CBear1993

Thankless job. You're constantly on the backfoot from the beginning of the project. Your "team" of contracts manager, project manager, engineer, site manager etc will all want to get the job done as quick as possible regardless of cost. That's their job, get it done inside the programme and they look good. You on the other hand, are given an unrealistic budget most of the time, handed over to you by whoever estimated the job, or whatever silly margin your director decides it should generate.

On the consultant side, you are just minding the clients' money and licking ass. Constant battle to keep both the main contractor and the client happy.

Alos, whether its contractor, consultancy or developer/client side. You'll be flogged and worked like a dog.

Avoid at all costs unless you really have a passion for it. 90% of lads I speak to that do it dislike it, and wish they had have done something else. Constantly looking for a way out.

The only thing it has going for it is that it pays very well. But it's not worth it.

Obviousyl there are a few exceptions to the rule, If you happen to be lucky enough to work for a small company who are grand to work with, or a family business.

DM me if you want any other info @raclle

Muahahaha

piplip87 wrote: »

Spent 18 months as a Facebook content moderator. Have never looked at the human race the same again. From eating dogs to necrophilia and everything in between.

Indeed, there is an ongoing High Court case which was taken by Facebook moderators who ended up with PTSD and other mental health problems. They are saying they had to watch things like Isis beheadings, animal torture and child pornography for up to 10 hours a day


https://www.thejournal.ie/lawsuit-facebook-moderators-ireland-4918420-Dec2019/

chrissb8

CBear1993 wrote: »

Thankless job. You're constantly on the backfoot from the beginning of the project. Your "team" of contracts manager, project manager, engineer, site manager etc will all want to get the job done as quick as possible regardless of cost. That's their job, get it done inside the programme and they look good. You on the other hand, are given an unrealistic budget most of the time, handed over to you by whoever estimated the job, or whatever silly margin your director decides it should generate.

On the consultant side, you are just minding the clients' money and licking ass. Constant battle to keep both the main contractor and the client happy.

Alos, whether its contractor, consultancy or developer/client side. You'll be flogged and worked like a dog.

Avoid at all costs unless you really have a passion for it. 90% of lads I speak to that do it dislike it, and wish they had have done something else. Constantly looking for a way out.

The only thing it has going for it is that it pays very well. But it's not worth it.

Obviousyl there are a few exceptions to the rule, If you happen to be lucky enough to work for a small company who are grand to work with, or a family business.

DM me if you want any other info @raclle

Just leave CBear1993, you're here once, a job should be something you are relatively happy in. If to go by your username and you are infact born in 1993 now is the time to make a change.

Not in another 5 years where you'll still be thinking the same thing. You're way out is to just do it, there will always be something to stop you. If it pays well, get money together and get out.

You don't even have to move into something else if you don't know what that is yet, and just take some time off to figure yourself out. It's time to be about yourself, not matter what anyone around you, or you think might not be sensible.

I say this as someone who was in a similar position for years. I wasted time by delaying it and wish I had just pulled the trigger earlier. Happiness and self worth are the things worth going for in life. It sounds like where you're at now, is it's slowly eroding away your sense of self and the overall negative aspects are starting to overwhelm you.

ongarboy

Searching for and pushing lost trolleys up a hill everyday in Sydney for a supermarket chain
Call centre telemarket research in Melbourne
Putting sticky labels on 1000s of envelopes in San Francisco
Washing pint glasses in a Kerry disco at 5am back in the early 90s

As I type this out, I realise though they were awful jobs, they weren't actually stressful. I've endured far more stress and pressure in my so called career defining, well compensated white collar recent jobs....Maybe I need to review what job satisfaction truly entails...!

gogo

Worked in supermacs for a bit when in college, only lasted a couple of weeks as they asked me to plunk the stray feathers out of the chicken breasts, the chicken breasts were a shade of green for some reason, there was seemingly a legitimate reason for that.. t’was then I quit, knocked down to the level of the skivvy farm hand plucking chickens, I thought more of myself... wrongly it turns out but I was principled back in the day when I though I knew everything

KungPao

Washing pots for some wanker cook who thought he was Keith Floyd in Clerys. £4 per hour though, huge money back then lol.

raclle

CBear1993 wrote: »

DM me if you want any other info @raclle

Will do . Thanks CBear

genius200iq

piplip87 wrote: »

Spent 18 months as a Facebook content moderator. Have never looked at the human race the same again. From eating dogs to necrophilia and everything in between.

Getting paid top dollar to watch videos your friends would be sending you any way, whats the problem?
Whats the pay in facebook , 100k per year, where do i sign up?

KungPao

genius200iq wrote: »

Getting paid top dollar to watch videos your friends would be sending you any way, whats the problem?
Whats the pay in facebook , 100k per year, where do i sign up?

I’m going to guess it was 21k per year on that one, chief. 6 month contract, shag all benefits etc.

04581466

Meat factory back when I was 17 (I'm more than twice that age now...).

Didn't even last a week, went back to the hotel I worked at the previous summer and practically begged for my old job back, thankfully they took me back on board.

Not one bit surprised to hear a lot of what has come out recently about meat factories. I'd like to have thought things would have changed for the better in the two decades since I worked in one, but apparently not.

KevRossi

In the early 90's I worked in a factory in Germany that made cardboard boxes, they were designed, cut and printed there. They were made flat and were glued elsewhere. They came down from the printer on a huge conveyor belt every 10 seconds and were pushed very gently onto a pallet by a machine. Only issue was they would slide out by 0.5mm each time, so if there was 100 on a pallet, it would be out by 5cm at the top.

This was no good, so myself and another fella had the job of pushing them level every time they landed onto the pallet. So every 10 seconds I would look at him, he'd look at me and nod and we'd push this flat piece of cardboard back together, very gently by 0.5mm with our fingertips so it was level with the one below.

8 hours a fcuking day. Do 700 boxes (7 pallets), then take a 15 mins break, then another 700, then 30 mins, 700, then 15 mins, 700 and then go home. They had a counter on the thing and could see the pallets we had done. No escape. Coldotz was easier to get out of.

The guy I worked with was disabled, his knees were bad after injuring himself as a teen soldier in the war, he was about 60/62 years old and delighted with the job, as it wasn't easy for him to find one at that age. He didn't speak to anyone, would mumble something about football in the morning and leave it. "I'm here to work", was his standard quote. No book, papers, radio or headphones allowed. I went slowly mad and after about 4 weeks I just didn't bother going in one morning. Went in the 15th of the following month and got my wages.

I get a twitch just thinking about it.

AmberGold

Back in the late 80’s I dropped out of college and ended up working permanent nights in a cannery. Hard conditions, laborious work, constant noise and heat. There wasn’t one window in the place and you never knew if it was night or day. Some had worked there for 35 years and thought nothing of it.

Best education I ever had.

KevRossi

KevRossi wrote: »

In the early 90's I worked in a factory in Germany that made cardboard boxes, they were designed, cut and printed there. They were made flat and were glued elsewhere. They came down from the printer on a huge conveyor belt every 10 seconds and were pushed very gently onto a pallet by a machine. Only issue was they would slide out by 0.5mm each time, so if there was 100 on a pallet, it would be out by 5cm at the top.

This was no good, so myself and another fella had the job of pushing them level every time they landed onto the pallet. So every 10 seconds I would look at him, he'd look at me and nod and we'd push this flat piece of cardboard back together, very gently by 0.5mm with our fingertips so it was level with the one below.

8 hours a fcuking day. Do 700 boxes (7 pallets), then take a 15 mins break, then another 700, then 30 mins, 700, then 15 mins, 700 and then go home. They had a counter on the thing and could see the pallets we had done. No escape. Coldotz was easier to get out of.

The guy I worked with was disabled, his knees were bad after injuring himself as a teen soldier in the war, he was about 60/62 years old and delighted with the job, as it wasn't easy for him to find one at that age. He didn't speak to anyone, would mumble something about football in the morning and leave it. "I'm here to work", was his standard quote. No book, papers, radio or headphones allowed. I went slowly mad and after about 4 weeks I just didn't bother going in one morning. Went in the 15th of the following month and got my wages.

I get a twitch just thinking about it.

What a nightmare of a job!

Why didn't they just put a vertical stop in place to prevent the "creep",

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

RhubarbCrumble wrote: »

Dunnes Stores. Enough said.

The majority of my workmates were sound and we all had a bit of a laugh together, but Jesus there are a lot of Dunnes managers that should have been drowned at birth.
I think I met about two decent ones.

It's mad how many people have mentioned Dunnes Stores managers on this thread! I worked in both Penneys and Dunnes in my late teens and while one or two of the floor managers in Penneys tended to treat us like little children at times, generally they weren't too bad and you could have a laugh with them.

Dunnes was a completely different kettle of fish. I think trainee managers were actually instructed to talk down to staff. I was working in the drapery stockroom at the time (my manager in there, oddly, was actually fairly sound) and a friend of mine who would have been 19 or 20 at most started as a trainee manager and almost immediately started treating me like a complete pleb.

My worst job would have been working in a Social Welfare office in a fairly rough town during the recession. That was draining. Neither the clients nor the staff wanted to be there, there was a constantly toxic atmosphere. People who say civil servants are too highly paid should try working somewhere like that as a supervisor (or at any grade to be honest). Being abused and threatened by idiots and scumbags on an almost daily basis is not good for your mental health.

smellyoldboot

[Deleted User] wrote: »

What a nightmare of a job!

Why didn't they just put a vertical stop in place to prevent the "creep",

I'd say the 2 boys standing there were cheaper. lol

manatoo

KevRossi wrote: »

In the early 90's I worked in a factory in Germany that made cardboard boxes, they were designed, cut and printed there. They were made flat and were glued elsewhere. They came down from the printer on a huge conveyor belt every 10 seconds and were pushed very gently onto a pallet by a machine. Only issue was they would slide out by 0.5mm each time, so if there was 100 on a pallet, it would be out by 5cm at the top.

This was no good, so myself and another fella had the job of pushing them level every time they landed onto the pallet. So every 10 seconds I would look at him, he'd look at me and nod and we'd push this flat piece of cardboard back together, very gently by 0.5mm with our fingertips so it was level with the one below.

8 hours a fcuking day. Do 700 boxes (7 pallets), then take a 15 mins break, then another 700, then 30 mins, 700, then 15 mins, 700 and then go home. They had a counter on the thing and could see the pallets we had done. No escape. Coldotz was easier to get out of.

The guy I worked with was disabled, his knees were bad after injuring himself as a teen soldier in the war, he was about 60/62 years old and delighted with the job, as it wasn't easy for him to find one at that age. He didn't speak to anyone, would mumble something about football in the morning and leave it. "I'm here to work", was his standard quote. No book, papers, radio or headphones allowed. I went slowly mad and after about 4 weeks I just didn't bother going in one morning. Went in the 15th of the following month and got my wages.

I get a twitch just thinking about it.

This is absolute gold. 😂

Being Germany I'm guessing it was well paid all the same?

KevRossi

Deleted User wrote: »

What a nightmare of a job!

Why didn't they just put a vertical stop in place to prevent the "creep",

I didn't tell the whole story..... 97%* of them landed down OK, but a couple would get slightly stuck as maybe a small cut of cardboard hadn't been removed. So these ones would stop about 10cm short, thus fecking up the whole pallet. It was actually cheaper to employ us to do it. Or it was condiered cruelty to machines to get them to do it. In fact, IIRC, the guy who did the job before me also had some disability, so the company would get some sort of a rebate on them, or else they were meeting some quota.

It would be a dream job for some people I know.

Also, you could order 50 of one type of box and 50 of another, so we could end out with two sizes on one pallet. I'd like to meet the machine that could hand that.

*I know it was 97% because I was told this in advance and I checked it out of hysterical boredom.

wally1990

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote: »

It's mad how many people have mentioned Dunnes Stores managers on this thread! I worked in both Penneys and Dunnes in my late teens and while one or two of the floor managers in Penneys tended to treat us like little children at times, generally they weren't too bad and you could have a laugh with them.

Dunnes was a completely different kettle of fish. I think trainee managers were actually instructed to talk down to staff. I was working in the drapery stockroom at the time (my manager in there, oddly, was actually fairly sound) and a friend of mine who would have been 19 or 20 at most started as a trainee manager and almost immediately started treating me like a complete pleb.

My worst job would have been working in a Social Welfare office in a fairly rough town during the recession. That was draining. Neither the clients nor the staff wanted to be there, there was a constantly toxic atmosphere. People who say civil servants are too highly paid should try working somewhere like that as a supervisor (or at any grade to be honest). Being abused and threatened by idiots and scumbags on an almost daily basis is not good for your mental health.

Friend of mine worked in turas nua (welfare gig to get people jobs)
2 memorable story's are

1 guy from The northside of Cork (the Glen) mid 20s, never worked nor wanted to decided to drop an e tab going into him which he told him as he was coming up/buzzing so that meeting ended shortly.

2nd was a junkie who whipped out a neddle and threatened to stab him.

He quit the week after that threat.

Still in recruitment related role but for a professional agency now

Christ, imaging working on a daily basis with the scum of the earth who don't want to be in that position either (getting a job)

KevRossi

KevRossi wrote: »

*I know it was 97% because I was told this in advance and I checked it out of hysterical boredom.

That explains it, also explains why your co-worker sounds like he has turned into a work droid, "Only obeying orders!".

Lollipops23

I did 9 months in a bookies back in 2010 when jobs were thin on the ground. That was an experience.


But worst was defo cold calling businesses to get them to advertise with the Yellow Pages and try to pimp their awful MySites (basically a really shítty website page they could buy for 200 quid). Terrible and outmoded product being sold by the WORST people- our team lead was a really sleazy body builder who was 100% on the sniff and juice. An awful, cruel and aggressive man- I left there to go to the bookies, that's how bad it was. And I pretty much ran screaming to it- a shít, worse paid gig. No amount of money is worth that torture.

Justin Credible Darts

wally1990 wrote: »

Friend of mine worked in turas nua (welfare gig to get people jobs)


Christ, imaging working on a daily basis with the scum of the earth who don't want to be in that position either (getting a job)

Sorry but doing a turas nua exploitation scheme is not a "job".






It is just a way for the government to manipulate unemployment figures and hide people away on these, working for 20 quid a week

SlowMotion321

(Worst and best)

Teaching! Having to deal with bull**** every day! The students were cool though!