What's The Worst Job You Ever Had?

Red_Wake wrote: »

I used to work in the jacob's biscuits factory.

I had to leave after I found out how they put the figs in the fig rolls. Disgusting.

Ha, how? My Mam used to tell me the figs were spiders legs and I believed her.

Anyway.. not near as bad as all of yers, but a few months ago working as a ‘chef’ in a new place, little did I know he actually was just serving frozen chips goujons oven pizzas and onion rings etc. had me hacking onions and tomatoes off with a scissors when customers wanted a ‘margarita’ the poor guy didn’t have a clue. I was 19 and I’d know how to run the excuse for a restaurant better myself.

He also pretended I’d have another lad in the kitchen with me but then left me completely alone, working until 2/3 hours after I was supposed to finish, scrubbing the place from top to bottom while they all joked and laughed at the bar with nothing else to do. They’d come in and **** all the dishes there with not even so much as a wipe. No sense of ‘kitchen respect’ what’s so ever. The place is an absolute joke. Wasn’t long leaving. I remember the last night I was there crying with the back pain and frustration of being in that ****hole, 5 min break for a 9 hour shift, all I do now is laugh at the poor ****er thinking he knows how to run his own business, reminiscing on the times he’d run in and tell me to ‘HURRY Up!!’ When he was the one taking ten orders at a time and putting in all them at once, hence making his own mess, and screaming at me to ‘deep fry a frozen goujon’ faster. The place didn’t even have an oven.

Everyday I want to post a review on Facebook, from the employee perspective!

door to door sales selling frozen fish...with half the time dealing with disinterested people slamming the door in my face *utterly miserable

Not my worst job but the post about retail made me remember -
Worked in a builders merchants when I was 16. This was a long time ago. So this guy comes in and orders half a dozen items. It took time and the shop filled up with people waiting. I asked the guy if he had an account. "Yes", he replied. "What's your name?" I ask.
"Everybody knows me", came the reply. "Yes," I said, "but I need your name."
"Everyone in the town knows me". The Customer is Always Right - to hell with that.
"Well I don't know you and if you don't give me your name you're not getting the goods"
The manager came in, knew him, sorted it out and I got a roasting.
Then he decided I was not an asset to the retail trade and I was "let go".

Putting Irish film cert stickers over English ones on DVDs and videos in a warehouse....mind numbing...while I finished college and was looking for a real job

Ave Sodalis wrote: »

people leaving their kids baby teeth on the kitchen table...

good god! surely not?

People are disgusting

natashaob6 wrote: »

I don't know about the worst job in the world but the most boaring job must be working as a security guard. I know there are risks involved and it can be a dangerous job but if i was doing a twelve hour night shift in a large building on my own I would go insane how would you put down the time?

I did this for a few years too, after I first moved to Ireland. The long hours were grim, but I read a mountain of books so seldom got bored.

Some sites were OK, quite comfortable and not much to do. Others were like horror film sets. I spent a couple of months doing 12 hour shifts in a factory that had burnt down - sat in a little sentry box with no electricity, no heating, no running water and no bathroom facilities for £3 per hour (bring your own toilet roll and plastic bag, ugh) :mad:

Having said that, I still hated retail security far more, particularly a Dunnes Stores in the northside of Cork City, where the managers tended to treat you like you were something they'd trod in.

At the time, I had two young children, so I had no choice but to put up with all the crap. Apart from this short period, I've actually been blessed to have jobs that I have thoroughly enjoyed.

^^^^^^^^^^

and what was the point in that? in the hope people would buy the clothes you were wearing?

seems strange..is that a common practice?

Hector Savage wrote: »

Do Pig **** actually exist ? or is that just a made up bull**** job for shock value ?

They exist alright. A cousin of my ex worked on an industrial pig farm in Cork. They had people that collected the semen from the pigs. All very scientific like :pac:

It works a lot quicker with 2 people. One 'stroking' and the other one prods the pig up the bum with an electric rod and and hey bingo there you go!

Hector Savage wrote: »

Jaysus, and how long would it take ? I mean would they need to be whacking away at the pig for minutes ?