Your worst job ever!?

Raytown Rocks · 16-03-2005 04:28PM

Worked is Australia many yeras ago. I installed Fibre glass insulation ( very iychy) in attic spaces of people's homes.
Imagine 43c outside = almost 90 inside the attic space and itchy as fcuk.
absolute nightmare

lee_baby_simms · 16-03-2005 04:32PM

worked as a cleaner when i was 18 in a nursing home for the just about to die. the place was run by nuns (on the run) which were in my opinion more callous than stalin.

me and a fellow worker made up a country song we used sing whilst goin of spliff breaks.

seen more dead bodies than bed pans.

seen more bed pans than varicose veins.

seen more varico...

u get the picture. it was a 4 month ****ing nightmare.

Kingsize · 16-03-2005 04:38PM

It was the same beaumex as far as i remember the invoices were a real pain to work out with different or wrong catalog & p.o. numbers

wasnt my worst job ever though i used to work in a Factory/kitchen & could never get rid of the smell of onions & curry etc off my hands that was the worst

Sar! · 16-03-2005 04:41PM

Working in an restaurant in Temple Bar as a waitress....
Wot a disaster - chef used to keep boots in the fridge to keep his feet cool while he was running around....fridge door fell ontop of me one day...chef used to keep his big spoon for sauce stirring on dirty floor and use it in the sauces without washing it first and then put it back on the floor......fizzy drinks machine was so clogged with dirt that used to get lumps in the drinks... and to top it all off i came in early one morning and found owner and another waitress in comprimising position on one of the tables in the place........then i quit!

This is still not a patch on the chicken hatchery - that is just INSANE!

lee_baby_simms · 16-03-2005 04:52PM

Sar! wrote:

Working in an restaurant in Temple Bar as a waitress....
Wot a disaster - chef used to keep boots in the fridge to keep his feet cool while he was running around....fridge door fell ontop of me one day...chef used to keep his big spoon for sauce stirring on dirty floor and use it in the sauces without washing it first and then put it back on the floor......fizzy drinks machine was so clogged with dirt that used to get lumps in the drinks... and to top it all off i came in early one morning and found owner and another waitress in comprimising position on one of the tables in the place........then i quit!

hahaha!! thats gotta be thunder road!!

ClareBear · 16-03-2005 04:52PM

Sar! wrote:

This is still not a patch on the chicken hatchery - that is just INSANE!

Yeah, I think he wins! Nasty!

kano476 · 16-03-2005 04:58PM

my first job when I was about 14 was as a butcher in my local Londis, after 2 days and hardly any training I was left for 2 hours to manage the butchers and the deli counter ON MY OWN. i hadn't a f*cking clue what i was doing and eventually made some oul wan cry because I told her to f*ck off when she couldn't understand why i wouldn't serve her 8lbs of cooked ham.

I lasted a week and a half before i quit. then it took them 3 weeks to finally get around to paying me the week that I worked and all I got for 30hrs work was a measly 100quid. Hygene was crap in there also.

irlirishkev · 16-03-2005 04:58PM

D wrote:

A chicken hatchery.

First job in it I had to stand alone in a huge room taking washed trays off a machine and checking to see if they had been cleaned right. The noise was terrible and I was on my own.

Second job was in the candle room removing the rotten eggs from trays before they where put in incubaters. Rotten eggs often exploded in your hands and the smell was disgusting. Then you had to throw the rotten eggs into a skip which was fed from the grinder (more about the grinder later).

Third job there was new-born chick inspection. You might think it was cute until you realise that any diseased ones had to be removed and disposed of, by throwing a box full of them into a grinder. Worst job was when it came to cleaning the incubaters. On you hands and knees in a crawl space with tiny chick feathers flying about and the temperature and the humidity through the roof.

All of the above motivated me to do well in college.

:eek: Good grief!!

Kernel32 · 16-03-2005 05:56PM

My worst job was working in a pig processing plant on the line weighing meat. I lasted three months. It was so mind numbing, I hated it from the first day. We had no windows, if you were a minute late on a break you were in trouble.

I also worked on a large farm when I was a teenager. It was rough work, very underpaid, but for the most part I actually enjoyed it. I remember having to clean out the spud sheds ready for when the potato harvesting started in full swing. It would have been August and hot, big insulated sheds, hotter than the fiery hobs of hell with loads of decomposed piles of liquidized spuds. The smell was horrible, it stuck to you within a few minutes. No one would eat lunch with us we stank so bad.

I was also part of a crew that had to go through about a hundred one ton boxes of spuds to sort the good from the bad. Normally when potatos are put in storage a chemical in powder form is sprinkled on them to stop them going bad over the winter. Its a nice bright pink colour and gets absorbed as they sit there (think about that when your eating your potatos for dinner). Something went wrong with this batch and a good 25% of each box went bad, so each box had to be gone through to pick out the goods ones. I was making the princely sum of 1 pound an hour for this job.

Your worst job ever!?

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