What was the worst job you ever did?

MonkeyWrench · 25-03-2006 11:13PM #1

My worst job had to be in Oz where i had to get up about 4:30 in the morning to stand out side a hostel in the middle of nowhere to be greeted by a neanderthal like australia farmer with a beard down to his ankles who would drive me to his banana farm. Upon arrival i would be then confronted with his horny leg raping bulldog and shown the field where i would have to lug bananas onto a trailor for 10 hours for about 10 dollars per hour. the stack of bananas i would have to drag to the trailor would be the home to rats, snakes, spiders and 101 types of animal faetal matter. Fantastic! i think i'll apply for Alan Sugars apprentice job when it comes around again....
anyone else have any horror stories?

junkyard · 25-03-2006 11:34PM

I remember watching a programme on T.V. a few years ago and it boiled down to an undertaker and a maggot farmer and each one thought the other one had the worst job, it was very funny.:)

Squirrel · 25-03-2006 11:39PM

junkyard wrote:

I remember watching a programme on T.V. a few years ago and it boiled down to an undertaker and a maggot farmer and each one thought the other one had the worst job, it was very funny.:)

My mams cousin is an undertaker, and he is so anti-undertaker-ish it's unreal. Myself and my two brothers hadn't seen my grandmother for three years before she died so weren't exactly affected by it, so before and after her funeral he was over laughing and talking with us. None of this was in sight of any mourners, we're not that insensitive.

mike65 · 25-03-2006 11:43PM

The topic line brings to mind a sketch from Derek and Clive(aka Peter Cook/Dudley Moore)

Mike.

junkyard · 26-03-2006 12:02AM

Reminds me of the mother-in-law joke where the son-in-law is informed by the police that his mother-in-laws body has been found in the tide with six lobsters attached to her and what will we do? so after thinking he replies, you keep three I'll keep three and we'll put her out again at the next full tide.:)
Funnily enough I always wanted to be an undertaker, I had a strange calling to be one and wouldn't have minded it as a job, I even own a real hearse.:cool:

slipss · 26-03-2006 12:46AM

When I was 13 I delivered milk every friday, saturday, sunday and bank holiday from 2:00am till 5:30am in Neilstown and parts Clondalkin.

The van driver was held at syringe point and robbed twice. So he started bringing a sword in the van, then the next time some1 tried to open the van door he held it to the glass and told them to get away from the van and they ran off, then later that night the same fella walked up tap on the window with a shotgun in his hand ordered the driver out and took off in the van.

We rang the gaurds and they showed up after 40 mins, this was in January so we were left freezing our asses off, and the gaurds found the van burnt out in a different estate came back and told us they had another call so we'd have to get a taxi home. If you've ever tried to get a taxi to come to the part of neilstown we were in at that time of morning you'll know its nearly impossible.

Either that or those 3 weeks I worked at MacDonalds one summer.

drunkenfool · 26-03-2006 01:12AM

cleaning airplanes in dublin airport, great laugh working there, but some of the things that you had to do werent pretty, ie clean up ****, puke, piss, havint the majority of air hostesses looking down on you! which i thought was quite funny, cause i would consider being an air hostess a terrible job.

Dave! · 26-03-2006 01:21AM

slipss wrote:

When I was 13 I delivered milk every friday, saturday, sunday and bank holiday from 2:00am till 5:30am in Neilstown and parts Clondalkin.

The van driver was held at syringe point and robbed twice. So he started bringing a sword in the van, then the next time some1 tried to open the van door he held it to the glass and told them to get away from the van and they ran off, then later that night the same fella walked up tap on the window with a shotgun in his hand ordered the driver out and took off in the van.

We rang the gaurds and they showed up after 40 mins, this was in January so we were left freezing our asses off, and the gaurds found the van burnt out in a different estate came back and told us they had another call so we'd have to get a taxi home. If you've ever tried to get a taxi to come to the part of neilstown we were in at that time of morning you'll know its nearly impossible.

Either that or those 3 weeks I worked at MacDonalds one summer.

Says alot for McDonald's

[Jackass] · 26-03-2006 01:26AM

Worked in Dublin Zoo, in the African plains resteraunt when it first opened, i was about 16 at the time...amongst other things, (the usual flipping burgers aside) I had to clean up baby shi*t and puke, mop filthy floors, eat that crap for my lunch, all while customers treat you like sh*t.

Which is why in any McDonalds or delivery guys or any job I reckon people would be arseholes to you, I always say please and thank you and throw the odd smile...I know from experience it actually makes a difference.

sturgo · 26-03-2006 01:36AM

I worked in Compustore for about 2.5 hours. It sucked. I'm not supprised they went out of business. I also worked in Black Tie for approximately 3.5 hours.

BossArky · 26-03-2006 01:59AM

In NY back in the summer of 2001 I was handed a jackhammer and had to knock a whole from one floor through solid cement and reinforced steel down to the next floor. Nightmare. That was a J1!

Peteee · 26-03-2006 02:09AM

BossArky wrote:

In NY back in the summer of 2001 I was handed a jackhammer and had to knock a whole from one floor through solid cement and reinforced steel down to the next floor. Nightmare. That was a J1!

That sounds like fun!!!

Time Magazine · 26-03-2006 02:11AM

Spar.

Never will I forget cleaning that Returns Room. A carton of cream had fell off the "shelf" in the room and spilt onto the floor. It had been left there, possibly for months. It was stuck to the floor, so much so that I needed to pry most of it up with a spatula and then scrub the rest of it off with pure elbow grease.

If you think that cream had been left there so long that it stuck into the ground, you can imagine how bad the gone-off meat smelled.

I nearly got sick.

Sam Vimes · 26-03-2006 02:38AM

maplin electronics. the manager was insane. have a search for my previous rants on the guy. one thing i forgot to mention was he once locked me in a small room at the back of the shop because he thoght it was funny. then a few weeks later he locked me out the back of the shop when i went to put rubbish out so i'd have to walk all the way round the back of the shops to get back. also he banned two polish employees from speaking polish to each other in the building, even on their break. he rang in on his day off to remind the assistant manager to tell them not to speak polish. nice guy

Time Magazine · 26-03-2006 02:40AM

Hahaha is the manager still Tom the wannabe-English guy?

Sparky · 26-03-2006 02:53AM

I was cleaning out drains for 2 weeks one summer. The bad human sh1t filled drains. A lad was stuck for help and said he would pay anything. I am glad that I got €80 a house that summer. We would do about 6-8 houses a day.
Never again.

blu_sonic · 26-03-2006 04:26AM

Worked in game on grafton street for awhile, (i can say that cuz its gone now) and it was crap the people were nice and most of the managment staff too, but the "company" were a-holes i had to work a back month effectly 7weeks without wages and then just 3 weeks wages when it came through. there were other things one of the managers was a real up them selves fool

Cormic · 26-03-2006 11:56AM

I spent about two months building mosaics when I was 21 or 22. You spent the entire day shaking little tiles into a grid. I used to feel that my arms were falling off. Also your snot would be the same colour as the tiles you were working with the previous day.

Mind you I was pretty buff after two months of the work.

The OP · 26-03-2006 12:26PM

Labouring on a building site. Horrible, horrible work. Outdoors in the pissing rain. Did it for 1 week, then left.

Red Alert · 26-03-2006 12:41PM

data entry in sandyford. the manager was a total cow and her stoned cousin used to tell her everything that went on when she wasn't around. easily the worst job i ever had.

mickymg2003 · 26-03-2006 02:25PM

Emptying the bottle bins in a pub...dreadful job, god knows what you'd catch. Never again will i work in a pub.

Sam Vimes · 26-03-2006 02:40PM

Angry Banana wrote:

Hahaha is the manager still Tom the wannabe-English guy?

yup

Rockee · 26-03-2006 02:45PM

hotel conference and banqueting porter...in other words a dogs body. That particular hotel was full of such false plastic people...

LundiMardi · 26-03-2006 03:12PM

Worked for Allied Foods in Cookstown, working in the cold stores filling up trucks with Ice Cream.

Absolutely horrible job! You had to wear what was essentially a jump suit, i'm a big guy so they didn't have one to fit me, so what i was wearing was essentially a ****ing cat suit! They had no boots in my size so i was wearing my normal runners, plus loading those trucks was absolutely back breaking, and it's not made any easier when you can barely move because of what you're wearing. Oh yeah, and it was a 5pm-2am shift, so when you're going to work, everyone else is going home.

Needless to say, i left in the middle of my second shift, walked into the jax, struggled to get that ****ing jump suit off, left it in the jax and walked home, i remember being so so happy on my way home:)

Bodhidharma · 26-03-2006 03:13PM

Worked in the county hall in cork.
My job was to stand in the corridor photocopying cv's for the entire day. Lasted one day, said i slipped a disc in my back playin football after work. What rotten luck eh.

Beer is Life · 26-03-2006 03:35PM

I was a "slapper" in a factory that made sunchairs when I was about 18-19. I got the cushion part and had to even out the filler (slap and shaking) that had just been shoved inside. I got bad friction burns on my fingers. The table I did it on wasnt high enough so I had to bend over most of the day. Looking back now I cant believe I did it for 2 months

I also worked in an AOL callcentre for 4 months. That was ****ing awful, answering calls from irate bastards all day, many of them throwing racist comments about me being Irish etc. I actually dont like being on the phone now, and i find myself getting a bit flustered even when talking to people I know hahah.

blu_sonic · 26-03-2006 03:56PM

i had a job in centra too and i "barred" some kids a few weeks later 15 blokes ages from 15-18 (i was 18) i had to call the police and get a lift home. needless to say i quit soon after

pbsuxok1znja4r · 26-03-2006 03:57PM

I was a kitchen assistant in a small restaraunt near where I live.
Got called into work on about 30 mins notice about 2-3 times a week. A "We need you, come in or you're fired" kind of situation.
Spent most of every shift on my knees scrubbing krud off of floors, table-legs, walls, underneath of sinks.
Awful, awful pay. 4 pounds an hour, back in the day.
Had to scrub old rotten pieces of meat off a fridge floor. One time when the health inspector was coming, we had to move the sinks out from the wall and scrub what was underneath. I swear to God there were actual maggots. Sickening. Then you'd have to lug out a full to the brim, leaky, horrible smelly bin-bag and throw it in the big skip.
We had to scrub all the big pots (which needed superhuman feats of elbow-grease, I might add), but for a short while the regular dishwasher machine broke. It was horrible. Frantic stuff.

Yazamalainia · 26-03-2006 04:08PM

worked in the k club last summer, was only gona be for 5 days while the european open was on, had to quit after the first day...
managers were assholes! had to have a one day induction about how to be polite and treat the owners and the fat cats like they were 'royalty' when the only thing they did was hve more money than the rest of us, was actually told to be more polite according to how much expensive jewellery and clothes they seemd to be wearing,...

i got over that but the actual day of work sucked, had some polish woman screaming at me (in polish) waving a tea pot, then she slammed me into a dishwasher and threw a tantrum, and we were 11 ppl understaffed so i was sued as...lounge girl, bar staff, kitchen help, cleaner, stock taker, chef..the list goes on...

didnt bother showing up for the second day..:mad:

Yazamalainia · 26-03-2006 04:09PM

i was used by the way not sued...

Ishmael · 26-03-2006 05:02PM

First job i ever had. On a farm, spent a full week pulling sticks, tree branches and logs out of ditches full of bryers, nettles and thistles in the blazin hot sun.

end of week, guy hands me a check for 35 pound.

I was not a happy camper!

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