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faceman · 12-03-2009 03:04PM

Id do anything if I had too, but I would avoid toilet cleaning services if possible.

I miss working in low paid jobs tho, had the time of my life when I was in college. Working in a cinema was best but I packed shelves and worked a video store too. The social life was awesome!

Now Im too old and too responsible.

Svalbard · 12-03-2009 03:44PM

Worst job would be sales.

By that I mean being one of those sleazy, desperate salesmen who will say anything to make a sale. It must be soul destroying. I'd rather clean toilets,at least its honest work.

Agree with faceman, low paid jobs in college rocked. Great craic with co-workers even if the jobs were crappy.

Mr.Lizard · 12-03-2009 03:53PM

Male Model. I get tonnes of offers but turn them all down because I want to be taken seriously for who I am and not just how I look.

KTRIC · 12-03-2009 04:30PM

Mr.Lizard wrote: »

Male Model. I get tonnes of offers but turn them all down because I want to be taken seriously for who I am and not just how I look.

:rolleyes:

sillyputty · 12-03-2009 04:45PM

Redpunto wrote: »

Toilet attendent in a club - can you imagine the amount of **** youd have to put up with and the amount of ****e youd have to clean up.

+ 1
with you on this one plus i wouldn't be a late night taxi driver on a friday and saturday night

Snowie · 12-03-2009 04:47PM

thiose companys who claim to be marketing companys but they really go around knocking on peoples door's..... That job is soul distroying i lasted a week...

Griffin87 · 12-03-2009 04:59PM

xzanti wrote: »

I worked for a "Marketing" company once while on school holidays, I thought from the advertisement that i'd be doing some sort of telesales or the like, the day I went in I was handed a black gym bag full of cheap dodgy crap and sent out to Malahide on a bus with about 4 other people to walk around an industrial estate trying to sell this cheap sh1t to people on their lunchbreaks in all the factories.. Never again.. Worst. Job. Ever.. Think they were called 'Volcara' or something like that, had offices above Chadwicks on Caple Street.. And they had people doing it all the time cause the day I was there, when we went back to the office some guy came racing in and started ringing this big bell that was mounted on the wall and telling us all how he "reached his target sales" think he'd pocketed about £50 or something for a days slog.. They seemed to have their regular 'employees' brainwashed into thinking this was the best job ever..

BTW the stuff in question was a £5 Fony walkman, only the best.. and some crappy kids books among others from what I can remember.. think there was a little torch aswel..

i done that job for a day too never again, They try to brainwash you in that place.

they start telling you stuff like you will be rich inside 5 years your own boss company car etc.

Yea ill be rich selling dodgy **** to people in industrial estates

Snowie · 12-03-2009 05:07PM

xzanti wrote: »

I worked for a "Marketing" company once while on school holidays, I thought from the advertisement that i'd be doing some sort of telesales or the like, the day I went in I was handed a black gym bag full of cheap dodgy crap and sent out to Malahide on a bus with about 4 other people to walk around an industrial estate trying to sell this cheap sh1t to people on their lunchbreaks in all the factories.. Never again.. Worst. Job. Ever.. Think they were called 'Volcara' or something like that, had offices above Chadwicks on Caple Street.. And they had people doing it all the time cause the day I was there, when we went back to the office some guy came racing in and started ringing this big bell that was mounted on the wall and telling us all how he "reached his target sales" think he'd pocketed about £50 or something for a days slog.. They seemed to have their regular 'employees' brainwashed into thinking this was the best job ever..

BTW the stuff in question was a £5 Fony walkman, only the best.. and some crappy kids books among others from what I can remember.. think there was a little torch aswel..

I worked up the road from that place on usher quay's some lads where walking out of there with 150 euros a day, Mind youd they sell to grannsy old people hasd absaloutly no standered at all...

i be leave the father company was called the cobra cooperation or something its a pyramid scheme...

The owner of the company was a camp ass hole who thaught he dressed well beacsue he owned top shop clothing :rolleyes:

LouOB · 12-03-2009 05:08PM

I kinda have done them all really
fast food
sales
retail

But the most mind numbing was in accounting practice where I did nothing for a whole summer. Just showed up. That had to be the worst. I left to go into retail, it was that bad.

Id be a cleaner any day - the smell of bleach off a place once Im done
The germs would be sacared to go near it - mwahhhhhh

xzanti · 12-03-2009 05:35PM

Snow-Monkey wrote: »

I worked up the road from that place on usher quay's some lads where walking out of there with 150 euros a day, Mind youd they sell to grannsy old people hasd absaloutly no standered at all...

i be leave the father company was called the cobra cooperation or something its a pyramid scheme...

The owner of the company was a camp ass hole who thaught he dressed well beacsue he owned top shop clothing :rolleyes:

€150 a day?? Well I was there around 2000/01 can't remember exactly and it was pounds, I made approximately 8 quid the day I worked there, think I got 50p for every item I sold.. The only reason I didn't feck off was because I had to offload the bag of sh1te back at 'base' and I hadn't the heart to just dump it with the leader cause he'd his own one to carry.. I remember him cause he wore a suit

Nolanger · 12-03-2009 07:31PM

If Dublin Zoo was looking for a human exhibit I'd refuse.

Svalbard · 12-03-2009 07:38PM

LouOB wrote: »

I kinda have done them all really
fast food
sales
retail

But the most mind numbing was in accounting practice where I did nothing for a whole summer. Just showed up. That had to be the worst. I left to go into retail, it was that bad.

Id be a cleaner any day - the smell of bleach off a place once Im done
The germs would be sacared to go near it - mwahhhhhh

+1 on the cleaning.

I get a strange kick out of it, might be the chemicals.

My name is URL · 12-03-2009 09:19PM

Cold caller, Bailiff, Taoiseach

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