Whats the most brain numbing soul destroying job you've ever had?????

c4cat · 05-01-2010 09:28PM #1

Mine was working for a call centre in Clontarf taking Directory Enq calls for Orange Mobile UK customers. Had to try and answer one call every 25 secs for 8 hours a day. fried my brains into mush

Daemos · 05-01-2010 09:29PM

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3hn2givr7mx1sc · 05-01-2010 09:32PM

The Junior Cert.:p

Captain Havoc · 05-01-2010 09:32PM

I worked in Shannon Aiport briefly while at college doing the airline tray meals, it was basically putting an item on a tray as it came down a conveyer belt for 8 hours a day, grand money but boring as fück.

magick · 05-01-2010 09:32PM

AOL Waterford

4zn76tysfajdxp · 05-01-2010 09:32PM

Lobotomy experiments test subject.

omb0wyn5ehpij9 · 05-01-2010 09:33PM

I worked as a data entry clerk in a large building society......i lost all will to live while I was there!

bluto63 · 05-01-2010 09:33PM

Filing papers in an office

snorlax · 05-01-2010 09:34PM

working making sandwiches when i was 15..endless 1 o'clock queues..

MonkeyTennis · 05-01-2010 09:35PM

drew 2d digital maps of farmland. Was unbearable and I dreamt about it at night so even when I left work it still haunted me

TomCo · 05-01-2010 09:35PM

Lounge staff in a pub run by gangsters and inhabited by chancers.

Some of the bar staff were evil, sadistic, ****ers and the pay was terrible. They'd lock the staff in at closing time and force everyone to clock out, then you'd clean the place for about 3 hours.
Came out with €20 pay one week and never returned.

slippy wicket · 05-01-2010 09:36PM

Power washing dried cowdung of farm buildings, has to be done every year and seems to take forever.

Stella777 · 05-01-2010 09:36PM

one sumer in college I worked in the shoe department in Macy's. I had the lowest amount of sales in the whole department. I'm just not good at sales. I did have the lowest return rate too. Basically I wasn't pushy enough.

Juggler_ · 05-01-2010 09:38PM

Stripper

Fund accounting has to be the worst, every bleeding day is exactly the same. Was so happy when I quit!

Milky Moo · 05-01-2010 09:38PM

MacDonalds, the work is hard, the pay is crappy, the food is poop and the people treat you like you are some manner of functioning retard!

cherryghost · 05-01-2010 09:38PM

Super Valu.

rainbow kirby · 05-01-2010 09:40PM

My second stint at HP - 12 hour shifts of talking to people in Bangalore on Office Communicator asking them to fix stuff that we could have well fixed there and then if our management had let us.

sky88 · 05-01-2010 09:40PM

cherryghost wrote: »

Super Valu.

this like hell hated it facing off is the worst thing ever invented

Terry · 05-01-2010 09:41PM

A box factory.
My main task was to stand at the end of a converyor belt and make sure the cut pieces of cardboards were stacked straight.
Fill the pallet and start again.

I went back to tiling after 4 months.

BluesBerry · 05-01-2010 09:42PM

filling envelopes for a hotel newsletter (basically junk mail) and replying to peoples CVs that they didnt get the job (never looked at by management) I still have nightmares about envelopes and stamps

punchdrunk · 05-01-2010 09:44PM

tesco bagpacker...

Gummy Panda · 05-01-2010 09:48PM

Stunt cock.

I was left drained at the end of the day

cloneslad · 05-01-2010 09:52PM

The two summers I spent in 5th and 6th year making this

It was messy as hell, and mostly involved hitting three buttons over and over again to fill a moutld with the meat paste!!

The pay was pretty good for someone at 17 and 18 who was living at home. Allowed me to save over two grand each summer and go out every weekend during them.

PurplePrincess · 05-01-2010 09:54PM

Back in the days when cigarette machines used to give you the change sellotaped to the cigarettes, that was what I did. .
Line up boxes into rows.
Put coins onto boxes.
Sellotape into place, could be two or three times depending on amount of change
Put in bundles of 5 in an elastic band and box up.
We were paid a penny per packet and it was awful work.

wolfpawnat · 05-01-2010 09:55PM

Putting slices of bread on a conveyer belt for a sandwich company! I lasted three weeks!

admiralofthefleet · 05-01-2010 09:55PM

one off a girl called fiona in blackrock park many years ago

NothingMan · 05-01-2010 09:56PM

Door to door sales. I lasted 2 weeks and then got a loan and ran off to europe for 5 weeks on my own to recover.

Queen-Mise · 05-01-2010 09:59PM

I had lots of them - really basic office work stuff is soul destroying like filing or data entry. One of the worst ones I had was photocopying 100 page manuals and collating it all - absolutely mind-numbing stuff.

And then after that is factory related stuff - i packed boxes in one place and did something with badges in another. fairly horrible work.

TestTransmission · 05-01-2010 10:00PM

Daffodil washer in a daffodil factory.Worst 3 weeks of my life

trixybell · 05-01-2010 10:01PM

been handed pages of the telephone book and told to ring every number and convince peope to set up appointments for sales reps to call to thier home to sell life insurance, critical life policies etc...

soul destroying to say the least..i lasted a week. :eek:

05-01-2010 10:01PM

Juggler_ wrote: »

Stripper

Fund accounting has to be the worst, every bleeding day is exactly the same. Was so happy when I quit!

Not a juggler no?

Whats the most brain numbing soul destroying job you've ever had?????

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