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

Mind you I had a friend who's job was to seat for 8 hours a day staring at this machine and if a light went up he would press a botton, if not he done nothing, just set there.

It surely has to be bar work, the most filty, disgusting slave labour known to man.

super valu has to be the worst ever worked there for 4 euro an hour grr and their horrible....

Worked in a tobacco factory stuffing pouches of Golden Virginia in to boxes...
Some days we had to empty tobacco from hundreds of bad pouches which wrecks your thumbs, other days I had to glue tax stamps to A4 pages.
Terribly boring with crap breaks but they pay was great.

the most soul destroying job i ever had was working on creating a database of the media library for a huge irish charity. spending 6 hours a day 5 days a week watching news articles/adverts/documentaries about AIDS/Genocide/Famine etc.

good god it was awful... so depressed afterwards. though it did just end up making me even more apathetic.

Test scorer. My job was to score tests that school children from around the country took. We were broken into groups and each group graded the same 10-15 questions from the test (which were multiple choice, so it didn't even involve reading the question and knowing the answer - we just had the answer sheet in front of us).

8 hours every day of the same 10-15 questions for weeks on end. Mindless clicking. It was one of my more memorable jobs though, because a lot of the people who worked there were absolutely nuts. You'd have to be.

Sorting bottles for recycling in the yard of a hotel when I was 18 in 2004. Sorting them by colour. That along with keeping the yard clean.

Hated it with a passion. To make it worse, they didn't f***ing bother to get anyone else to do it during the week, leaving a huge pile of bottles for me at the weekend.

I was out there in all weathers and cut my hand more than once from broken glass!

At one point they had the f***ing nerve to make me work in the suite from 5pm ( After finishing school at 3:45pm ) to 4am then in again at 11am to sort the bottles.

They pretty much treated me like crud. I eventually left and haven't had any sort of part time job since, partly because I don't want to be exploited like that EVER again.

And oh, after I left, I learned that they hired TWO people to do my old job! :mad:

JAYSUS N I THOUGHT I WAS BAD

LETHAL LADY wrote: »

JAYSUS N I THOUGHT I WAS BAD

Don't put yourself down, your ALL CAPS posting is pretty brain numbing, you haven't reached soul destroying yet though.

For the job, night security on the docks in Dublin.
14 hour shift (or was it 12? I've blocked most of it out.). Sit in cabin with misfunctioning radio. Don't leave the cabin. Radio in to base every couple of hours. No other human contact.

Eventually you start praying for some sort of hijacking attempt to break the monotony.

Kitchen Porter. The dirty dishes just keep coming. All. Day. Long. Kill me.

Call centre - directory enquiries. Worked 12 til 10 saturdays and sundays. Took an endless stream of calls in that time. It was just one call straight after each other. Soul destroying.

Working as an office temp comes a close second.

Working as a lounge boy for nearly 2 years was the most mind numbingly painful experience of my life! You're basically a bar bitch, I was the one stuck re-filling stock doing the floor, changing kegs and loads of random stuff... The lounge girls just got to do the floor and got all the tips, I got very little because I was stuck doing all the odd jobs! When I worked in the 1st bar had to clean the toilets too! And if you have ever heard of the swallows pub in Clondalkin (good few years ago I worked there) you'd know how bad it was back then :P Worked in a hotel, same thing, but stuck on functions and the like, I even helped the barmen out and never even got a bit of the collection money they always got (from weddings and all) after helping them out all night, scroungy bastards! :mad: Worst jobs ever!