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Worst job out there ??

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    #32
    myshirt
    Registered Users Posts: 5,245 ✭✭✭myshirt


    screamer wrote: »
    Crime scene cleaner, can’t imagine the horrific stuff those people have to see and clean, awful.

    I know a guy who does it. Not good at all. You don't get much out of him, but his son spoke a bit once; not nice. Son not involved anymore after that. Not that there's any secrets or anything, just got cut off over explaining about the state one scene was in that they'd to clean.


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    #33
    KungPao
    Registered Users Posts: 4,781 ✭✭✭KungPao


    tylercheribini wrote: »
    Having worked as a temp in the DEASP I can certainly second this,worst job Ive ever had...unless you are being ironic of course. ��
    I was, but to be fair, imagine working on hatches in a dole office all day dealing with all sorts, I couln't hack that.


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    #34
    Jimson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 164 ✭✭Jimson


    Hotel work, I'd rather be on the dole.


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    #35
    tylercheribini
    Registered Users Posts: 2,014 ✭✭✭tylercheribini


    KungPao wrote: »
    I was, but to be fair, imagine working on hatches in a dole office all day dealing with all sorts, I couln't hack that.

    yea its rough, like many other departments, the endless middle management I witnessed have it easy instead of those in the trenches.


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    #36
    JustAThought
    Registered Users Posts: 5,323 ✭✭✭JustAThought


    Two men were killed by fumes a few years ago - they went down a manhole of human sewage to identify a problem. Its hard to imagine wading through human filth for a living with no guaranteed pension, state benefits or guaranteed income.

    Firemen. Imagine running INTO an inferno for a living. Or having to crawl in the dark throuhh flames and burning plastic to try and find a child before it dies. And then having to try and get out with it or recussitate or treat it after you crawl from the flames. Has the new government improved their faulty unreliable breathing apparatus and lack of equipment issues? No. Nor proper salaries nor emotional nor psychological support.

    Gaurd - in many cases having to be polite to total scumbags and lying knackers for fear of a complaint against them or their free legal aid laywer. Few years ago some scobies laywer sued because of what the gaurds said about his client on tape when he was not there - and won on the grounds that his feelings would have been hurt had he heard the comment. ffs. HOW are they expected to win the war on criminal scum?

    Trumps PR agency. No job stability and endless hours.

    + 1 for that poor girl modding on FB - no money is worth the mental damage that would do to you.


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    #37
    dinorebel
    Registered Users Posts: 2,268 ✭✭✭dinorebel


    Iscreamkone wrote: »
    Fisherman on a small trawler
    Yep worked on a wooden 65 footer off Donegal seeing the deck flex in bad weather was a sobering experience.


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    #38
    Man with broke phone
    Registered Users Posts: 1,201 ✭✭✭Man with broke phone


    gogo wrote: »
    Kinda think secondary teaching is up there at the moment, damned if they do, damned if they don’t.
    Pay not like it was years ago, practically a full time counselor, stats on everything, slated by parents as little Jonnie is not doing well.. little Jonnie could never actually be a little **** head.
    Was nosing in a school/parenting group thing a while back and the amt of posts of ‘go in there and give them hell, how dare they speak to my child like that..... stuff of nightmares’

    Teachers union always have to claim they have it bad, I remember the fella Hawe did what he did and a comment here said it shows what pressure teachers are under.

    Let the kids wear coats if the windows are open. Pass Irish isnt more important than having a warm childhood.


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    #39
    auspicious
    Registered Users Posts: 4,497 ✭✭✭auspicious


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-Boidzl4sc


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    #40
    murpho999
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    manonboard wrote: »
    Friend of mine works in facebook, moderating beheadings and child porn. It's destroying her. Terrible hours.

    That's not actually Facebook though is it but an outsourced service centre?


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    #41
    uch
    Registered Users Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭uch


    KungPao wrote: »

    Also, civil service - they have it hard.

    Nah we don't really, we're still getting paid to work from home, while other poor fúckers are unemployed, no hardship in the service, I feel sorry for anybody that can't make a wage

    21/25



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    #42
    Eduard Khil
    Registered Users Posts: 796 ✭✭✭Eduard Khil


    Pennyless Lobster Doctor


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    #43
    Underattack
    Registered Users Posts: 44 ✭Underattack


    manonboard wrote: »
    Friend of mine works in facebook, moderating beheadings and child porn. It's destroying her. Terrible hours.

    This!!!
    Id rather clean **** from the drains.


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    #44
    con___manx1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,473 ✭✭✭con___manx1


    manonboard wrote: »
    Friend of mine works in facebook, moderating beheadings and child porn. It's destroying her. Terrible hours.

    That's a crazy job. I heard they do all sorts of personality tests in the interview process. Just to make sure the candidate isn't actually a pedo wanting to look at child porn legally. I no somebody working in that Facebook position aswell. You would need a strong personality to just switch off after work I'd imagine after the crazy stuuf they see.


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    #45
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users Posts: 11,194 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    Teachers here only think they have it bad.
    A primary school teacher in Northern Ireland, newly qualified and in their second year teaching earns €700 a month less than the same teacher here. ( converting their sterling wages to euros).

    Jobs I wouldn't do?
    Slaughter man in a factory, or working in a knackery.


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    #46
    Mister Vain
    Registered Users Posts: 6,041 ✭✭✭Mister Vain


    A one armed brick layer with an itchy arse.


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    #47
    zerosugarbuzz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,224 ✭✭✭zerosugarbuzz


    LuasSimon wrote: »
    Working on minimum wage in a nursing home With a serious threat of getting covid must be up there with the worst .
    Working for minimum wage in one of Larry Goodmans AIBP meat factories be another horrible place to work .

    The meat factory would win hands down for me, I’d rather be a poor dead cow.


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    #48
    bnt
    Registered Users Posts: 12,961 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    manonboard wrote: »
    Friend of mine works in facebook, moderating beheadings and child porn. It's destroying her. Terrible hours.
    I was offered one of those positions about a year ago, and turned it down. I say “offered”: I would have had to interview as normal, but I doubt that would have mattered. It would have been for the South Africa region, since I speak Afrikaans, and I took an hour to think about it before politely telling them “hell, no”. That was before I read articles about it.

    From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.

    — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut



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    #49
    2lazytogetup
    Registered Users Posts: 828 ✭✭✭2lazytogetup


    a meaningless soul destroying office job. demoralising and affects the rest of your life.

    At least some of the jobs here have meaning - cleaning sewage, nurse, etc. you are making a difference.


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    #50
    JimToken
    Closed Accounts Posts: 225 ✭✭JimToken


    Indian Restaurant Toilet Cleaner

    Bungee cable tester

    Nuclear disaster first responder

    Lethal injection trial study participant


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    #51
    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,608 ✭✭✭Feisar


    2lazytogetup wrote: »
    a meaningless soul destroying office job. demoralising and affects the rest of your life.

    At least some of the jobs here have meaning - cleaning sewage, nurse, etc. you are making a difference.

    It pays the bills.

    First they came for the socialists...



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    #52
    completedit
    Registered Users Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭completedit


    Owner of like a small council estate shop. Just seems a miserable existence; constantly on edge, trusting nobody, having to be fake social with locals.


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    #53
    KaneToad
    Registered Users Posts: 3,175 ✭✭✭KaneToad


    manonboard wrote: »
    Friend of mine works in facebook, moderating beheadings and child porn. It's destroying her. Terrible hours.

    But vegan canteen and beanbag chairs?


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    #54
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,950 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    That sounds horrific. Zuckerberg unleashed a monster. You'd wonder is he even happy.

    The Social Dilemma tackles this well. Even the engineers who designed the code say the alogithirms have become too powerful for them to reverse.

    It is almost like it has a mind of its own. Horrible company, I'd love to see it obliterated.


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    #55
    stefanovich
    Registered Users Posts: 5,490 ✭✭✭stefanovich


    Tzardine wrote: »
    I'd wager that he is fuc*King delighted.

    I'm not sure he has a soul.,


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    #56
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,950 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    Feisar wrote: »
    It pays the bills.

    **** that - Not worth it for the lifetime of torment etched into your brain.


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    #57
    stefanovich
    Registered Users Posts: 5,490 ✭✭✭stefanovich


    ChikiChiki wrote: »
    The Social Dilemma tackles this well. Even the engineers who designed the code say the alogithirms have become too powerful for them to reverse.

    It is almost like it has a mind of its own. Horrible company, I'd love to see it obliterated.

    I wonder if Biden gets in will he officially recognise them as the propaganda wing of the DNC?


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    #58
    stefanovich
    Registered Users Posts: 5,490 ✭✭✭stefanovich


    Eircom customer service?


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    #59
    Blondini
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,480 ✭✭✭Blondini


    The fella who sharpens the "big knives" down the wastewater treatment plant.


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    #60
    Jenneke87
    Registered Users Posts: 807 ✭✭✭Jenneke87


    Customer service. The amount of abuse you get on a daily basis just trying to do your job. I'm so glad I got out of there, it was absolutely terrible and just bleak at times. You really get to see the nastier side of society that just sees you as a voice and treat you accordingly.


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    #61
    Hego Damask
    Registered Users Posts: 842 ✭✭✭Hego Damask


    screamer wrote: »
    Crime scene cleaner, can’t imagine the horrific stuff those people have to see and clean, awful.

    I was in the states working on a J1, and one american lad i worked with that had a lot of different jobs during his life - that was one.

    He said the worst one was a suicide by some old lady, shot herself in the head with a shotgun so made a mess.

    But she also had a lot of cats, and in the meantime they had helped themselves to said mess.

    He said they would go in in twos and decide before what to talk about - last nights game, some film whatever, and just go go go quick as possible whilst in discussion about the game/film .... but still only so much he can block out.


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