Worst job out there ??

completedit · 23-10-2020 11:10am

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.

KaneToad · 23-10-2020 11:12am

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?

ChikiChiki · 23-10-2020 11:18am

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.

stefanovich · 23-10-2020 11:22am

Tzardine wrote: »

I'd wager that he is fuc*King delighted.

I'm not sure he has a soul.,

ChikiChiki · 23-10-2020 11:23am

Feisar wrote: »

It pays the bills.

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

stefanovich · 23-10-2020 11:23am

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?

stefanovich · 23-10-2020 11:24am

Eircom customer service?

Blondini · 23-10-2020 11:26am

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

Jenneke87 · 23-10-2020 11:59am

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.

Hego Damask · 23-10-2020 2:16pm

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.

pappyodaniel · 23-10-2020 2:18pm

The worst job out there?
Crack Whore

23-10-2020 2:26pm

completedit wrote: »

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.

Most of the customers would be grand, anywhere really sh1t doesn't have a shop.

Muahahaha · 23-10-2020 2:49pm

bnt wrote: »

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.

Good decision, a lot of these Facebook moderators are now suffering psychological damage from watching beheadings, mutilations and animal torture. Several former staff in Dublin are now suing Facebook, in the US a class action by moderators there against Facebook paid out $48m
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/facebook-us-settlement-for-moderators-does-not-apply-to-irish-cases-1.4252611

2lazytogetup · 23-10-2020 3:20pm

Feisar wrote: »

It pays the bills.

all jobs pay the bills.

Immortal Starlight · 23-10-2020 3:25pm

Undertaker. There’s no amount of money I’d do that for.

.anon. · 23-10-2020 3:33pm

pappyodaniel wrote: »

The worst job out there?
Crack Whore

It pays the bills. That's just my experience though. I can't speak for everyone.

ELM327 · 23-10-2020 3:35pm

Immortal Starlight wrote: »

Undertaker. There’s no amount of money I’d do that for.

I dunno, I think he's got a good run at wrestlemania.

stefanovich · 23-10-2020 3:36pm

Slaughterhouse.

Feisar · 23-10-2020 3:52pm

2lazytogetup wrote: »

all jobs pay the bills.

Some better than others though.

partyguinness · 23-10-2020 3:58pm

Immortal Starlight wrote: »

Undertaker. There’s no amount of money I’d do that for.

You don't see many undertakers go out of business. Their charges are criminal and nobody dares to question it.

I remember the invoice from my granduncles funeral. Went on about 'brass handles' on the coffin.

Bull ****ing **** they were brass. They were plastic. I had to shoulder the coffin several times and had plenty of closeup time with them and even tapped them.

JimToken · 23-10-2020 4:11pm

stefanovich wrote: »

Slaughterhouse.

I enjoyed it

gogo · 23-10-2020 4:18pm

completedit wrote: »

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.

It’s actually the opposite, I worked in a council estate shop in a rough area of Dublin when in college, held up a few times and robbed a lot, but once they got to know you it was different.
Car broke down once and had to leave it outside shop over night. They broke into it and fixed it!! It’s surprising how endearing the locals become, there really was an ethos of looking out for each other and that included the shop. When it was broken in, they tell you they knew who did it and it would be dealt with, love/hate ****e but we were always looked after in their own way. Maybe not the same anymore, but gave me a lot more respect for people, can’t help where ye live, but they do look out for each other and that includes the local shop.

PhilOssophy · 23-10-2020 4:21pm

Wouldn't mind being on the phone in a customer service job too much, that is what a "Hang on till we investigate" hold button is for. While in reality, you just put them on hold to let them calm down.
Anything customer service related where you are dealing with people face-to-face, must be the pits. I bet you realise what people are like....scum

JimToken · 24-10-2020 10:29am

Google Maps Car Driver in Ballymun

State pathologist Guadalajara

Capt'n Midnight · 24-10-2020 4:39pm

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

Zuckerberg is not a human.

When he goes home at night he plugs himself into his charge cradle and powers back on when fully charged.

Completely untrue. It's a wireless charger.

Capt'n Midnight · 24-10-2020 4:43pm

The unofficial motto of the U.S. Coast Guard is "You have to go out, but you don't have to come back"

valoren · 24-10-2020 5:28pm

Anything public facing. People can be awful kunts.

CUCINA · 24-10-2020 9:02pm

A road-sweeper on a windy day...

enricoh · 24-10-2020 9:22pm

A mate of mine done courier delivering parcels for a short while. Said the abuse was unreal, he was shell shocked after a few weeks of it!!

Sky King · 24-10-2020 9:26pm

Funny how people's ideas of a terrible job differ. Hands down the worst job I ever had was admin in a state agency. I wouldn't do it again for 100k a year.

Some of the jobs listed here are alright. Id work on a trawler. Its rough, tough work, but doable. Id also happily work as a cleaner, or on an oil rig.

I would *hate* any job where I had to deal with drunk spastics tho: chipper worker, taxi man, bouncer etc. Even a guard. Fk that.

Would hate anything with cold calling sales as well.

the purple tin · 24-10-2020 9:27pm

The guy who empties the septic tanks and slurry pits.
Pooh-ee!

riclad · 24-10-2020 10:23pm

Working in a prison is tough,
, people who are sent to prison are usually someone who committed a serious crime.
Doing pr for company's who destroy the planet, oil and chemical company's.
Being a firefighter in America is tough now every year the mega fires get worse due to global warming.

Lewis_Benson · 24-10-2020 10:33pm

Donald Trumps arse wiper.

riclad · 24-10-2020 10:33pm

riclad wrote: »

Working in a prison is tough,
, people who are sent to prison are usually someone who committed a serious crime.
Doing pr for company's who destroy the planet, oil and chemical company's.
Being a firefighter in America is tough now every year the mega fires get worse due to global warming.

I saw 5 Garda arrest a man in a chipper, he was sober and he was calling everyone obscene names
I think he was under the influence of drugs

Game devs doing crunch
They work 80 plus hours every week
for months to finish off a game
They may not get paid for all the hours they work . Most game developers
are not allowed to join a union.
I think it must be tough to do certain jobs while wearing masks and a face shield. Like being a hairdresser

bnt · 24-10-2020 10:34pm

I did phone support for internet service for a while, some years ago: by the end of a busy day, I couldn’t speak because the muscles in my throat had given up. Abuse from customers was sometimes a problem, but dealing with other parts of the company was also a pain. That said, I can think of worse jobs, such as the Facebook ones already mentioned.

I found small business customers were the worst, since they had such a sense of entitlement and often refused to help themselves. Their whole business would run through one thin RJ-11 cable, they would let it get damaged, but it was too much to expect them to check that it’s OK. You can buy spare cables in Tesco for €2, but nope, they want someone out there now ...

Yyhhuuu · 24-10-2020 10:53pm

Jenneke87 wrote: »

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.

Whilst I feel sorry for some in customer service, SOME others bring it on themselves by the attitude they display to customers. EIR is the most appalling customer service I ever experienced. Hours on hold, transferred then line goes dead.

Yyhhuuu · 24-10-2020 10:57pm

gogo wrote: »

It’s actually the opposite, I worked in a council estate shop in a rough area of Dublin when in college, held up a few times and robbed a lot, but once they got to know you it was different.
Car broke down once and had to leave it outside shop over night. They broke into it and fixed it!! It’s surprising how endearing the locals become, there really was an ethos of looking out for each other and that included the shop. When it was broken in, they tell you they knew who did it and it would be dealt with, love/hate ****e but we were always looked after in their own way. Maybe not the same anymore, but gave me a lot more respect for people, can’t help where ye live, but they do look out for each other and that includes the local shop.

Yes there can be a sense of community in these areas. The ordinary working class dubs can have a heart of gold. Whereas many of the so called posh "Dubs" are the opposite, most of whom aren't from Dublin originally, and originally came from impoverished thatched cottages.

Yyhhuuu · 24-10-2020 10:58pm

PhilOssophy wrote: »

Wouldn't mind being on the phone in a customer service job too much, that is what a "Hang on till we investigate" hold button is for. While in reality, you just put them on hold to let them calm down.
Anything customer service related where you are dealing with people face-to-face, must be the pits. I bet you realise what people are like....scum

Ironically Placing on hold causes one to become enraged

TP_CM · 24-10-2020 11:06pm

I think those child welfare officers who go around troubled houses checking on kids in need would be tough. Just house after house, seeing the little ones sitting there afraid or not cared for from a clothes/diet/sanitary perspective, maybe because mam or dad have issues. Especially because a lot of those workers get into the job because they really love kids. They're heros the lot of them I think.

paleoperson · 24-10-2020 11:09pm

manonboard wrote: »

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

Would I be sent to the gallows for saying this may not be a job suited for a lady...?

whisky_galore · 25-10-2020 12:12am

Rickshaw driver. Remember those?
Dealing with public both obnoxious and drunk.
Earning buttons and being treated like a coolie.

Xtrail14 · 25-10-2020 12:19am

Teachers they have to work 9 to 3 and have to know how to count to 10.

auspicious · 25-10-2020 12:25am

paleoperson wrote: »

Would I be sent to the gallows for saying this may not be a job suited for a lady...?

No but it's not suited to actually anyone. It's self-evident extreme nature is an aversion to basic humanity and should not be a full-time job. It should be rotated amongst censorers as for example pedophilia investigations in law force are rotated amongst detectives. The law suits lost by Facebook reflect this.

GT89 · 25-10-2020 12:31am

whisky_galore wrote: »

Rickshaw driver. Remember those?
Dealing with public both obnoxious and drunk.
Earning buttons and being treated like a coolie.

They were drug dealers who were clueless about the rules of the road

Trans Ann · 25-10-2020 12:37am

manonboard wrote: »

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

I know someone actually two people who ended up in counselling long term after working there

chrissb8 · 25-10-2020 1:49am

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.

I know people that think the same opinion about office jobs.

Usually, people thinking it's some cubicle, tie-wearing, monotonous so and so job. Where the years blow by leaving you with regret and a sense of emptiness.

My experience of office work was a job where I went in, started at 9 finished bang on at 5 pm every day. Never any stress, turned off the second I was home and worked with some lovely people. Granted, it wasn't "meaningful" work but I derived meaning in my life elsewhere. I enriched my soul through other outlets.

Always found it such an odd thing to think about someone. We're not our jobs, we're many different things and have different roles in different contexts. Look a little closer at someone before making those kinds of judgements as the weight of values such as meaning in life may lay elsewhere away from having a career. As others have already said a job is just a job to some people and they don't have a strong feeling about it either way. Just go in, do their work and be on their way.

Yyhhuuu · 25-10-2020 1:53am

An overworked sleep deprived hospital doctor/ SHO on night shift running from one ward to another with multiple nurses paging with problems at the same time juggling between the most urgent coupled with indecision, anxiety and whether to call the Registrar.

B.A._Baracus · 25-10-2020 2:11am

Trans Ann wrote: »

I know someone actually two people who ended up in counselling long term after working there

No job ain't worth that Shi*. Let's be honest too, how much are they earning? 12 euro an hour or something?

Not worth it.

paleoperson · 25-10-2020 2:15am

Yyhhuuu wrote: »

An overworked sleep deprived hospital doctor/ SHO on night shift running from one ward to another with multiple nurses paging with problems at the same time juggling between the most urgent coupled with indecision, anxiety and whether to call the Registrar.

And then in a few years they can set up a cushy GP practice and earn hundreds of thousands of euro per year for writing prescriptions and checking Mrs. Daly's blood pressure.

jimbobaloobob · 25-10-2020 2:19am

paleoperson wrote: »

And then in a few years they can set up a cushy GP practice and earn hundreds of thousands of euro per year for writing prescriptions and checking Mrs. Daly's blood pressure.

Ouch for the gps.
That’s not the case for them at any rate.

Worst job out there ??

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