Benjani Posted 1 October 2016 Posted 1 October 2016 Mine has to be in a mail warehouse, stacking heavy parcels in lorries 9pm - 3am on minimum wage, while the managers walk around with a clipboard assessing your performance. Could also hardly breathe in the back of these lorries. Absolutely horrendous that place was. What's the worst job you've done?
stix Posted 1 October 2016 Posted 1 October 2016 I did a job this morning that needed a double flush, now THAT really was horrendous
GazzinderFox Posted 1 October 2016 Posted 1 October 2016 I once had a job that involved 12 hour shifts sitting in a sunny delight factory making sure the plastic bottles went through the machine properly. They usually did. It was soul destroying.
Strokes Posted 1 October 2016 Posted 1 October 2016 1 minute ago, GazzinderFox said: I once had a job that involved 12 hour shifts sitting in a sunny delight factory making sure the plastic bottles went through the machine properly. They usually did. It was soul destroying. Lol, I did a temp position at a BT warehouse years ago. Quality control, every 10 or 20 picks would come down for checking. I never found one incorrect pick, one shift felt like a week.
theboyC Posted 1 October 2016 Posted 1 October 2016 Once worked in a factory packing photo paper that you print at home ! Had to count 10 sheets and pack it.... So you couldnt really talk that much ! Some people got a few extra sheets now and again
bovril Posted 1 October 2016 Posted 1 October 2016 Cinema usher. Had to watch the second Harry Potter film about 30 times.
Strokes Posted 1 October 2016 Posted 1 October 2016 7 minutes ago, bovril said: Cinema usher. Had to watch the second Harry Potter film about 30 times. You should seek compo for that.
Tielemans63 Posted 1 October 2016 Posted 1 October 2016 Recruitment consultant when I was 22 for about 13k a year. Working split shifts trying to manage 50 migrant workers at a garlic bread making factory. Had a knife pulled on me twice for putting people on day shift when they wanted nights. I stuck it for 5 months but when I think now back it was a truly horrendous job.
Miquel The Work Geordie Posted 1 October 2016 Posted 1 October 2016 Call centre for a company that made expensive modded games controllers, might as well have been on Babestation the amount of angry and frustrated virgins I'd have to deal with over the phone.
Wymsey Posted 1 October 2016 Posted 1 October 2016 Worked at McDonald's once as a burger flipper. Had to work with a strange, racist bloke. For some reason he changed his personal appearance everyday, trying to make him someone else, but it was still him, which made him a bit of an idiot. He said he uses the name 'Moosebreath' on some internet forum.
StanSP Posted 1 October 2016 Posted 1 October 2016 been quite fortunate with jobs but worst was a certain shift when working at Matalan. Didn't mind the customer-facing, shop-floor shifts. But the worst was the warehouse shifts. Unpacking boxes to put clothes on a rail. Yawn.
Soar Fox Posted 1 October 2016 Posted 1 October 2016 Shop fitting. Did it for about a year when I was 19. The money was really good for someone my age but the hours were all over the place. Some days I'd leave my house at 5.30am and not walk back in until 8pm at night, then have to be back in the next day at the same time. Travelling all over the country one day travel down to Taunton & back,next day could be going up to Leeds. Whenever we did a job for Tesco they wouldn't allow us in until the store closed at night.
Illusion35 Posted 1 October 2016 Posted 1 October 2016 Night shifts at M&S Fosse Park over Christmas holidays when I was a broke uni student needing a few extra pennies! Cages full of Christmas novelty slippers to pair up (God only knows why they weren't sent to the store in pairs in the first place) and put on display. If you got a pair of odd slippers in December 1997 it was me The only good thing was we got to take home food that was near the sell by date for free, remember getting a huge piece of salmon on Christmas Eve dated for Boxing Day!
urban.spaceman Posted 1 October 2016 Posted 1 October 2016 Used to work at Millets in town. Worst job ever with the worst company ever.
Manwell Pablo Posted 1 October 2016 Posted 1 October 2016 I had some truly woeful jobs that paid a next to min wage to fund uni. Timber factory stood out, horrible, I also burger flipped for McDonald's but that was so bad I jacked it after a week.
boots60 Posted 1 October 2016 Posted 1 October 2016 Winding copper wire onto transformers was very boring. Coiling hosepipes 12 hour shifts was soul destroying but my ultimate nadir was producing 10,000 carpet machine needles a day. Glad to add they were all a long time ago.
VLC86 Posted 1 October 2016 Posted 1 October 2016 Difficult to pick out a shit job as you could say mine are all on an equal level of shitness, just found one that well over pays me. Even jobs would consider to be he'll actually worked out alright as I earned a very decent wage like Call centre advisor. I guess it says it all about not doing a job I have really enjoyed that I can't pick out one that was completely shit.
jonthefox Posted 1 October 2016 Posted 1 October 2016 i used to sell lottery tickets for our beloved club door to door. This was during the pleat out era and i swear people thought i was to blame for the mess.
whoareyaaa Posted 1 October 2016 Posted 1 October 2016 Working in a warehouse in a line gluing cardboard together or pushing pieces out of cardboard for display stands. if you couldn't keep up then that was the end of you. the only upside to this was there was a good 15 - 20 fit European chicks working on the same line, I honestly think it's only reason I lasted as long as I did.
jonthefox Posted 1 October 2016 Posted 1 October 2016 29 minutes ago, whoareyaaa said: Working in a warehouse in a line gluing cardboard together or pushing pieces out of cardboard for display stands. if you couldn't keep up then that was the end of you. the only upside to this was there was a good 15 - 20 fit European chicks working on the same line, I honestly think it's only reason I lasted as long as I did. Pollards in enderby ?.
DB11 Posted 1 October 2016 Posted 1 October 2016 Whilst I was at Uni I lasted about four months at a computer repair shop. I could do the work that was fine but it was boring and the owner was trying to turn me from an engineer into a salesman - I've just not got it in me to big up the issues and try to get people to overpay for the fix. Whereas he charged a student £90 to activate windows. Well he charged them for me to do it... I plugged the laptop into an ethernet cable and then pressed 'activate'. Do you know what he told the customer? He said that he had to contact Microsoft directly and it was lucky that he had a contact so that he could get them to log in to one of their servers and add his machine as an exception to bypass the activation daemon and that it resulted in the internet stopping for a minute or so whilst it was done. And the student believed it and felt like he was getting value for money
Vlad the Fox Posted 1 October 2016 Posted 1 October 2016 Unloading lorries at warehouse. Everyone was working for an agency and my agency paid the least, can't remember how much but about £2.75 an hour, (at the time I had a bar job at £3.50 which was just above average for bar work). Highlight of the day was a few pints of Guinness in the pub across the road at dinner, I then spent the afternoon chatting to the Lorry drivers. I jacked it in after a day and enrolled for college.
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