Great Boos Up Posted 1 October 2016 Posted 1 October 2016 1986 Tesco Beaumont Leys produce counter. Gave it three weeks and I'm outa there for racist reasons. On the plus side I still now understand what prejudice feels like.
Trav Le Bleu Posted 1 October 2016 Posted 1 October 2016 Cleaning caravans (washing their exteriors, like washing a car) on a caravan sales forecourt. 1st day was in December and when I was hosing to wash off the suds, it was freezing solid on the caravans. Then some bloke pulls up in a Volvo and asks me to wash his car. The cheek! So I informed him my job was washing the caravans and I was too busy. Finished the day and got a phone call when I got home telling me I'd got the sack, cos the bloke in the Volvo was the owner of the company - like anyone had told me! The next day I was asked to come in as he realised it was all a misunderstanding, but since I had hated every second of the job and the boss had already demonstrated himself as having a trigger happy temperament, I didn't go back.
RonnieTodger Posted 3 October 2016 Posted 3 October 2016 In the warehouse, bagging fabrics at Dunelm Mill. It was in a thoroughly depressing dark warehouse with Capital FM playing the same shit 5 songs over and over. Can't look at a pair of curtains without hearing Domino by Jessie J.
kingcarr21 Posted 3 October 2016 Posted 3 October 2016 Next head office in the Home department Call centre. Every phone call is someone having a moan. Will never forget Mrs Miller who was throwing abuse at me over a f****** pillowcase. She soon changed her tone when i told her to f*** off. (only good thing about the job was any abuse towards yourself and my supervisor said you can say anything you want and i wouldn't get in trouble) After 9 months of it though i went from 10 and a half stone to 15 stone and just one day decided i wont go back. Switched my mobile off and just hibernated. I was in a bad place at that point.
Bayfox Posted 3 October 2016 Posted 3 October 2016 Reckon mine was the best and worst at the same time, Casual Cleaner Employed by LCFC was so proud to be working for the club I love, and had access to all the back room areas, boxes, changing rooms, managers office etc, was a pleasure to see behind the scenes after a match day. However, cleaning up peoples puke during the Christmas party season, not fun. lasted nearly 2 years in the end tho, but it was only ever a 2nd job to help pay for my wedding and eventually I called it a day. Went back for 1 shift a few years later, but it had been sub contracted in effect and was short staffed due to agency no shows, couldn't do it.
Footballwipe Posted 3 October 2016 Posted 3 October 2016 I've been quite lucky in my jobs. I did cover for my dad while he had a brain op just before I started uni as a janitor at Sainsbury's. I'm not one for manual labour as it is, but having to go and assess a blocked bog was a dark day. After I graduated I did a short spell as a morning cleaner rather than janitor. One day I spent three hours doing "edges" mopping the edges of shelving and freezers etc. It felt like the longest three hours ever. Eventually joined Sainsbury's and did as much overtime as I could get. One day was "dominoing" which from memory was checking how much extra stock you had in the back, and putting out whatever needed to. Believe me, after your fifth cage of boxes and nothing going on the shelf you check your watch every two minutes.
StanSP Posted 3 October 2016 Posted 3 October 2016 4 hours ago, kingcarr21 said: Next head office in the Home department Call centre. Every phone call is someone having a moan. Will never forget Mrs Miller who was throwing abuse at me over a f****** pillowcase. She soon changed her tone when i told her to f*** off. (only good thing about the job was any abuse towards yourself and my supervisor said you can say anything you want and i wouldn't get in trouble) After 9 months of it though i went from 10 and a half stone to 15 stone and just one day decided i wont go back. Switched my mobile off and just hibernated. I was in a bad place at that point. this is so bad
kingcarr21 Posted 3 October 2016 Posted 3 October 2016 14 minutes ago, StanSP said: this is so bad Not at all. They can shout and complain about the company all they want but as soon as they are abusive directly at yourself then Next didn't want to deal with customers who abused their staff directly. Therefore my supervisor always said be professional but as soon as they start bad mouthing you on a personal level then the shackles are off. Made me laugh when customers are like "you can't say that" errr yes I can. Then they ask for your supervisor and they then also tell them to **** off. All phone calls were recorded and the big bosses always backed their staff if it got personal
StanSP Posted 3 October 2016 Posted 3 October 2016 5 minutes ago, kingcarr21 said: Not at all. They can shout and complain about the company all they want but as soon as they are abusive directly at yourself then Next didn't want to deal with customers who abused their staff directly. Therefore my supervisor always said be professional but as soon as they start bad mouthing you on a personal level then the shackles are off. Made me laugh when customers are like "you can't say that" errr yes I can. Then they ask for your supervisor and they then also tell them to **** off. All phone calls were recorded and the big bosses always backed their staff if it got personal still doesn't sit right with me that you can just abuse them back regardless of the abuse they give you. If someone does that to us on the phone we just let them know we don't accept that kind of comments/abuse etc and then just hang up. So although I can see where you're coming from, I don't agree with your supervisor's or Next's process here.
MPH Posted 3 October 2016 Posted 3 October 2016 When i first moved to the United states i got the first job i could the day after i got off the plane -whilst i got my feet on the ground, sent of CV's and the like. It was as a cleaners in a fed ex Lorry Depot and it was my job as the new guy to clean the toilets. Well let me tell you there was some nasty people who worked there. One guy refused to use the urinals as they were 'not hygenic enough' so, with the seat down he would STAND on the toilet and piss roughly in the right direction of the toilet. Other people would have diarrhea and leave it all over the back of the toilet seat , vomit in the sinks. Wiping piss staines off the tiles behind the urinals.. cleaning out all the chewing tobacco spat into the urinals... It was awful. I'm a firm believer that if you have the ability to work you should make every effort to, . but that one really tested me...
Arriba Los Zorros Posted 3 October 2016 Posted 3 October 2016 Done so many horrible jobs. Two that stand out: Door-to-door fundraising for St John Ambulance. A great cause, but we lived residentially and our trainer, apparently their record salesman, decided to smoke weed all day and not come out training us properly, we all ended up getting our pay docked when neighbours complained about the smell. So many people were mistrusting and gave me abuse - after 3 weeks jacked it in, and they screwed us on the commission payments - took home £170 quid from working 8 hour days 7 days a week for 3 weeks. Horrible corrupt company. Also, telephone fundraising for an Aussie company for the Heart Foundation (not the British Heart Foundation, an Aussie version.....), working from home, such a dull job. The managers were constantly targeting us, listening to calls and were such horrible bellends. One guy I swear was borderline autistic and bollocked me for raising £80 on a call because I'd spent 20 minutes on the phone and wasn't hitting my call target criteria (????) - got fired for telling him to **** off and get a life.... Honourable mention to working on the lines packing DVD orders at the Sony factory, 10 hour shifts of picking up the same DVDs and placing them into boxes or onto pallets, working with people that had done that for 20+ years and hated life..... that's one to forget
adam Posted 3 October 2016 Posted 3 October 2016 Cert Octavia ( I think it was called) on Magna park working for an agency. The job was to open boxes of wine and stick cardboard promotional tops on to the bottle. The sort of shithouse place where you had to ask to go for a piss. About two hours into my second week I decided I had had enough. I asked the little polish supervisor to let me out the warehouse so could go toilet. I walked straight to my car and drove off. It felt great The best bit was the phone call off the agency. Some young lad telling me how good I had it there and I never would get a job like that again. ****. I got a new job the next afternoon at an equally shit warehouse.
DB11 Posted 3 October 2016 Posted 3 October 2016 Google this and read the replies on Reddit.... that has just filled the last hour of my time
Izzy Posted 3 October 2016 Posted 3 October 2016 I spent an entire summer in my youth working as a Potato Picker for £10 a day. 30 years later and my lower back is still fvcked to bits...
Vardinhio Posted 3 October 2016 Posted 3 October 2016 At the Dairy. Lifting bags of McDonalds milkshake mix in crates on to pallets. 12 hours of hell whilst hungover that I never returned to. Proper hard work!
Julian Joachim Jr Shabadoo Posted 3 October 2016 Posted 3 October 2016 23 minutes ago, Izzy Muzzett said: I spent an entire summer in my youth working as a Potato Picker for £10 a day. 30 years later and my lower back is still fvcked to bits... Those randy potato picking bum rapists
separator Posted 3 October 2016 Posted 3 October 2016 29 minutes ago, Izzy Muzzett said: I spent an entire summer in my youth working as a Potato Picker for £10 a day. 30 years later and my lower back is still fvcked to bits... So that's where the story for 'Sex lives of the potato men' came from
Wymsey Posted 3 October 2016 Posted 3 October 2016 Could've had a good work reference from the supervisor Mr. Tater Peeler had he not packed it in.
Izzy Posted 3 October 2016 Posted 3 October 2016 15 minutes ago, Julian Joachim Jr Shabadoo said: Those randy potato picking bum rapists 8 minutes ago, separator said: So that's where the story for 'Sex lives of the potato men' came from You guys!
separator Posted 3 October 2016 Posted 3 October 2016 7 minutes ago, Wymeswold fox said: Could've had a good work reference from the supervisor Mr. Tater Peeler had he not packed it in. Did he quit when the chips were down?
fuchsntf Posted 3 October 2016 Posted 3 October 2016 35 minutes ago, Izzy Muzzett said: I spent an entire summer in my youth working as a Potato Picker for £10 a day. 30 years later and my lower back is still fvcked to bits... Seriously how did you let yourself conned... Potato pickers , Farm worker in harvest especially 30-40yrs ago got payed Damn well Picking potatatoes, was one of the known money makers, because it was back breaking, Why many women, (European harvest Gipsy women were known For this Toiling work)Were accepted As the better Picker..harder field workers. I digress..10quid!!!!! Even then you should of been earning anywhere between 80-140. a day.It was the next to various Plums, the best Harvest earner through the complete harvest months.Tractor drivers in the field in potato weeks earned a good crack too. Often the women and their children earned by Per box-load, They were quick, and it was the top quick routine girls/women earned the higher amounts. Often behind the tractor, or within the hour Of earth being turned over. 10quid ffs..
Bayfox Posted 4 October 2016 Posted 4 October 2016 14 hours ago, kingcarr21 said: Not at all. They can shout and complain about the company all they want but as soon as they are abusive directly at yourself then Next didn't want to deal with customers who abused their staff directly. Therefore my supervisor always said be professional but as soon as they start bad mouthing you on a personal level then the shackles are off. Made me laugh when customers are like "you can't say that" errr yes I can. Then they ask for your supervisor and they then also tell them to **** off. All phone calls were recorded and the big bosses always backed their staff if it got personal Part of me is tempted to screen shot this and tweet next for some reason Would love to see the response. However I do understand the backing of staff once a customer begins personally abusing. Why should you put up with that shit. You wouldn't in the street at the end of the day.
Crinklyfox Posted 4 October 2016 Posted 4 October 2016 Moving parts to and product from production lines (temporary job when I was a student to earn a few quid between terms) all day. It was mind-numbingly boring. Looking at some of the other responses I realise I've been lucky.
Izzy Posted 4 October 2016 Posted 4 October 2016 10 hours ago, fuchsntf said: Seriously how did you let yourself conned... Potato pickers , Farm worker in harvest especially 30-40yrs ago got payed Damn well Picking potatatoes, was one of the known money makers, because it was back breaking, Why many women, (European harvest Gipsy women were known For this Toiling work)Were accepted As the better Picker..harder field workers. I digress..10quid!!!!! Even then you should of been earning anywhere between 80-140. a day.It was the next to various Plums, the best Harvest earner through the complete harvest months.Tractor drivers in the field in potato weeks earned a good crack too. Often the women and their children earned by Per box-load, They were quick, and it was the top quick routine girls/women earned the higher amounts. Often behind the tractor, or within the hour Of earth being turned over. 10quid ffs.. Back then, I thought £10 a day was big money! My paper round only paid £7 a week, so earning £50 a week picking spuds felt like I'd won the lottery! My first 'proper' full time job a few year later was on a YTS and I earned £29.50 a week so that felt like I was being conned more than spud picking!
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