Whats the worst job you have ever had???

**grantyg** · 22-Oct-06, 17:31

As the post says - whats the worst job you have ever had..........

I have been lucky really, I think serving junkies in McDonalds in Springburn - glasgow was pretty depressing at times but that was better than working for a certain bank (I aint mentioningthem!)- where we had to sell loans to pensioners and I also had to inform people of the huge service charge that they have.

On anotherforum this question followed a trail of abbatoir jobs and even a guy who used to fix industrial fridges - Mainly in morgues!

**lassieinfife** · 22-Oct-06, 17:58

working in a chip shop as a fish fryer................ can still remember smell lingered for weeks after i quit lol

**aileenmac** · 22-Oct-06, 18:20

I worked in a chicken processing factory - the chickens were slaughtered next door then they came over the partitioning wall hanging from a moving chain. As they went past we were supposed to cut off the legs & wings eeuurgh! There was blood and stuff all over the floor - and the smell!!! I only lasted 2 shifts!

**danc1ngwitch** · 22-Oct-06, 18:28

cleanin after ma X hubbie.. LoL.. swipes ma brow now that was a job and a half.

**Rheghead** · 22-Oct-06, 18:28

Picking bits of a suicide case from a railwayline and bagging them up.

**Saxo01** · 22-Oct-06, 18:43

Thats a tough one Rheghead i for one coudn't face it, Heres me thinking packing crabs was a bad one usually got them hanging from each finger

**elaine** · 22-Oct-06, 18:54

As a student during the hols: Security Guard in Glasgow Sheriff Court - £2.42 an hour.
Standing in one spot for 12 hours a days or, for a bit of a change, pace up and down for a bit. There wasn't even any yelling, arguments or entertainment of any kind - I was kinda hoping for at least some fisticuffs - but no...... just standing...........and pacing............then some more standing.

Lasted a week and got out of there before I lost my mind.

It sucked.

A great deal.

Then moved on to KFC - but that's a whole other story - three words sum it up - "breaking the chicken". But it was hugely better paid - £3.33 an hour.

The next summer we ended up in a dodgy call-centre (grubby room with 20 telephones in) trying to sell double glazing - it was bad, very bad. You got routinely humiliated in front of the group if you did not get enough people agreeing to a call-back (of course we never had ANY! because we did not care about selling windows!! We were in it for the money - ahem) but, you do get worn down with someone shouting at you every day!

Oh yeah, then there was the year that I was a chamber maid in the Thistle in Glasgow. Changing manky bads, cleaning out the loos (what people leave in the bins would make you ill) You had a quota of rooms to finish within your allocated hours and if you weren't done you stayed for as long as it took. It was RUUUUUUBISH!

My best worst job was a store-room assistant in Etams. Never saw the light of day! Just unpacked and hung clothes all day - actually I would do that again! It was very therapeutic!

**percy toboggan** · 22-Oct-06, 19:02

Oh dear Rheghead, that sounds dreadful and my own worst experience pale's after that.
However.
I once spent six hours as a kitchen porter at a south Manchester hospital. I was eighteen. I spend half the morning cutting up cabbages, and the rest mopping hospital corridors, red quarry tiles I recall, as health professionals (they weren't called that then, just Doc's and nurses) swept by. I felt insignificant and rather low. In truth I was doing one of the most vital jobs in the place!

A woman from personnel came down to see me and asked me to 'sign a contract' I declined, told her not to bother, and scuttled off to the labour exchange where a rather rewarding van driving job allowed me to explore almost the whole of northern England. There is a lot of it too.

**emszxr** · 22-Oct-06, 19:22

worst was probably being a chamber maid in a thurso hotel between high school and college. the job would have been not too bad if it wasnt for top maid. she used to clean the whole bathroom with the same cloth. yukkkk

**obiron** · 22-Oct-06, 19:27

got to be the first job i had working in a chippie. hated it lasted a few weeks. apparently i was bit slow and didnt take the orders quick enough. was glad to finish cos the smell lingered.

**neepnipper** · 22-Oct-06, 19:52

During the school hols I tried carrot topping, it involved pulling the thick ends of carrots over a fixed metal blade, I got paid by the crateful but left after one shift having only achieved half a crateful and managing to 'top' most of my fingers, it was getting a bit embarrassing having to keep ask for more plasters!

**bobbyjoeufb** · 22-Oct-06, 21:40

Had a paper round for a couple of weeks that sucked. Could hardley lift the bag it weighed so much. Got paid about a £5.00 for a weeks work so chucked it.

I also wasted eight years at Manpower, Got out of there In January and have never been happier, I pitty anyone who has to work in that place.

**connieb19** · 22-Oct-06, 21:42

Originally Posted by bobbyjoeufb

Had a paper round for a couple of weeks that sucked. Could hardley lift the bag it weighed so much. Got paid about a £5.00 for a weeks work so chucked it.

I also wasted eight years at Manpower, Got out of there In January and have never been happier, I pitty anyone who has to work in that place.

Manpower was the worst job I ever had too. I was there for nearly 3 years and hated it so much.

**willowbankbear** · 22-Oct-06, 22:29

Working on 1 certain fishing boat out of Wick & Scrabster in the 90`s. Nightmare

**David from Stockport** · 23-Oct-06, 09:57

Not really had a horrible job like some of you guys luckily but i did have to do one last year to which i was really ill suited and felt really awkward. I work in a very large department store in Manchester and had to be Santa going around waving to all the children and giving out lots of chocolate coins (also very difficult as iam a chocoholic and dont like giving away my chocolate) ,the reason i felt awkward is becouse its impossible to look less like santa than me - im 5 ft 5, am in the gym 4 days a week have a shaved head and no beard and in early 40 s - so i had to be really padded with a cushion which didnt look realistic a wig and beard made out of some synthetic stuff which had my head itching well into new year . I was so scared of spoiling any childrens veiw of father christmas as i believe its still so important for youngsters to keep the magic of christmas. In the end it went well and the kids loved it as did the adults as i did not confine giving out chocs to the kids! The worst bit tho was channel five news turned up one day and i had to walk round with a reporter showing him what he could have for xmas , so i was on the news as well - hope i didnt ruin to many xmas s . Oh and the reason why i got pressganged into being santa when other staff looked far better for the part ? you guessed it -i have a piece of paper that says i dont have a criminal record!!!! -think il have to find an excuse this year or start eating more chocolate now so i wont need the pillow ! - now that seems a good idea!!! mmmmmmmmm

**golach** · 23-Oct-06, 10:07

Being a Baths & Wines Steward onboard RMS Orontes, taking emigrants to Oz in the 1960's, the ship was old, no airconditioning, and my job was to run baths for the passengers and clean the bogs

So the hand that was cleaning out frequently blocked ladies loos, served the their wine at Lunch and Dinner, but apart from that, saw some sights and shapes, once through the Suez canal females seem to loose all their inhibitions

but thats another yarn

**henry20** · 23-Oct-06, 10:35

I've had 3 jobs in total and haven't disliked any of them, they've all had their up days & down days, but I've been pretty lucky

**cuddlepop** · 23-Oct-06, 11:41

Laundry maid in an old folks home.

Too smelly and too hot

**David from Stockport** · 23-Oct-06, 11:54

not a worst job of mine but of quite a few friends and not something you guys want to here as you are looking to them for salvation but its Tesco !!!!!- ive been in retail 25 years and they are generaly exepted as being ruthless in every way and about the worst employers in retail Wick and Thurso beware - they treat shop staff very badly and at the moment are going to war with there distribution centres and staff - bringing in more and more agency staff and forcing out there own staff , agency staff also get first dibs on any overtime which is very hard on the Tesco staff who rely on this to make a living wage . For agency staff please read eastern europeans who live 10 to a house etc . If you think thats bad think how they treat supplyers which i admit is also how other big stores work they are pinned to the floor!! If you see say an end promotion of Pepsi , Pepsi could have paid a fortune for that space , companies also pay for there space on the shelves if its say at eye level the company could have paid top dollar. Some companies also only get paid for what the store sells so if for example its razor blades and the store get delivered 100 packs of that 100 say 80 go through the tills and 20 get stolen the store only pay for the 80 that were sold. Oh and i know the good people of Thurso reckon Tesco may have bought a site in the town -this does not mean you get a store , bit stores buy up land just to stop another store buying it and they are happy just to hold it and forget about it . Hope Tesco is good for Caithness but beware!!!