Reply to: What's the worst job you've had.

[wobbegong]

Cooking and delivering burgers and frogs legs in a crappy take away on the Fulham Palace Road.

[Sysman]

I carried weft to t'looms.

Noisy.

Very noisy.

So noisy that for the first few days I was getting singing in my ears during my post work bath. Oh, it was hot and sweaty too.

They didn't have ear protectors in those days.

I managed to escape to the warehouse after a while. Never ending cups of tea coupled with some heavy lifting. I didn't need a gym to keep up with my training, some of those wool skips were over 100 Kg. Knackering yes, but when I got back to college there a definite improvement in the weights I could handle.

[Troll]

Non Contract -In a manufacturing plant making automatic garage door openers -I was a gobby 16 year old - the manager was a smart arse 30 ish year old - I didn't last long

Contract - the Home Office - vowed never to do Public Sector again

[PRC1964]

I spent most of a weekend dressed up as Muzzy the BBC language teaching vaguely bear like thing:



Children can be right buggers when they want to, but parents who let their little darlings attack, slobber over, scream at and generally abuse innocent teenagers who have been roped in to help their Dad should be shot.

[Mich the Tester]

Big global corps, bunch of 's

whs^1,000,000,000

[Mich the Tester]

worked as a waitress in my teens, i was hopeless, people get so annoyed when you get their order wrong or just bring one steak for two of them, then i realised it could be fun to do it deliberately, especially if they were arsey

If a waitress brings the wrong dish I'm really not bothered as long as it tastes good. The only thing I don't really like is salmon, and other than that I don't mind.

[gingerjedi]

This one, 5 months working for IBM only to be TUPE'd to Fujitsu as of Monday.

Got the redundancy notice from Fujitsu yesterday 3 days before I've even started.

Big global corps, bunch of 's

[norrahe]

Telesales, selling toner cartridges and cold calling. Lasted 3 weeks, really hated it.

[Boudica]

worked as a waitress in my teens, i was hopeless, people get so annoyed when you get their order wrong or just bring one steak for two of them, then i realised it could be fun to do it deliberately, especially if they were arsey

[Mich the Tester]

Tell me about it - Bloody yanks couldn't understand me & were awful tippers... considering how shirty they get over there if you don't tip properly, they are quite happy to not bother everywhere else!

They've tipped quite a lot of explosives on some countries.

[Mich the Tester]

Yanks. Ugh.

Especially in hotels and restaurants, closely followed by the Dutch and, nowadays, the Russians. All three are strong enough reasons not to work in the hotel and restaurant business.

[cailin maith]

Yanks. Ugh.

I did a bit of waitressing in my parents restaurant a few times, but I was pretty bad. Too clumsy and impatient.

Tell me about it - Bloody yanks couldn't understand me & were awful tippers... considering how shirty they get over there if you don't tip properly, they are quite happy to not bother everywhere else!

[Mich the Tester]

I spent a while heat sealing plastic linings in sewage installations; smelly, dirty, hot and generally unpleasant, but quite well paid at the time; almost 3 times minimum wage, which isn´t bad at 22. First job in IT was helpdesk for bookkeeping software; so boring and regimented (5 minutes per day allowed for visits to bog, only with permission) I almost went back to the sewage job, but then got a rather cushy analysts' job at the water board. Still took me about 4 years before I earned as much as I had in the sewer.

[MaryPoppins]

Summer job in a coffee-shop in my home town. Right on the bus route for American Tourists... it was rammed every bloody day of the summer holidays. I HATED it!!

Yanks. Ugh.

I did a bit of waitressing in my parents restaurant a few times, but I was pretty bad. Too clumsy and impatient.

[GillsMan]

Without a shadow of a doubt the three weeks I spent at Huntress as an IT recruitment consultant were about the most miserable of my life.