Whats the shittest job you've ever had? my last one was pretty high up there: I worked at winter wonderland, a big Christmas festival they put on here in the lead up to Christmas. I was in a room full of ice sculptures that had to be kept at -12 degrees at all times. freezing my arse off listening to christmas music for 12 hour shifts on a zero-hour contract. 2 people got the early stages of frostbite and one kept collapsing with breathing difficulties. all i had to do was stop people fucking up the scultpures and running around inside. On the other hand, the people I did it with were pretty sound. My worst job was before that though, i worked for a publishing company selling a free magazine to people over the phone. 9 hours of the same fucking 30 second conversation again and again and again. people were rude to you, and the worst thing about it was that fucking office environment. at least at winter wonderland we were all entitled to have a good moan, in an open plan office you have to not only do a shit job but pretend like you care as well. left when my boss cheated me out of the bonus id been working towards the whole time. had a holiday coming up and was planning to use that money for it, completely felt betrayed. anyway, I'm sure you glum bastards can beat those two easy might make a "best jobs" thread to off-set the gloom in here.
Worst job I had was working at an ice cream place when I was about 17. Always had to work with some total bitch girl. It was also really boring, and annoying moters woudl always bring their bratty kids in.
I do find that the parents of small children who misbehave and ignore the safety instructions you're trying to tell them will always look at you and go "aw, what's he like?" like i should find it totally adorable that their fucking kid is going down the slide head first and like they won't blame me if he smacks his head on the floor as a result. "he's like a little ****, madam. That is what he is like."
One summer I worked for this Chinese importing/exporting warehouse company, it was pretty brutal. Consistent manual labor with most objects requiring a fair amount of strength to lift, (statues, large vases, etc.) in a warehouse which seemed to trap most the summer heat.
When I was 17 years old, I was a trash-man. I remember days when it rained hard, you would run the trash up into the hopper of the truck, and the bags would explode and shoot garbage juice up from the hopper and all over you. I once dropped a 50 gallon can full of diapers and had to pick them up. One of them, my finger went through and I got diaper shit all over my hand.
call center marketing apartments over the phone. Those 1800 numbers you see in apartment rental books that say call for rates? Well, some of those dont go to a leasing office, they go to a call center where you can get the rates only after you answer some personal questions about pets, budget, number of occupants, likes/dislikes, etc and then listen to a really awkward sale (at least, my sale was awkward. Some of my coworkers were good at it.) it was 9 hours of the same 5 - 10 min convo over and over. People HATED us, and because a lot of apartments used us people would get us over and over again. By the second question we had to ask the caller would be screaming "Just give me the goddamn rates!" But we weren't allowed to until we went through the sale. it was mind numbing. Every minute in that office was seriously hell for me. Once a caller made me cry because I was so sick of it all. I could tell he felt really bad about it.
shitty little meat processing place that seemed like it had 3 bosses for every employee so one boss wouldd tell you what to do then another one would come by and say youre doing it wrong and do it his way then the third jackass would come over and scream at you to do it the third way plus it was cold always in a cooler or freezer ...that was killer getting out at 2am and walking outta the place the outside felt like an oven in the summer back in highschool i worked there 3 days a week 4pm to 2am...then another place all weekend...plus going to school it was pretty awful i wish i had more fun in those times with friends instead of working so much
Delivering tyres from a central warehouse to local tyre companies. Also unloading containers filled with Pirelli tyres of all sizes, some of which needed 2 people to move them about. It was hard and dirty work. I only did it for a couple of months when I was about 18.
I worked in a styrofoam company. We made panels from styro beads. The stuff got everywhere, even under your eyelids and in your ears. Then I worked in a plastic bag factory which was always at about 100F or so.
Man...some of you guys have had some shitty jobs! I think I've only had 3 actual jobs since I was 14. I worked at a baseball stadium first. Cool job....taking care of the diamond, chalk lines, etc. Then I worked in the kitchen of a nursing home for about 2 1/2 years in high school. That was probably my crappiest job but I liked the residents. Then I started doing what I do now right after high school. (And I delivered pizzas when I was in college while still doing my current job on the weekends but I can't complain about that. That was basically getting paid to drive around smoking weed all night.)
Picking up used syringes junkies left in the bushes with a mechanical grab in the bushes of a park in central London.Pretty disgusting.I was employed as a gardener but this was part of my duties.I also had to ask homeless people in sleeping bags to move on in the morning.Upside of this job was finding a film canister of weed and finding a French girlfriend who I chatted up whilst hedge trimming.A big downer was whole afternoons of back-breaking weeding.Another upside was my hour long lunch break when I would have a cold pint of lager by the river.
pizza management. ironically, i've had jobs that literally involved dealing with shit, and those have been overall the best jobs i've had.
