To ask what your worst ever jobs have been?

Customer assistant at a ‘naice’ supermarket until very recently. Worst job I’ve ever ever had. The management were awful and talked to grown adults like they were toddlers. Never met such a nasty bunch of people who deemed themselves better than us lowly shelf stackers because they were on 2 quid an hour more than us 😆. I’ve started in a lovely job now and can feel my self esteem slowly repairing!

Planner for a multinational FMCG company. Role included production supply planning/production planning/production scheduling.

Long days and start to finish it was full on stress, never ending and never had the satisfaction of a task "finished".

Expectation to plan everything for a 2 year horizon on a weekly cycle, while getting constant pings and questions from market planners, production line managers, material planners, line engineers etc etc.

Data hungry systems and we were also responsible for ensuring data for our products were correct. When a product wasn't planning correctly never had time to problem solve, or with with the offshore IT to get help. Systems were inadequate for the users jobs so lots of work arounds to try to get them to work.

Constant firefighting, hated it.

It wasn't just me being a shit planner, all planners had the same issues - huge turn over of staff, I managed to get another role in another department after 9 months - never again! The only good thing about it was I lost 2st without even trying doing that job through stress and exhaustion and many missed lunches, coming home just too mentally exhausted to eat!

Cleaning a warehouse. The gaffer kept pushing me under the storage cages to clean, and he was pushing me on my bottom so that I could get 'all the way under'. It's only years later I realised what was going on!

As a teenager I got a job at a motorway service station. First thing I was given to do was putting porn mags into opaque plastic bags to cover the boobs. I didn’t go back for a second day.

My friend got a job in a scotch egg factory peeling eggs! All the experienced people could just sort of squish the egg and pop it out in one go, while she was picking off minuscule bits of shell one at a time. Definitely don’t fancy that one either!

Oh , I can imagine that the post office employ the worst kind of people , had a few problems with them and their general attitude towards customers when really no need. I know it’s not an easy job, but if someone is polite don’t be nasty back ( side eye the one I had the misfortune to deal with the other day, so condescending!)

Being a trainee solicitor- extremely toxic work environment.

My first ever job at 17 I had an awful manager who made it clear she didn’t want me there at all and I really messed up everything because she hated me so much.
I ended up leaving and a bit of a breakdown over it all.
I was lucky to find another job after a month or so.
It was a bad time , but workplaces can be toxic.

Good luck with the job interview op. Hope you get on ok.
No wonder nurseries and care homes have such a high turn over of staff.

Oh I just remembered another shocker. I was doing a couple of shifts a week at a childcare centre and someone brought her child in to be weaned. She wanted us to wean him to a bottle. I was still breastfeeding so smelled of milk and they decided I was the best one to do it. That poor poor baby.

Someone I know works in a children’s nursery and it’s the same there too op. It seems the jobs where you’re caring for the more vulnerable in society are treated badly and paid a pittance. It is sad especially as some owners are able to treat the staff appallingly and get away with it and some just want the profits.

Filing telephone numbers in these giant filing machines. So so so boring and the woman I worked with hated my guts.

I also didn't last very long at an aged care job. I was the only staff member present and when I was supposed to be serving dinner and cleaning up someone who had shit her pants at the same time, I apparently should have just left her to it and served dinner. Awful place.

I did a nightshift in a frozen food factory putting the cardboard covers on the meals. One shitty 12 hour shift, I never went back.

I worked for a disabled children's charity run by a CEO who micro managed every second. She also didnt like any of the children, and those who needed one to one support were not allowed to join any of the activities ie youth groups. They held one of their fundraiser balls at a venue that did not have wheelchair access which meant some of the young service users couldn't attend. It was awful. I was miserable from start to finish. Things came yo a head with the CEO and I quit. Very happy now in my current job.

Saturday boy W H Smith do it all. Started great busy and always something different....then competition opened and I was basically in charge of the timber section... tidying the same area over and over. Occasional ordering when we actually sold something. Dull as ditch water.

On the knock for a double glazing company for a week

Demolition of a large industrial building for £40.a week, no h&s just lots of blokes with no previous experience smashing things with sledge hammers

Now I work for a funeral director and collect people who have passed out of hours... which is actually quite a rewarding thing to do (except when you are rung in the early hours to collect someone who died hours before and you could have been called at a reasonable time)

Having to use a pitchfork in a warehouse that was a maggot factory turning over rotting chicken carcasses for the flies to consume and lay eggs on.
Had to use deep heat under my nostrils every day.
The smell would not wash out even after two or three showers.

Working on the Post Office counter. Customers were absolutely vile. I have had various retail jobs and never came across such nasty behaviour as when I worked for PO.

It was a temp assignment during the long student vacation. I went to a warehouse and was given a load of pieces of pre cut thin cardboard. We had to fold the small bit to make a basket (basket design printed) to stick on the larger bit in the right position - there was an image of a basket on there. In the basket, put a free sample of washing tablets and a money off coupon. Fiddly and tedious why bother to put this effort for people to rip off the tablets and coupon?

We went on break and I didn't return. More fool the temp agency who paid me 2 full days, not the hour and a half I worked.

Then got a sales job a couple of weeks after uni and it was just going round the various office blocks in Leeds city centre in groups of 4 (one being the experienced guy) and trying to sell plastic crap. One of the things I remember was a battery operated hand fan. The guy said to us, we are going on a 20 min break and meet up at the bottom of Park Row. The three of us agreed not to bother to return.

Wherever there has been a toxic clique. It only takes one!

CD packing factory (just so boring)
Plant nursery where I spent an 8 hour shift moving individual seeds from one tub to another with tweezers (my back was screaming at me after an hour)
Selling mortgage consolidation and kitchens via cold calling (two different jobs)
Glass collecting at a working men's club up north. The job was fine but I got an early introduction to how disgusting men could be (i was 15 getting hit on by losers in their 30s and beyond)

Filing for some bank or credit company back in the 70s. Great big trays of file cards in a rotating file card store the size of a small car. Just monumentally dull for 40 hrs a week in summer break while at uni.

Fortunately it was temporary - filing for MAFF. That was all I did for 3 weeks.
Vets receptionist as I was bullied by a senior colleague.
Dental receptionist as you have to do about a million things at once & get yelled at by patients in a lot of pain.
Receptionist at another dentist which wasn’t computerised plus the building was haunted!

Some dodgy sales thing where you phone and tell people they've won a holiday if they have a kitchen quote or something.
Truly awful. Think I did a couple of 3 hour shifts and left.

A holiday job inputting numbers into spreadsheets for eight hours a day, five days a week for six weeks after I finished my A levels.

All my previous jobs had been in pubs or shops and I was looking forward to doing a "white collar" job. It was fairly well paid (for 1991) but so boring I literally cried after most of my shifts.