What’s the worst job you’ve ever had?

[Finallybreathe]

I no longer get Sunday blues which I’m so happy about but was just thinking in my old job, Sunday blues would start Saturday night! Only lasted 3-4 months before quitting

What’s the worst job you’ve had? How long did you work there?

Various telesales jobs.
Stewarding for various summer events and festivals including the Robbie Williams gigs at Knebworth in the early 2000s.
Working in Greggs in Glasgow city centre.

My current job. An unreal amount of pressure, poor communication, senior management play favourites, nobody talks to each other nicely, no real feeling of being part of a team, company is meant to be growing but nobody knows what that looks like.

Part time job when I was at uni working in a call centre cold calling people to sell accident insurance. They even made us call people during extra time in the rugby world cup final when England beat Australia with Johnny Wilkinson's kick. The managers meanwhile were all sat in the boardroom watching the game whilst we had to sit at the phones interrupting people watching the game and getting abuse for calling during extra time.

My experience was very nearly the same, had an interview and then went straight in for the morning group pep talk, asked if this was door to door sales to be told no. Hustled onto a bus with a handful of strangers for 30 minutes, got off given a clipboard and leaflet to find out it was door to door charity sign ups. No training, no nothing. Lasted 1 day because i didnt have any means of getting home. They kept us knocking on doors until 8.30. Then had to spend 30 minutes on the bus back to base for it to take 90 minutes public transport home from there. Safe to say i didnt go back for day 2.

McDonald's too.

Horrible to women (this being about 1995, though I hear it continues).

Harassment. Bullying.

One girl my age had started her period and asked the male manager to go to the toilet. He said no, because they were short-staffed and the tills needed to be staffed. I couldn't believe his ignorance. She was crying her eyes out. I was too worried about get fired to challenge him.

I was 17-18 at the time, had no idea of my rights. I've learned since.

Zara. Interview process as though they were looking for the next editor of Vogue but I’ve never felt so invisible or team-less in a job. I lasted three weeks. Had many other retail jobs that I loved. Zara was grim.

Probably filing for the Agriculture Fisheries & Food Department - mind numbingly boring! Luckily the staff were great fun.

As a social worker I've had some hard jobs but my most memorable crap job as a teen was counting how many cars left Tesco car park and noting down the last part of the registration plates.

I didn't think it was particularly arsey. OP could have have Sunday blues for any numbers of reasons. I thought it was odd to ask details of others without saying what her/his own reason for having Sunday blues was.

Teaching English in the UK. Over 30 kids crammed into a class, barely 6 hours sleep, working all the time and never an end to the to do list.

Kennel maid in a greyhound kennels; I lasted til midday and walked out.

Holiday club for kids. I was older than most staff, and a qualified and experienced teacher.
On Day 1 I had 28 children aged 7-8 to entertain in a small classroom with limited materials for over an hour. Two had SEN that needed 1:1 support, which I didn’t have. Couldn’t let them go to the loo alone. Then I take to take them swimming.
I left after three days and moved to a different site which was less chaotic.

At a battery chicken farm picking eggs. Only did one shift.
Took weeks to get the smell out of my nostrils.

When I was 17 I was given a job of running the Hello Kitty concession in Harrods when I had only a few months Saturday job experience working at top shop Oxford Circus. I literally had no training. No one spoke to me! I had no idea what i was doing and there was no one to ask as I was the only one working on it! I just walked out and never went back.

Airline stewardess, I was a glorified skivvy. I loathed every single day and left after 6 months and went back to nursing because nursing wasn't such hard work as flying.

See I was a kennel maid in a rescue kennels and I loved it!

It was arsey though. It’s always the same on here, someone gets in fast with an arsey comment and tries to set the tone. Genuinely, maybe you need to rethink what being arsey is instead of trying to excuse it. You’re honestly totally lying to yourself here if you’re going to try and kid on your comment came from a good place. Be arsey if that’s what you want to be but at least own it and be honest with yourself instead of back peddling and kidding on you were being nice. It’s not my business, it’s just ruining Mumsnet all these constant crappy posts trying to derail an OP for no reason.

I worked in a very horrible nursery in Market Harborough. The manager was a major bully as were nearly all of her staff especially her deputy (flying monkey!). I remember all of the children being spoken to like shit and they were actively awful towards me. Once the manage turned the light off and shut me in a room. Another time, she threw a washing basket at me.
Awful place, full of sad children and staff.

Petrol station attendant, then childminder for a difficult family. Job after that was in a library that helped pay my way through postgraduate studies and it was great.

Teaching (it was a really rough school tbf).

Small company that made communication systems, the woman I worked with was a bully, was shagging the MD (who was lovely) and I now realise paranoid about having a teenager around her boyfriend. There was a horrible atmosphere and the sales reps acted like they were Gordon Gecko I used to dread going to work in the morning, I lasted 3 months before I quit as I was miserable.

Made a huge mistake taking my next job as the MD was nuts, a horrible bully who ran the place like a prison. I ended up staying 5 years as whenever I looked for a new job (during a recession) I was told iwas really lucky to have one and should stay until the recession was over. I was incredibly depressed when working there as you lived on your nerves as what rule applied one day the next you would be told off for applying so you never knew what you were supposed to do.

Working at a travel company dealing with flight to the US, just around the time of the Hoover Flight fiasco. I used to have to tell poor passengers their flight was overbooked for the next day. The woman I worked with was truly nasty, no training, the rest of the women were really nasty too, such a bitchy vibe. The boss of the whole thing was a horrible bully. I was glad when I read it had gone bust.

The job stuffing envelopes for a massive massive mail shot still sticks in my memory as one of the worst temp jobs ever (I was a student, it was the 80s).

I lasted a week then phoned the agency and said I literally could not face going back for week 2. The agency said I'd done better than everyone else who had lasted less than a day. Then they gave me better assignments after that as if I'd somehow passed some endurance test!

Selling landlord insurance. Awful. New four hours in that I hated it and I wouldn't last.