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?

My current colleague worked in medical research when they were testing the Alli drug many years ago. Its a medication which makes fats pass through you, rather than being absorbed, but the side effect can be passing oil and faecal incontinence! Each person was issued with pre-weighed, clean underpants, and her job was re-weigh the underpants and document how much oil and incontinence were in them! 😱

Tesco Personal Shopper- for some reason I was bloody hopeless at it, kept losing my trolley. It served its purpose when I had a new puppy though. I lasted 10 weeks by mutual agreement- I didn't want till work so left.
Second one great money via Agency - went in at 2pm sat there at my desk until 6pm staring at the same screen did about 1.5 hours work, went home at 11pm...bored out of my box.

Year 6 TA in a primary school! I didn't even make it a full term

Medieval wench waitress for themed corporate events. Clients were encouraged in ribaldry and groping. I was 16.

Also temping. The nadir was reception for a small fish in the fossil fuels industry. You were expected to cover phones from 7am, but also prepare the conference rooms for a 7.15am meeting – tea, coffee, ring binders of nonsense, water, but also answer the phones within two rings. This was enabled by dint of a headset you could wear while prepping the conference rooms, so you’d hear the phone ring in the headset but, crucially, you couldn’t actually answer but through the headset. So it would go off and you’d have to ditch the glass of sparkling water you were placing at 11 o’clock to the ring binder of bollocks and sprint to the front desk to switch from broken headset to phone, answer – without sounding out of breath, you got told off for out of breath – and deal with the call, which was quite often a director or someone saying they hoped there would be sandwiches in the conference room, or something equally stupid, then sprint back to the conference room lest it hit 7.15 without a plate of bourbon biscuits every 2ft along the table. Repeat per phone call. It was relentless. Also a very “receptionists must wear skirts and heels” kind of workplace, to add to the sprinting fun.

Accountancy firm

My best, worst and in-between jobs have all been teaching. The worst was supply teaching at a formerly good but rapidly nose-diving comprehensive where the behaviour was very often unmanageable. Students shouting abuse at staff and rampaging around the school during lesson time was common. At least I was only ad hoc supply and was only expected to supervise them, not actually teach them or get good exam results out of them.

Washing dishes in a seafront restaurant in Europe. Near crippled me. Cunt kept my tips too.

🙄I wasn't trying to be nice either. OR trying to make out that I was. Where are you reading this from a simple post?

As an aside from your attempted derail (the irony), I am still wondering what OP's horrible job was. Are you there, OP? Maybe others are wondering if they have a similar job to your old one and are currently feeling the same so it may help to know what you used to do and what you found contentment with.

Don’t try and come for me, I wasn’t nasty or bitchy… you were.

Too many to count

Nanny for a family

Kids where great,dad was lovely-I was 14

Mum not so much-she was shagging about behind her husbands back-he walked in on them-forgave her,so she had another man the following week-to which he walked in on them again

The kids where downstairs watching TV and listening to mum shagging her newest bloke

They broke up and she went out every night,bringing home pissed and a new bloke in tow everytime-to which we all had to listen to in the middle of the night

For this,I earned a full £5 a day-id get the kids ready for school,go to school myself,come back and feed the kids,bath,bed,listen to her shagging all night...

Next worst job was picking mouldy carrots and potatoes from a moving belt and dump them in a bag-I was 16

I lasted 3 nights-I just didn't go back

Taxi firm-answering the phone-I was aged 16/17

Full of pissed dickheads using the phone line as their own sex line or the male staff groping me

I lost that job (as I was shite at it) and they rang my parents to tell them to tell me!

I didn't even bother going back for my last paycheck-i think they posted it through the door

"Come for you"?

That does sound like quite a dramatic response to what I've posted. I can see you want to read things into stuff that's just not there. I'll just stick to reading the rest of the posts now and will ignore yours.

The staff in every branch of Zara I've been in, including in Spain, have always looked miserable.

Working on a ladies fashion concession in a department store. God it was so boring and the management and most of the other staff were so, so bitchy it was untrue. It was a worthwhile experience though as it’s made me appreciate my subsequent roles and colleagues so much more.

Fabric warehouse place that sold end of roll curtain material. I lasted 3 hours into a 6 hour trial shift. Turned out they wanted to hire a dogsbody to do the manual lifting work whilst they sat outside smoking... in plastic ponchos!( So they didn't pass the reek of smoke on to the fabrics)
Was truly backbreaking, thankless work with no upsides at all. I rethought my "career" choices.

Chipperfield's Circus, Alicante (100 deg. temps).

Looking after 8 horses who were living in tent stables, and a lifestyle I was uncomfortable with.
My own sleeping arrangement was the front of the lorry (and NOT a fancy one) for their transport.
Up early for their training before the heat - but also up late for the two performances. Even a small part of the act!
The rest of the acts came to life after the show- and partied, right outside the lorry.

I left in the early hours one night, dragging my overpacked suitcase along behind me, not speaking a word of Spanish. Fortunately, three universal words helped..... Taxi - Hotel - Airport.

Door-to-door canvassing for a damp-proofing company. A minibus dropped us all off in a different town each day, armed with highlighted maps, and we'd be knocking on doors for 8 hours, getting people's details for telesales to book appointments later. The company closed that branch two weeks after I started, thankfully. Pay was on a commission-only basis and you only got paid for leads that booked an appointment, so I earned the grand total of £14.50 for those two weeks. My bus pass cost £15 a week so I had less than nothing to show for all that effort.

Worse, another team canvassed my grandma's road and she recognised the company so gave them her details in solidarity with me. They then rang her aggressively demanding to speak to her husband. He died before I was born and when she told them he wasn't available, they hung up on her. This went on repeatedly for months. Absolute scum.

I was young and naive then. I wouldn't put up with it now.

I've had a few... But when I was a support worker for people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour. I didn't feel safe, physically. The staff ratios were not what I think was acceptable for the clients behaviour. Don't get me wrong they cod be kind and lovely too! I really liked most of the people I worked with. But not be I physically safe at work is quite a low point.

Working in admin for a recruitment company, zero training, awful lads lads lads culture.. walked out of a meeting when I got told I was awful at my job (despite being offered full time work the week before -which I turned down). Only there for 6 months but burnt me badly.. now thriving in my current role..

A school. Utterly toxic SLT, my role was changed from a desk based one to a specialist, heavily physical (as in shifting heavy equipment up and down stairs all day long, climbing ladders and working with faulty electrics) all day - despite having declared my disability and being cleared by Occy Health in the first place. No notice given of the change. When I complained, I was shouted at publicly and mocked. Went sick and the new Occy Health referral was shown to me by the professional, where it said they were to find out 'the Truth'. The head then said I'd lied on application about my health and I was going to be terminated for that - when had my file been checked, my clearance was there in black and white.

Stuck it out, mainly from sheer bloodymindedness, as I'd worked out redundancies were coming and I wanted my fucking money. Got the money, finished the day - by 1 minute after my finish time, I'd blocked everybody, given the caretaker my pass and keys and walked out the front door smoking a fag and carrying 4 bottles of lager.

Oh my god, so many:

Server in a coffee shop
Server in a hotel
Admin in an insurance multinational
Assistant in a dept store
Bartender

So, so many....

McDonald's. Did about 3 shifts then handed my uniform back 😂 it was absolutely awful

Same (not on industrial estate but rundown part of town) and it was a local newspaper. The senior advertising manager talked to us like we were shit. Everyone in the office but me smoked heavily, one cigars.

I used to ring the red phone box out near my parents' so I could pretend I was trying to ring potential clients.

One day a man said to me, "I am bloody fed up with people ringing me about advertising!" Stung, I retored, "well I am bloody fed up ringing". Then I thought, shit, shouldn't have said that, but he laughed and sympathised with me, still didn't give me an ad!!

Stuck it for 13 months.

I worked for a year in a job that made me so paranoid I am even worried to write too much about it on here. The micromanagement was insane and I still have nightmares about it years on.

They behaved as if they owned the staff, stalking us on social media etc. if I had a random day off I would be called in to a meeting and asked if I was going to interviews at other companies, as if that was a criminal offence.

The pay was crap too, but they tended to hire young people who were desperate to build a career in the field. No way would I stick it out for more than 2 days now. I would rather work casual temping work than work somewhere like that for a 'career'.

Completely agree. OP posts then, within the first few posts there'll be someone nit-picking and being an arse for the sake of being an arse. Usually something along the lines of 'you sound jealous/hard work/not a real friend'.

Worked in a cake factory that still supplies all the supermarkets for birthday cakes etc. Fucking bullying, nasty bastards, male and female. There's no way I'd buy their crap knowing who's handled them. Gives me the heave.