What was your worst ever job?

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And did you leave with a bang?

Left school and went to work for a high st bank. Late 80s. After a year, a truly dreadful assistant branch manager took over and bullied me relentlessly. I took it on the chin, like you do when you're 19. He picked on me for any minor mistake, things wasn't even involved in.

Within a few months, I looked up the staff handbook, checked my notice period, holidays in lieu.

I then applied to start a business IT degree, got accepted and handed in my notice - which surprised everyone. Within a year, about 5 others handed in their notice, manager sacked for fraud and bully investigated by HR for sexual misconduct.

House of cards, so glad I made the move and I've never looked back. I often look back and think, what if I'd stayed and sucked it up, I would have been miserable. It was the push I needed to move on.

My first ever job when I was 14. I was waitressing and part of my duties was cleaning a piranha tank. I also ended up in hospital with burns when a faulty tap spewed roasting hot water up my arm.

And I continued to work there for the rest of the summer. I was delighted to get a fiver more in my wages after the scalding!

McDonald's
The manager was a complete bully, hated it. I lasted 3 weeks then defected to pizza hut 😂

In a care home for the elderly, twenty odd years ago.
Total nightmare of what not to do in care, no recourse to anyone for whistle blowing, or to complain about the poor treatment of the residents, paid less than three pounds an hour and only paid for ten hours of a twelve hour shift. Just me (the cleaner) and a YTS kid to look after 40 residents all night, with no training...
Place is thankfully closed down now, and the owner eventually went to jail for serious fatal health and safety breaches.

Sainsburys grocery delivery driver. I worked evenings in early winter on routes I didn't know. Its almost impossible to see house numbers from the road. I felt vulnerable. Then I crashed the van. I didn't stay long

In my early teens I went to work in the seed factory my mum worked in )in my school holidays). I mostly worked on the 'returns' as the seeds were sold on a sale or return basis.
Dealing with sprouted seeds coming through the packet was common, but they had usually started to rot by the time we got them back (display stands left outside in the rain), but we also got the occasional free dead mouse (not envy).
The broad bean fights made up for it!

cleaning in a hospital,once a icu isolation room bucket fell on my head because it was not put back properly,shudders at the thought.

my current job not much better i work drive thru for mc donalds.The managers constantly contradicting themselves,i often find myself covering three jobs and often customers treat me like i am thick. Once a customer told my manager i was being rude all i did was ask them nicely to go wait in a waiting bay for their food.I have to smile and put up with peoples crap so i can pay the bills.

A call centre as part of a MLM trying to flog conservatories, porches etc

Was 16 I think

Called one day and quit over the phone, got a letter from watchdog a few weeks after who were making investigations on the company

Marks and Spencer's 4 years ago when I was 20-21. The staff was horrible and like a pack of clique mad hounds, I became pregnant and they kept asking if I wanted to leave and enjoy motherhood instead of working and worrying about childcare in the end I did

A fish gutting factory. It was gross

Also McDonalds.
Bad working conditions, general gross environment.

I was an air stewardess and left after I was involved in an incident. No fatalities but it really shook me up and I sustained injuries in the evacuation.

Going door to door trying to persuade people to switch energy companies.
I was tricked into it, the interview was for a marketing role, they said it might involve late hours. I turned up for my first day and they put me on a coach and drove us about an hour away to knock doors all day.
I gave up after a few hours and sat in a leisure centre until the return coach home.
I was furious, and I never got paid for it either!

I worked in a Hilton. Utterly hated every minute. Told how I should have my hair, make up, style of trousers, it was horrible, we were all numbers - not people
We also didn’t get paid for the 15-30 mins a day safe counting. Always fucked me off

I started cleaning for my best friend when I was strapped for cash. Totally ruined our friendship. Lasted about four months. I miss her ☹️

As a domestic in a psychiatric hospital when I was 18. It was a Victorian building and was really eerie. One of the residents, used to use an isolated bathroom that I had to clean. I can still hear him cackling!!

Did one night shift in a factory closing the kids if tubs of m and s coleslaw. Freezing cold, no protective clothing or face masks. Coleslaw all over the floor. Awful. I lasted 8pm until 4am and me and my mate made a run for it and left. Agency paid us for the whole shift.

3 shifts in a chicken factory.

These were my student days.

Collecting eggs at a battery farm for 45p an hour when I was 13/4

My current teaching job. :(

Terrible toxic, bullying management. Assaulted daily by teenage boys which is what is 'expected' with our SEBD/SEN student cohort according to my management. Two of my friends and ex colleagues are In a school catering to the same type of students and they've not been assaulted since joining due to their management having a zero tolerance violence to staff policy.

I've been bitten, punched, headbutted choked and slapped, threatened with rape and told that they'll find out where I live and kill my daughter. That's just since September.

I can't leave; I have too many debts to pay off from terrible financial mismanagement when I was younger and so I can't risk taking a chance on agency work as there are no guarantees for hours. I've applied for every teaching job going with an hour and a half of where I live but I'm primary qualified but working with 18 year olds so no primary school wants me as I don't have any 'relevant experience in primary age groups' since I qualified. I've applied to over 200 jobs across the last two years and whenever I get to interview get that exact feedback each time. Looked at non teaching jobs but as that's all I'm qualified for I can't find anything with comparable wages and my whole paycheck is accounted for. :(

I worked in corals bookmakers for 3 years. Treated like crap by customers and management then expected to clean the crap off the toilets 🤢 so glad when I left

When I was 17, in the late 80s, I worked in what they termed as a mental hospital as a domestic cleaner, when you entered the hospital there was still a sign above the door that said ‘Welcome To The Asylum’.

After leaving school I worked in the classified ads department of a local newspaper as a ‘Scrutineer’ I had to check all of the adverts for grammar and spelling mistakes, I nearly died of boredom.

About 5 years ago I was out of work and accepted an admin job at a small local business, the person I was taking over from was retiring and proudly boasted the filing system hadn’t changed since the 1960s! I didn’t last long because everything was so old fashioned I couldn’t get to grips with it, email was a mystery to them!

A cleaning job with a mad manager and you never knew what mood she was in until you were in the office. It messed with my mind. She was a tyrant one minute adding extra chores on and yelling at me when I called in sick with pneumonia! Then acted like my best friend and mum rolled into one lending me money and feeding everyone chocolate.
I waited till Xmas break then wrote my resignation so it was on her desk first day back. Posted it. Office didn't get cleaned on the day before Xmas hols and she was a messy bugger so I imagine Turkey and all the trimmings rotting gently for 2 weeks 😁. Changed my mobile number too.

A quiche packing factory....the hygiene levels were not good.

A cleaning job where the owner of the company blamed me for her losing clients (one of which died)...nothing to do with her poor management skills...was very glad when she fired me

As a student, making Catherine wheels at a fireworks factory one summer. Had to manually make 1500 per day (if my memory serves me right) in a tiny hut sat at a desk beside just one fellow worker. Had to roll a fuse (a long “straw” filled with gunpowder) around a wooden disk then tape it one way, then another....1500 times. Dull. Luckily my colleague was a hilarious woman in her mid twenties who’d been a manager at McDonalds but got sacked. She used to make me laugh so much. made the job bearable.

I worked for a summer in a bacon packing factory. The work was pretty grim but most of the people were alright. I was one of a group of university students taken on for the summer and towards the end of our stint the manager took us all aside and told us to come and talk to him if we were interested in business management.
20-odd years later I wonder if I should have taken the offer up.
The smell of raw bacon though...
That, and the one woman who thought I was from another planet because I brought a bottle of Purdey’s in one day... never lived that down.