What is the worst job you have ever had?

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And why

I would say working in study support in college , it was a work experience but only did 3 days and didn't really learn anything

PA to a woman that was fairly high up in a company of mini markets. Think Tesco express. I was there for work experience for 5 months and she never did any work the entire time. She spent every day on the internet and phone planning her wedding whilst I sat on the floor of her office sorting through piles and piles of paper for "filing"

One of those scam cult type jobs where you actually lose money. Advertised as marketing assistant. 1996

Had to go Slough Trading Estate and sell shite from a bag. The options were a big button calculator, Hat FM and some other thing I can't remember. 50pee clear profit for a calculator and 2.50 for Hat FM. On my 'training day' the trainer sold £7. The fucking ticket to slough cost £12!! Apparently this was a good day

The biggest sales person that day (£30 made after a big run on Hat FM from a building site) got to ring a bell and sing the company song. I told them where to stick their cult.

Frozen fruit and veg factory or chilled meat products factory. Both fucking freezing. Both painfully boring (if you have never spent 8 hours watching sweetcorn go down a line, waiting to pick out any black bits, you do not know boredom).

Washing up massive pots and pans at a hotel 30 minutes bus ride away, where everyone was too busy to show me where to,put anything once it was washed. After one day I was offered a job in a shop directly opposite my house for more money - did feel bad bailing out after such a short time, but it would have been silly not to.

On another level, being deputy features editor on a magazine covering a booming sector when the editor and the features editor had buggered off to launch a sister title in another country. Huge amounts of work, no support, minimal supervision, low salary - I was regularly coming in at weekends and working late into the evening to cope.

Fruit packing. Putting stickers on dates was fair enough, and in a nice little group (permi staff were split between those nice to students and those not; ‘exotics’ had all the lovely lovely ladies who were like adopted aunties!)
However being sent to go through boxes or rotten oranges to find ones still ok to sell was very grim. As you put your hand into the box it would turn into rotten orange sludge. It stank and you’d be swarmed by fruit flies.

I worked in a kebab shop when I was a teenager. Lots of drunk people and some dodgy sexual inneuendo from the boss. It wasn't that bad though as lots of my friends worked there too so it could be a laugh.

Probably my worst job I had was working in a call centre. I just hated the whole thing.

I nearly ended up being a door to door charity canvasser. I was fresh out of uni and struggling to get a job, it was a typically vague job advert (I was lured in by the potential pay) and I was just thrilled to get an interview after so many knockbacks. Then I went for a day's "training", which consisted of going to a tower block and knocking on every door. The person I was with was a horrible, smarmy git, talking his way into their homes(!) so he could charm vulnerable people out of their money. Meanwhile I had to stay outside the flat in the freezing cold, dark stairwell and wait for him to finish.

After eight hours of this I was offered the job and proudly told them to stick it. Became a nanny for three years instead. Didn't pay nearly as well but so so so much nicer.

Okay compared to some of you mine isn’t that bad.

Working as a PA at a very corporate bank in Canary Wharf. Far too formal with very stuck up colleagues!

I had a temp job in an employment agency - I had no idea what I was meant to be doing - I had come from a senior management role but not used to IT and although I asked three times no one could clearly explain what they wanted me to do. I think they basically wanted me to check peoples' CVs on screen before putting them forward to the Head Hunter (shocking job for a 'temp' to do). It was excrutiatingly embarrassing, in the end I just sat at the desk looking at the computer screen all day, needless to say they didn't ask me back .

Although it sounds bad, another job I had years ago was great experience, working in an old peoples' home - dealing with all sorts of 'accidents' and helping to lay out bodies - when faced with loved ones dying it didn't seem so bad after the experience.

I worked in a motorway service station cleaning the tables, years ago.

I had to tip the food and contents of the ashtrays into the same receptacle.

Working in an office where my job was to redirect any calls that were not being picked up by the switchboard. There weren't that many calls in a day so I spent most of my time desperately trying to look busy and productive while everyone else was glaring at me for not doing much. I was given a couple of other menial tasks and someone else was hired to do the phone directing. So in the end there were two of us desperately trying to click at our screens in a vain attempt to look busy. They offered me a permanent role and were surprised when I declined.

Cold calling to try and sell expensive alarms
Only lasted 2 weeks
Wasn't tenacious enough! 😳

P.S great thread some of these are cracking me up! 😂😂😂

Call centre work - just horrible

Reception temp job similar to above - very few calls and didn't know who anyone was. In grim, dark office round the back of Vauxhall station. Eventually told I was no longer needed - the relief!

I really enjoyed care work, although there were too few staff and so we never got to spend enough time with the residents.

Worked filing for the then gas board (summer job). Oh the boredom. Oh the dust. Young male employees making remarks such as, 'I'm a big boy you know".

Worked abroad for a UK sailing company, I lasted three weeks, was supposed to be out there all summer. The girls to were working with were absolutely horrendous, all private school educated, super cliquey, if you're accent was right you didn't fit in. Terrible.

Other awful experience was working for a uni and being asked to do an expense report in Chinese. I don't speak Chinese and this wasn't a prerequisite of the job in any way! I left that one pretty quick. They still can't keep their staff, wonder why.

Also worked in a steel factory for a few weeks during summer hols, that made me work hard at uni I can tell you.

Your accent, obviously

my present job is the worst I've known

its one of those local jobs that fit around the kids, but its utterly soul destroying

the management is the problem, our line manager is an utter psycho and she creates a horrible back stabbing attitude where you just wonder all day what she will moan to you about...yet she cant do her job at all, whilst telling everyone how wonderful she is....and management cant sort her out, they haven't the balls to deal with her so they ignore the fact we are all driven mad by her

I had a manual job in a factory environment full of woman (think painting pottery around a table). We where dividend in groups of 6-8 people. Oh gosh it was WWW3 in terms of bitching, backstabbing and grassing people up to the management for a few imaginary brownie points!
It was only p/t... But I was utterly exhausted when i left 6 month later.

I worked in children's homes, and when i say childrens, it was more like teenagers.

Coming in, pissed and stoned at 2am, kicking down the kitchen door to cook food.
Regional manager was such a bitch she sent me to different homes all over the region though she knew I didn't drive.

Lasted 6 weeks

My legal traineeship

Two years of absolute hell

Teaching, lost so much weight, overly stressed, panic attacks, triple marking, useless meetings...glad that's behind me

Working as a cook in the staff canteen of a Supermarket. Now I know where some supermarket staff take out their frustrations after facing rude customers!

Sweeping up crumbs in a bread factory from 6pm to 6am, for 72 hours a week, was a bit shit.

Not as bad as teaching in a school just out of special measures though. That was hell.