What's The Worst Job You've Ever Had?

[sunny-dave]

Following on from Kate's toilet travails ...

... did I ever tell you about my holiday job at the sewage farm (no really - I did have one when I was a student)?

I used to hate Monday mornings ... the whole population of Aylesbury seemed to have spent the whole weekend doing bedroom gymnastics and (quite rightly) being 'safe' whilst doing it.

You know those rotating sprinkler thingies that you see at the sewage plants? Well my Monday morning job was unblocking all the sprinkler holes that were obstructed by the products of the London Rubber Company ... boy did I deserve a cup of tea and a bacon buttie after that.


So what was your nightmare job?

[maggiebee]

Canning peas in a Smedley factory. Got 1d for every slug/snail we picked off the conveyor belt before the peas reached the cans! I kid you not. Always said I would never eat any Smedley product as I knew what went into the cans!

[stewey]

I once had a Summer job as an orderly in a hospital. Part of the job was disimpacting ala Derik and Clive; however, it wasn't lobsters that I was removing! I stuck it out for the Summer: the money was good.

[stewey]

Plus the student nurses were a side benefit:)

[seadogg]

You were popular with the student nurses after that, stewey?

[boxtops]

I didn't actually work there, but I went on an informative visit forty years ago to the Walls Sausage factory in London.... it was vile, porky goop everywhere, and smelled horrible. Put me off pork pie for ages.

[sunny-dave]

Nothing stuck-up about our stewey :)

[seadogg]

He could have borrowed that pointy thing you used sunny d.

[237SJ]

Chambermaiding in the school holiday. Not so much for the job (we had a laugh) but the older matriarche types who ran the place.

[wolf63]

I have only had one job - apart from a short period working in a bookies on as Saturday (I was totally useless at that).

My first job there was writing girocheques for benefit payments - you could do that and listen to all the gossip at the same time. I lasted 24 years and 33 days (according to my pension calculation) and then I cracked up completely and got 'pensioned off'.

I now volunteer in a charity bookshop and it is brilliant in comparison.

I must have led a sheltered life.

[taichiperson]

Mr Taichiperson had the job of wasp extermination in the grounds of a youth hostel - that wasn't the only job he had round the estate, but this part involved using some noxious chemical (it might even have been cyanide) on a pointy stick. They were very health and safety conscious,as they made sure it was a LONG pointy stick.

[Caran]

I worked in a home for maladjusted boys in Rochdale ( yes that one that's been mentioned in child abuse cases) (at that time too but I saw nothing) I was in the laundry in charge of the wet bed parade every day. The smell was horrendous, it lingered, I had to shower every evening when I got home.

[craft1948]

Potato picking in the sodding rain in October..............never been so wet and dirty in my life.

[Jeza]

As a young un working in a discount shop folding clothes that customers looked at then threw down. I lasted a day and a half.

[craft1948]

lol Jeza I was given a lady to train as a filing clerk. After showing her around for about 10 minutes she asked if she could go to her car to get some flat shoes................we never saw her again.

[emmie]

when very young i temped for a while, and got a telephonist job in a bank, these old plug boards, on being shown the weeny cupboard i was to work in with the switchboard what the duties were, i was left too it. Someone turned the lights out so i was sitting in the dark, after a hasty helllooo, the assistant apologised and explained the permanent telephonist was blind so didn't need the lights on,
The claustrophobia kicked in after ten minutes, i lasted one day.

[ro2124]

Many years back worked as an HGV driver for an agency. One day they asked can you drive a tanker ?
I said sure no problem.
What they didn't tell me it was a sewage tanker which went round farms collecting pig ***.
Another thing they didn't tell me that the gauge was faulty, so I was merrily pumping pig *** into the tank with the gauge showing about half full, when suddenly there was a loud bang on top of the tank where the pressure relief valve was and there was a 40 foot column of Pig *** shooting into the sky and on coming down covering a large circular area around the truck.
There was a BT engineer up a pole nearby repairing phone line, you should have seen the guy move!
The Farmer wasn't amused either nor was I , the mess and stink was unimaginable.
That was the end of my tanker driving career.