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  • I was desperate for a job so joined a cold calling firm selling kitchens.

    I lasted a fortnight before walking out.

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  • VibetronicVibetronic Frets: 1036
    Mine was definitely working in a bakery for a few weeks after graduating in Aberystwyth. It was a commercial bakery so basically a factory, and I almost always got stuck with the job of feeding endless trays of scones onto a conveyor belt into another room where cream would be added. Working in the cream room was equally shit as it had to be kept really cold for obvious reasons. It was utterly soul-destroying and during a break one morning I walked out and never went back. I did have a really weird one a couple of years later whilst temping in an office - on my first morning the company went into administration, which was really awkward as I was surrounded by loads of upset people and stuck there until someone told me I could go home.
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  • DefaultMDefaultM Frets: 7271
    Asda. The job was alright but theres nothing quite like spending 5 years and 5 figures on a degree, then having someone with 2 GCSEs tell you that you're not stacking shelves fast enough.
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  • LuttiSLuttiS Frets: 2243
    Not really too sure, there's been uppers and downers to most jobs..

    I was a waiter at a super post hotel, and i remember dreading going into work.. but i also caught myself getting nostalgic about it a little while ago - had a great bunch of people there, i was good friends with the wine specialist so we would do lots of 'tasting' sessions, and beyond your shift there was no responsibility.. management were total fuckwits though, and i think that was the main reason for hating it.. 

    Call centre probably had some of the worst times.. new system in which crashed at the busiest time.. had a few months of utter utter shit. Wife said that i'd be apologising to people in my sleep while i was there.. but again, mostly good people, and i also got promoted to team leader and then the operations manager.. so that was good, i was actually sad to be leaving there.. but since i also had a hand in the accounts, i could see where the company was going.. so i jumped ship..

    So i'd have to say, worst job is my current job. It started well a few years ago, traditional marketing role, i did things, built up the digital side where my skills/interests are, people leave and are not replaced, and my role has basically transformed into an admin role. Office girl is fucking the boss so her work is now basically passed over.. i have too much to do, not enough time and i'm stressed and miserable. So yeah.. this one. Also this is the last year of guaranteed pay rises.. so it's time to leave. This is the one job where i'm looking forward to burning bridges. 


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  • mgawmgaw Frets: 5239
    LuttiS said:
    Not really too sure, there's been uppers and downers to most jobs..

    I was a waiter at a super post hotel, and i remember dreading going into work.. but i also caught myself getting nostalgic about it a little while ago - had a great bunch of people there, i was good friends with the wine specialist so we would do lots of 'tasting' sessions, and beyond your shift there was no responsibility.. management were total fuckwits though, and i think that was the main reason for hating it.. 

    Call centre probably had some of the worst times.. new system in which crashed at the busiest time.. had a few months of utter utter shit. Wife said that i'd be apologising to people in my sleep while i was there.. but again, mostly good people, and i also got promoted to team leader and then the operations manager.. so that was good, i was actually sad to be leaving there.. but since i also had a hand in the accounts, i could see where the company was going.. so i jumped ship..

    So i'd have to say, worst job is my current job. It started well a few years ago, traditional marketing role, i did things, built up the digital side where my skills/interests are, people leave and are not replaced, and my role has basically transformed into an admin role. Office girl is fucking the boss so her work is now basically passed over.. i have too much to do, not enough time and i'm stressed and miserable. So yeah.. this one. Also this is the last year of guaranteed pay rises.. so it's time to leave. This is the one job where i'm looking forward to burning bridges. 


    why don't you fuck the boss but do it better than her?
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  • LuttiSLuttiS Frets: 2243
    mgaw said:
    why don't you fuck the boss but do it better than her?
    The offer was declined :/
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  • CloudNineCloudNine Frets: 4254
    I remember a teacher in our school told us a story about when he worked at Robertsons Jam as a youth. His job, along with a load of other lads, was to stand on the edge of huge vats and skim off the froth from the top of the jam with big wooden paddle things. He said the managers were arseholes, and any time they came into the area and screamed at all the lads to work harder, once they had left everyone would zip down flies and piss in the jam. He said it was a pretty regular occurrence...  :o
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  • SnagsSnags Frets: 5326
    On paper, worst job was a summer job in a "precision engineering" factory. Spent days on end either cleaning grease of rollerblind assemblies with trico (ow my head) or sat at a pillar drill tapping square doohickies for 8 hours a day. It was the job that got me smoking just to relieve the boredom. However ... the people there were fantastic, so I kind of enjoyed it (plus I knew it would end). So actually not too bad.

    The situation that finally pushed me to leave my last proper job (1998/1999) was having to deliver Millennium Bug training solidly for about 5 months. I was bloody near suicidal by the end of it, and certainly verging on murderous (ended up calling one of the new overlords a cunt in front of the whole office, which at the time was totally out of character). Massive conspiracy of circumstance that got us delivering it, and it was going to be vaguely OK until the Government decided the funded training had to last five days, when there was only really about half a day's material, and in reality none of the businesses who attended had the slightest thing to worry about, and all the big boys and fixed the serious stuff years previously.

    But ... in a lot of ways my worst job is what I do now. In theory it's great, because it's my business, and I can pick and choose clients etc. and I genuinely love a lot of the people we work with, many of whom we've worked with for 15-20 years. Unfortunately it's reached the stage where we've got too much work for our resources, but not enough income (or, most importantly, desire) to expand the headcount, and increasingly the reward for giving excellent service is to have people take us less and less seriously when we discuss planning, management, strategy and not just dropping work on us with no bloody warning. I know what I should be doing about it, but for different reasons all of the "right" answers are unnattractive, so we keep muddling along with periods of calm acceptance punctuated by enormous stress. If I could think of another way to generate an income that wasn't worse, and that didn't stitch up my one employee in the process, I'd be off like a shot.
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  • beed84 said:
    Working in a potato factory. Given that some people had worked there for years, I was surprised how I managed to get through one day peeling spuds before sacking it off.
    A Potato Factory? You mean a farm?
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  • munckeemunckee Frets: 12255
    DefaultM said:
    Asda. The job was alright but theres nothing quite like spending 5 years and 5 figures on a degree, then having someone with 2 GCSEs tell you that you're not stacking shelves fast enough.
    To be fair it doesn't take a degree to spot someone slacking : )
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  • Probably my first one at Waitrose. First role was on the fish and meat counter in the store. Very little training given and had to wing most of it in my first month or two. Horrible snobby posh customers as well giving me shit as well.
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  • HAL9000HAL9000 Frets: 9551
    Being Jayne Mansfield’s stunt double...
    I play guitar because I enjoy it rather than because I’m any good at it
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  • Probably my first one at Waitrose. First role was on the fish and meat counter in the store. Very little training given and had to wing most of it in my first month or two. Horrible snobby posh customers as well giving me shit as well.
    "Working" software has only unobserved bugs. (Parroty Error: Pieces of Nine! Pieces of Nine!)
    Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
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  • hywelghywelg Frets: 4302
    My first job on leaving uni (B Sc Mining Engineering) was working for an exploration drilling company. Interesting work but when they suggested I was to be moved to a site working round the clock and that I would be required to work 6 12 hour days/nights and an 18 hour turnround shift, I politely declined. They did offer a caravan on site so didn't have far to travel! Newly married too......

    After joining The National Coal Board  as a management trainee I was sent to do my underground training at Snibston Colliery. Working on the coal face was pretty hard, and a little scary. Low working height, approx 42 inches, poor conditions, early starts and being treated as an outsider as I was "management". I dreaded Monday mornings.

    It got better though. As Overman at Bagworth Colliery where the seam was 10foot high was brilliant, the craic with the other guys was unsurpassed and probably illegal by current standards. One chap who was a bit of a lothario was having trouble with his missus so the other guys held him down and gave him a love bite to go home with! Not in a gay way, just arsing about. He had a hell of a time trying to explain it to his wife, it was only when one of his mates fessed up to her that she calmed down. 
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  • munckeemunckee Frets: 12255
    My worst ever job was having to remove a leech from my father in laws buttock after swimming across a river in borneo.
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  • During a gynae attatchment.  Having to do the post coital tests.   A fishy business with lashings of what looked like egg white
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  • @Blaendulais yech!
    "Working" software has only unobserved bugs. (Parroty Error: Pieces of Nine! Pieces of Nine!)
    Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
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  • The worse bit was i was stuck in the hospital while they were all at it hammer and tongs
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  • You could have started your own creampie porn website and made a lot of money
    "Working" software has only unobserved bugs. (Parroty Error: Pieces of Nine! Pieces of Nine!)
    Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
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  • CloudNineCloudNine Frets: 4254
    During a gynae attatchment.  Having to do the post coital tests.   A fishy business with lashings of what looked like egg white


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