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I always thought that the worst jobs should attract higher pay as one has to either break your back labouring, have your hands submerged in boiling water washing pots and pans, spend all day with your head down a toilet cleaning up everybody's shite etc.

But no, you get further insulted with piss poor money.

Whats the worst job you've ever had?

I was an office cleaner once and when I was tasked with cleaning between the handrail supports with acid and a wire brush in a tall office block. where do park your brain?

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Most of my 'crap' jobs have been bearable - cleaner, parking attendant (with a couple of days valet parking, which was fun), parcel delivery, sporting venue hamburger cook, painter, forklift driver, barman.


The worst was a (fortunately) two-day temp job as 'builders assistant'. The job was to move about 20 tonnes (from memory) of breeze blocks/cinder blocks from the pavement down some stairs to the basement of a shop in Knightsbridge that was being renovated. (It was becoming a branch of Jigsaw). Down stairs meant no wheelbarrows or anything - I carried the lot.


I did two eight hour days and slept for about 14 hours each night. Knackered. Can't remember what I got paid, but it was cash-in-hand and not very much.

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Temporary PA to the owner of a classic car auctioneers in Clapham. I just couldn't stick the man. He had been looking for a PA for ages and been through loads of temps. When he offered me the job on a permanent basis, with a flourish and a self satisfied look on his face, it gave me enormous pleasure to turn it down.
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Building site, Cambridge, midwinter, trying to eke out student grant. Wind and rain whipping straight off the North Sea, initiated by being told to climb up the outside of a four storey block on the most dodgy minimalist scaffolding I've ever seen carrying a heavy bag of tools, to find the buggers on the roof they'd accessed via a service lift I hadn't been told about...lasted two days...
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Working in a really grim little chemist shop age 15, for a right cow of an old lady boss who never cracked a smile, and her creepy middle-aged son who always liked to find an excuse to stand right behind the teenage female shop assistants in the very small space behind the till. Think he would have got on with your boss, womanofdulwich...
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Yeah, you never wanted to find yourself alone in the stockroom with this guy either...


As soon as I was 16 I got a job in the local library which was far more civilised, with a bunch of middle-aged ladies in cardigans. There was only one bloke who worked there - he joined quite soon after I started, promptly had a not-very-secret affair with the female boss, then absconded with the takings (which amounted to sod-all as the only income was from 20p library fines) and got arrested and splashed all over the local paper. Redhill Library had never witnessed so much excitement! Still, preferred him to Mr Wandering Hands...

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Paper round. The equivalent to about ?1.50 an hour today.


Once stripped down cigarette lighters, as there was a fault that stopped them turning off (pockets catching fire!). Great fun doing monotonous work, listening to Radio City, and being 'abused' (banter) by the young ladies who usually spent five days a week packing them up for distribution.


Also picked peas one summer. Much better than the day spent picking raspberries which paid about the same as the paper round and was far more uncomfortable (standing picking raspberries).

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Worked for a large concert promoter in my 20's, had to be the guest list booth person at a lot of large concerts for no extra pay, it was supposed to be a perk.


I have never encountered so much abuse in my life, people were vicious if the tickets weren't what they were expecting or name wasn't there etc. I even got spat at right in the face once.


It doesn't sound too terrible compared to everyone else, but I hated it and can't stand crowds at all these days!

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  • 1 year later...
This was the worst job I ever had. I was working at a nightclub, and my task was to clean the WC after the party. It was a disgusting "challenge" because of the terrible smell and dust. I was studying the tourism faculty and after the lessons, I was working at that club. At one day to our college came a representative from https://city-internships.com and offered us a good job. I said yes right away, without hesitating. Now I'm traveling, visiting different countries and earning good money from it. I like my job and appreciate it so much.
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rusanda Wrote:

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> This was the worst job I ever had. I was working

> at a nightclub, and my task was to clean the WC

> after the party.


Could've done with your services at the sainsburys fruit packers in Charlton in the early 1970s. The toilets were so bad my friend and I held it all day for two days- then did not return. I always thoroughly wash any sainsburys pre-packaged fruit, salad or veg- and usually try and avoid it...

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I worked in a big factory, where the queues

at dinner time meant you didn't have time to

eat. The department I worked in was furthest from the canteen. Many woman ate there prepacked dinners in the toilets, they used the sanitary bins as tables. Whilst a woman set up her ear piercing side line business in same toilet.

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I picked up freshly planted pots on an industrial farm in Warwickshire and loaded them on to trolleys. Back breaking and not lucrative. Took on pot wash in a nearby hotel for the same cash but the atmosphere was great even though it was hard work; there was food and drink all day and night, and the girls were lovely. Great people. I also learned to cook.
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