What's the worst job you've ever done?

[Enid]

Inspired by Tizzy's tale on another thread about the tennis balls, I was wondering what everybody's worst job was.
I had two. Both when I was a student. One was working in a stocking factory in Nottingham. Started work at 8.00 am and finished at 6.00 pm. £6.00 a week for that, only improved a bit after I was promoted / demoted to writing the labels on the boxes as I could spell Directoire Knickers. The other was answering a small ad in the paper saying History Student wanted. It was a chap who had a commission from an encyclopaedia to write a 5000 word article on the Crimean War. I knew nothing about it and had to do a huge amount of research (no Internet in those days) and managed to complete it on time. £20 for that one. Real exploitation. I had lots more but they were the worst.

[jjoj]

Envelope filler and Box perferatore( not sure of spelling) slave labour hated them both but when times are tough and all that

Jean

[sal]

My sister and I worked in a mushroom farm when our children were tiny and money was short. We worked every night from 9pm to 3 am, it was cold wet and very smelly , we used to cycle a couple of miles there and back , get home at about 3.30 , had to shower as we were always filthy then go to bed for a few hours until the children woke up. I hated every minute , but it paid well probably because no one else was stupid enough to do the job

[blondee]

Like you say when needs must, when my children were at infant school you had to get what you could within school hours within walking distance for school no 2nd car in my day I worked as a care assistant in peoples houses used to be called home helps expected to do chores but thought I would be there to help folk personally like wash their hair do their shopping little jobs and make them smile OH NO. I was a cleaner never lifted my head up for 3 hrs now I like cleaning but not other peoples soiled mess shall we say, when family lived next door yuk.Had an unpleasant experience with one lady I should have gone for about 12.30 but teachers were on strike at lunchtimes and wouldnt look after the kids at lunchtime no problem with that I asked my supervisor if I could start at this lady's house an hr later and she agreed we were all struggling with our children no parents to help me, when I picked them both up at 2 different schools as well my DD was ill she was white as a sheet I didnt have time to go home so called at a local cafe for lunch and she was as sick as a dog all over the place. I was so terrified of losing my job I made the decision to send her back to school something I regret even to this day and felt I was the most awful mum in the world, she was 5 yrs old what was I thinking! Anyway went to this sorry old witch and got a real blasting for being late I felt so small did my job walked back to council office and told them where to stick the job. 2nd job Morrisons worst employers ever worked on deli very messy behind the scenes slipping on floor with grease but what I dont know about CHEESE isnt worth knowing!Glad to get that off my chest mau maybe that is why I help my DD out so much dont want her to go through that

[jjoj]

I worked for a supermarket years ago called Presto dont know if anyone has heard of it anyway they used to put me on the 10 items or less checkout as they said i had the loudest voice (no idea what they were thinking of im a little mouse) so could keep telling people to get out of the queue if had more or a trolley full I was on this checkout one day and a lady joined the queue and a man in the next line said to her ,,if you got more than 10 items dont go to her shes a real B*****D should have been in the SS that one now was there any call for that ? the public can be awful at times but me being me i shrugged it of ive been called worse got very broad shoulders

Jean

[blondee]

You do make me laugh jojj

[Enid]

The world needs strong women, Jean!

[jjoj]

It always happens to me doesnt it OH says im a magnet for nutters because odd people just come up to me and tell me strange things hahaha i had one old man about 80 invite me home to see his new fire he said he would make me a cup of tea ,didnt know him from Adam just passing on way to esculator Hubby was in fits saying i had Pulled

Jean

[nannyviolet]

Luckily I never had really ghastly jobs only weird ones! Once I worked as a secretary for a guy from London with a broad cockney accent who had a heavy plant (machinery) business, well he would dictate a letter to me as he couldn't spell to save his life, which was ok until it came to parts of machines which I've never heard of (as well as his accent). He would tell me I should have known as I was the secretary, so I was forever looking things up in the Trade magazines! (no internet then). Another time I went on a business trip as an interpreter with a middle class, middle aged businessman who on the last morning, told me he was disappointed I hadn't gone to his bedroom and in fact he had been tempted to come to mine! Luckily I had locked myself in,( so that's why he had asked for adjoining rooms!)

[tizzyb]

This wasn't my worst but it was the strangest.

Before my son was born in 1974 I worked as a temporary secretary. After he was born I used to walk him to the agency to see the girls. One day when he was about six weeks old they said there was a job that had come in for half a day but I would get paid a full day and they would look after the baby. I knew them well and agreed to do it. I went along and felt it was all a bit queer, it was in what was a shop but the windows were boarded from the inside. All in all I felt a bit worried. Then the chap started dictating this letter. Well he had a strong cockney accent and to be honest I argued with him about what he could say in the letter which at the end was supposed to say something about "another broken leg", I had got up to go several times but he kept standing in front of the door. Basically it was Candid Camera............how embarrassed I was!!

You can still see it on You Tube, type in threatening letter and it should come up. I am wearing a green dress which was my favourite!!