Worst job you've ever had.....

[Craig 6321]

Delivering phone directories....

 

5,000 of the bastards I delivered for a measily £140 when I was 16.

 

The wanted me to obtain a signature for every one of them as well (fuck that!)

 

Funny thing was they said they'd deduct a particular amount for every one that I returned at the end the week I was doing it...

 

Naturally, they made quite a bonfire

[Guest alex]

Saturday job in Asda. Not really, really bad. Just tiring, badly paid and extremely dull.

[Gemmill 35492]

My sister used to work in Asda. Was it the one at Four Lane Ends. You might have been [american accent]co-workers[/american accent].

[Monster 0]

OH! Forgot. I worked in a spar on Coatsworth Road in Gateshead. Me and a lad from school both worked there. I wasn't allowed on the till basically cos I wasn't Indian and was therefore not to be trusted. Ironically, my mate who was Indian and therefore could work on the till would nick up to £100 from it every Saturday. If he hit the jackpot (£100) I used to get a payoff too.

 

My mate Davey had a job when we were 18 at what was probably the last garage in the civilised world not to have computerised petrol pumps.

 

He was coming away with about £250 on a Saturday. We lived like kings Taxi to the pub, taxi to the club, taxi home, Sunday brunch in the pub....you get the picture.

[Guest alex]

My sister used to work in Asda. Was it the one at Four Lane Ends. You might have been [american accent]co-workers[/american accent].

The one at Benton/Palmersville. Is that the one you mean?

[Gemmill 35492]

Aye, that's the one. Actually though, come to think of it, it was the one at Gosforth she worked at. Just ignore me.

[Guest alex]

Aye, that's the one. Actually though, come to think of it, it was the one at Gosforth she worked at. Just ignore me.

And Four Lane Ends is roughly equidistant between those two stores.

Mind, come to think of it, it wasn't even Asda when I worked there, it was the Benton Hypermarket (Co-op).

[Mark 0]

Makro.

[Meenzer 14136]

Aye, that's the one. Actually though, come to think of it, it was the one at Gosforth she worked at. Just ignore me.

And Four Lane Ends is roughly equidistant between those two stores.

Mind, come to think of it, it wasn't even Asda when I worked there, it was the Benton Hypermarket (Co-op).

I remember when going to the Hypermarket was a big event. Spoilt as a child, me.

[Gemmill 35492]

Remember Dickeeeeens Home Improoovement Hypermaaaarket! Duh derrrr duh!

[ewerk 26802]

Database Administrator / Analyst Programmer for Accenture

i worked for them when they were known as Andersen Consulting.

 

Reet bunch of cowboys.

 

What was wrong with them? I had them down on the list of organisations that would potentially have the pleasure of employing me.

[Guest alex]

Remember Dickeeeeens Home Improoovement Hypermaaaarket! Duh derrrr duh!

Always had a sale on.

[Gemmill 35492]

Database Administrator / Analyst Programmer for Accenture

i worked for them when they were known as Andersen Consulting.

 

Reet bunch of cowboys.

 

What was wrong with them? I had them down on the list of organisations that would potentially have the pleasure of employing me.

 

Have no idea what they're like to work for, but consultancy is a license to print money. Worked with a lad at my old company that had worked for KPMG and specialised in consultancy relating to SAP (the heyooge accountancy application). Anyway he'd left and gone freelance. He lives in Tenerife and just does various projects whenever he gets the phonecall and charges an absolute packet for his services. I imagine you could do similar with 6 or 7 years at Accenture on your CV.

[ewerk 26802]

Well thats the plan anyway, I've got about 8 companies which I'm planning to apply to but I imagine they're not the easiest job to land, hence my postgrad since outside my education I've absolutely no personal achievements or skills to boost my application.

[JJ 0]

'National Rail Enquiries, what station are you travelling from?'

 

That was the worst job ever. Made even worse as the Barclaycard project on the other side of the floor had great craic as they maybe had to take a call every 20 minutes, and they had a wicked time. We never had a second to ourselves and it was mind numbing considering there were only two questions you'd ever get asked. 'What time is the train?' and 'How much is the train?'

 

That was in Longbenton and funnily enough the best job I did was about 100 yards away. The Nectar helpline at Sitel. The job was ok, but the people were brilliant and we always had a laugh. The job was good in that you weren't on the phone all bloody day, but the gaps weren't big enough that you'd have nowt to do. It was the perfect happy medium.

[Guest alex]

AKA The Call Centre Kid

[Renton 18044]

I'd absolutely hate to work in a call centre. Rather do almost anything else tbh. Mind, I've never done it so I might be pleasently surprised........

[JJ 0]

I actually quite enjoy call centre work. It's a good laugh. Apart from the arrogant pricks you get on the phone, and the arrogant pricks you have to work with if you're doing outbound, it's a good laugh.

[Dr Kenneth Noisewater 0]

My sister used to work in Asda. Was it the one at Four Lane Ends. You might have been [american accent]co-workers[/american accent].

I think you'll find the term used was [american accent]colleagues[/american accent].

[peasepud 59]

Database Administrator / Analyst Programmer for Accenture

i worked for them when they were known as Andersen Consulting.

 

Reet bunch of cowboys.

 

What was wrong with them? I had them down on the list of organisations that would potentially have the pleasure of employing me.

 

Have no idea what they're like to work for, but consultancy is a license to print money. Worked with a lad at my old company that had worked for KPMG and specialised in consultancy relating to SAP (the heyooge accountancy application). Anyway he'd left and gone freelance. He lives in Tenerife and just does various projects whenever he gets the phonecall and charges an absolute packet for his services. I imagine you could do similar with 6 or 7 years at Accenture on your CV.

 

Aye you could make a fortune if you specialise in SAP seeing as its the biggest fuck-up ever in the history of accounting software (well if you dont include SAGE).

 

While we're mixing conversations, when I were a lad we used to have family outings to Woolco at Killingworth.

[Kevin Carr's Gloves 3279]

Database Administrator / Analyst Programmer for Accenture

i worked for them when they were known as Andersen Consulting.

 

Reet bunch of cowboys.

 

What was wrong with them? I had them down on the list of organisations that would potentially have the pleasure of employing me.

 

Have no idea what they're like to work for, but consultancy is a license to print money. Worked with a lad at my old company that had worked for KPMG and specialised in consultancy relating to SAP (the heyooge accountancy application). Anyway he'd left and gone freelance. He lives in Tenerife and just does various projects whenever he gets the phonecall and charges an absolute packet for his services. I imagine you could do similar with 6 or 7 years at Accenture on your CV.

 

Aye you could make a fortune if you specialise in SAP seeing as its the biggest fuck-up ever in the history of accounting software (well if you dont include SAGE).

 

While we're mixing conversations, when I were a lad we used to have family outings to Woolco at Killingworth.

 

 

You can tell the old people from washington they still call one of the Galleries car parks the woolco car park.

 

My worst ever job was as a nightshift data entry monkey. did it for 1 month when I was really skint. Just so boring.

[luckyluke 1]

The soul-destroying call centre job I mentioned in the other thread.

[donaldstott 0]

I did a few summers at the exam board in Westerhope (now lying vacant) checking that the examiners had added up the numbers correctly.

 

Tedious stuff, the highlight being when you got an exam paper written by a psyco..

 

For example...

 

"What is the sum of 6 and 4?

 

I don't care you C**nts."

 

 

My work experience was a week of filing at some pharmaceutical firm in Denton, that was absolute garbage. It's a pointless thing unless the company give you a small amount of responsibility..

[Jimbo 133]

My current job is the only one I've ever had !

 

Although I've had some shit work to do during that time:

 

Repairing a submersible pump in the efluent plant.

 

Running in cables under an office block in a duct area about 18" high.

 

Repairing a steam pipe in a roof space above an industrial fryer operating at 200c.

 

Repairing potato slurry pumps.

 

Replacing industrial light bulbs in a coldstore at -40c.

[Renton 18044]

My current job is the only one I've ever had !

 

Although I've had some shit work to do during that time:

 

Repairing a submersible pump in the efluent plant.

 

Running in cables under an office block in a duct area about 18" high.

 

Repairing a steam pipe in a roof space above an industrial fryer operating at 200c.

 

Repairing potato slurry pumps.

 

Replacing industrial light bulbs in a coldstore at -40c.

 

I remember a terrible story a few years back when a bloke was put on a conveyor belt to mend an industrial oven or something at a bakery. Trouble was they hadn't realised it took 24 hours to cool down and he was burnt to a crisp. Nothing anyone could do once he was in except listen to his screams and anticipate what would be left of him when he came out the other side.