Paphos People

Sitting in my fancy new home-office this afternoon, with the sun belting in and my sea view, and got me to thinking how happy I am with my working lot currently!

Have had a fair few dodgy jobs in the past, like door-to-door selling in Australia in 40 degree heat, or labouring on a building site, but for me by far the worst was the call centre role I had for a couple of years - not sure how many of you have experienced a call centre working environment, but i can assure you most of the horror stories are true - sitting with your headset for hours at a time, taking call after call from largely disgruntled customers (I worked for British Gas! ), targets and "quality assessments" every day - it's difficult to do it justice in words, but it was a nightmare!

Area of the office I worked didn't even have any windows, so in winter especially I could go days without seeing any daylight - it really was the human equivalent of being a battery hen!

Well out of it now, but I find it sometimes helps appreciate what you have now if you reflect on dodgier times gone by!

What was your worst job ever??

Mine is now i think as i don't get to see daylight unless i go looking for it

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Martin,

Oh poor you, but I know how you feel, my worst job was my first secretarial one (bluffed my way in), but sitting facing a blank wall doing audio typing all day was my worst nightmare - now I am happy but skint seeing the sun most days.

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"Your dog is your friend, your partner, your defender. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true until the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion"

My worst job had to have been my paper round when I was about 12. I am terrified of large dogs and on my route there was a massive alsation dog that was nasty and 2 rottweilers that were snarling between me and the letter box.

I remember it took me 3 hours to do my first round as I would stand at the gates and wait for someone to notice me or for someone to walk past and do it for me.

I also got lost in the patchwork flats in Granton (Ruth and Jackie you might remember these before they were torn down!) It was like something from the horror film Candy Man!

I didn't last long on that job, especially after some unsavoury youths set the alsation dog on me!!!!! I was a nervous wreck.

Y

Mine had to be sitting in an office in London for 8 hours stuffing envelopes, sealing them and sticking stamps on. I was 16 so remember this was the time when envelopes had to be licked, so did stamps!!!! Had just a pathetic sponge thing that was ok for the stamps but useless for the envelopes!!!! Yuck.

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I would have to say every job I've had has been my worse job

As I've had to take crap from people who don't know their arm-pit from their elbow & these people just don't listen to anyone who might know better or have an easier way of doing the job because they have a title like: Manager, Supervisor, Cpl, Sgt, Director etc etc

Now, I am my own boss, director, manager etc so no more talking idiotic orders from a microbe who doesn't have the brian cell to know what they're doing in the first place

Know what I mean Neil

No comment!

I did one night shift at an old peoples home years ago, but that night will stay with me forever. The emptiness in some of these old folks eyes was haunting!!

Me too an old folks home for just one night it was horrible those poor bids i wouldnt put my worst enemy in there Alex

I used to put the jam in donuts. Honest. It was a student holiday job for Sayers in Liverpool.
It was hell. You would stand at the factory conveyer belt for hours reaching left to pick up the donuts, stick them on a skewer press a button for the jam to go in and then turn to the right and drop them into the sugar vat. The same movement all day every day. I could barely move when the siren went.
Pity those poor folk who did it for their whole working lives...

And the worst part was getting the bus home in the height of summer. No-one would ever sit by me because of the wasps attracted to my sugar coated trainers!
My only consolation was when i was "promoted" to the packaging end and i could try and get as many donuts as possible in a bag when there were meant to be only 12. A small, but important, bit of industrial saboutage!
lisa

Lisa i thank you for the extra donuts i fond in my pkt of 12 you now know what a diffence you made to our lives with your hard work.
donut lover Tricia

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lisa

I think my worse job ever was probably stacking shelves during the night at Sainsburys. It was years ago when the kids were very small and we were short of cash. I would look after 2 under 3 year olds all day then go to work from 8pm till 2am. Hated it - only stuck it for a few weeks

Julie x

Ive had loads of jobs - short attention span before you think I keep getting sacked - and I think the most memorable was a night job on the phones at QVC oh how I hated it.
Worked from 8.30 til 5.30pm in my 'proper' job, went home cooked,washed n cleaned etc, got the kids sorted - had a teenaged step daughter and a 14 month old to look after - then started at 9 and worked til 2am, taking calls off a weird n wonderful variety of folks - the dirty phone callers used to make me pee myself laughing... they'd ring up on the pretence of ordering something like a cruet set and then go "what colour knickers have you got on?" Id laugh and say none actually, so do you want the matching oil/vinegar set?

I'll probably think of a worse one once Ive posted this...
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Worst Jobs in History - for men..........

1 Royal Executioner

2 Violin String Maker

3 Tanner

4 Guillemot Egg Collector

5 Iron harvester


Worst Jobs in History - for women........

1 Body Inspector

2 Witch

3 Fishmonger

4 Sittings Model

5 Resort Assistant

Worst Jobs in History for Animals-

1 Mine Canary

2 Sacrificial Lamb

3 Fighting Dogs

4 Carriage Horses

5 Organ Grinder’s Monkey

Told you I'd think of another one...

In my youth I worked for an entertainments agency in London(answering the phones before you think I did something else) and I was reknowned for sending the kissagram boys n girls all over the place due to me being geographically challenged...

Anyway, pervs were the norm and often livened up a dull day in my view(do I see a recurring pattern here?) and most of the time I knew genuine calls from the other type but one day I obviously was not paying attention and this bloke rang to make enquiries about how much clothing the girls removed. After I'd told him all if thats what he wanted he said "Do they go shaven?" I looked at the map on the desk for a mo and in my lovely dulcet scouse tones replied "dunno, is that north or south of the Thames? He laughed so much he'd forgotten all about his reason for calling and said I must speak to you again, you're a cracker!

I do attract em you know
x

Doing loft insulation in a block of flats in London 40+ degress in the roof there and only 2 foot height, crawling on my belly dragging the stuff along behind me. At one point, I fell through the ceiling below.... and got stuck there, somehow dragged myself clear in the end... cut to pieces! ... great fun! It had it's good days though to I suppose.

I once went turkey plucking!!!

Only one night - I refused to go back.

The birds were brought in in cages and put into a contraption that broke their necks. They were then hung on hooks upside down whilst still twitching, and you had to start plucking as fast as possible before they cooled down too much.

The pay was £1 per bird, some people earned £10 - I earned £1!

It was horrendous - we didn't have turkey for Christmas dinner that year.

Pam

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Pam

Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans

I think that's definitely the worst so far!

Well I don't know, as part of my butcher training before I joined up, I had to do 1 day a week in the Abattoir, doing everything from slaughtering animals to chopping them up, wading thru tonnes of waste matter & debowling them as they hang up from meat hooks to drain

I did this every week for a year, just so I could become a butcher & believe me, a lot of butchers do become veggies after

Sorry if you're about to have your food

I think this guy had the worst job ever....

Overzealous zookeeper Friedrich Riesfeldt (Paderborn, Germany) fed his
constipated elephant Stefan 22 doses of animal laxative and more than a
bushel of berries, figs and prunes before the plugged-up pachyderm finally
let it fly, and suffocated the keeper under 200 pounds of poop!
Investigators say ill-fated Friedrich, 46, was attempting to give the
ailing elephant an olive oil enema when the relieved beast unloaded on him.
The sheer force of the elephant's unexpected defecation knocked Mr
Riesfeldt to the ground, where he struck his head on a rock and lay
unconscious as the elephant continued to evacuate his bowels on top of him"
said flabbergasted Paderborn police detective Erik Dern. 'With no one there
to help him, he lay under all that dung for at least an hour before a
watchman came along, and during that time he suffocated. It seems to be
just one of those freak accidents that proves that "S**t happens!"