Odd and Tedious jobs you have done....
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Maggot said:
You may have worked for me then
Lucky for me these days I get to sit in the office most of the time getting other people to do the 'dirty work' of interviewing people. When I was training I had to go door knocking looking for a demographic that had a penetration of about 0.5% (ie one in every 200 people would meet the criteria). When only about 1 in 10 people answer the door, you have to knock on about 2000 doors to find someone who fits the bill. When I eventually found someone I was almost on my knees begging them to complete the interview.
I feel pretty guilty sometimes with some of the stuff we have to get interviewers to do. Shortly after 7/7 we had a job where interviewers needed to take loudspeakers into people's homes to play them some recordings. Nearly all are interviewers in London are ethnic minorities and don't have a car, and they really weren't best pleased about having to drag round a large and slightly dubious looking black box on wheels onto public transport - I'm surprised they managed to get any work done at all in between being stopped and searched. I felt pretty crap about that one.
The dullest was working on the Christmas post in Canning Town. Had to get up at about 3.30 am and cycle over there (couldn't have done it without a bike), go into this VAST warehouse with a floor about a mile long... sit for about 7 hours sorting the envelopes by postcode...
It wasn't bad pay for a student job at the time though - 4.50 an hour and 7.50 if you did overtime...
It wasn't bad pay for a student job at the time though - 4.50 an hour and 7.50 if you did overtime...
Fuchs66
Ring a ding
My first job in Germany was in an egg packing factory and it was shite, had regular lung infections from breathing in powdered chicken shit that filled the air and was barely removed by the crappy air con. My duties included repacking 4 week old eggs as new and the factory contributed to the laying dates having to be stamped on eggs after a couple of OAPs died at a home after eating eggs that had been packed (probably several times) there. Took me years before I would eat eggs after that. My top tip is, never, ever, ever, eat bought pasta or biscuits that contain whole egg especially from Italy (I know what goes into it and it aint just egg).
RubberBuccaneer
Hedd Wyn
Serving/being on the till in the Art college canteen - dealing with arsey students all day 
Also some bar work and I never got pulled once, what's the point in that ?
Also some bar work and I never got pulled once, what's the point in that ?
_angel_
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so many crap jobs so little space....
The Methadone factory was quite something as it also made childrens cough medicine
and the machinery had to be thoroughly cleaned as you can imagine. Us temps weren't allowed to touch the methadone production but we were still knocking out kiddies medicine and supposedly cleaning equipment when there was no running water in the building (Leeds city centre had a water crisis for a few days).
The peanut factory prob wins hands down as the worst place I worked. The job was crap enough but the company were dead racist and also managed not to pay me for half the work I did claiming to have 'lost' the signing in book. Yeah right.
The Methadone factory was quite something as it also made childrens cough medicine
and the machinery had to be thoroughly cleaned as you can imagine. Us temps weren't allowed to touch the methadone production but we were still knocking out kiddies medicine and supposedly cleaning equipment when there was no running water in the building (Leeds city centre had a water crisis for a few days).The peanut factory prob wins hands down as the worst place I worked. The job was crap enough but the company were dead racist and also managed not to pay me for half the work I did claiming to have 'lost' the signing in book. Yeah right.
DrRingDing
'anti-human wanker'
I've done more than my fair share of shite jobs and it looks like i have a winter of them to come as well 
So far...
Potato packer
Potato stacker
Potato grader
(in different companies!)
Peeled and chopped onion bagger (eyes wept all day)
Seeding sugar beet puller upper
Labourer
Filer
Paper 'boy' (aged 28) through a scandinavian winter
Sommerfield warehouseman (that was the least nasty tbh and I got to give a member of the board a proper dressing down in front of everyone)
So far...
Potato packer
Potato stacker
Potato grader
(in different companies!)
Peeled and chopped onion bagger (eyes wept all day)
Seeding sugar beet puller upper
Labourer
Filer
Paper 'boy' (aged 28) through a scandinavian winter
Sommerfield warehouseman (that was the least nasty tbh and I got to give a member of the board a proper dressing down in front of everyone)
A few stand out in my long CV of tedious or odd partime work.
Hiding behind boxes and sleeping in a warehouse for a week, I was holiday cover for a job that did not apparantly exist.
Private English teacher to a disturbed Korean 6 yr old
Potato sizing
Leek picking in the snow
Apple thinning
KP
Cleaner in Old peoples home
Hiding behind boxes and sleeping in a warehouse for a week, I was holiday cover for a job that did not apparantly exist.
Private English teacher to a disturbed Korean 6 yr old
Potato sizing
Leek picking in the snow
Apple thinning
KP
Cleaner in Old peoples home
Putting Star Wars Tazo's in packets in Walkers crisps. Sat high up in the factory, as the crisps descended, you would have both hands poised above two shutes, a red light would come on indicating the correct time for you to drop your tazo to reach the individual bag of crisps.
I lasted 6 months doing 12 hour shifts, from 10pm-6am, in a hot, greasy environment with its fair share of social problems that were brought in from the outside to the workplace (religious intolerance, racism, fights, hard drug abuse, sexual harrassment). Many of the workers, some with extremely suspect hygeine, constantly helped themselves to the convey belts of freshly fried crisps.
I haven't eaten a single crisp since.
I lasted 6 months doing 12 hour shifts, from 10pm-6am, in a hot, greasy environment with its fair share of social problems that were brought in from the outside to the workplace (religious intolerance, racism, fights, hard drug abuse, sexual harrassment). Many of the workers, some with extremely suspect hygeine, constantly helped themselves to the convey belts of freshly fried crisps.
I haven't eaten a single crisp since.
I have had a few corkers in the past....
Inputting the regstration number of every Citroen car in the UK into a database.
Just me in a warehouse unpacking a mountain of water filters in foreign packaging, folding up a new new UK box for each one and re-packing it.
I also supervised some staff once at a microfilm place. Two jobs available there for my staff...
1. Remove staples from mountains of paperwork.
2. Sit in front of any overhead camra, pick up piece of paper from one side of you desk put in from of you, press camera button, put on the other side of you.
I'm sure there are a few more that I have blanked out from my memory.
Inputting the regstration number of every Citroen car in the UK into a database.
Just me in a warehouse unpacking a mountain of water filters in foreign packaging, folding up a new new UK box for each one and re-packing it.
I also supervised some staff once at a microfilm place. Two jobs available there for my staff...
1. Remove staples from mountains of paperwork.
2. Sit in front of any overhead camra, pick up piece of paper from one side of you desk put in from of you, press camera button, put on the other side of you.
I'm sure there are a few more that I have blanked out from my memory.
*Miss Daisy*
Suck a Big Hairy....
working in ' Pillers' restaurant - cardiff was so so tedious,, I hated it!Similar threads
