Worst job you ever had?

[s.varty]

i wonder how many combines have been set on fire after rats and mice have eaten the wiring it amazes me what rats like to gnaw on oil soaked rubber seems to be a favourite for them

 

as a kid growing up on a farm I was bit by a poisoned rat, and ended up with a bit of a phobia concerning rats, which made this job a nightmare, most farms now have electronic boxes to deter rats/mice and they work very well.

Edited February 20, 2016 by s.varty

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Bus driver. Differences between the different companies?? The paint job on the vehicles!

 

And then there's the general public...

 

Worst species of animal to work with.

[djbobbins]

Used to work digging out floor spaces in council properties..rip out floor boards,dig down through the clay by hand about 6 courses of brick then barrow fresh stone in. Used to average 80-120 ton of stone per house. All shovelled in by barrow. Back breaking. Tree work a doddle physically in comparison.

 

 

What was the reason for doing that? Damp / ventilation issues?

[Matthew Storrs]

Worked in a quarry sawing stone for a bit- a few weeks actually, doesn't sound too bad and in fact the job wasn't if i was doing it on my own, incredibly boring though and constantly sprayed very cold water- but the neanderthals i had to work with- that took some sticking.

[Goaty]

Bus driver. Differences between the different companies?? The paint job on the vehicles!

 

 

 

And then there's the general public...

 

 

 

Worst species of animal to work with.

 

 

I never fancied the thought of cargo that talks. It's bad enough having to deal with them at the drop of point when your cargo is none talking goods.

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Either stack emission testing pre H&S era or landfill site gas and leachate sampling. Of the two, stack testing; perched on untested scaffolding tower with a load of rattling glassware, trying to dispense various nasties into a dioxin wet test array upto to 300' up in the air, either sweating indoors in almost complete darkness as carbon black rains down and your BA gets changed every hour or outdoors on a slate mine in the pouring rain dust testing. Dodgy as anything.

[benedmonds]

Secondary School Science Teacher.. I'd rather clean drains...

[IVECOKID]

Many years back on Parents Pig farm we would have 60,000 litres of waste milk/whey delivered from Longridge dairy to our farm for pig feed ,this was Stored in huge ex railway tanks each holding 40,000 litres and in the Summer the milk goes off by the end of the week,needless to say the last bit in the tank had to be broken up with hose pipe so it would pump out to clean ........muggings here inside tank sweating my bollocks off wth fly's and maggots .

Try doing that these days with H&S !!! I could ramble on forever of crappy jobs but that was part of Farming and literally keeping our heads afloat to keep farm running !

 

 

Ste

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Also loaded cattle carcasses into bulk artic tipper at a slaughter house using loading shovel during the BSE 'fiasco' - the government over hyped it!

 

Now that WASN'T a bad job - got half a pig at the end of it on top of wages.

 

Did the drains and septic tank emptying too, the retiring old guy that showed me the job, showed me every trick to stay clean and stink free too.

 

As said, bus driving was the worst, it was when you started to see 'no win - no fee'. So no matter how you drove, they claimed for anything. Cash cow on wheels buses are.

[Vespasian]

as a kid growing up on a farm I was bit by a poisoned rat, and ended up with a bit of a phobia concerning rats, which made this job a nightmare, most farms now have electronic boxes to deter rats/mice and they work very well.

 

Do they?... electric rat traps that is.. I need to get one for the mice then, sick of them things... I bought six mousetraps an all they did is take the food and run... Flippers they are, can't use the word I want to use lol...

 

Now, this thread has bin the best one for sure for a good while, had a lot of fun reading it...

And though my worse job can't compare to most on here, I do have a very boring job I once did...

 

Worked at a paper mill years back, and volunteered for overtime, two twelve hour shifts over the weekend, doin nights...

I found myself stood at one end of a conveyor belt loading up reams of paper onto a conveyor belt.

A pallet of paper was hauled in front of the conveyor and two of us peeled a reams of fifty sheets onto the said conveyor... stood in one spot for near on twelve solid hours Saturday night and Sunday night...

 

The worse of it was I'd run out of anecdotes after an hour or so, and spent the rest of the night watching the minute hand on the clock move painfully forward....

 

Even now I cringe when I think of it.... tick,,,,,,tock,,,,,,,,,,,tick,,,,,,,,,,,,,tock, all night long...