What's the worse job you've ever had?

bumface said:
I don't start threads very often but I was thinking about this today and I'd be interested to hear about other FMTTM members experiences. I've mentioned my student job in a campus bookshop on here before and how awful it was. But I think that it was the direct sales door knocking job that I had in the holidays between sixth form and going to Uni that was the worst one for me. Spending ten hours a day in unfamiliar parts of Teesside knocking on strangers doors and trying to sell them worthless crap. You got paid a tenner a day basic and the rest was commission on the stuff that you sold. I was pretty good at it because I'm good at bullsh*tting people but I really hated doing it. And I hated having to look smart and wear a tie every day too. And you had to sing the company song every morning at the staff meeting and pretend to be be all enthusiastic. The whole thing was just a pyramid scheme and an absolute nightmare. It was horrific. NSFW Derek and Clive video attached:

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I did exactly that same job in Australia for 8 weeks whilst I was backpacking. Totally commission only and I was terrible at it, so often worked 12-hour days for zero cash. My mate who was backpacking with had the gift of the gab and raked it in! Same scenario, company song and clapping every day before heading out into the 'field', then gong smashing in a circle end of day for those that had made the most sales. Some people really got into it, it felt like a bit of a cult to be honest - Cobra I think the company was called. We ended up in some town in the middle of nowhere one day, knocked on the door and this older couple answered, they recognised by my accent and we started chatting and ended up that they'd live on the same road as my Nana in the 70s in Priestfields - mad!

On that same backpacking trip ended up picking peppers on a farm for while, 10 hours of utterly back breaking work bent over double all day, not easy for someone at 6 ft 4. We had this crazy Austrian boss who just told everyone 'ze pain is in ze mind' whenever anyone complained. Didn't stick around too long on that job!
 
Telesales job during college. First day, had a manager listening in and I called this lovely old lady and started on my spiel. She cut me off, ever so apologetic telling me she couldn't talk as the ambulance was currently taking her and her husband to hospital after his heart attack. I could hear the siren. I felt like the worst human being in the world and the manager behind me is encouraging me to get a call back time, even after he heard what she said. I wished her and him the best, called the manager a T W A T and left.

Worst job I ever stuck at was Dunnes in Billingham. Malcolm the manager was a short shouty bald d*ck'ead who thought he could boss teens around. Did it for a year as I was saving for a car, as soon as I had the cash and a new job, told him what I thought of him and quit.
 
BoroBukowski said:
WORST*

Another foolish yet common mistake like people who suddenly think "biased" is bias, drawer is draw, lose is loose etc. All just signs that people no longer read books and society is going to hell in a hand-cart because the art of expressing yourself correctly is inextricably linked with thinking correctly

TLDR: Bum for a face, doesn't understand the difference between worse and worst :ROFLMAO:
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I only ever post on here after a few drinks mate. And it's a football message board. I don't proofread anything before I post. I used to write for a living mate but the posters on here don't deserve my best work. I don't give a crap about using the right words or grammar and punctuation on here. It doesn't matter. And if you have a problem with me or with my face then send me a private message and we can sort it out in person. Bukowski had a bum for a face too and you've named yourself after him. And he loved a good scrap as well. He had awful taste in women though but he was a great poet.
 
bumface said:
I only ever post on here after a few drinks mate. And it's a football message board. I don't proofread anything before I post. I used to write for a living mate but the posters on here don't deserve my best work. I don't give a crap about using the right words or grammar and punctuation on here. It doesn't matter. And if you have a problem with me or with my face then send me a private message and we can sort it out in person. Bukowski had a bum for a face too and you've named yourself after him. And he loved a good scrap as well. He had awful taste in women though but he was a great poet.
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Or paragraphs apparently ;)
 
Think the worst job I had was taking a trial as a laggers apprentice for some outfit in South Bank - We went to a couple of hospitals over the 5 days I stayed and they were chopping & slicing old lagging off and replacing it. Horribly dusty and sticky in the summer heat, I also noticed that the 3 guys doing the pipe lagging all had this odd cough. I mentioned it to my father who said he'd known a few laggers who popped off with lung disease issues.

I never went back next week.
 
swordtrombonefish said:
Think the worst job I had was taking a trial as a laggers apprentice for some outfit in South Bank - We went to a couple of hospitals over the 5 days I stayed and they were chopping & slicing old lagging off and replacing it. Horribly dusty and sticky in the summer heat, I also noticed that the 3 guys doing the pipe lagging all had this odd cough. I mentioned it to my father who said he'd known a few laggers who popped off with lung disease issues.

I never went back next week.
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I'm pretty sure that's why my Dad got such a generous pension by these days standards. They knew that his working conditions had caused his health problems so they gave him that and a big lump sum so that he wouldn't go after them for compensation.
 
bumface said:
I only ever post on here after a few drinks mate. And it's a football message board. I don't proofread anything before I post. I used to write for a living mate but the posters on here don't deserve my best work. I don't give a crap about using the right words or grammar and punctuation on here. It doesn't matter. And if you have a problem with me or with my face then send me a private message and we can sort it out in person. Bukowski had a bum for a face too and you've named yourself after him. And he loved a good scrap as well. He had awful taste in women though but he was a great poet.
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He was a great writer who understood the power of simplicity. If you really used to write for a living and you don't immediately spot such lazy & bad expression in yourself then it's a good job you gave it up . Author means authority in a certain domain. No one bright enough to write well would confuse worse and worst it's 8 year old level. Read more books and then read more books and then get back to me...
 
BoroBukowski said:
He was a great writer who understood the power of simplicity. If you really used to write for a living and you don't immediately spot such lazy & bad expression in yourself then it's a good job you gave it up . Author means authority in a certain domain. No one bright enough to write well would confuse worse and worst it's 8 year old level. Read more books and then read more books and get back to me...
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I've written books mate. I've got a literature degree. And I was only messing about like I always am on here with that comment. Don't get in a f*cking strop with me. I've done well for myself mate. And I've always got along alright with you and stuck up for you on here. Stop being an @rse.
 
bumface said:
I've written books mate. I've got a literature degree. And I was only messing about like I always am on here with that comment. Don't get in a f*cking strop with me. I've done well for myself mate. And I've always got along alright with you and stuck up for you on here. Stop being an @rse.
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If that was all true for me and I wrote "What's your WORSE job..." I'd be ashamed. A degree in English Literature and would fail Stage 1 SATS :ROFLMAO:
 
BoroBukowski said:
If that was all true for me and I wrote "What's your WORSE job..." I'd be ashamed. A degree in English Literature and would fail Stage 1 SATS :ROFLMAO:
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I did tell you that I'd had a few pints. It's the weekend mate. And I'm not writing a thesis when I'm posting on here. I'm just talking to a bunch of w@nkers most of the time.
 
BoroBukowski said:
He was a great writer who understood the power of simplicity. If you really used to write for a living and you don't immediately spot such lazy & bad expression in yourself then it's a good job you gave it up . Author means authority in a certain domain. No one bright enough to write well would confuse worse and worst it's 8 year old level. Read more books and then read more books and then get back to me...
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Take a chill pill fella, no need to make a bad situation worst.
 
bumface said:
I did tell you that I'd had a few pints. It's the weekend mate. And I'm not writing a thesis when I'm posting on here. I'm just talking to a bunch of w@nkers most of the time.
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In my experience, for people who are Top 5% English Comprehension it just comes naturally. They never think about switching it on or off, in fact the concept is alien to them. Why would you not express yourself and comprehend English to the highest level at all times when it requires no effort?

So when someone expresses themselves badly then claims the situation is to blame I know I'm dealing with someone well outside the top. If you need to switch your grammatical abilities on or off it means you are straining in the first place
 
Colgates_shaving_foam said:
Take a chill pill fella, no need to make a bad situation worst.
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It's not a bad situation mate, I couldn't care less. BB kicks off like this sometimes. He did it with BoroFur not so long ago and then BoroFur ended up on the naughty step for reacting badly to it. I see it as a kind of performance art from BB. I think that BB is just trying to act like the real Bukowski would have done and I admire him for that because I like Bukowski. Insults on here don't hurt me mate. It's only a message board.
 
BoroBukowski said:
In my experience, for people who are Top 5% English Comprehension it just comes naturally. They never think about switching it on or off, in fact the concept is alien to them. Why would you not express yourself and comprehend English to the highest level at all times when it requires no effort?

So when someone expresses themselves badly then claims the situation is to blame I know I'm dealing with someone well outside the top. If you need to switch your grammatical abilities on or off it means you are straining in the first place
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Yeah. I'm crap at my job my job mate. That's why I managed to retire in my forties.
 
BoroBukowski said:
Just goes to show that with enough good luck a mediocre English Lit degree from a bad polytechnic is no barrier to success :ROFLMAO:
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Manchester Uni mate. No poly for me. I did apply to Wolverhampton Poly as a last resort just in case I really b*ggered up my A levels. They would have accepted me with three E grades there. But it didn't come to that. Stop being a tw@t mate. I like you. I don't want to fight with you.
 
bumface said:
It's not a bad situation mate, I couldn't care less. BB kicks off like this sometimes. He did it with BoroFur not so long ago and then BoroFur ended up on the naughty step for reacting badly to it. I see it as a kind of performance art from BB. I think that BB is just trying to act like the real Bukowski would have done and I admire him for that because I like Bukowski. Insults on here don't hurt me mate. It's only a message board.
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I have never been banned from any forum or Social Media platform. Never even been warned.

How other people react is their problem :cool: Getting BoroFur banned was hilarious :LOL:
 
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BoroBukowski said:
True, how is dominating the discourse making anything worse?

I have never been banned from any forum or Social Media platform. Never even been warned.

How other people react is their problem :cool: Getting BoroFur banned was hilarious :LOL:
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There's no need for it though. It's obvious that certain posters have things that trigger them and I just avoid those subjects with them. The way that you're talking about BoroFur just makes you sound like the troll that you probably are. And you clearly have a huge ego. You're not as clever as you think that you are mate.
 
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