What was the worst job you ever had as a teenager?

[Skint Gull]

Turkey farm one christmas.

No good at plucking so I caught the buggers and strung them up and held their wings while someone else broke their neck with a metal device.

I also weighed and tagged them - the pluckers used to delight in slamming them down on the table where I was sitting so hard that shit would shoot out of their arses and splatter me.

I also turned vegetarian like Redland, but after 12 years lapsed and now I eat meat.

Which is exactly why i don't ever want to catch my own dinner!

I'm quite happy that we are at the top of the foot chain and that some farm worker gets paid to do all the nasty bits! However if i had to do ANY of it myself i probably wouldn't eat meat..... and seeing as i not a huge veggie fan i'd be right in the shit!!

 

[cheshunt seagull]

A couple stand out for discomfort and boredom

Roberts Smoothedge in Burgess Hill in 1978. I sorted and stacked carpet grippers ready for them to get packaged. Mind numbing and painful as the gloves I was given didn't offer much protection from the nails in the grippers.

Opening the ends of carboard tubes all day at Concorde Lighting in Newhaven, also 1978.

 

[Northstander]

Working at Mcdonalds in Worthing next to Bentleys

 

[DIFFBROOK]

I worked in Tesco's churchill square - 1982-1984. I started off as a trolley boy, which was great fun. But then the £1 return scheme made that post redundant. So I was moved in store to work on the baked bean line. Not bad, but I was moved again cos I talked too much. I was moved to bags of crisp and washing powder lines. There I was just plain crap (those pesky bags of crisps just wouldn’t stay upright). So I was moved to the worst job of all……………..putting all the waste food (meat, rotting veg and eggs), together with paper rubbish into the stores waste compactor.

For 8 hours I had to shift crap. Lifting iit into the compactor invariably meant that all sorts of crap would fall onto me. Sometimes I would need to get into the compactor itself to kick the rubbish down. Not only was this like jumping into a rubbish dump, but was highly dangerous.

 

[bhaexpress]

I worked in a greengrocers in Burgess Hill, I got £1.50 a DAY I think (it was 1970). It wasn't bad except for one thing. In the summer we used to sell that manky seedless grapes for turning into wine. Trouble was that all the wannabe pikeys from the council estate would buy these nasty and often mouldy grapes to give to their kids. That wasn't the problem. What the problem was that these grapes were crawling with wasps (I think hygene standards were different in the 70s) so you ran the risk of getting stung.

There was a simple answer, don't know how I worked it out though. I would smother my hands in methelated spirits, never got stung ! Mind you what those nasty grapes must have tasted like I really wouldn't want to know.

 

[Mr Blobby]

Worked at Payless DIY near the Goldstone (with Hove Born and Inbred) from 1984. Had a nice Sunday job (so no problems watching the Albion), but then Sunday opening was banned, so switched to working the car park at Corals dog stadium (sadly all parking is free now so all those jobs have gone!) You split the tickets so that every 2 parking tickets were given to 3 cars, so hence 1/3rd of your takings were pocketed! Then Payless offered me a job working 5 evenings so went back to that! Hated having to work 5 days a week for f*ck all money, but worth getting the cash so I could follow the Albion.

The worst part of the job was having to shift bags of roof insulation about, god knows what it was made of, but it certainly didnt seam to be very good for you and made you all itchy! Especially when a group of you did it and it always ended up in somebody being buried in it!

Highlight of that job was when one of the storemen drove the fork lift out of the stores to the shop floor. Only problem was that he forgot to lower the forks and they went straight through the wall! Fantastic stuff!

 

[Gully]

Worked at Chesswood one summer, started off working evenings totally unsupervised on what amounted to shovelling shit and watering the mushroom sheds. Asked if I could have a day job instead as it was the school holidays, as a result I got to drive a milk float around the farm delivering the mushroom boxes. What that taught me was that even if you have a crap job there is always a good one around the corner, but only if you are prepared to look for it yourself.

 

[Springal]

i didnt really have a bad job, i worked at zenith windows phoning people up which was ok and paid very well for 16 years old, but change of management and we fell out big time. all my other jobs have been fun

 

[Stat Brother]

Wifey here

As a teenager, cleaning the chalets at Butlins every week! Lots of floaters, hair and used condoms to get rid of.

As an adult (I know it is supposed 2 be tennagers but...) working in a Pathology lab, spinning blood, tipping away piss, running around with fresh sperm samples up my jumper and sorting through amputated toes, fingers in jars etc

 

[Skaville]

I knew a girl that used to collect semen from zoo animals for the sperm bank.

 

[Race]

Wifey here

As a teenager, cleaning the chalets at Butlins every week! Lots of floaters, hair and used condoms to get rid of.

As an adult (I know it is supposed 2 be tennagers but...) working in a Pathology lab, spinning blood, tipping away piss, running around with fresh sperm samples up my jumper and sorting through amputated toes, fingers in jars etc

I'd rather sort through amputated toes and fingers than have to deal with someone elses floater!! YUK

 

[Bakesy]

I'd rather sort through amputated toes and fingers than have to deal with someone elses floater!! YUK

Talking of which, how's your terd muncher these days?Happily chomping through your poo i hope..

 

[Man of Harveys]

I'd rather sort through amputated toes and fingers than have to deal with someone elses floater!! YUK

Would you? Would you REALLY?

(I'm not sure - let's have a poll!)

 

[Race]

Would you? Would you REALLY?

(I'm not sure - let's have a poll!)

Definitely, no doubt, sorting out other peoples poo is just nasty!

Yes Bakesy, the turd muncher is working fine......I hope!

 

[Braders]

I knew a girl that used to collect semen from zoo animals for the sperm bank.

damn this not being NSP

 

[Giant Seagull]

Saturday job delivering furniture, usually to top floor flats with no lift or a tiny one at that.
Usually greeted with:
"ooooooooohh theres a litttle scratch on the inside of the wardrobe door, im not accepting that"

just f*** OFF!

 

[Bob!]

the turd muncher is working fine......I hope!

Is that a term of endearment?

 

[shingle]

Turkey Plucker

A temp christmas job

 

[West Hoathly Seagull]

Working on a mushroom farm in early 1988 at Highbrook. It was literally cutting open bags of **** to put the spores in, with a blunt knife that wouldn't have cut the thinnest paper, getting your hands covered in the stuff, and working with dolesters or miserable old beggars. The manager used to pay you up to £39 properly through the books (at the time that was when National Insurance started), and then if you had worked for more than that, he would pay the rest through petty cash earned through sales to pubs, etc. I got sacked for not being productive enough. I was only too glad to get out of that dump.

 

[Munkfish]

Sport and soccer Full of well anyone whos been in there you have seen for yourself