dAVe80 Posted November 24, 2013 Share Posted November 24, 2013 Why only 3 days, did you quit or get sacked? No it was temp work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddywhack Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 I've never really had a shitty "proper" job. When I was a kid I did things like delivering papers and working as a petrol pump attendant, but in my adult life I've only really had a few. Worked on the tills in a petrol station, which would probably be the worst if I had to rank them, but I really enjoyed it. Had a stint in a call centre selling payment protection insurance for Barclays and made an absolute fortune from my shady selling techniques. They were supposed to fail people who ran a little too close to the line for their sales, but I was racking up 20-30 a day compared to the company average of 3-4, so they let me get away with murder. I wonder how much money I cost Barclays with these lawsuits around falsely sold PPI actually... Well I'd like to thank you, you've kept me in a job. I'm now working in specialist complaints for Barclays refunding mis-sold PPI! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donnie Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 (edited) Never had a really shit job. Post man during my student years was pretty awful and much harder then I expected. Didnt hate it though. However, I dont think I've ever had a job ive enjoyed or could see myself doing for years which worries and saddens me greatly. Edited November 25, 2013 by donnie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted November 25, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted November 25, 2013 Never had a really shit job. Post man during my student years was pretty awful and much harder then I expected. Didnt hate it though. However, I dont think I've ever had a job ive enjoyed or could see myself doing for years which worries and saddens me greatly. Same. Incidentally, the Christmas post round was the easiest thing I ever did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choffer Posted November 25, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted November 25, 2013 First Saturday job was selling Farah trousers on Burton's in Brum city centre. £10 per day and I had to sell 15 pairs a day, at a time when no one in their right mind would wear Farah's. Managed to string it out for almost a year. Doing time & motion consultancy in Basildon Dairies was horrible but mostly because the place smelt like sick. My job as roller coaster tester had its ups and downs too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddywhack Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 I wanted to be a doctor, but I didn't have the patients. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrackpotForeigner Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Selling mirrors is a job I could see myself doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choffer Posted November 25, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted November 25, 2013 I knew my job as road safety manager wasn't going well. All the signs were there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted November 25, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted November 25, 2013 Working as a porn star was good - I could come and go as I pleased. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drat01 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Never had a really shit job. Post man during my student years was pretty awful and much harder then I expected. Didnt hate it though. However, I dont think I've ever had a job ive enjoyed or could see myself doing for years which worries and saddens me greatly. Same. Incidentally, the Christmas post round was the easiest thing I ever did. Better than walking the streets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted November 25, 2013 Author Share Posted November 25, 2013 I used to work in a paper shop, didn't I? Until it blew away... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 I worked on the funicular railway between Lynton and Lynmouth for a while. It had it's ups and downs. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaajax Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 I used to work in a paper shop, didn't I? Until it blew away... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P3te Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 I've never really had a shitty "proper" job. When I was a kid I did things like delivering papers and working as a petrol pump attendant, but in my adult life I've only really had a few. Worked on the tills in a petrol station, which would probably be the worst if I had to rank them, but I really enjoyed it. Had a stint in a call centre selling payment protection insurance for Barclays and made an absolute fortune from my shady selling techniques. They were supposed to fail people who ran a little too close to the line for their sales, but I was racking up 20-30 a day compared to the company average of 3-4, so they let me get away with murder. I wonder how much money I cost Barclays with these lawsuits around falsely sold PPI actually... Well I'd like to thank you, you've kept me in a job. I'm now working in specialist complaints for Barclays refunding mis-sold PPI! Circle of life and all that! Lots of serious piss taking in that job. One of the lads regularly put on a Russian accent for no reason other than he thought it was amusing. Then we'd have competitions to see who could swear the most without actually swearing. Stuff like "for comparison's sake" pronounced as "fuckomparison's sake" etc. There was one particularly nonsensical week where we tried to shoehorn as many dairy products as we could in. I would assume you've got your work cut out for you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony Posted November 26, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted November 26, 2013 I used to do the same as P3te when cold calling, apart from the ripping off the customer bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddywhack Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 I've never really had a shitty "proper" job. When I was a kid I did things like delivering papers and working as a petrol pump attendant, but in my adult life I've only really had a few. Worked on the tills in a petrol station, which would probably be the worst if I had to rank them, but I really enjoyed it. Had a stint in a call centre selling payment protection insurance for Barclays and made an absolute fortune from my shady selling techniques. They were supposed to fail people who ran a little too close to the line for their sales, but I was racking up 20-30 a day compared to the company average of 3-4, so they let me get away with murder. I wonder how much money I cost Barclays with these lawsuits around falsely sold PPI actually... Well I'd like to thank you, you've kept me in a job. I'm now working in specialist complaints for Barclays refunding mis-sold PPI! Circle of life and all that! Lots of serious piss taking in that job. One of the lads regularly put on a Russian accent for no reason other than he thought it was amusing. Then we'd have competitions to see who could swear the most without actually swearing. Stuff like "for comparison's sake" pronounced as "fuckomparison's sake" etc. There was one particularly nonsensical week where we tried to shoehorn as many dairy products as we could in. I would assume you've got your work cut out for you Haha, haven't had any complaints about anything like that as of yet, will keep an eye out. My favourite complaint so far was this: "This page is for you to tell us what happened when you took out the payment protection insurance. (eg. where the sale took place, information you were given, questions you asked) Mis-sold PPI Finally, tell us why you are unhappy with the insurance. Disappointed." It's difficult to know where to start answering that complaint. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P3te Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 Thinking back I'm not sure I broke the rules, as such, when selling it. Typically it'd be a case of focusing of your outstanding balance paid off per month and wiped after month 12 if you lose your job or fall ill and can't work. If that didn't get them interested, the fallback was the negative sell of "sure why not try it out for a month, and if you don't like it, pop your cancellation in the the post and you won't be charged" That one usually got them in, but we were specifically told never to use it to sell as most people forgot about it and then complained 8 months later when they realised they were paying for it We were never given too much information about the process, as far as we were told it was cut and dry - you're made redundant or laid up and your repayments are covered for 10% a month. Seemed like an awful scam to me though TBH, I'd say the companies made a mint from it I used to do the same as P3te when cold calling, apart from the ripping off the customer bit. I don't buy that there's a cold calling job in the world that doesn't involve ripping off a customer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 I had a paper round when I was at school , does that count getting up with a hangover to go deliver peoples papers .. no fun at all ,I tell you Wouldn't do aSunday round as it's Times and Telegraph central around here and all the inserts made one paper about the size of a Barry Bannan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted November 27, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted November 27, 2013 I had a job as a professional skier. Started well enough, but it soon went downhill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhatAboutTheFinish Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 (edited) I used to work in a Chinese typewriter factory. The job was boring but I did work with plenty of characters. Edited November 27, 2013 by WhatAboutTheFinish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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