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I worked in a unisex clothes store for three days. Girls would say, 'Do I look fat in this?' I'd say, 'Yes.' I was fired.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 September 2008 source ↗
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Krishnan Guru-Murthy
British journalist
I did a terrible job of fixing the downstairs loo once.
I’ve done some acting jobs where everybody’s gone out of their way to make sure that you feel annoying and easily replaceable.
In South Africa I washed cars, I danced in parking lots and shopping malls, and was a children’s entertainer.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
English actor
At King’s College hospital when I was 16; the job was putting hundreds of pieces of A4 paper into A4 transparent envelopes. I lasted one day.
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Judgmental without investigation.
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