Tom Allen: What is the worst job you have done?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

The Guardian's long-running Q&A repeatedly asks this standing question, with minor tense variation.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Tom Allen said elsewhere, not written here

I once had to sit on a sleigh and pretend to be Bing Crosby for a corporate party. I had to mime to White Christmas over and over again.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 November 2023 source ↗

Others on this question

Katharine Hamnett English fashion designer

Hop-picking in Kent when I was 13. The smell was dreadful, and put me off beer for life.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 September 2019 source ↗

Jimmy Akingbola British-Nigerian TV, theatre and film actor

Working in a warehouse, packing frozen meat. It was a nightmare: I hate the cold and it was very tough.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 August 2020 source ↗

Bar and buffet at Top Ten Bingo in Greenford. A lot of the old people were quite bigoted.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 September 2023 source ↗

Judith Kerr British writer and illustrator

Secretary to a lawyer. I was sacked after a week.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 May 2019 source ↗