Sara Pascoe: What is the worst job you have done?

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 Sara Pascoe said elsewhere, not written here

Cleaning toilets at McDonald’s when I was 16.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 July 2018 source ↗

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Stephen Graham English actor

I worked in a TGI Fridays when I was 19 and came to London for the first time. It was absolutely horrible and I got fired after two weeks.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 April 2018 source ↗

Jodie Whittaker English actress

Working in a soap factory in Huddersfield. I was in my late teens, so I was basically hungover every day.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 September 2018 source ↗

James Norton English actor

I worked in the customer services department of a mobile phone gambling company and it was very depressing, because the people calling up were usually not happy.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 July 2022 source ↗

Gloria Steinem Writer and feminist organiser

Being a salesgirl in a baby shop where the others said things like, “He’s Jewish, but she’s American.” Also, after college, being a waitress in London, and trying to make change in the old money of shillings and pence.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 March 2017 source ↗