The question
What is the worst job you have ever had?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.
I had a cafeteria job, serving food, and some people were really nasty. There was a stack of nice, cool plates, and a stack of hotter plates that had just come out of the kitchen. So, if a person was an arsehole, I’d hand them a hot plate with a smile and watch them deal with it.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 November 2020 source ↗
Clearing up someone’s sick – it was on police duty.
Several: cutting the local vicar's lawn, shovelling shit from a stable, waiting tables, picking up and washing actors' smelly pants and socks.
Cleaning around the feet of John Malkovich with industrial carpet cleaner while he was trying to learn lines in the foyer of a theatre.
I did work in retail while I was getting into presenting and the hours were long and you were always on your feet. It was good vibes, though.
My electric car: it’s a hybrid Cadillac.
I don’t think I’d change anything: the bad forms you more than the good.
My buddy Kenny Laguna. He’s a person of extraordinary character, he’s intelligent, and a very good friend.
Amazing Grace, on bagpipes.
Right after 9/11, Kenny and I went to perform for the troops in Pakistan and Uzbekistan. As we were flying in, an electronic voice went off: “Warning: missile launch! Warning: missile launch!” The Taliban had fired a rocket at us. I was waiting to see the back of the plane blow up, but it didn’t and we landed.
That my baseball team, Baltimore Orioles, is always in the basement.
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