The question
What is the worst job you have ever had?Originally asked
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Cockroach stamper at a dried-flower factory.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 March 2025 source ↗
Cleaning the freezer room at Bejam as a Saturday job, aged 13.
Being a cocktail waitress and having to wear a compromising dress in an unwoke 1990s world.
When I was doing A-levels, I worked in a factory that made homework diaries, which was fine until they banned talking and the radio.
I worked for a company that stripped an office, including the furniture, over one weekend – so I worked for 48 hours straight.
Intrusive thoughts and caffeine.
I cried watching the movie Coco with my daughter.
Whoever has to use the bathroom after my brother.
Fear is for frightened people. I’m not one of those.
A flight from Paraguay to South Africa that went badly wrong. The plane nearly fell out of the sky and the oxygen masks dropped. People were screaming but the pilot saved the day, and then apparently never flew again.
The best way to spend time is to waste it.
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