Kathy Lette: 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 Kathy Lette said elsewhere, not written here

Bedpan emptier in a hospital.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 June 2024 source ↗

Others on this question

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Kerry Godliman

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 ↗

Adjoa Andoh English actress

Cleaning men’s toilets in the Swan hotel in the Cotswolds.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 September 2021 source ↗

Mo Gilligan British comedian

Handing out leaflets for a dry cleaner’s, because no one wanted them and, if people did take them, they just threw them on the floor.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 November 2021 source ↗

Lucy Beaumont

I worked in a paper factory at five o’clock on a Saturday morning when I was in my early 20s. I’d go out raving the night before, get an hour’s sleep and then go to the factory. I was covered in paper cuts and used to think I heard people talking to me; they gave me a lot of breaks because they thought I was going mad.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 October 2024 source ↗