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View ex hibitionist's Profile ex hibitionist Flag Hastings 22 Mar 20 4.17pm Send a Private Message to ex hibitionist Add ex hibitionist as a friend

not retrieving lobsters from Jayne Mansfield's bum or clearing up Winston Churchill's bogies, not necessarily the most menial or under-paid just the most miserable experience … mine was an itinerant teacher of basic numeracy and literacy for nurses in care homes in the South East - all of it, the nurses were fine, the travelling was bearable (Worthing in the morning, Dartford in the afternoon some days) but the staff, esp my line manager gloriously sacked a few weeks before me, were the absolute miserable soulless mindless sheep like s*** kicking scum of the earth you could meet - couldn't give you examples it would be too banale, one of those companies that found a loophole between public funding for private companies - a training provider, all part of the machine but much nearer the exhaust than it realised.

 

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View Harpo's Profile Harpo Flag Oxfordshire 22 Mar 20 6.49pm Send a Private Message to Harpo Add Harpo as a friend

While (probably) still at school, I got a Saturday job in a fishmongers in Shortlands.

I started at 0900 and before 0930 I concluded that I never ever wanted to work in the food industry, although it wasn't long before I was working in the offy at Cater's in Bromley Market Square.

 

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View ASCPFC's Profile ASCPFC Flag Pro-Cathedral/caravan park 22 Mar 20 7.06pm Send a Private Message to ASCPFC Add ASCPFC as a friend

I've done all sorts from ball boy to Lecturer. Worst job was probably private security after leaving the forces. Those 12 hour nights get to you in the end - particularly with an hour each way commute too.
I've had harder and worse paid jobs but this industry is just so sh!t.

 


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View Mapletree's Profile Mapletree Flag Croydon 22 Mar 20 9.22pm Send a Private Message to Mapletree Add Mapletree as a friend

Hatcham Rubber was bad. Ariston Alloys was worse. A molten splash of alloy leapt out of a furnace when I was feeding it through the open front door. Someone had nicked my goggles. It ended up welding my eye together.

Later doing the first transfer of a publicly owned company into the private sector in Saudi stands out. Never come across such racist bullies before or since

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View cryrst's Profile cryrst Flag The garden of England 23 Mar 20 12.00am Send a Private Message to cryrst Add cryrst as a friend

Originally posted by Mapletree

Hatcham Rubber was bad. Ariston Alloys was worse. A molten splash of alloy leapt out of a furnace when I was feeding it through the open front door. Someone had nicked my goggles. It ended up welding my eye together.

Later doing the first transfer of a publicly owned company into the private sector in Saudi stands out. Never come across such racist bullies before or since

Edited by Mapletree (22 Mar 2020 9.23pm)

Check your last sentence

 

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View Rudi Hedman's Profile Rudi Hedman Flag Caterham 23 Mar 20 1.00am Send a Private Message to Rudi Hedman Add Rudi Hedman as a friend

Cucking’s paddle cleaner after his favourite HOL boy got it.

 


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View JRW2's Profile JRW2 Flag Dulwich 23 Mar 20 9.02am Send a Private Message to JRW2 Add JRW2 as a friend

Building labourer when I was a student in the early sixties. Two on-site jobs are seared into my memory. First, unloading a delivery of bricks, which involved about six of us standing in a line and throwing three bricks at the time to each other. Within minutes my hands were bleeding (all the others had put on gloves). Second, carrying with three others about a dozen cast iron baths from one end of the site to the other. My back has never been the same. The hours were 8 till 6, with a 30-minute break.

But I was earning about £25 a week, equivalent now to around £550. I was 18, living at home, not liable to tax, and I've never again felt so rich.

 

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View Midlands Eagle's Profile Midlands Eagle Flag 23 Mar 20 9.27am Send a Private Message to Midlands Eagle Add Midlands Eagle as a friend

Originally posted by JRW2

Building labourer when I was a student in the early sixties.

I was earning about £25 a week, equivalent now to around £550. I was 18, living at home, not liable to tax, and I've never again felt so rich.

That was a fortune. I started my working life in an insurance company in 1965 and earned £8.50 a week plus Luncheon Vouchers.

Three or four years later my ambition was to earn £2,000 a year

 

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View Cannonball's Profile Cannonball Flag High in the Ozarks. 23 Mar 20 9.32am Send a Private Message to Cannonball Add Cannonball as a friend

I'd just come out of the forces at the hight of the IRA threats and worked for the Royal British Legion doing security at the Tower of London,not only were the Yoemen a load of arrogant w@nk*rs but having to check womens handbags all day was mind numbing-the crap they carry around !

 


Touch my coffee and I will slap you so hard even Google won't be able to find you.

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View Dubai Eagle's Profile Dubai Eagle Flag 23 Mar 20 9.33am Send a Private Message to Dubai Eagle Add Dubai Eagle as a friend

Whilst still at school I worked at Caters Supermarket in Croydon on the fish stall, Friday after school & Saturday during the day - going home on the bus afterwards was always embarrassing because the fishy smell lingered, usually after having been on the bus about 10 minutes I could hear people muttering to each other about it, it always seemed a really long journey home.

 

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View JRW2's Profile JRW2 Flag Dulwich 23 Mar 20 10.08am Send a Private Message to JRW2 Add JRW2 as a friend

Originally posted by Midlands Eagle

That was a fortune. I started my working life in an insurance company in 1965 and earned £8.50 a week plus Luncheon Vouchers.

In 1965 I was working as a barman. Wages were 15/- (75p) per session, whether it was lunchtime (about 3 hours) or evening (6 hours). I typically did 6 lunchtimes and 5 evenings, representing 48 hours, for which I got £8.25. Nothing like the building site, but I still felt well off. I was working when I would have been spending, I had two free meals a day, and customers (particularly in the public bar - if anyone can remember those) often bought you a drink.

 

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View Forest Hillbilly's Profile Forest Hillbilly Flag in a hidey-hole 23 Mar 20 11.53am Send a Private Message to Forest Hillbilly Add Forest Hillbilly as a friend

As a temp (1994), a group of us were sent to work at a pizza factory in Woking. We had to throw the toppings on the blank breads as they rolled down the conveyor belt. Every now and again the toppings would change, and also the boxes that pizzas went into. Everything from Tesco basic, to M&S luxury.
We had a manager on the shop floor who spoke like wee Jimmy Krankie, shouting commands.
My mate and I went to the pub for lunch, and didn't go back.

 


"The facts have changed", Rishi Sunak

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