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| Part 1 out on 28th September! |
One of my least favourite was handing out leaflets at a furniture
design fair. My employee's showroom was far away from the main hub and they
were desperate for me to send potential customers their way. Worried I would throw the leaflets away instead of giving them out, they insisted I take
photographic evidence that I'd done my job. In other words, I had to ask random strangers if I could take their picture with my leaflet. It was awkward for everyone.
I also dressed up as a huge fluffy bear once. But I'm not sure I'm allowed to talk about that, in case kids read this and realise the character wasn't real.
So I put this question to Twitter:
To celebrate the upcoming launch of #TheTemp I'd love to know what's the worst/best temp job you've ever had?! (For a blog post)
— Emily Benet (@EmilyBenet) September 20, 2014
Thanks to everyone who replied, I'm sorry I couldn't include them all. Here are just some of them!
1. The Greasy One
@EmilyBenet Selling revolting burgers in a van in Hyde Park to rich kids staying in Knightsbridge hotels, for an absolute pittance.
— Isabel Costello (@isabelcostello) September 20, 2014
2. The Factory Line One
@EmilyBenet Dire temp job in my youth on a kettle making construction line. The blisters on the palms of my hands were not pleasant. X
— Debra Brown (@debrabrown_) September 20, 2014
3. The No Talking One
@EmilyBenet Bitumen tape factory! You worked in pairs, cutting and packing. If you chatted they split you up.
— Alice Furse (@AliceFurse) September 20, 2014
4. The Smelly One
5. The Old-School One
@EmilyBenet one day secretarial job in a smoke filled office w an elderly man who was amazed at my computer skills i.e printing a word doc
— Karen Lobban (@karen_lobban) September 20, 2014
6. The Rock n' Roll One
@EmilyBenet Worst temp job: for local radio, transcribing recorded interviews (um, er, ah, muttering). Best: 2months singing with pop group!
— Jacqueline Pye (@JacquelinePye) September 20, 2014
7. The Classic Blueberries and Bear Poo One
@EmilyBenet As a uni student I raked blueberries in the blueberry barrens in Maine. Backbreaking. Raked thru bear shit and worse.
— Julie Cohen (@julie_cohen) September 20, 2014
8. The Mind-Numbing Ones
@EmilyBenet Stuffing envelopes. Worst bit was when a woman from office marched into warehouse to find me, incensed that I'd used 'her cup'
— SDSykes (@SD_Sykes) September 20, 2014
@EmilyBenet Copying data from paper to screen at the local college when I was 16. There were approx. 30 of us, 5 days a week. Dull.
— Naomi Frisby (@Frizbot) September 20, 2014
9. The Seasonal, Boozy One
@EmilyBenet Shop worker one Christmas, replenishing the booze aisle. You haven't seen product fly off the shelves so fast. Equal best/worst🍹
— Paul (@dept42) September 20, 2014
10. The One that sounds a bit like a Black Comedy
@EmilyBenet photocopying death certificates and wills
— Ciara Malone (@ciaramal1) September 20, 2014
11. The Physically Challenging One
12. The AbFab One
13. The One with a Happy Ending!
@EmilyBenet Cold calling companies to sell advertising space. Couldn't cope. Walked out. Sold my first radio play about the experience :)
— Felicity Hayes-McCoy (@fhayesmccoy) September 20, 2014
What about you? Go ahead and share your Temp job experience in the comments section!
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4 comments:
I had a temporary job working in a certain hobby store (a rather big chain, I won't mention their full name. I hear they have crafty lawyers.)
As someone who loves crafting I thought it was heaven, I soon realised it was hell. Big corporations just end up treating you like another peon and I hated most of my time there.
Ah rubbish. You'll have to open your own craft store! Although that would entail loads and loads of work and you'd never get any time to do the crafting bit... so all in all it's a stupid idea and you should ignore me. Thanks for reading :)
Haymaking. For some reason, it didn't occur to me that hay fever might be an issue.
Working for Credit Agricole in the Citicorp building NY with the rudest boss in the world. The upside was being able to look down on all the helicopters flying in to Wall Street and the Goodyear blimp as it drifted by below us on the 61st floor.
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