Hayley Squires: 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 Hayley Squires said elsewhere, not written here

I worked in a call centre. I would go clubbing on a Saturday with my brother and my mates, get home for five or six in the morning, and then have to be at work at 8am.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 April 2020 source ↗

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Munroe Bergdorf

At university, I worked at a hotel in housekeeping. We saw so many weird things in people’s rooms. Guests would leave sex and party stuff behind!

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 July 2025 source ↗

Cybill Shepherd American actress and former model

A movie called The Return that was about cows from outer space.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 June 2008 source ↗

Lupita Nyong'o Actress

I waited tables for one night at the turn of the century. They were being fussy about how I put the food on the plates, and I couldn’t have cared less.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 October 2019 source ↗

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