The question
What is the worst job you have ever had?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.
When I was 15, I conned my way into an office job at a company that represented makers of breast implants. The manager had a wart on the end of her tongue that she’d push against her teeth, making a very specific sound.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 December 2018 source ↗
I worked for a company that stripped an office, including the furniture, over one weekend – so I worked for 48 hours straight.
A temp job at BT. I still have nightmares about ADSL lines. I still don’t know what one is. I would find myself on national conference calls being questioned about ADSL lines and told that the problem was in London. I would try not to breathe so they would forget I was there.
Father Christmas at a department store. The plaintive sadness of the children’s unrealistic requests was almost unbearable.
I just hate to work, so I can’t choose one.
The trans community because I didn’t use the correct words, but I’ve learned from my mistake.
Falling down a mine shaft in New Mexico while filming.
A warm blanket.
I wouldn’t have taken that meeting [with Weinstein in 1997].
Waking people up.
A mortician – I worked in a funeral home when I was 14.
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