Most people of 'a certain age' will have at one time or another found themselves doing possibly the worst job in the world at some point in their career. What was yours?

I was seventeen and worked for a very brief time in a box-making factory. My fascinating part of the process was to remove the pressed-out box shape from the sheet of cardboard!

I did that for eight hours a day for only two weeks before the tedium and constant cardboard cuts to my hands pissed me off to the point that I just didn't bother going back the third week!



DAMN: it should, of course, say POINTLESS in the thread title!

 

I once worked in an ugg boot factory. ugg boots, in case you don't know, are an Australian boot made from sheepskins with the wool on the inside. I survived almost one working week before the 90 year old owner told me, on th a Friday morning, that my services were no longer required as it was obvious my heart was not in the job.

My duty was to glue the left sole onto the left boot and the right sole onto the right boot and then package them for export. The stupid old geriatric made the mistake of telling me on Friday morning that this would be my last shift.

Well, I must have made a production record as I studiously glued the soles on the boots and packaged them for export. It's just a damn shame that no one checked them after I packaged them. Because if they did, they would have noticed that that days production record contained x amount of left boots with right soles and x amount of right boots with left soles.

Revenge! Don't you love it?

 

And that's why we got rid of you :lol::lol:

 

Ha ha! Great story!

I did a similar thing when I worked for an engineering company, packing components. I'd had a row with my manager so, to really piss him off, I deliberately put the wrong components in the wrong packs, packed and sealed the outer cartons ready for despatch.

The shit hit the fan a week or so later when the customer complained to the company MD. My manager knew I was responsible but couldn't prove a damn thing. He did, however, leave me alone from then on... :lol:

 

Mate, you did a damned good job. If only I could be in Cairns for the the nexts SHTF. That would be my wet dream come true.

I survived one cyclone where a tree fell on our house and I thought it was the greatest thing since Parwill! Google the reference if you're unfamiliar!

 

I've done some very boring jobs, but nothing that I thought at the time was a complete waste of effort.

On the other hand, two summers ago the council in its infinite wisdom decided to replace our bathroom with a modernised version as part of its Decent Homes scheme, despite the fact that we were scheduled to have a wetroom put in one month later due to my wife's disability needs. The guy fitting that bathroom wasn't too impressed when we told him what a total waste of time and effort it was for him.

How much it cost the council to fit a brand-new bathroom and rip it out again a few weeks later, I never did find out.

 

I worked for about a week once as a telemarketer and for another couple of weeks as a phone survey taker. Both were so mind-numbingly boring, degrading and pointless that I used to fantasize about initiating phone sex with the people I called rather than go through that standardized script one more time.

 

When I have gotten calls from those type people and it was a nice sounding women I have started talking sex talk...LOL have had some great reactions.............

 

I once worked at Marrs fish factory in Hull on the nightshift. After two nights of sorting mackerel and crab sticks, the third night happened to be when Englan were playing Germany in the semi finals of the World Cup. I phoned the recruitment guy and told him I wasn't going and he asked why. I explained and he totally understood.

I had to throw all the clothes I had worn away. I can't believe that people worked there full time.

 

See? Now why couldn't I have gotten someone like you on the phone? It would have been interesting to see if I could get you off before I got fired.

 

I'm trying to think.....I don't believe I've ever had a stupid or pointless job; even the stockboy gig at the supermarket when I was 14-16 wasn't bad.....

 

Most of them went like this...

she...you can not talk to me like that

me...you called me, would you like to suck a big fat dick?

click....

a few were fun...and I did end up with one hot date but found out she was married after we had sex.....I do not do married women...just aint safe...

 

Fuck I did, she was separating but I banged her on her husband's bed, oh she loved it.

 

Pointless jobs, after a good night out which involved drinking and fighting while I was in the army I ended up with fourteen days in jail, as it was autumn I spent two weeks sweeping up leaves, to make it more fun the provo had given me a 35lb training shell to carry, so it was put the shell down, sweep ten yards, run back collect shell, sweep ten yards ad infinitum. What a great two weeks.

 

Stop moaning! At least you got a proper brush!

 

Security guard at a police station.

 

i ain't got no complaints i've provided well for my family and retired in my late 40's and finanically well off and my family will be too when i pass onto the other life.

 

question why would they hire a security guard at a police station...they have police there.

 

:excited: Can I PM you my phone number :excited:​

 

A possibly logical answer is that security guards earn less than fully-fledged policeman, which would make it more cost-effective to hire a security guard and have one less policeman on the books (or, if you prefer, one more policeman out doing police work instead of sat on his ass guarding the station.)

I have no idea if it's the right answer. English councils and authorities aren't particularly famous for being efficient and cost-effective, and I suspect the same is true the world over.