Most ridiculous job

magic_murph

What do you think is the most ridiculous job somebody does day in day out?

GrumPy

magic_murph wrote: »

What do you think is the most ridiculous job somebody does day in day out?

What do you think it is, OP?

Those who work in Marketing/PR. Professional spoofers.

jimgoose

Arlene Foster's nipple-tweaker. There's some soul-destroying crap.

Del2005

magic_murph wrote: »

What do you think is the most ridiculous job somebody does day in day out?

President of Ireland, figure head with no power but gets paid a fortune.

endacl

‘Influencer’.

mirwillbeback

Husband

saintsaltynuts

Chewing bread for the gummy chicken's.

Vita nova

Clown

Utter Consternation

Vita nova wrote: »

Clown

That's a serious profession. Not to be laughed at.

w/s/p/c/

"YouTuber"

The Late Late Show

Have to go with so-called 'influencers' as well.

Utter Consternation

Internet forum moderator.

Wayne Jarvis

Deleted User wrote: »

Those who work in Marketing/PR. Professional spoofers.

B_ecke_r

the Irish Army

Plumbthedepths

The guys who install indicators on BMW/Audi's.

Boom_Bap

The Late Late Show wrote: »

Have to go with so-called 'influencers' as well.

You mean the people that get loads of free sh*t and mostly don't have to leave their house to get paid?




The most ridiculous job is the person that has to put them small stickers on bananas.

JohnnyFlash

You probably work in a bullshît role if you’ve a title that isn’t anyways reflective of what you do in your job. So being called an architect when you aren’t an architect, an engineer who isn’t an engineer, a consultant who doesn’t consult.

Bigbagofcans

A Cold Caller or the fancy term 'Sales Consultant'.
Chuggers.

Dr. Bre

Pornstar

TuringBot47

Bank regulator

KoolKluxKlan

People who work in ‘Quality’ departments in your company. Shower of bastards.

suicide_circus

Consultant

B_ecke_r

what about the fella who stands in the bank and encourages people in the q to use to automatic machines

Gregor Samsa

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

You probably work in a bullshît role if you’ve a title that isn’t anyways reflective of what you do in your job. So being called an architect when you aren’t an architect, an engineer who isn’t an engineer, a consultant who doesn’t consult.

I’m a Web Developer. I develop websites. The job isn’t ground breaking, and the title makes sense.

A couple of years ago, someone decided to rename us “Experience Engineers”. Which to me sounds more like someone who would design a theme park. Now they’re looking to change us to “Web Architects”, which I think are the people who tell spiders what to do.

Titles aside, I think the most useless job is door to door cold callers. Has anyone ever complained that there weren’t enough people calling at their door during dinner offering electricity or broadband? I think society would function perfectly well without them.

EmmetSpiceland

B_ecke_r wrote: »

what about the fella who stands in the bank and encourages people in the q to use to automatic machines

That lot cut their teeth standing beside the coin baskets on the M50 toll bridge before the automation.

stevek93

Council workers

Wayne Jarvis

KoolKluxKlan wrote: »

People who work in ‘Quality’ departments in your company. Shower of bastards.

Unless you work for Nestlé making Quality Street.

granturismo

KoolKluxKlan wrote: »

People who work in ‘Quality’ departments in your company. Shower of bastards.

People who give the QA dept a hard time cos they want to get the product out quicker. Heaven forbid a bad batch gets sent to a customer.

In general - the most ridiculous job goes to people who think their job is more important than others.

Sir Osis of Liver.

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

You probably work in a bullshît role if you’ve a title that isn’t anyways reflective of what you do in your job. So being called an architect when you aren’t an architect, an engineer who isn’t an engineer, a consultant who doesn’t consult.

Agree with you on the Engineer thing.
I deal with alot of "Engineers" from different firms in my line of work.The term Engineer is used very loosely these days.Alot of them are jumped up cleaners/general operatives.

B_ecke_r

Visual Engineer - Shelf Stacker.

the person that drives at 20mph with their hazards on, in front of the guys cycling from Malin to Mizen.

w/s/p/c/

stevek93 wrote: »

Council workers

No way, sure where else could you get 8 lads standing around watching the junior member of the crew dig the hole while they stand around, smoke and drink tea? Great job!!

RikkFlair

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

Agree with you on the Engineer thing.
I deal with alot of "Engineers" from different firms in my line of work.The term Engineer is used very loosely these days.Alot of them are jumped up cleaners/general operatives.

The Sandwich Engineer put too much butter on my roll today :pac:

ChippingSodbury

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

You probably work in a bullshît role if you’ve a title that isn’t anyways reflective of what you do in your job. So being called an architect when you aren’t an architect, an engineer who isn’t an engineer, a consultant who doesn’t consult.

Do you mean like JohnnyFlash who doesn't flash?
(or maybe he does...)

It's easy to spot the engineers who aren't real engineers: they've no anoraks

The most useless lads are the "ushers" or whatever they're called that sit on both sides of the doors inside the Dail chamber.

Could never see myself doing some jobs, but I can't fathom how someone can work in a toll booth on a motorway. Must be the most mind numbingly boring job, not to mention exposure to exhaust fumes and having to lean out the window every 15 seconds.

Must be soul destroying.

Your Face

'Technician' - it has lost all its meaning.
This description has lost all meaning due to mundane jobs being magically transformed into technician roles eg: a receptionist miraculously being turned into a front office administration technician.

PinotNero

Sandwich artist.

pjdarcy

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

Agree with you on the Engineer thing.
I deal with alot of "Engineers" from different firms in my line of work.The term Engineer is used very loosely these days.Alot of them are jumped up cleaners/general operatives.

I used to be a fuel injection engineer (i.e. a petrol pump attendant)

pjdarcy

Office manager. (as our receptionist calls herself)

B_ecke_r

Secretarys are calling themselves "Business Manager" now

2Mad2BeMad

My job we have a service manager (he's the only guy who works service) a tele sales manager (the only guy who answers the phones) warehouse manager (only guy in the warehouse) and 4 regional managers covering Ireland.

I'm the only non manager out of 13 or so people in the company.

Wayne Jarvis

B_ecke_r wrote: »

Secretarys are calling themselves "Business Manager" now

A better title would be "All Up In Everyone's Business Manager"

kneemos

Yer man from KPMG what watches the Lotto balls.

s8n

kneemos wrote: »

Yer man from KPMG what watches the Lotto balls.

And nods his head to the camera !!

kneemos

s8n wrote: »

And nods his head to the camera !!

Time to shine.

2Mad2BeMad

2Mad2BeMad wrote: »

My job we have a service manager (he's the only guy who works service) a tele sales manager (the only guy who answers the phones) warehouse manager (only guy in the warehouse) and 4 regional managers covering Ireland.

I'm the only non manager out of 13 or so people in the company.

To be fair, manager does not solely mean managing people, but you'd probably need to be management to understand that

TuringBot47

B_ecke_r wrote: »

the Irish Army

In fairness, at least they have guns.

Look at the Air Corp and a quote from their website of their role "To defend the State against armed aggression;"

https://www.military.ie/en/what-we-do/#anchor-1

Now look at their fleet of UNARMED aircraft...

https://www.military.ie/en/who-we-are/air-corps/the-fleet/

TuringBot47

TuringBot47 wrote: »

In fairness, at least they have guns.

Look at the Air Corp and a quote from their website of their role "To defend the State against armed aggression;"

Now look at their fleet of UNARMED aircraft...

https://www.military.ie/en/who-we-are/air-corps/the-fleet/

Have you not heard of kamikaze?

nthclare

Quality assurance engineers there's no easy way of explaining what they do on a daily basis...

I was dating one before and she couldn't explain in layman's terms what she does...

all a load of word salad and something about systems or something

TheValeyard

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Have you not heard of kamikaze?

Yeah but can only use them once.