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Most ridiculous job

magic_murph

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

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[Deleted User]

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.

[Deleted User]

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.

[Deleted User]

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/

[Deleted User]

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.

TuringBot47

Deleted User wrote: »

Have you not heard of kamikaze?

Have they not heard of drones.

I'd say there's Spitfire museums better armed than them.

[Deleted User]

TheValeyard wrote: »

Yeah but can only use them once.

"Yeah, but..." when you hear that you know you've already won the argument :pac::p

[Deleted User]

TuringBot47 wrote: »

Have they not heard of drones.

I'd say there's Spitfire museums better armed than them.

Didn't we have spitfires back in the day... or did I dream that.

Skylinehead

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;"

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/

Those PC-9s aren't unarmed.

FullBack Jam

A Fluffer

Hard to fathom out why they cannot take care of themselves.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Deleted User wrote: »

Those who work in Marketing/PR. Professional spoofers.

I’d work in marketing for, say, a blood donation clinic and feel fine about myself. I do think there are times where marketing is good and necessary. But I guess when the cause is good, spoofing isn’t needed.

Princess Calla

Lollipop ladies/men at traffic lights has always been one that amuses me.

Though that said the ones that position themselves about 20 metres away from traffic lights do not amuse me.

markjbloggs

Deleted User wrote: »

Didn't we have spitfires back in the day... or did I dream that.

Irish Air Corps acquired Hurricanes towards the end of WW2 !

Foweva Awone

Ger Roe

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;"

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/

Most of the aircraft in the Air Corps fleet are not designed to be armed and are used for monitor or surveilance work. Eg The Casa patrol, the Garda Helicopter and PBN Defender and the Cessna's. The army helicopters are used for operational support roles (including civil air ambulance).

The PC9 aircraft are designed to be armed and are therefore armed with rockets and guns.

The Air Corps would 'defend the state against armed aggression', by supporting the other army corps that have more effective weapons. That statement applies to the army as a coordinated unit comprising of all the various army corps, the air corps and the naval service.