Whats the most brain numbing soul destroying job you've ever had?????

bluto63 wrote: »

Filing papers in an office

Ditto. Filing. Only in my job there was the unique feature of having nothing to file so I literally didn't even have the pleasure of killing time sorting stuff from a to z and sticking it in a cabinet. I literally spent 3 months sitting at half a desk (oh didn't I mention they hired TWO people to do these nothing-job - but only one desk for us) staring at the wall waiting for 5o'clock. Probably did at most 5 to 10 mins of work any given 8 hour day in that place.

After 3 months of this torturous tedium myself and my co-desker got a lovely surprise .... a new computer to share on our joint desk! So now we had half a desk each and half a computer each. No internet but at least we were now the proud owners of a dell and single email address! We'd made it! Unfortunately there wasn't any work to do with the computer so naturally we spent the entire day playing the few games that were available in the "windows/games" directory to pass the time (remember , no internet to kill time here).

After about a week of this gamery the boss (an raging alcoholic who liked to spend every lunch drinking alone in the pub across the street knocking back about 2-3 pints on average in the hour - we'd go there for our lunch so we'd regularly see him) had the cheek to write me a snotty email complaining that I was spending all day messing on the computer. I pointed out to him that there was nothing to do (a statement I could back up by the fact that I'd come up to him 15 times a day looking for work - always declined). He said "well act like you've got something to do!". I saw red and told him to go **** himself , drafted a letter of resignation on the spot and dumped it on his desk before storming out of the office to enjoy the rest of my Friday afternoon.

Spent the next week not doing a tap and taking 3 hour lunch breaks (following the bosses example during them and getting well gargled by the afternoon). The day I finished up that "job" was a good one. My co-desker even followed my example and quit the same day too so some lucky flunky probably had a whole 2 desks for themselves the following Monday. Imagine?

To this day I don't know why they hired me in the first place (let alone me and another guy). I can only conclude they were fiddling the system or getting some sort of tax-break or whatever by having X amount of people in a given office? I honestly don’t know. If anyone could answer that one I'd be very interested.