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Most boring job?

  • 21-06-2010 11:32PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,952 ✭✭✭


    What is the most boring job you have ever had or possibly could have. Mine was in a jarring factory had to make sure all the jars were upright on the convayer belt and if one was over turned, press a button and put it upright. Was on the fifth or sixth hour when one came knocked over and I missed it, then couldnt remember which button to press so I pressed everything which made everything go faster resulting in a distastersous domino effect.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 246 ✭✭Bulktohulk


    Any 9-5 office job. *shudder*


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 36,033 ✭✭✭✭The_Kew_Tour


    Teacher, nothing to do for next 3 months

    EVENFLOW



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,100 ✭✭✭✭TestTransmission


    I used to wash and pack daffodils years ago,lasted a week


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Driller on an oil-rig.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,806 ✭✭✭✭KeithM89_old


    I know a guy who spent 8 hours a day, 5 days a week for 2 years putting lids on pens...


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Keithm89 wrote: »
    I know a guy who spent 8 hours a day, 5 days a week for 2 years putting lids on pens...

    That's weird. I know a guy who spent 8 hours a day, 5 days a week for 2 years taking lids off pens.

    I hope they didn't work in the same place.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 284 ✭✭Cinful


    Addressing, stuffing, and posting envelopes for a survey.
    /shudder!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,126 ✭✭✭BrianJD


    Toll booth operator especially at night.. I wonder are they allowed to read or something.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    Picking shhtones


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,952 ✭✭✭Lando Griffin


    BrianJD wrote: »
    Toll booth operator especially at night.. I wonder are they allowed to read or something.

    Maybe they guess the make or model of the next car


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,594 ✭✭✭bonerm


    BrianJD wrote: »
    Toll booth operator especially at night.. I wonder are they allowed to read or something.

    I'm guessing if they ended up working in a toll-booth that they weren't big fans of reading to begin with.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,952 ✭✭✭Lando Griffin


    mikom wrote: »
    Driller on an oil-rig.

    That sounds exciting.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,123 ✭✭✭stepbar


    indexing boxes of files.....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,234 ✭✭✭thetonynator


    mikom wrote: »
    Driller on an oil-rig.


    Driller on a BP oil rig.




    Too early???


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    Data Entry


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,370 ✭✭✭GAAman


    BrianJD wrote: »
    Toll booth operator especially at night.. I wonder are they allowed to read or something.

    Have seen at least two operators at the port tunnel with nintendo ds's


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,305 ✭✭✭Chuchoter


    Keithm89 wrote: »
    I know a guy who spent 8 hours a day, 5 days a week for 2 years putting lids on pens...

    I would actually kill myself :P


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,669 ✭✭✭Colonel Sanders


    Toll booth operator was the one I thought of too


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,345 ✭✭✭Dunjohn


    Back in school, my commerce teacher explained why bank dockets are colour-coded: it makes it easier for the guy who has to sort them all out once they've gone through the system. He told us that this job actually existed, sitting in a sorting room for eight hours endlessly sorting piles and piles of bank dockets by colour, and that it was the most boring, brain-killing job anyone could possibly do, and that if any of us found ourselves doing it, we'd really hit rock bottom.

    Having actually done the job, I can say it's not so bad, there's decent chat in the office.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,126 ✭✭✭BrianJD


    Maybe they guess the make or model of the next car

    While that sounds exciting.. I think the novelty would wear off after say....1.4 minutes. I wonder what the pay is?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Independent Paint Dry Observer






    God that was an awful summer working for Stokes Kennedy Crowley. :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 56 ✭✭Genrikh Yagoda


    Porn actor


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,588 ✭✭✭derfderf


    Worked in a burger factor in the summer holidays, had to stick a label on each burger as it came out of the packing machine. Not the worst ever itself but each burger had the time printed on it and i couldn't avoid seeing it when putting the label on.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,234 ✭✭✭thetonynator


    Porn actor


    Repetitive maybe, but hardly boring???


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,039 ✭✭✭bazmaiden


    Repetitive maybe, but hardly boring???

    Yeah but you'd be borin' it in to them :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,234 ✭✭✭thetonynator


    bazmaiden wrote: »
    Yeah but you'd be borin' it in to them :D


    Im a bit slow today . . .:o


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    AA radio traffic reporter... "It's busy at the Red Cow roundabout in Dublin, the Headford Road in Galway & the Jack Lynch tunnel in Cork".

    I dunno why they don't just use a recording of the first ever traffic report.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,967 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    Chill meat operative

    In reality, working in a boning hall.
    And if you're inclined to make "boning" jokes you wouldn't last 10 minutes in such a job.
    Sweltering heat, heavy knife, wearing all sorts of protection including a chain mail apron and Kevlar gloves and making the same repeated cutting stroke thousands of times a day.

    Repetitive Stress injury must have been first highlighted in such a place!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭AskMyChocolate


    That sounds exciting.

    I think it was a play on the word boring.;)

    I'd have to say Directory Enquiries nearly broke me.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,001 ✭✭✭recylingbin


    Door to door salesman selling doors.


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