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whats the werdest or stupiest job you have had

  • 06-11-2012 03:16PM
    #1
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,203 ✭✭✭


    When I was 16 I workedin a chicked factory in the KillThe noise was deafening


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    As a student I worked for a company and some work involved doing welding in attics. My job was to stand in the attic for the whole day holding a fire extinguisher in case a fire ever broke out. Never got to use it :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    sfwcork wrote: »
    When I was 16 I workedin a chicked factory in the KillThe noise was deafening

    Did you have to cluck in every morning?


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


    Washing dishes in a leaking sink in a rapidly flooding kitchen.

    I nearly got trench foot.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭OneArt


    sfwcork wrote: »
    When I was 16 I workedin a chicked factory in the KillThe noise was deafening

    I didn't know they made chickens in factories now.

    Was an Airtricity salesperson for a couple of days. God it was horrible. I spent my last evening sitting on the wall talking to a cat until I had to go back to the office.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,587 ✭✭✭✭Frisbee


    Counting cars going through a junction and marking them off on a piece of paper in 15 minute increments.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,455 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Correcting spelling.

    The hours were long I tell you...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,133 ✭✭✭FloatingVoter


    OneArt wrote: »
    I didn't know they made chickens in factories now.

    Was an Airtricity salesperson for a couple of days. God it was horrible. I spent my last evening sitting on the wall talking to a cat until I had to go back to the office.

    Did the cat sign up ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,170 ✭✭✭yeppydeppy


    How can OP be that drunk this early? Even when I was unemployed I was never drunk this early.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,035 ✭✭✭uch


    I worked for Dublin County Council picking up litter,,, in the Tip

    22/25



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,133 ✭✭✭FloatingVoter


    yeppydeppy wrote: »
    How can OP be that drunk this early? Even when I was unemployed I was never drunk this early.

    Step 1 - Wake up
    Step 2 - Open and drink can
    Step 3 - Repeat Step 2


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,203 ✭✭✭sfwcork


    wrote:
    OSI

    I'd say the smell was pretty fowl to.

    6/10

    and im being generous


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,203 ✭✭✭sfwcork


    wrote:
    kfallon



    Did you have to cluck in every morning?

    stick to the horseys' 3/10

    should be more ashamed of that joke than riding kirsty milshake


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 214 ✭✭DustyMan


    I did a bit of labouring for a while, short time I might add. I once went to a site and the first job I was asked to do was move an enormous amount of soil from one place to another, less than 50 meters away, using a shovel and a wheelbarrow (It would have taken a Digger/JCB about 20 minutes to do, It would take a human with a shovel and wheelbarrow a whole day of back breaking 'torture' to complete. After about 20 minutes of this futile exercise I called over the Foreman and told him I was off, 'Goodbye'.

    I was on another site one day where I observed a guy being told, by the foreman, to go and 'tidy up the skip'. Oh God....


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


    yeppydeppy wrote: »
    How can OP be that drunk this early? Even when I was unemployed I was never drunk this early.

    Perseverance.

    We're not all quitters like you!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭OneArt


    Did the cat sign up ?

    No, he had no money. Was a catnip junkie. Very sad story. It was Dolphin's Barn after all.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    Putting dead people in drawers.










    Well, not so much of a job as a hobby, but still.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,438 ✭✭✭TwoShedsJackson


    Not me but a guy who works part-time here used to have a job watching junkies piss into sample cups in that methadone clinic off Baggot St. so they could be sure they weren't using someone else's sample etc.


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


    Not me but a guy who works part-time here used to have a job watching junkies piss into sample cups in that methadone clinic off Baggot St. so they could be sure they weren't using someone else's sample etc.

    Think about the crazy fetish that could develop from that! :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    sfwcork wrote: »
    stick to the horseys' 3/10

    should be more ashamed of that joke than riding kirsty milshake

    You should stick to the 'chickeds' :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    I was part of a peer-review group investigating possible clinical synergies to be achieved through the co-location of a future childrens Hospital with a tertiary adult hospital. Ok, I wasn't.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,485 ✭✭✭dj jarvis


    when i was 16 ( poss even 15 - cant remember ) i worked for a contract cleaning company , they had the contract for st vincents in donnybrook

    on my first day the supervisor was showing me where i was to be working , it was the morgue and the autopsy room , first thing i saw was a pile of " white " rubber boots that were stained red from the blood :eek:

    on one occasion i was asked to polish the floor in the chapel of the mortuary ,
    no prob , got the buffer and went in , in the middle of this very small room was a coffin with a dead old dude in it , with the lid off it :eek:

    i told the boss no way was i bringing the buffer in , i could have knocked the feckin thing over , so i had to do it by hand , so started working away with yer man in the coffin , and i swear to god EVERY TIME i looked up from the floor at the coffin i SWEAR i could see him drop back into the casket as if he was looking at me and then lying back down real quick

    it freaked the fook out of me big style - i have never done such a half arsed job so quickly as that day.

    jesus, even typing this i am seeing that image :eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,296 ✭✭✭Frank Black


    Grating Parmesan cheese into a hopper at a savoury biscuit factory.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 87 ✭✭Rango555


    I was the guy who put the P in Yop ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,833 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Can honestly say I have never had a stupiest job .


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,100 ✭✭✭Autonomous Cowherd


    brummytom wrote: »
    Putting dead people in drawers.










    Well, not so much of a job as a hobby, but still.

    By that, i'm presuming you mean putting them into cabinets, as opposed to into knickers/jocks......?


    I worked for 3 months as a toilet cleaner in the Hauptpost Office in Munich. It was enough turn one right off the human species, I'm telling you.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    Shepwerd.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭Bipolar Joe


    I dressed as a pink rabbit in dungarees for Supermac's in Tipperary. I would entertain kids and stuff. One girl had a birthday there, and was all smiles and laughter, waving at me. When I walked over she freaked the fuck out and screamed like a demon. Another time I got to relax with Santa and a polar bear in their big Coca Cola truck. There's a nice photo of us all having a smoke break. I also got punched in the penis by an eleven year old girl who laughed as I writhed in pain.

    It was the best God damn job I ever had.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    When I was sixteen I did work experience in a sweet factory. I used to take stale Easter eggs out of their boxes, break them into pieces and put them in a basin. When the basin was full I would bring them to another part of the factory where they would be thrown into a machine and melted down to make 'new' chocolate bars.

    The only good thing about this job was that I would steal the sweets that were inside the eggs. For the brief period that I worked there I would go home every day with my pockets full of Love Hearts sweets.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,558 ✭✭✭seven_eleven


    Ever clean feces from a mans foreskin?........yeah. Not exactly stupid, infact I love my job!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,868 ✭✭✭jd


    I bunched scallions in a market garden.


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