whats the werdest or stupiest job you have had

whatdoicare · 06-11-2012 11:01PM

Bipolar Joe wrote: »

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.

I had this Job in Limerick city about ten years ago - now every time I see that rabbit on Silent hill, I think of Supermacs :pac:

Bipolar Joe · 06-11-2012 11:21PM

whatdoicare wrote: »

I had this Job in Limerick city about ten years ago - now every time I see that rabbit on Silent hill, I think of Supermacs :pac:

Yup, me too. Does the bunny even still exist today? I'd do that job in a heart beat.

MAJJ · 06-11-2012 11:22PM

A few times i was a "dead man". On trains, drivers had to respond to a signal in the loco and press a button very regularly or the brakes kickin. If that button isn't working a summer worker at the time like me had to apply the emergency break. All grand except when the driver leaves the cab and goes to the other end of the loco while train on full pelt with me in charge. A long few minutes.

Another fun time i hosed a lot of crap, tampons,rats and all the other fun stuff of the tracks in Heuston and cleaned toilets there and Connolly. Blue lights and glory holes puzzling where crap would be everywhere.

whatdoicare · 06-11-2012 11:25PM

Bipolar Joe wrote: »

Yup, me too. Does the bunny even still exist today? I'd do that job in a heart beat.

I'm sure it does - it's probably not been washed since I last saw it too.

reginald · 06-11-2012 11:31PM

This one time at band camp...

Halloran springs · 06-11-2012 11:31PM

I worked with the public once, what an absolute bunch of ****heads. "The customer is always right" :rolleyes:

Halloran springs · 06-11-2012 11:42PM

Rasmus wrote: »

Standing in the doorway counting people coming into Brown Thomas (for statistics). Relatively boring, but not as much as you may think. You did it in the pairs and your mate counted the people going out.

Also useful for making sure nobody is hiding in the shop overnight.

pawrick · 06-11-2012 11:50PM

Worked in a supermarket in the make up and hair colour isle as a teen - some guy asked for my advice on tampons for his gf once + regurlarily got asked by aul owns about hair colour for their daughters who usually were dying of embarrassment

Compared womens lingerie in different stores (for inflation figures), had a clip board to make it look less like I was a perve when out in the field...it didn't work.

Spent a year being paid to colour in maps but was only allowed to use 3 colours (there was a real point to this but still stupid looking back).

OneArt · 06-11-2012 11:58PM

Halloran springs wrote: »

I worked with the public once, what an absolute bunch of ****heads. "The customer is always right" :rolleyes:

I'm a member of the public. I find that offensive.

BrokenArrows · 07-11-2012 12:00AM

Building fences in the Australian desert.

I actually enjoyed it.

IceFjoem · 07-11-2012 12:03AM

I worked for a month selling Hanley Center scratch cards on Henry Street when I was 14. If the job wasn't demoralizing enough already, there was a rumor at the time that our manager was keeping the money reinforcing the "we're the bad guys" feeling.

EoghanIRL · 07-11-2012 12:03AM

pawrick wrote: »

Worked in a supermarket in the make up and hair colour isle as a teen - some guy asked for my advice on tampons for his gf once + regurlarily got asked by aul owns about hair colour for their daughters who usually were dying of embarrassment

Compared womens lingerie in different stores (for inflation figures), had a clip board to make it look less like I was a perve when out in the field...it didn't work.

Spent a year being paid to colour in maps but was only allowed to use 3 colours (there was a real point to this but still stupid looking back).

Can you explain the last job more

Run_to_da_hills · 07-11-2012 12:04AM

killing red back spiders and their eggs from a conveyor system at a saw mill in Victoria Australia.

Every morning hundreds of these feckers would appear and would pose a health and safety hazard to contractors working on the machinery. My job involved going around with a blow torch and fire extinguisher for about an hour before work started exterminating them. .

Deskjockey · 07-11-2012 12:04AM

BrokenArrows wrote: »

Building fences in the Australian desert.

I actually enjoyed it.

I spent two months "Making up" clues for crosswords in a puzzle magazine. Glorified data entry from a dictionary starting with aardvark. Nice bunch of people working there though. I still remember going back to work after lunch after having two pints at lunchtime. The English *claps*

IceFjoem · 07-11-2012 12:07AM

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

killing red back spiders and their eggs from a conveyor system at a saw mill in Victoria Australia.

Every morning hundreds of these feckers would appear and would pose a health and safety hazard to contractors working on the machinery. My job involved going around with a blow torch and fire extinguisher for about an hour before work started exterminating them. .

Amazing, I can almost hear the Schwartzenegger quotes!

Run_to_da_hills · 07-11-2012 12:08AM

Repairing and testing fog horns was another weird job.

El Guapo! · 07-11-2012 12:11AM

I had a job sitting in front of a vibrating conveyor belt watching millions of beans go past me......all.......fúcking........day.
My job was to pick out any beans that looked dodgy and flick them off the belt.

So yes........my job was literally flicking the bean all day.

That's how I got so good at it. :cool:

Easy, ladies.....one at a time please.

shopaholic01 · 07-11-2012 12:12AM

Dean09 wrote: »

I had a job sitting in front of a vibrating conveyor belt watching millions of beans go past me......all.......fúcking........day.
My job was to pick out any beans that looked dodgy and flick them off the belt.

So yes........my job was literally flicking the bean all day.

That's how I got so good at it. :cool:

Easy, ladies.....one at a time please.

PM sent.

Markcheese · 07-11-2012 12:14AM

Spent a short while taking bottles out of a box, putting same little bottles on a conveyor belt , mind numbing , but wait it got better I then got to run around to the other side of the belt and put the bottles back into the same box they'd just come out of ...I lasted 2 nights..

Just remembered I spent a couple of days taking ray-bans out of a box, checking the nose piece, quick polish, then back in the box...oh the fun I had ...
Actually did loads of **** jobs all in 2 months in Sydney ....

Halloran springs · 07-11-2012 12:20AM

OneArt wrote: »

I'm a member of the public.

No you're not!! Hahahaha :pac:

Diageio_Man · 07-11-2012 12:26AM

i used to make fake breasts in a factory years ago , the novelty wore off pretty quick. i had a selection of rejects from an a cup to an ff cup, i was the guy to go to if you were dressing up as a woman for holloween slowly but surely they all got robbed off me over the years.

Elvis_Presley · 07-11-2012 12:28AM

Sticking the labels on to plastic orange juice bottles for a penny a bottle when I was 14. They're were two of us doing it. Once we got good enough to start making decent money, we got replaced by a labelling machine.

kincsem · 07-11-2012 12:48AM

Counting 3,000 cattle. They were walked through a chute into corrals. We were using clickers to count them one at a time. Things were going well until some f***** thought he would help by walloping the poor animals. About a dozen flew past in the next second. Thanks.

Also for my sins I counted 30,000 chickens at another farm. It seems like I got all the 5hitty jobs.

Equality · 07-11-2012 02:51PM

Answering the phone.

It doesn't sound stupid until you realise the job came with the instruction 'Tell them nothing when they ring'. Politely, of course.

Skrynesaver · 07-11-2012 03:06PM

During the renovations of the Natural History Museum (AKA Dead Zoo) covers had to be made for the exhibits, I made plastic covers for everything, the trickiest were the Antelopes, I'd swear they're on the verge of turning carnivorous the points of those horns are lethal.

mosi · 08-11-2012 03:06AM

Years ago I got a job doing cloakroom for a club...it turned out to be a fetish night in a gay sauna! That was a weird night...especially when a naked man walked over looking for a towel. I got off lightly though, as I was in the safety of the cloakroom all night. My friend, who also got a job that night (it was a one off gig), was handed a mop and bucket and told to go and clean the dungeon! She told me how she walked in and there were all these naked men in gimp masks doing things to each other. When she was later asked to go out and get food for all the staff, she legged it home!

im invisible · 08-11-2012 03:35AM

Got a job as a fluffer once, not what i expected, at all...

Spread · 08-11-2012 05:45AM

Selling those large balloons in Oxford St in the late 60s. But the wonga was v good and I lived high on the hog for the summer .

Got pissed most nights, clubbed at weekends and flew home for long weekends once a month ....... the return Aer Lingus to Shannon was then around Stg 60 and the return taxi to Heathrow was Stg 20. By November I was broke and back in the real world ........ earning Stg 36 pw ........ was still good money but had to be worked for. Just to articulate .......... 10 pints of beer for Stg 1, a Steak Dinner for Stg 0'75p, a room rental about Stg 12 pm and a decent S/H car could be bought for Stg 200.
Those were the days!

sheikhnguyen · 08-11-2012 05:48AM

Calling people up and getting them to buy home water coolers (the ones you see in offices) on hire-purchase.

emer_b · 08-11-2012 06:04AM

Spent a summer sorting out samples for a hospital lab. Had to separate the bottles of blood, urine, faeces, sperm and sputum from each other. Sputum was the worst, all slimy rolling around in the bottle, gag!

Gave a new meaning to having a sh!tty day at work

whats the werdest or stupiest job you have had

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