Who's had the dullest job?

Mine was ripping up phone books. I had a job working in a factory my dad managed, I had won an apprenticeship but it was 3 months between when it started and when I left school so I went to work with my dad, we did 6 1/2 days a week 12 hrs a day plus an hours traveling either way I got £1.34 an hour and as I didn't have the time or energy to spend it I had a bit of cash when I started my apprenticeship which was also £1.34 an hour but only 50 hrs a week, any Whos the job I did with my dad was ripping up phone books and feeding them into a shredder with the highlight of my day being the lunch run and as the van was half a mile up the road I had to run!!

My aprenteship was better, though sandwich run was still part of my job

 

Nice! I was out of work and took a job which initially entailed painting a heat activated solvent glue to the insoles of ladies shoes and sandals 2000 pairs a day!!!! No idea how much the pay was as i was permanently off my box due to the fumes!

 

Another one was a brief stint working in a factory that produced cellulose from pulp. Got Chlorine gassed at that one! When the fumes were really bad we all ended up laid out on the grass at the side of the factory coughing our guts up.Like a scene from a first world war documentary.

 

Another - around 6 months hand chasing engineering brick whilst rewiring council houses. Arms like Schwartzenneger and no feeling whatsoever in my hands for quite some time.

Yep - done some crappy jobs that have caused me physical harm. And they tell me we have to import labour cos Brits wont do crappy jobs. Stop the dole - the jobs will get done!

 

Painted polystyrene bricks blue for capital radio (London) graham deans wall of sound had to mix it with sand to get the right effect.

 

I'm a bin man horrible job now got to pick up food waste better when on the black bags it's a job tho.

 

Once had a blowie off a dull bird, does that count?

 

I spent 3 days tipping oranges out of boxes onto a conveyor belt so ladies could put them in string bags for Tesco.

 

how long will it be before this turns into the Yorkshiremans sketch (luxury....).

 

Picking bad frozen prawns off a conveyor belt full of prawns

as a apprentice fitting out a big cheese factory with stainless steel conduit and trunking using a hacksaw and hand threader

 

That sounds pretty grim

 

2 days watching paint dry so I could paint some more in a flat in Paddington,6 months as a site agent watching other blokes watching paint drying,,

 

I used to like conduit work although you can get a bit anal about it. Not sure I could still do it and make it look nice (without a big pile of scrap tube on the floor!)

 

Feed in on a wood planer. Endless 6ft lengths of wood hand fed. Thousands of them.
LVLO tax disc maker, hand typing 1000's of tax discs.

 

My personal one was operating a flypress for 2 weeks, punching a hole and radius end on aluminium blanks....thousands of them. Got so my right arm would swing back and forward in my sleep.

My brother tops this with 20years in a pallet factory, nailing pallets together on piece work. He's quite mad now!

 

I got really good at it especially as it was stainless and my boss was tight so any mistakes made I got a boot up my arse

 

Working in a factory that bottled seafood, mostly whelks, shifting boxes of processed slime balls into a vat of vinegar. I lasted a week