Who's had the dullest job?

I worked as a security guard on highways building sites - mainly on roads being built so invariably in the middle of nowhere, pitch black, with no power and NOTHING to do for 14 hours shifts, in the pitch black.

Surprisingly I was a self taught fork lift, bobcat and front tipper truck driver by the end.....though the broken JCB was nothing to do with me. Honest.

 

Making studs on a lathe with a collet chuck threader , bludee hundreds of um, part of my workshop training as an apprentice draughtsman . I dont think ive ever had a job that i havnt had a laugh at thou , ie workmate banter .

 

Summer student jobs were my most dull - spent a week making pallets - I was given a hammer and nails and pile of ready cut wood - gave me segs on segs on my hands. Then I had a job in print shop - one day a week I had to melt down the old lead type faces and pour it out into moulds - I think the lead fumes permanently affected my IQ - duh!

 

i'd imagine that's where you got your muscly right arm from too.

 

I did a week agency work for Calor Gas. Loading artic trailers with gas bottles and unloading them. By hand.

I got home and couldn't lift my knife and fork to eat my dinner !!!

 

Could you have deferred to chopsticks?

 

Only if I wasn't hungry, I would be better off with a tooth pick.

 

soup maybe

 

Isn't that for people who don't have any teeth ?

 

or people who cant use knife n fork , straw if really weak or nice nursee type

 

I spent a week (7 days 12 hour shifts) polishing cutlery on a passenger ferry to France as a student, and was called the "Silver Surfer".

 

I worked for a few months at a place called C-Dart, I have no idea to this day exactly what I was supposed to be doing but it involved a computer, lots of very dull green numbers on a black screen and loads of invoices....
Although there were loads, there were never enough and I always had to try to look busy , or at least like I was doing a bit of something whenever the boss came back into the office.
Dull didn't cover it, but luckily I managed to upset the him a bit at the xmas party, a light hearted conversation involving his wife, oral sex and how prickly a proper chaps beard might be. I was 'let go' very early on in the new year.
I have never been to a works xmas bash since.

 

when i was in uni i spent every summer for 3 years working at my dads mates plastic co. i spent 10-12 hrs a day sitting in front of a plastic injection moulding machine that every few seconds spat out 6 on/off buttons for sharp videos that needed to be trimmed and put in a box. mind numbing is not the word.

 

I've never had a job that comes close to the dullness of most of these.

My worst was spending 18 months collecting big stacks of letters off a printer, updating a spreadsheet with a policy number and stuffing it in an envelope for posting. After a while I progressed to phoning the recipient a couple of days later to check it had arrived.

Not very exciting but the money was ok and I liked the people I worked with so we all had a laugh

 

Whilst at uni in Leeds I did a job at a junk mail distributed. I basically put leaflets into envelopes then when is done 1000 I got to put them in a box. I lasted one day. Tried to speak to my coworkers at lunch, but they snubbed me as I was a southern student lol. I laughed last as I realised that this was their career and most of then had done it for years and are probably still doing it!

 

My most boring jobs don't really compare to some of these, but two spring to mind: the first was working as a kitchen porter in a large restaurant - I was given Carrot peeling duty. I lasted one whole day and I never EVER wanted to peel another carrot again. To this day I still mostly buy my carrots pre-peeled or just eat them with the skin on

The second was a computer-based role where I, like @Bernard Fishtrousers , didn't have enough to do, but visibly not having anything to do would have resulted in being laid off, so I spent days staring at random documents and spreadsheets to look busy and I couldn't even chat to workmates that would give away the fact I wasn't working. That was boring, and a waste of my life tbh!

 

I don't believe this. ^^^^^^ Pure fantasy.