Working with idiots

[Dom]

Ok the title might be a bit harsh, but given the monotonous hour or so ahead of me I don't think I can be blamed. I've just been emailed a load of content to update a website with. No problem there other than half of it will be out of date and utterly pointless in about 4 days time, and I know for a fact I won't hear from them again for a good month. As a result the odds of them benefiting from the update are pretty much zero. It's a boring job but I could use the cash, so I'll do it.

There must be loads of good examples of jobs BCFers have done which are totally pointless, over the years. Unlike mine some might be interesting, so does anyone fancy sharing whilst I'm on the clock?
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[Method]

Think we had a post like this quite recently...

If i remember rightly, Stinkwheel had to Help little piggies on their way to sexual enlightenment?
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[Method]

On a side note the most pointless job i can remember me doing;

was spending 4hours worth of labour time, repairing a car for its MOT - Only to have the customer call up and say "Yeah actually, dont worry about it. Ive just bought me a new car off Ebay. Thanks!", 20minutes after i had got it through!

So anyway it turned out allright in the end, because i had been drinking inside the car whilst the MOT had been going on, (Sitting in the drivers seat with a cupa tea whilst the blokes under the ramp checked stuff over), anyway when the car came down off the ramp and i got out, i left the cup inside

It was sitting in the passengers footwell in the end because i was layed over sideways listening to the radio That coulda been interesting when the customer came to pick up his/her car...
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[Dom]

Ah but this is different. I'm not talking about nasty/boring jobs, just pointless ones. Things that for whatever reason the boss has wanted you to do but are completely and utterly pointless.

Edit: Like that.
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[zaknafien]

I used to spend 8 hours or more a day sat at a desk reading the paper and drinking tea.

If I did more than 15 minutes work in that time then it was a very busy shift. Mind-numbing just doesn't cover it.

7hrs 45mins doing nothing, pointless enough?
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[ginguar]

I'm a Recruitment Consultant. Need I say more.

[WR450_geezer]

Worked in a kitchen and was made to sweep the carpark of friggin dust, yes sweep the carpark.

WR
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[dodsi]

I work for the government ministry of agriculture.

That pointless enough for you?

[lozzypop1]

I do housewank....

then the kids come home! pointless?
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[SteWhit]

Yes, i'm currently working an 8 hour night shift surfing the net. There is absolutly NOTHING that needs to be done tonight, pointless?
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[colin1]

[distortion]

I work at a psychiatric hospital

[funmonkee]

[zaknafien]

[Craggles]

I made a starcloth for a theatre show, when the show was over, I was asked to take it apart as part of the get-out.

The next week I had a call... they'd hired out the starcloth I made to visiting companies! So I came back in (on Time x2 overtime, as they needed it that week) to make another one for the hire.

I doubt they acually profited from that hire in the end - although it meant I had access to a starcloth to use in a lighting design I did there a few weeks later!

Craig
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[Deano]

I use to get pointless tasks when I was doing recruitment. I was a resourcer at the time and my boss use to get me to ring shed load of random people and ask them if they were looking for work or not and put yes/no on the database. that sounds OK, but its pretty pointless when you do that anyway when you talk to people who actually are qualified/interested in the jobs that you were trying to fill.
It was wasting man power/time in productive work to gain revenue. I got sick of it once and argued my point across and I got a bloody verbal warning because "I argued".

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[Deano]

funny how peeps who think a job where you doss and do nothing is a good job. It isnt, its boring, frustrating, damaging to your career because you dont learn or keep your current skills fresh. what you gonna do when you need more money for a mortgage etc and you tell them you done so and so. you get there and your not as good as the employer expects an experieinced person as you/cv told them you were.

personally I hate wasting my time as it seems like a waste of precious life where I could of been doing something more productive/constructive or doing something where I could reach a higher target or goal , like developing a career.

Put the hard work in now and i can relax later in life as such.

[daz|n00by]

About a year or so ago the company i sub contract to was having a office move, a large office move(that involves me moving desks and other stuff around the building) we had been contracted to work the Saturday and Sunday straight through, all 48 hours.

This was done 3 weeks before the company was moving to new premises. Why have a office move around 3 weeks before leaving the building?

Then for the same company after they had relocated to the new building i had to go in and make the old building safe and secure and help remove old fixtures and fittings, it was then discovered that somebody had stole 2000 carpet tiles FROM OFF THE FLOOR
used carpet tiles????
Any how i know had to replace 2000 carpet tiles to a office building that was left standing empty for 4 months then demolished,
unreal the amount of money company's waste.
As a side note the company is run by women

lol
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[numark1]

I used to think it was good having nothing to do as well. It is for a couple of days but then you just get so bored that you have to do something.

[zaknafien]

[colin1]