Whats the most boring job you've seen?

[Capt Caveman]

In high school, I used to work for a microfiche company. One group of people spent their whole time taking staples out of documents and the other group would photograph the documents to microfiche.

 

[Kirby64]

Originally posted by: mh47g

Originally posted by: Kirby64
Working in a small machine shop doing manual machine labor = worst thing ever.

How would you like to operate a punch press with the same exact thing over and over again? Insert a small copper piece into punch press, press down on pedal to operate press, it stamps a hole through the copper, repeat 50000 times. It not only is incredibly boring, you never get to quit. Once you finish a box of them, you just pull another box over and repeat the process. Wooooo.

At least you go to work knowing you'll have something to do

I'd rather stare at a wall. At least I could be left to my thoughts and day dream somewhat. I can't day dream on a punch press or I'd never put the part in the correct position to punch it

 

[IronWing]

Wine bottle turner. You spend your life in cellars of a vintner and give the bottles a quarter turn, bottle after bottle, rack after rack, day after day. It is supposed to keep the sediment in suspense.

 

[Farang]

My job.. I work at a cheese factory. Basically the assembly-line repetitive stuff mentioned earlier. Everything I do could be done by a machine.I'd describe further but it'd just bore you to death.

edit: what is funny is there is observation room. I see customers come to watch us work and they usually bail after a minute or two, if not sooner. and we were featured on the nightly news, that poor reporter, it must've been a slow news day.

 

[natto fire]

I worked in a UPS hub, it was easily the most boring job I have ever had. I am not sure how I could accurately judge how boring a job is without doing it.

 

[Andres3605]

I'm my work we have a machine to test memory (SDRAM and DDR), it tests around 1 stick every 10 seconds and sticks needs to be manually loaded and classified in different boxes, we literally had thousands of pounds of mixed memory.


At least i didn't have to do it .

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: Geekbabe
AnandTech Moderator :laugh:

Beat me to it.

 

[fire400]

a fvcking repetitive assembly line

fastfood joint

office job where you don't use your brain, one bit

cashier/clerk at store

inventory line-worker: counting sh!t and doing it all dam* day.. (omgosh hell..)

janitorial work

cleaning windows for a living with two steps: WAX on.. WAX off..

electrical wiring; same sh!t, different buildings, over and over and over, good hell