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The Weirdest/Craziest Job You Have Ever Done

Posted by khalling 9 years, 11 months ago to Business
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I hope there are a few spies who come forward. Anyway, Aj's post on robots is the muse for this post. This is going to be a wild ride. ok I'll start with a sad job-but I will save my most controversial job for later-I want to see what you all can bring to the table.
to pay for college tuition, I sat in a back room at the bookstore and tore off book covers. Yes-from most beloved novels to Aristotle. We sent the covers back to the publisher's and we torched the books. Yes! Torched them! If you were caught "stealing" the body of a book to be torched (!) you were fired.

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    Posted by $ allosaur 9 years, 11 months ago
    There was a post I'd sometimes catch back in the early 80s while a prison was under construction.
    I'd sit in prison cell in a yet to be completed cell block staring at populated dorms.
    The idea was that should any inmate escape the dorms, I would blast any climbing a fence with a shotgun aimed through a cell window.
    There were two such posts--one for the east side and the west side cell blocks.
    No one tried to escape and those posts disappeared when construction was complete and inmates lived in the cell blocks.
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  • Posted by Non_mooching_artist 9 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It was pretty damn funny actually. I was maybe 23, so CLEARLY not a general... I saluted back, too. I thought it would have been bad form if I didn't.

    Well, NRC was also a "client", so indefinitely for them. I really don't know, as I haven't thought about that job for years... huh..
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  • Posted by Zenphamy 9 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    What? Didn't like the salutes? That would have been a hoot.

    There has to be some interesting stories in all of that. How long does the secrecy last?
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  • Posted by Zenphamy 9 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Sheet inside a trash bag. They did give us an ice chest to transport. It was truly an awful experience.

    Grandma passed not quite a year later. Now we had to worry about the grave digger.
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  • Posted by Zenphamy 9 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    That I don't know. I was too busy rolling on the floor and trying to catch my breath to ask. He'd already described the accouterments. (The little add-ons that had to be placed just so)
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  • Posted by Non_mooching_artist 9 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Well, the sheep collectively sighed in relief.. 🐏 I can only imagine what he was thinking, though... Did he help blow it up? Lol
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  • Posted by awebb 9 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It was a really crazy/weird job but actually somewhat inspirational.

    The woman that started the company was a struggling working mom and she started the business out of her basement. When I was working there (3+ years ago) they had 100+ employees and offices in 4 countries.

    However, every day brought some wildly inappropriate, sexual-harassment-suit-waiting-to-happen incident. If we ever find ourselves in Vegas together again and I'm not on the clock I'd be happy to provide a few interesting stories. ; )
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