A reddit thread. Some of my favorites:
I stood underneath a conveyer belt dropping gravel out of a rock crusher and picked out chunks of odd-colored rock for 10 hours a day without a break. At the rate the gravel was being poured, I may have possibly extracted .001% of the river rock, as i was picking it up by hand, one piece at a time.
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I’m an aviation meteorologist at a location without planes.
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I once worked a job where I would receive forms that were scanned into a machine that put them into some software. But since the scanner wasn’t perfect, I would have to manually type the mistakes into the machine. It was actually faster to not look for mistakes and just retype the entirety of the forms. We would then shred the forms. I was like the backup to a machine who wasn’t very good at its job.
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So my friend has a job walking around a building making sure it isn’t on fire. It is an old building and is no longer up to fire code. So untill the building gets renovated in 2-3 years 3 people have to walk the halls and make sure it isn’t on fire.
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“What is the most pointless job in existence?” http://t.co/BsJJtPDTdG
Surprised no one said anything about jobs in the financial sector! Investment banker?
[HULK GOOGLES ‘RIMSHOT’. NOT NEARLY AS DIRTY AS HULK IMAGINED] @JeremyKonyndyk @cblatts
I have done a job that deserves a place here, although it was just one task contained within a far more useful job.
I had to sift through massive boxes of numbered (about 7-digit?) bond tags and then sort them numerically. Once they were sorted, they would be re-boxed, shipped off and destroyed. I asked if I should log this in Excel; I was told this would be unnecessary. There did not even need to be proof this job had been done.
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*rimshot* MT @AIDWORKERHULK EARLY RECOVERY CLUSTER LEAD RT @cblatts “What is the most pointless job in existence?” http://t.co/59bYgecq5j
@cblatts I worked in auto factory measuring thickness of dodge neon carpet. 8 hours a day. Third shift. #uphillbothways
@cblatts My friend worked at ice cream cone factory flicking broken cones off assembly line.
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So amusing, ha. RT @cblatts: “What is the most pointless job in existence?” http://t.co/5AhJtHQSZx
RT “What is the most pointless job in existence?” http://t.co/3KjATybgKw okay, mini preps don’t sound so bad…
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@cblatts work dignifies the man…
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@cblatts the fire walker job is the best.
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