Who has the weirdest or most random job on here

My grandad was a lock keeper down Hoyle Mill, not many of them about!

 

You could say no change there then, as you had to deal with old fossils like me when we phoned you in wages. lol,

 

My son used to be a Maintenance Engineer at the Trebor Basset factory in Sheffield. He kept the world in Jelly Babies

 

Barmy bugger!
Actually, old mate, I loved being able to help people, offer advice, etc.

 

You're right, I loved it. Time would fly by for me when I was on an excavation.

 

My colleague has a daughter with special needs who has a job like this in a factory. She's full of pride at having a job and absolutely loves it. The only problem is that she really needs assisted living (someone has to be at home with her at all times and she breaks multiple things around the home every single day, sometimes by accident and sometimes through frustration) and she can't have it whilst she's got a job. My colleague desperately needs help and her daughter has looked around the assisted living place and would love to live there but she can only move in on the condition of quitting her job (or my colleague paying an obscene amount she most definitely can't afford). Her daughter won't leave her job as it brings her such happiness and is something she has always prided herself on so they're stuck with a really crappy situation.

 

I’m struggling as a failed former porn star. I can’t find any openings.

 

I spent a month waste watching on a landfill site. I worked in a tiny little hut with no door. The first metre of waste put down on top of the base of the landfill had to be soft regular stuff like wood chippings, household rubbish etc so no concrete posts, metal bars, lengths of timber. I had to watch every load tipped and alert an excavator driver who was on hand in case anything sharp was put in. The person before me had got so bored he had built himself a library of reading material comprising diaries that people had chucked in the rubbish, he had at least 20. A bit weird reading some strangers innermost thoughts.

 

Evil swine!!

 

I've always taken cucumber placement seriously jamdrop!

Anyway my career progressed. If you drive up the A631 West Bawtry Road in Rotherham, and continue on towards Whiston, there's a lane on the right called Long Lane.
A couple of miles along this lane is a water treatment plant.
In this water treatment plant is a series of waste tanks.
The third one of these waste tanks is called the "final effluent stage" tank.
Inside this tank (entered via a manhole on the top) is a 2 inch thick coating of solidified human excrement.
To stop this coating building up and interfering with the tank's capacity, this coating has to be manually hacked off with an air powered hydraulic chisel.
So someone has to crawl down into the tank and spend several hours hacking off several years of accumulated human excrement, bagging it up, and taking it out of the tank.

coo..eee...guess who?

At the end of my first shift I was yearning to be handling chicken's entrails and cucumber...luxury!

 

In a similar vein I was part of the team that scrapped Orgreave coking plant, just a casual labour role where you turned up on the day to see what you'd be doing. One day a team of 3 of us were assigned to empty a tank that had about 18 inches of liquid polystyrene in it, no breathing apparatus or safety gear of any kind. We spent 5 minutes each shovelling this sticky, toxic gunk into plastic sacks that someone hauled out and after 5 minutes in the tank (the only ventilation being the 18" manhole) you had to have a 10 minute breather otherwise you'd pass out. Hardest day's work Ive ever done and all for £20 cash in hand!

 

always catch 22 with these things my mum was on widows pension but worked 16 hours a week as a cleaner,she wanted to
Do more hours but anymore and her benefits got reduced ,crazy really

 

its the kind of job you tend to think will always exist

 

Many moons ago I worked in the materials handling department at Lyons bakery ...Friday night working was overtime and nine times out of ten was double pay with the odd occasion triple pay....now been on the next to top rate of pay for our department, it was worth working although we knew we would be in the production hall and that they would put us on the harvest pie plant in packaging ....where you spent a 8/ 12 hr shift apart from breaks stood at a conveyor belt putting boxed pies into shipment boxes at head hight...we always argued the toss between us who was sitting where has the one seated first could and would hold up the process and let the pies back right up before letting go ....the pies would then come down the belt rapidly which saw those in the middle having to pack like hell..to keep up.which was very funny at the time...on a couple of occasions I was trusted to work at the exit point of the oven (chuff knows why with the reputation I had for always joking and pranking about) Anyway off I go to the oven along with a student that was part time.working due to university holidays..the job was so simple the pair of you sat on a bar stool either side of the belt with a long stick and if the pies exited the oven out of line you reached across and gently put the pie back in line with your stick before it was scooped up and sent down another belt to be packed....now knowing what the regular lads did ( they took it in turns to sleep ) I asked this student which watch he wanted...he said I could do the first sleep....so I closed my eyes in the warmth of the oven only to wake up some 20minutes later by flashing lights and klaxons alarms going off...yes you've guessed it he fell asleep as well the pies went out of line and all that was getting scooped up were the pie centres....and the rest caused us to be knee deep in pies lol
It was only due to the plant fitter being a good fried and the line manager backing him up that the excuse I gave worked in our favor I claimed the emergency stop button failed to activate....unfortunately the student involved never turned up for work again ...don't think he could handle the pressure of the cover up and the lies that were told at the time...mind you the rollicking we initially got in the beginning wasn't pleasant to start with and didn't help....... lol

Lol

 

I have done some hard and heavy jobs in my time Tailgate ripping, Shearer Driver, Dosco Dint header Driver, Dosco Roadheader Driver, and after the pit shut worked for BMBC as a van driver nowt hard about that but every time I went to work I had to fight myself from smacking this ignorant Boss. And now I have my hardest job of all 7 days a week " keeping myself alive".

 

I once knew a guy who was a professional "Del Boy" from only fools and horses look-a-like.

He had a mate who was (maybe still is) a Rod Stewart tribute act. He's still in the village, from distance you can't tell the difference.

 

Sorry to correct you. It's a Sewage treatment works/plant. Not Water. Would hate to think water was at the end of the process. Yuk. .
Done hundreds of repair and maintenance jobs over the years on that plant.
Thankfully no more, as I retired yesterday. Yippee

 

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