Most boring Job

[Tonz]

Having several sections of road widening happening over here and watching the guys who monitor the speed signs etc, I got to thinking ...yeah its important but fair go boring as bats-hit.

what can you think of?

[M&Ms]

Freight train driver

[290GTP]

Built in wardrobe salesman.

Ask me how I know.

[Franco Cozzo]

Stocktake at Bunnings

[roKWiz]

Public servant.

[roKWiz]

Originally Posted by M&Ms

Freight train driver

I don't know about that....

[BA-XT]

I sit in court cases and listen to things id rather not. Its very dry and i often get asked “How do you do it….. it must be so boring”. Yes it is, but it’s also cruisey clean work. If I’m not in court I’m down stairs operating the xray machine (like the airport….. but we’re more friendlier

Been doing it 10 years nearly. Im 40 and could comfortably retire there. Stressful jobs…. Yeah they pay well but send you to an early grave

[auxr]

Wu Han bat trader.

[MercuryT]

Mine.

Law.

[Franco Cozzo]

Originally Posted by roKWiz

Public servant.

Dunno, I'll cut Victorian tax payers a deal, pay me the discount rate of $375,000/year and I'll make our press conferences much more entertaining

[T3rminator]

Originally Posted by Tonz

Having several sections of road widening happening over here and watching the guys who monitor the speed signs etc, I got to thinking ...yeah its important but fair go boring as bats-hit.

what can you think of?

Not boring if you count how much you make every time you turn the stop / slow sign

https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/tr...-38401900.html

[slowsnake]

Sitting at a drilling machine 8 hrs a day.

Cheers Billy.

[Mont5.0]

seatbelt tester.

[wodahs]

Originally Posted by roKWiz

I don't know about that....

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hey i saw that movie

but this guard would have to have the most boring job
and all he has is the news paper for the day

[Rallye Sport]

Worked on an automated potting machine in a nursery, occasionally you'd get a dead seedling, highlight of the day.

We'd listen to Metallica all day long, if you hadn't met the quota they'd turn the machine up and put on a faster Metallica album

[Mont5.0]

Originally Posted by Rallye Sport

Worked on an automated potting machine in a nursery, occasionally you'd get a dead seedling, highlight of the day.

We'd listen to Metallica all day long, if you hadn't met the quota they'd turn the machine up and put on a faster Metallica album

Not a bad thing as long as all the albums were pre 1988.
Anything after that was Mud, and i feel for you.

[Ben73]

Originally Posted by M&Ms

Freight train driver

At least freight trains can go 115.
Imagine being on trains that are limited to 80 empty or 60 loaded.

[ozrunner]

Heh heh this immediately hit home.

I kid you not but on my trip across Oz in 2019 on the long 90 mile straightest section of road on the Nullarbor before Caiguna in the distance I could see something odd.

I then came across this poor bugger all on his own in the middle of nowhere holding his stop sign with a fly net over his head that wasn't really working. After 5 minutes I got out and whilst holding my arms out I basically asked WTF I can't see anybody or any machines why am I having to stop.

They are further up he replied. I said mate I'm going but don't panic as I will drive slow when I see them.

I crested the horizon but the road still disappeared in the distance with no sign of anybody. I did 5 klm and there they were sitting around a grader having a break for who knows how long. I wanted to go back and tell this poor dude he was getting screwed.

At least he was gone when I came back 2 weeks later

http://members.iinet.net.au/~ozrunne...ics/Nulla1.jpg

[oldel]

forum mod or admin


I once had a job gluing on labels for paint tins. Also another that involved riveting plastic blocks to metal strips and threading on a rubber strip.
At least being a traffic controller in good weather you'd be outdoors and maybe see something interesting maybe - not standing at a factory bench seeing nothing but a pallet of work to do and hearing nothing but an air compressor.

[GO FURTHER]

Lifeguard at the Olympics

[MercuryT]

Originally Posted by Franco Cozzo

Dunno, I'll cut Victorian tax payers a deal, pay me the discount rate of $375,000/year and I'll make our press conferences much more entertaining

Reckon you've overly estimated the pay there Franco.

I know what my colleagues get paid in Vic and its below what most tradies earn by a fair way.

[asagaai]

Heinz canning factory in Dandenong when I was a Uni student at Monash Uni- watching the can runs in the graveyard shift and waiting for a can to flip over.

Hour after hour just watching cans run through the machines.....Jesus I looked forward to operating the magnetic press after that- at least with the magnetic press every 1 minute you had to co- ordinate your two hands to press 2 buttons at the same time which after 6 hours became as skilful as operating a demanding manual gearbox....

[Franco Cozzo]

Originally Posted by MercuryT

Reckon you've overly estimated the pay there Franco.

I know what my colleagues get paid in Vic and its below what most tradies earn by a fair way.

I'm talking about the big daddyo big wig premier position - he's on $452K PA

Vote 1 Discount Franco, please refer to me as 'Padre' instead of 'the honourable member for'

Will even provide own car AND drive myself to work! What a deal!

[slowsnake]

Back in the early 70's worked the arvo/night shift 8 hrs at a Salt company, then go to my day job as a boilermaker.

Standing at a Shute under a hot hopper filling plastic woven bags with 50kg of hot salt, stitching em up and slinging 10 high on a pallet, best part was the rock salt pile was hard as rock and 60 foot high, once a week about 4 am a hole was drilled into it and a stick of gelignite set off!..geez it blew sh.t everywhere, yeh that was boring except for the gelignite day.


Cheers Billy.

[Trevor 57]

after spending a few years as a HV driver trainer, I reckon the most boring job is a side lift garbage truck driver, you know, they ones that pick up your wheelie bins out the front of your house

5 metres stop 5 metres stop 5 metres stop 5 metres stop - turn left 5 metres stop 5 metres stop 5 metres stop 5 metres stop - turn left 5 metres stop 5 metres stop 5 metres stop 5 metres stop - turn left

[HIPO]

When i worked on the Trans Line across the Nullabor for ANR operating track recon. machinery in the late 70's.... set up machine, then kms of throttle, stop & press 1 auto button over & over, wks into months.......huge turnover of interesting co-workers though

[DJR-351]

Any job involving an office, desk and paper.

[Citroënbender]

Originally Posted by Franco Cozzo

Vote 1 Discount Franco, please refer to me as 'Padre' instead of 'the honourable member for'

I believe the honorific you’re looking for is “Padrone”.

[Rallye Sport]

Originally Posted by T3rminator

Not boring if you count how much you make every time you turn the stop / slow sign

https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/tr...-38401900.html

We saw a Stop-Go man loose his **** a while back.

Waiting first in line on a rural road, the guys having an animated conversation over the two way, next thing he throws the bat in the bushes, hops in the ute and speeds off in the opposite direction

Wondering whats going on I kept waiting, another ute come down the road and the guy hops out and asks me which way he went. I point that way and your bats in that bush

[wodahs]

Originally Posted by Rallye Sport

We saw a Stop-Go man loose his **** a while back.

Waiting first in line on a rural road, the guys having an animated conversation over the two way, next thing he throws the bat in the bushes, hops in the ute and speeds off in the opposite direction

Wondering whats going on I kept waiting, another ute come down the road and the guy hops out and asks me which way he went. I point that way and your bats in that bush

he was told to stop but he needed to go