What's The DUMBEST Thing You Were PAID To DO?
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- Опубліковано 24 тра 2024
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Lost staple story wouldn't classed as dumb, pay a bunch of guys a few hundred thousand to avoid a potential several millions in lawsuits and fines...
One time as young teens I knocked on doors asking to clean peoples yards for $ and this guy had a ton of bricks in his front yard and said he would pay me and my two cousins 150$ to move them all from the front to the back, it was only about a 15-20 foot move
If it was actually 2,000 lbs worth, I’d say that wasn’t a terrible deal.
People pay for convenience.
You got an honest days work.
My oddest job was as a teenage. I worked the night shift (during holidays) to put empty plastic bottles onto a conveyor belt. The bottles would then be swept onto pallets and shrink wrapped by someone else. The pallets were then sent to which ever soda company needed them. This was a LONG time ago. I made a ton of money because it was the night shift.
Bit of a technicality since it was for a larger assignment, but one time I, being near exactly 6’ with my shoes on, was used as a measuring stick to see how tall some decorative palm plants were.
Working in a factory as the new guy! The boss made me hand press some work 8 hours a day for a week! On the last day another worker said! I can’t believe he made you do that by hand we normally use a power press for that part! I had blisters on my hands! lol
I wouldn't quite say that this was dumb in and of itself, but how we had to go about it was.
My very first paid job was a temp position. It was a project for replacing a bunch of robot motors in the paint line of an automotive manufacturing plant. These robots were what sprayed the various coats of paint onto the cars' - well, pickup trucks', in this case - bodies, from the first primer that actually protects it from rust and such, to the primer that the color actually sticks to, to the colors and finishes themselves. They needed some, to quote the joke made by the man who got me the job, "dumb mules to do the heavy lifting that most of the techs did not want to do and figured getting the parent company to shell out money for it would be worth it." I mean, he was not wrong about any of it, and until the last job I had in the US, it was my best-paid job ($17/hr in 2007). Even so, I had some mechanical skills, so I often had to help with disconnecting the old motors and then installing the new ones, especially when the on-site techs were taking too long, so it was worth it. Plus, because these were for painting robots, we had to don the full plastic suits, put on respirators so that we did not accidentally inhale any lingering paint fumes, wear googles (obviously), and then put on the hi-res vests, hard hats, and steel-toed boots on top of that, so you had better pay someone like me (and certainly the techs) enough to put up with the labor.
Now, what I just described was not quite dumb. So what was dumb? How we had to get the motors to the robots. There was no direct access we could use - no direct stairwell, no freight elevator, nothing - to get to and from there. What we had to do was load up either a pickup truck or a minivan (yeah, they did not even have freight trucks for this) with however many of these 90-lb motors would fit while still being able to drive without damaging thr vehicle, drive to the closest entrance we could take the vehicle to, and then, literally one-by-one, carry the motors in our arms as we snaked through the assembly line (crossing the riskier spots in the process - yeah, they did not exactly have any clear lines for workers), reach the clearing passages (you know, where you get blasted with air jets to knock off any and all possible contaminants), do the swap-out, and then do it all in reverse as we carried the old motors out.
Yeah, when the man said they needed "dumb mules," he was not kidding about the mules part. One of the techs, who was one of those involved in determining which entrance we would use so as to save time, said that the path still measured just under a mile *_in one direction._*
To summarize, feel free to imagine what it was like to be dressed up in all that PPE (all of which was justified, so I am not complaining about that, just as I did not then), sweating your @$$ off as you lugged in your arms a 90-lb motor that, with its box, was about half the size of the jug of water you see used at those fountain dispensers, walk about a mile one-way as you carefully stepped over/through the assembly line multiple times, got to the painting robots, changed out the motors (occasionally being involved in calibrating them), and then carry the same-sized same-weighted motor back out the way you came, only to do this another 10-15 times (depending on how many motors you had that day), totaling carrying 900-1350 lbs over 20-30 miles per day.
Like I said, the job itself was not dumb. It was how we had to do the lion's share of it that was. I guess on the bright side, it prepared me for the physical labor of my first full-time job, but still.
Former DOORDASH driver here. I did it during covid.
I was paid $8 to deliver a bag of hot Cheetos less than a mile away from where I picked it up.
I got my first job this year, a janitorial service contracted with one of the major stadiums in Washington state. One of the things we did was pick through the trash to sort out what could and couldn't be composted. It was fucking disgusting work.
I work at a dog daycare, so I get paid to stop dog humping trains
Dumb part about story 9 aren't the staples, but that it was for Nestle...
Got paid by my mom and her bf at the time to go to the store to get them beer with their own money when they ran out of beer after drinking
Don’t look at someone over paying or gifting you money as a bad / dumb thing Sometimes the wealthy don’t have a heir to leave the estate to or don’t like said person. As for younger people might be an ex spending other’s money. Enjoy yourself
Didn’t actually do it, but someone once offered to pay me to stand there and sharpen pencils wearing nothing but socks while he touched himself. If I had decided to take that money, that’d have been it.
I’m also a guy btw.
I gave like number 100. I feel special for some reason.
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Your mom.
Paid to spend days in Scaled Agile PI meetings. If you've been in them, you'll know what I mean.