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Posted: 6/3/2013 6:47:54 AM EDT

[#1]

US Marine.....at times

Posted: 6/3/2013 6:49:26 AM EDT

[#2]

Night auditor for a hotel during a summer break in college.

30 min of work in an 8 hour shift.

At least they let me bring in movies.

Posted: 6/3/2013 6:50:22 AM EDT

[#3]

Quoted:

Quoted:

As an off shoot of the most dangerous job thread.

What's the most boring job you've held. Mine was the same as my answer to the dangerous thread. 6 hours in a dive chamber for a table 6, and the owner only allowed ABBA music to be played.

Sitting on a folding chair, watching a door that never opens. For ten hours per shift.

Sitting in a broom closet with no lights on, for 12 hours, with a shotgun, an M4 and a pistol. Guarding three 55 gallon drums of medical grade cocaine.

That sounds boring like being strapped blindfolded to a metal bedspring listening to muted Farsi punctuated by screams coming from a room down the hall sounds boring.

Posted: 6/3/2013 6:51:48 AM EDT

[#4]

Riding bean buggy. Drone of the tractor engine, bouncing of the seats, warm summer day; made me fall asleep on more than one occasion.

Posted: 6/3/2013 6:55:00 AM EDT

[#5]

Worked a second part time job during college at Academy in the Golf section. It was terrible. I walked out since I was making 4 times as much at my other valet job. Was only doing it for the discounts and they weren't even worth it.

Posted: 6/3/2013 7:03:15 AM EDT

[#6]

Night Shift Security Guard at a Retirement Village in a sleepy bedroom community that in itself was relatively quiet and high end.

I sat down in a remote area of the complex one night...exhausted...fighting the sleep monster and at some point my drool woke me up....I had overslept my shift by about 40 minutes......I about shat my myself when I woke up and checked my watch......The radio would have woken me up if needed but I made up a story to my relief officer that I was helping an elderly couple move some boxes in their apartment and that was what held me up getting to the "security" office.

Looking back I probably woke him up calling him to let him know I was on my way....

Big excitement was escorting the local PD into the medical center when someone passed away......

Man did I build some killer puzzles in the lounge area of that place............

Posted: 6/3/2013 7:05:55 AM EDT

[#7]

Audited charity pull tabs out of college. You know the pull tab booth in the bar? In Minnesota I believe you can only have pull tabs if it is for a charity, but they have to be audited for fraud. I sat through and added up all the winners and reconciled it to the flare. (Flare is the poster where it lists the winners with X's drawn through the prizes that have been won. Also you had to count every unused ticket.

Accounting was much more exciting when I saw it in The Untouchables.

Posted: 6/3/2013 7:12:24 AM EDT

[#8]

My job goes from balls to the wall for 20 hours, I've worked 30+ hour shift, to sitting around and doing nothing for days on end. I did a job at nuke plant in NC where I might've actually worked 16 hours in 3 weeks. I was getting 86 hours a week with an 8 hour paid day off.

I have a company provided cellular hot spot, so I get along alright though.

Posted: 6/3/2013 7:28:03 AM EDT

[#9]

Worked as a M.E. for a large truck manufacturer about 15 years ago, for 1 year. It was the perfect George Costanza job, and I hated it with a passion. Did absolutely nothing productive. I actually begged my boss for work, and he asked me to work OT because he wanted to get a couple more people in the department. When I actually did get work on the very few occasions, I would stretch it out to 3 or 4X longer than it should have taken me, and then I would get a response of "Wow, you got that done already??".

Did fantasy football, fantasy NASCAR, fantasy stock market, you name it. One goy spent the entire Monday morning in the fall, logging and updating everyone's fantasy football stats, and sending them around. Couldn't wait to get out of there.

Posted: 6/3/2013 7:28:59 AM EDT

[#10]

not horrible but stuffing packets for a small local company
they would get in shipments of brochures or what not and first you would stamp them with the company contact info.
then stuff multiple items in a packet 1,000 5,000 10,000 at a time
stamp, fold, repeat.... for forever, wasnt bad because it worked with my school schedule. was boring to the point of sucking the life right out of you

I once had the responsibility of seasoning chicken for popeyes.
spicy and mild both have a seasoning that is applied by some poor soul
you would take a case of chicken and go over every piece. removing fat or any still attached organs.
dump it in a big rotating drum and then you got to stand there and watch this thing rotate. couldnt leave it alone either
it was important to watch this thing lol once it was done you would sort the chicken out
wash the rotating drum of fun, rinse, repeat...

I lasted 3 weeks

Posted: 6/3/2013 7:31:05 AM EDT

[#11]

CQ or Staff Duty NCO.

Posted: 6/3/2013 7:33:22 AM EDT

[#12]

My current job. I work in the back of a chemical plant by myself watching a machine load plastic pellets into train cars. On average I work 4 hours out of 12, they asked my department to stop using the Internet so much so we all have unlimited data on our phones/tablets and watch Netflix most of the time, I'm finishing season 3 of breaking bad today.

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Posted: 6/3/2013 7:40:18 AM EDT

[#13]

Collating 4' by 5' sheets of construction paper. Grab a sheet put it on the stack, grab a different color sheet put it on the stack. Let the boss know when the stack gets too high, try not to bleed on the paper. Your shift ends in 12 hours. I was fired because I didn't want to come in for voluntary overtime.

Posted: 6/3/2013 7:41:36 AM EDT

[#14]

counting potatoe chips

worked for lays one day.

they shipped potatoe chips cross country and back to this facility to check for breakage.

my job was to randomly select bags out of the container, open it and count whole chips left in the bag.

Posted: 6/3/2013 8:00:16 AM EDT

[#15]

I was a security guard watching a file cabinet on the graveyard shift...... no reading, writing, music, TV....nothing. Just me and the file cabinet for 8 hours. I didn't last long at that job

Posted: 6/3/2013 8:43:48 AM EDT

[#16]

Chopping trees all day by myself in the middle of nowhere with no cell service or radio to entertain myself.

Cutting fields all day for days at a time.

Posted: 6/3/2013 8:45:37 AM EDT

[#17]

oyster farming. also the dirtiest job I ever had. piad well but I still don't miss it.

Posted: 6/3/2013 8:48:38 AM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:
Combat zones are the most exciting and boring places to work. Hours of boredom followed by minutes of pure adrenalin.

Posted: 6/3/2013 8:48:50 AM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Combat zones are the most exciting and boring places to work. Hours of boredom followed by minutes of pure adrenalin.

And I will also add In Correctional Officer. It was the same exact way boring, boring, boring, rush of excitement, boring, etc......

Yup I have had some boring jobs, just Correctional Officer topped the list of most boring.

Posted: 6/3/2013 8:53:43 AM EDT

[#20]

I used to mow the fairways and rough of a 27 hole golf course in high school and college. 8-10 hours of back and forth. By the time I was finished it was time to start again.

Posted: 6/3/2013 9:16:30 AM EDT

[#21]

When I was 16 my dad's boss hired me to paint a VW dealership building.

Alone.

With a roller and 100 gallons of white paint.

Worst teenager summer job ever.

Posted: 6/3/2013 9:24:33 AM EDT

[#22]

While going to the University, I spent a summer cleaning films for the Univ. library. This was before VHS.

Boring beyond belief, but I got a lot of reading done.

Posted: 6/3/2013 9:25:31 AM EDT

[#23]

First job, 15yrs old. Picking Pineapple

.

Posted: 6/3/2013 9:28:29 AM EDT

[#24]

Surprisingly...
Corrections Officer

Posted: 6/3/2013 9:46:47 AM EDT

[#25]

Temp job, stuffing envelopes for Geico

Posted: 6/3/2013 11:39:22 AM EDT

[#26]

Detailing vehicles at an auto dealership. Soccer mom vehicles were the worst.

Posted: 6/3/2013 11:54:53 AM EDT

[#27]

Years ago when I found myself with a month-long period between contracts as a DBA (which I enjoyed immensely). My company wanted to keep me billable during the month so they slipped me in to temporarily help out on what was the company's worst contract: desktop support help desk. I spent four weeks slumming it and teaching people how to use a Windows start bar and search function, how to properly insert 3.5 floppies, and learning how much the client staff goofed off during the day.

Posted: 6/3/2013 12:02:54 PM EDT

[#28]

Definietly CQ. 24 hours of pure fucking unadulterated boredom. Although the cool NCO's would sometimes let you go sleep somewhere.

Posted: 6/3/2013 12:13:47 PM EDT

[#29]

Mall security guard. Hated every second of it.

Posted: 6/3/2013 12:17:25 PM EDT

[#30]

Flippin burgers. Some guys there did it for 8-hour shifts, I could never understand how. I liked the 3 hour shifts; any more than that and I would be dying to get out of there.

Harder than that was working as a cashier in a chain department store (big name out here in the NW, people who live here will know who I mean)... actually, being a cashier is fun, but sometimes they'd put me by the clothes at a spot by a door no one uses (just a quirk of the layout of the store). Anyone who worked there hated it... store policy forbade us from sitting down, reading, anything. I was a college student at the time.. could I bring my book in to study? Nope. Just stand there for hours. Sometimes the clothing gals would take pity on me and bring me some work to do.. folding socks or towels, whatever.. anything to keep awake. Miserable. (this was before cell phones, BTW.. no browsing arfcom)

Posted: 6/3/2013 12:23:02 PM EDT

[#31]

automated drilling once a week

watch a machine drill holes for 10 hours and hope it doesn't fuck up.

Posted: 6/3/2013 3:50:07 PM EDT

[#32]

I shredded paper for a local bank when I was in middle school. Boring....

Posted: 6/3/2013 3:53:51 PM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:

Pinkerton security guard on midnights at an office building in a nice part of town. No one around except for a couple really late or early workers and a bunch of non-English speaking housekeepers. Duty consisted of hourly rounds (which took about ten minutes) to make sure the doors were still all locked up as well as locking up after the housekeepers left.

The used book store was my best friend.

I was a Peckerton also, back in my college days. 12 hour shift on weekends 6am to 6pm in a factory with no one around. Did a lot of reading, also aimlessly wander the shop floor looking at the machinery.

Posted: 6/3/2013 4:14:11 PM EDT

[#34]

Test shooter for a major firearms manufacturer. Test firing guns for accuracy and function 8 hours a day. Sounds great doesnt it? Was cool for two weeks and after that it was terrible. Boring as shit and after dealing with worthless idiot co-workers (save a few that were good guys) and management that didnt give a fuck about what they were moving out the door I left.

Posted: 6/3/2013 4:35:41 PM EDT

[#35]

Parts dept. at a car dealership. 8 hours of sitting on a stool.

Posted: 6/3/2013 4:41:00 PM EDT

[#36]

Security guard in a booth by myself for 10 hours at night checking in and out big rig trucks.

Posted: 6/3/2013 4:41:59 PM EDT

[#37]

Quoted:

automated drilling once a week

watch a machine drill holes for 10 hours and hope it doesn't fuck up.

Machining pays well though I bet?

Posted: 6/3/2013 4:44:31 PM EDT

[#38]

Electronic discovery for litigation. It is beyond boring reading through things, unless you get something juicy. There are quotas to meet that are unrealistic, particularly when the directing attorneys have idea exactly what to look for. It is a totally moving target, what was valid 10 minutes ago no longer is now, but two hours later it will be valid only to change again.

I was going through medical files on the computer and you are in a large room full of people. Suddenly, on my screen as I click to the next document is a huge picture close-up of a vagina. That was funny.

Posted: 6/3/2013 4:47:08 PM EDT

[#39]

Was a bagger at Safeway in high school. Worked there with a bunch of friends, union job, I probably only did about 15 minutes of real work in any given week.

We fucked around all the time. Eventually got fired along with two other buddies. We were having a running battle, grabbing crap off the shelves and throwing it at each other, one of us hit a customer in the head with a bag of candy.

Posted: 6/3/2013 4:47:20 PM EDT

[#40]

Holding a umbrella over the governors head...." Big SIS ".....

..she never did
take a liking to me....

Posted: 6/3/2013 4:51:15 PM EDT

[#41]

Fire Watch is boring....
until there is a Fire

Posted: 6/3/2013 5:08:20 PM EDT

[#42]

That would have to be when I did light microscopy readings of radiation badges. We were doing a retrospective study of radiation badges from a nuclear facility. We were looking for neutrino strikes

and grading an individuals radiation exposure over a given time frame. It took me about 3 hours to demonstrate proficiency on grading. It would take a normal new hire 2-3 weeks to figure our

how to do this. After the 3rd day, I gave up and looked in the want adds and found the job that would lead me into my current professin.

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