What job could you NOT do?

[SoHotRightNow]

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Assembly line, or any repetitive factory work.

I've tried and quit within days.

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Strange side story. I worked for a fortune 300 company, and our Quality group wanted to institue a cross training program. There were people in our warehouse who's entire job was as follows:

1. Pick up piece a from converyor belt 1.
2. Pick up piece b from converour belt 2.
3. Connect piece a to piece b and put in a box.

8 hours a day. 5 days a week. The Quality group assumed that this must be the worst job ever, and we should start cross training these people so that they could move up into better jobs and develop careers in the company.

The cross training was pretty much universally rejected. No one wanted to be cross trained. I guess there really are people out there that want to walk in, shut off their brain, do menial work for 8 hrs, collect a paycheck, rince, repeat...

Ray

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I did this for a summer, although the process was slightly different:

Fold out cardboard box
Put plastic liner in box
Wait for product to fill plastic liner
Close box, stack on pallet
Repeat

However, I worked with some really cool people, and all we did was listen to the radio and talk [censored]. And the pay was pretty good for a summer job, with time and a half for overtime.

Pretty much, it was like any job- so long as the people you are working with are good, its tolerable. If they were dicks, it would have sucked, but then any job would suck if you hate the people you work with.

[cmoke]

[Howard Beale]

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I think that a Starbucks job must be terrible and that is the reason they are always having to hire people. I don't think I could ever do it which means it's the taxicab for me if things go bad.


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It's actually a super awesome job. You can get it with no experience. They pay very well for a no-experience job ($10-$15/hour) and you get good health insurance after 3 months or something. Yeah, you have to be friendly, and the hours are awful, the morning shift starts at 4 AM or something.

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This is what I was thinking. If things went 'bad' I could work in a great job that's easy to get until things turned around. But they have to be super friendly and hospitable and 'enthusiastic' ALL the time! It's not that I wouldn't want to do it it's that I don't think that I COULD do it, which is the point of my post.

[XXXNoahXXX]

I love watching the specials on the Food Network like "Unwrapped".

Mark Summers: And each individual taffy is wrapped by hand. That works out to over 5000 pieces per worker per day! Now THAT is a lot of TAFFY!!! [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]




If I ever had to work on an assembly line where my sole job was to wrap something or put a sticker on something I would probably wait til nobody was looking and jam my arm into the mechanism til it got ripped out, then live off the worker's comp and disability checks.

[suzzer99]

Oh yeah, that reminded me of this.

http://www.bruner.net/blog/archives/012805.shtml

I guess they can't go to the bathroom ever in the top pic. I'd like to be the skyscraper workers actually.

[njhockeyboy]

Run oats.

[private joker]

Bank security guard in Alaska -- 30 customers in the joint, and they're all wearing ski masks! Ka-zing!

[celiboy]

Accountant

Beat: I am one

[Amid Cent]

Medical coroner. No way I could examine and autopsy bodies.

[aramfingal]

any of them