In your history of being employed, what is the dumbest job you ever had?

I haven't had many jobs but the one I disliked was telemarketing selling insurance.

I didn't mind talking on the phone it was not being able to hang up the phone I had an issue with 😒

This was an extremely small part of the job, but bubble wrap sorter.

It sounds fun, but it's not... you take all the bubble wrap off the truck that's filled with bubble wrap...

Sorting them, all the ones marked with an "H" stayed and all the marked with a "P" had to go back on the truck to go to their next stop.

Extremely dumb and it took a lot longer and went a lot slower than you would expect as there was simply so much bubble wrap.

I had a short stint as working in a tool shop for a large landscaping company. I took of the blades of the mowers and sharpened them. Cleaned the tools, packed their field teams trucks ect.

The office manager was gay and kept flirting (but not hitting on ) most ot the guys there self included. The ops manager would buy a case of bud light (yuck) every friday afternoon to celebrate the weekend after work.

The crews argued with each other over tools all the time and did crazy stuff to some of the nice equipment because they were bored. for example one guy bunny hopped a riding lawn mower off the back of he trailer instead of riding it down the ramp.

There was a few teams of Mexicans who hated working with white people (were racists) and really open about it. The owners of the company were white.

I really was (still not) mechanically inclined and probably wasn't the best person for that job.

the company made a lot of money---but it was such a crazy place. I was there less than a year and it was a really really long time ago.

I was assigned to an abandoned motor pool for six months before anyone started asking about me

Surveying houses for insurance companies. Mostly, I was paid to take pictures of each side of different houses. Sometimes, I had to take measurements, and we were allowed to use Google Earth to redo the measurements or double check them. (So why even bother sometimes? Because I have integrity. It did seem pointless though.)
But it was a cheap way for them to assess the houses.

I worked at a place on the boardwalk for a day. They never paid me and I had to keep putting quarters in the meter for parking.

It’s a tie between being an employee at a bong shop and being an inventory counter. Never mind actually. The latter wins hands down.

Telephone sales selling tools, I lasted two weeks, hated that. Oh, I was also the Easter Bunny at the mall one year.

i worked at an amusement park and i wasn't amused taking money from people's shoes.

A poorly-run temp job involving deconstructing pallets of goods and then rebuilding them according to confused instructions.

Manager babysitter


You babysat the manager

Sam's Club cashier

Carrying the nuclear football

Worked at a pizza sauce factory for one night. Had to stand in the cooler and grab warm 20 pound bags of pizza sauce off the end of the production line and stack them on cooling racks. You started off cold, but once you got moving, you were sweating in no time with the pace those bags came at you.

During a handover period of a new sewage plant.. the contractor in charge wanted me to polish handrail's..

Yeah .. nah brah.. not happening

Not cleaning the WinCo restroom. Using water to mop. Letting the floors get dirty at night.

Fish packing, I stood there placing raw fish into boxes so it could be frozen.

I grew up on a farm...no dumb jobs, just hard ones.

Toll Collector

One of first jobs I had was playing the organ at a Baptist church when I was 16. I was only there from January of that year until August, when I went away to college. They liked my playing, but the agreement was that I was there as an [b]employee[/b], and would not be joining the church.

Once I was hired, that changed and some of the members began pressuring me. To make things worse, the (married) pastor was a bit "handsy" 🙄. I told my mother, and from that point forward, during rehearsals and services she was sitting there in the pew, arms folded. If the pastor forgot she was there and put a hand on my shoulder, she’d clear her throat, loudly.

It was an interesting experience on a number of levels. A couple of members would start speaking in tongues, and one Sunday one woman fell on the floor and rolled down by the organ. I stopped playing and tried to help her up, but it wasn’t what she’d wanted. Mom and I chuckled about it on the ride home.

When I was in college I worked at Tim Horton’s for 3 days. It was the worst job ever. The customer’s were so rude and the boss was awful so I quit lol.