ME Posted December 12, 2008 Report Share Posted December 12, 2008 (edited) The thread about the Posties reminded me of the dossiest job I ever did. When Mung was a student and I was an office junior we subsidised our beer drinking by doing road surveys. (Mung got us the gig) The craic was that you sat in the car on a busy junction and made notes of the numbers of vehicles per hour noting the different types of vehicle. Mung and I would get 20 ciggies each, loads of fizzy drinks, chocolate and crisps and sit there listening to the radio. In order to fill the sheet in you would do it for 15 minutes in the middle of each hour then pro-rata the results across the rest of the hour. Next time you are stuck in traffic think how good the UK roads could be if it wasnt for Mungler and LV doing the surveys in our teenage years :( :blink: Edited December 12, 2008 by LV Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mungler Posted December 12, 2008 Report Share Posted December 12, 2008 We were paid £60 a day and that was supposed to be for anything upto a 16 hour shift with breaks. However, we would just team up with the others on the shift and carve the day into 4 hour slots, so each team would do no more than 4 hours. We would get £60 each for working 4 hours and when I say working I mean sleeping in the car, eating, smoking, drinking etc. That was 14 years ago and £60 clean and clear was top wonga as a student Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikee Posted December 12, 2008 Report Share Posted December 12, 2008 its alright for some but spare a thought for us who dont get such a good deal!!!! flexi time, 7.5 hrs a day, 28 days annual hols + bank hols + 13 flexi hols days,final year salary based pension, 45p/mile driving round my permissions from site to site for 35k/year and home for paperwork once all the sites are visited 2.30pm some days mikee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MM Posted December 12, 2008 Report Share Posted December 12, 2008 i used to rub down the ladys you see swimming the English Channel with grease, twas the greatest job ever :( i bloody wish! I think the job im in now is the least taxing, thats why i love it. The hardest job i ever had, was working on the docks, unloading the holds of BIG ships. Was mostly cocoa beans, and they weighed a few pounds, ill tell you. There must have been half a million sacks in each hold, and you worked 24hr shifts. :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mungler Posted December 12, 2008 Report Share Posted December 12, 2008 its alright for some but spare a thought for us who dont get such a good deal!!!! flexi time, 7.5 hrs a day, 28 days annual hols + bank hols + 13 flexi hols days,final year salary based pension, 45p/mile driving round my permissions from site to site for 35k/year and home for paperwork once all the sites are visited 2.30pm some days mikee Mikee, This thread is not about sparing a thought for people who do some graft. This thread is about the easiest job you have ever done (the presumption being past tense). Surely you had a cushy number at some point in your life - working in a petrol station and nicking the car wash tokens and sweets for example :( Not that I did that after 6th form or anything like that at the BP service station in Billericay. No Sir, that was not me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikee Posted December 12, 2008 Report Share Posted December 12, 2008 mungler, did you read my post, it dont get cushier than that mikee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ME Posted December 12, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 12, 2008 Mikee, This thread is not about sparing a thought for people who do some graft. This thread is about the easiest job you have ever done (the presumption being past tense). Surely you had a cushy number at some point in your life - working in a petrol station and nicking the car wash tokens and sweets for example Not that I did that after 6th form or anything like that at the BP service station in Billericay. No Sir, that was not me. Mung, I think that he was being ironic and that his job now is his dossiest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seisobs Posted December 12, 2008 Report Share Posted December 12, 2008 I'm on it! 6 weeks on, 6 weeks off. It's nice to come home in Jan with a tan, don't need to put my cam head net on he he. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mungler Posted December 12, 2008 Report Share Posted December 12, 2008 That sounded like work to me ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harv Posted December 12, 2008 Report Share Posted December 12, 2008 its alright for some but spare a thought for us who dont get such a good deal!!!! flexi time, 7.5 hrs a day, 28 days annual hols + bank hols + 13 flexi hols days,final year salary based pension, 45p/mile driving round my permissions from site to site for 35k/year and home for paperwork once all the sites are visited 2.30pm some days mikee I bet you've omly got a little todger though :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikee Posted December 12, 2008 Report Share Posted December 12, 2008 harv, small but perfectly formed, satisfaction guaranteed! for me anyway mikee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myzeneye Posted December 12, 2008 Report Share Posted December 12, 2008 i used to make canoes and kayaks for pyrahna... was down the end of our road,on the bridgewater canal.... a stroll into work each day.... my work bench was next to a huge floor to celing height window looking out over the canals and feilds.... and most of all, i enjoyed the job..... shame it was run by a bunch of bible bashing oddballs they claimed it was seasonal work and laid you off for a week or so every year so's your employment rights never amounted to didley squat... i showed them by leaving and starting my plumbing apprenticship (many moons ago ) ...no mater how much work i have these days, i'll always look back and smile about riding to work on my bmx in my pyjama pants and flip flops to start a days work...... them were the days... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ME Posted December 12, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 12, 2008 I had a job in a Pub once - think "kid in a sweet shop". I didn't drink all day Saturday, play pool, eat the bar snacks and dip into the pub machines - NOT ME ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magman Posted December 12, 2008 Report Share Posted December 12, 2008 riding to work on my bmx in my pyjama pants and flip flops to start a days work...... Thanks for that i now feel sick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadkill Posted December 12, 2008 Report Share Posted December 12, 2008 part time beating on a local shoot , **** money but great food and beer at dinner time and even a brace at the end of the day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikee Posted December 12, 2008 Report Share Posted December 12, 2008 the landlord of our local pub a few years ago wanted to take his missus out one saturday night and needed a stand in barman, i volunteered and asked how much? he replied "i cant afford to pay you, just drink what you want" i cant really remember much after that mikee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myzeneye Posted December 12, 2008 Report Share Posted December 12, 2008 Thanks for that i now feel sick what you saying wob, a fine figure of a man like me.... you should see me washing me levi's down our laundrette.... and before you pipe up, there nowt wrong with y fronts even if they are purple and yellow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozzy Fudd Posted December 12, 2008 Report Share Posted December 12, 2008 im gonna have to go for stand in barman as well - free drink, free food, and for some reason women seem to fancy you alot more when youre behind the bar... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurcherboy Posted December 12, 2008 Report Share Posted December 12, 2008 I had a nice little number for two years. I would pick up a package at 7-00pm from Margate and delivered it to Cradley Heath in the West Midlands twice a week. This rolled me up enough dosh to pay all the bills and spend the rest of my time in the pursuit of large carp Then the rottie started playing up :( Apparently that is no sound basis for a marriage. **** knows how she came to that conclusion as I had never had her done as having a brain :blink: LB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunnybasher100 Posted December 12, 2008 Report Share Posted December 12, 2008 £300 for 8hours work well sleeping or watching tv in the van. It was a railway night shift all i had to do was to fix anythink that broke down nothing did coz i had preped all the machines before hand. done loads of these about 2 years ago 8 hours work garanteed 12@dubble time. easy life being a fitter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vole Posted December 12, 2008 Report Share Posted December 12, 2008 I was behind a bar too,age 17 to 19. On my 1st night the Landlady said I could have a drink whenever I wanted. For 2 years there was a pint glass under the Bass Special pump. Worked with some gorgeous women.Used to get a hotel room if finishing late and anything I wanted off the menu. Those were the days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artful badger Posted December 12, 2008 Report Share Posted December 12, 2008 i used to work in w eighbridge in a stone yard, 10 hours of playing whatever music i liked, i got really good at solitaire and minesweeper, tea whenever i wanted. most days i would be tinkering with my bike. wasnt on a bad wage for doing not alot and getting paid scrap monie, backhanders from ****** etc. not as good as some jobs but definately the easiest ive had Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulf Posted December 12, 2008 Report Share Posted December 12, 2008 Agency security at a royal mail depot, Nice warm hut with coffemachine, a few busy hours taking down truck reg nos and trailer numbers and sticking them in the computer then a kip for 6 hours. Was supposed to monitor CCTV as well but just ignored it as camera coverage and quality was awful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnGalway Posted December 12, 2008 Report Share Posted December 12, 2008 (edited) Polling clerk at election time, very well paid, and you couldn't do it wrong if you tried. Boring as hell though! Longest stint was a 17 hour day. Everyone that came in had the same questions, ye've a long day don't ye? Isn't it a lovely/awful day out? (how TF do we know stuck indoors? :( ) what's the turn out like.... again and again andddd again.... Edited December 12, 2008 by JohnGalway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markio Posted December 13, 2008 Report Share Posted December 13, 2008 Paperboy, 40 houses a day, 20 mins, £7 a week. It doesn't get any better than that. And on Monday the papers were lighter. In those days £7 got you 5000 penny sweets, a copy of Viz and the local bike would let you stick your finger up her bum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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