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Old 11-05-2009, 05:47 PM
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Working in a purchasing dept. I get some very wacky jobs!!! One of my funniest was doing a toilet roll test. I had to fill a cup with water and see which toilet roll piece dissolved the quickest, due to getting blocked toilets.

Another funny time - when we have a machine broken down at work, we pay whatever to get the spare part needed to our factory. We needed a socket cap screw, just the 1, but it was a special size, I found one in Wales which is about 250miles from Norwich, so I got it taxi'd to us, the screw was 0.10p, the taxi was £280.
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Old 11-06-2009, 08:19 AM
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About the craziest job I've ever had (aside from being a stay-at-home-dad) was a cook in the canadian navy reserves. I once bartended, waitered and bounced at a country bar in northern Alberta (YEEHAW!)

I was young and needed the money
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Old 11-06-2009, 08:39 AM
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I'm on my 18th job now in the last 7 years :O Been in this one well over a year.

Don't think i've had any wacky ones like some of these though! They sound like great fun!
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Old 11-06-2009, 09:08 AM
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Just a plain old conservative accountant by day, but used to be an EMT by night. Besides all the tragic stuff, we had plenty of the weird stuff as well.

Helping a deputy hold down a tiny drunk woman who had bit him and was trying to do it again - very very drunk.

Responding to a call of a woman in labor. They had 4 other kids, but no one to watch them so the Dad could go to the hospital. I knew the family a little bit, so I stayed and watched the kids at 3:00 am. Didn't think I was going to be rocking an 18 month old to sleep that night.

Driving the ambulance and having a guy step out on the street about a block ahead and go into a stance like he was pointing a gun at us. I didn't know if he had one or not and I had no place to go, so I hit the accelerator and he jumped out of the way. Found out later he had all sorts of mental issues.

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Old 11-07-2009, 05:29 AM
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I sold cemetary property.
i thought that kinda sold itself
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Old 11-07-2009, 05:59 AM
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Gruesome job. Yes? Well, you do have to purchase plots for the "future". One day I made a call. I didn't know the woman had just lost her husband. She burst out in tears asking me how could I be so cruel. That was the day I quit. Many actors did this as a side job. I went on to waiting tables with other actors who had a weak stomach for the morbid....
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