Thread: What strange things did you have to do in your line of work?

TIL my job is relatively boring...

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

I once flew to Sydney for morning tea. Quite nice too, jam scones and all. An hour later I got back on the plane to return. Fortunately I wasn't paying. Its a tough life sometimes.

Your tax dollars at work: a Herc trip Richmond -to Darwin. We were not expecting a 'wheels down' at Tindal RAAF. Bonus 20mins there in movements terminal. Did we stop in because of adverse weather or airframe or crew issues? No. It was one passenger, the one and only civvy (female) passenger. Tindal staff perhaps. One. We trooped back on and flight continued to Darwin.

I was ordered to remove all the dead mice that had eaten baits and crawled into hard to reach places.

I was a bank teller at the time.

Originally Posted by Disco Muppet

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Great cum back

I used to work with a big construction and development company in the late 80's and did a 1 day trip to NZ and back in a 7 seater Lear jet. I sat directly behind the pilots and watched all take offs and landings. Went Sydney - Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin and back to Sydney all in one day. Also sat in the cockpit of a 747 for a landing (bit of a anti climax compared to the Lear jet) at Sydney back around the same time - can't do that anymore.

Australian Bi Centenary had me moved from current Navy to 1800s naval uniform in the Rocks in Sydney. Tourist thought I was an actor and often tried to give me money for photos many of which they asked me to hold my sword to the throats of wives and girlfriends. Free food in the Hotels and slept in a old wool store or customs house for a month or two, Tough Job I was acting NCO of 10 others or my mates, sadly they had muskets and did not get to hold as many pretty girls as I did and I got to shout orders at them.

So nothing on some of the jobs here, but my high school job was at Seaworld, dressing up as Sam Dolphin, PJ Penguin, Timothy Turtle and Penny Pelican.

Girls loved photos with these characters, and most assumed that I had no feeling in the gloves.

The boyfriends didn't always assume I had no feeling in the gloves, and one miserly bastard took exception to a particular photo pose and laid out poor old PJ in front of a bunch of kids with a single punch to the back of his head

I had to fix a portable toilet used by Sean Penn one the stars of 'The Thin Red Line' when it was shot in the back blocks near Daintree. The Stars had their own personnel toilets with a guard on each. The guard on Sean Penns toilet commented that' There is no way they can say their ****e don't stink". I had to agree, they must have been eating rich food. I was hammering away when a siren sounded, I didn't know that was the signal for all noise to cease until I copped an ear full from some crew member.

Big names in the bush in Daintree and Bramston Beach at the time - Nick Nolte, Sean Penn, George Clooney, John Travolta, Woody Harrelson.

Rick

No ****!!!!