Unusual Job Duties

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
1

As part of my job, I do something that I’ve never heard of anyone else doing.

I stand in a place and watch for people to approach. Most of the people, as they approach, I think of a name–but it’s not their name. I don’t always know what the person whose name I think of looks like, and I almost never know the name of the person approaching. Nevertheless, I type the name I think of, and that’s my job duty.

My job is after-school pickup of students. I recognize the parents but don’t know their names, and after they’ve picked the same kid up a few times, I know the name of the kid, but I don’t always know the kid. So I type that name on our pickup spreadsheet, and the kid comes out to their parent.

Is there any other job with this weird quirk–where you link faces to names, but not the name that normally goes with the face, and you don’t know the correct name for that face, or the correct face for that name?

I’m also interested in other weird quirks of jobs.

2

Wait. What?

You see kids come out. You write their name down if you know it. Into adults cars of people you know the faces but not necessarily their name.

Why is this a thing? Are you preventing a foul up? The wrong kid in the wrong car?

Or is it just an excercise to fill out a spreadsheet for filing somewhere.

I don’t understand.

My son often tells of a job he was tasked with in boot camp. He sat by a small table and screwed the tops on salt shakers as another guy filled them. A million later, He says he still has twinges in his carpal tunnel nerves.

3

I had a a weekly task where I was to meet with our suppliers to brainstorm cost reduction ideas, after a year of such meetings you run out of things to ask. But we kept on meeting as it allowed for us to take a nap or do other work without being disturbed.

4

Like Charlie Bucket’s dad screwing caps on toothpaste tubes! When I was a kid I thought that sounded like a keen job.