# What's an unusually difficult or rare task at your job?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-an-unusually-difficult-or-rare-task-at-your-job/847243>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 30, 2020, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-an-unusually-difficult-or-rare-task-at-your-job/847243 "2020-01-30T20:14:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2020, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-an-unusually-difficult-or-rare-task-at-your-job/847243/21 "2020-12-02T05:35:03Z")

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Hostage negotiations.

We had people who were trained in these negotiations. If I was lucky, one of them would be readily available when a situation occurred (and these situations are rare).

The downside was that if one of the trained negotiators wasn’t available, I was usually the next person in line to do the negotiations. So I was the person who was most likely to be confronting a situation like this with no specific training.

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**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2020, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-an-unusually-difficult-or-rare-task-at-your-job/847243/22 "2020-12-02T05:38:26Z")

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I think **Little Nemo** , **Iggy** and **MandaJo** win the thread so far.

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**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2020, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-an-unusually-difficult-or-rare-task-at-your-job/847243/23 "2020-12-02T05:53:17Z")

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I occasionally need to talk someone out of stabbing me, but not frequently.

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