Easiest Job EverDazbrilliantwhites says he spent five years working at an airport where he spent his days "racing down multi-storey car parks in wheelchairs and then using the lift to go back to the top". Tell us about your best and easiest jobs. Students: Make something up.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 12:14)
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The Sponge RoomWhen I was starting up my own business a few years back, I did a few temp jobs to help keep me a float. One of these involved doing some shifts at a factory which specialised in a myriad of delights made from milk and cream: yoghurts, deserts, cottage cheese etc..
As with most factory jobs the work was monotonous and soul-crushingly boring. But there was one particular department I dreaded, nay feared, the most. The Sponge Room.
When fruit trifles are made, it involves the bowls making their way down a production line where a circular sponge disc is manually inserted into the bowl before fruit and cream can be oozed seductively from the steel teets of the production line. Only, when the sponge discs come into the factory they do so stacked in cardboard boxes. Previous experience has taught that the sponge discs can't be seperated from each other and placed in bowls fast enough before the next row shunts forward.
Thus, in the factory boardroom the ingenious concept of The Sponge Room was conceived. This involved a number of people in a room, seperating stacks of sponge discs and re-stacking them in another cardboard box ready to be taken to the production line.
An entire room filled with a crack team of about a dozen sponge seperaters were devoted to this for 12 hours a day, every day. And for a full, depressing, tearful week I was one of them.
Yet they still were baffled as to why they were losing £6 million a year.
(, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 21:04, 3 replies)
I don't get it.What do you think they should have done?
(, Sun 12 Sep 2010, 13:45, closed)
You don't get this this is a boring and easy job, thus answering the Question?
I'm not necessarily saying the sponge shouldn't be seperated before going to the production line, they clearly should. All I'm saying is a room full of people were paid to do this for 12 hours a day. Every day. The cost of paying them surely ate away at the profit.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 22:16, closed)
That's pretty good pay......for a sponge separator. 6 mill for the 12 of you. I suppose you didn't make Senior Sponge separator in your short time there, but if the average pay is 500K, I would have stayed and separated them sponges!
(, Mon 13 Sep 2010, 15:23, closed)
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