Strange things you've been paid to doI once spent two years being paid by the UK government to play Quake.
What's the strangest thing you've been paid to do?
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chthonic, Thu 30 Sep 2004, 10:13)
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Septic systemsToilets and drains were backing up at this gentleman farmer's property. His "handyman" came to the Manpower Casual office looking for a labourer. I won!
Was then privileged to dig up one of the run-offs of the septic system looking for a blockage. Up to my knees in excrement and urine. Found the blockage, though - a nest of plastic tampon inserters. Got to tell "madam" that you can't flush stuff like this when you're dependent on a septic system.
At least the job ended. They had a monkey that would do anything to achieve eye contact with me and try to communicate something verbally. It might have been, "You've gotta get me out of here - the bananas are making me constipated," or "Do you believe as Wittgenstein does that 'Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts'?"
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