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Hey guys,
Frederic Desnard is suing his former employers for £300,000 for being "killed professionally through boredom"! He claims that the monotony and unchanging routine of the job left him feeling depressed. There may be some validity to his claims as work place boredom can be a cause of stress which is known to be bad for your health but I'm not sure if being bored entitles you to that sort of cash.
Luckily for me working in online communities there is never a dull moment 
But I've had my share of boring jobs over the years. The worst one was "microfilm photographer" which sounds cool on paper but all in involved was spending 8 hours a day moving documents onto a plate and pushing a button to take an image.
Whats the most boring job you've ever had and why was is so mind numbing?
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Once I got into nurse training I was never bored. Before that as a cadet for 3 years it was tedious in the extreme. I had visions of being able to give hands on care to patients.....I never saw an actual patient for 3 years!! We had to attend school 5 half days a week....not nursing subjects but normal school topics. The other 5 half days were spent 'learning about hospital work'. My first rotation was to the post room. This was in the basement of the hospital and I spent my time sorting mail for every ward and dept. The highlight of the afternoon was delivering this mail to the relevant depts. I never went into the actual dept just plonked the post in their mail boxes outside. So, for someone who went into this profession having visions of being the next Florence Nightingale......it was a real eye opener....
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@jonsie wrote:
After I deemed myself too old to be crawling under cars I worked for 12 months at Warburtons bakery taking bread off a conveyer belt. 18 loaves to a tray and 18 trays to a trolley which was then taken to be loaded onto vans. Boredom only broken when there was a jam, wax paper to be changed or a blade broken in the slicing machine. Do that on 12 hour nights and you know what boredom is!
Sometimes I was lucky and actually got to load the vans and see the drivers at 5 am. But....being a qualified motor mechanic, I was often taken off the machines to service supervisors cars or start the odd van in the morning. 12 months was all I could stand!
They really don't do jobs like this any more do they @jonsie!? 12 hour nights!
I once worked in telesales for a spell and couldn't exude passion about the product I was selling. They then asked me politely to leave , which I was very ok with 
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Actually 12 hour nightshifts are very much the norm in nursing homes and some hospitals @Toby
Also my lad was offered a warehouse job recently starting 8pm to 8am. He declined and accepted another job instead...
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@Toby wrote:
@Cleoriff wrote:
Actually 12 hour nightshifts are very much the norm in nursing homes and some hospitals @Toby
Also my lad was offered a warehouse job recently starting 8pm to 8am. He declined and accepted another job instead...
My family has some experience in that regard @Cleoriff; My mu was a paramedic for 10 years. I dont think she enjoyed the shift patterns! 4 on, 4 off I believe, but then you'd have to shift from night to day. Similar for you?
Not exactly @Toby. During training and qualifying as staff nurse we worked any 5 days (earlies or lates). Then we worked a night shift rotation for 3 months every year for 3 years. Once qualified you did have a choice of days or nights. Though the day shifts were early or late within a weeks rota. If you chose nights you only did 4 nights BUT they could be any 4 in a week and that was a nightmare.
Once I moved to ward sister I worked days (again early or late) Once I went into management it became boring as I worked normal 8-5pm with the weekends off. I didn't like that. I had got used to a shift system and loved having days off in the week...when the rest of the world was busy at work
God... just read the above and it sounds like a dissertation. Apologies for that....
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@Toby wrote:
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God... just read the above and it sounds like a dissertation. Apologies for that....
You should write a blog on your experiences @Cleoriff
@Toby The things that happened during my nursing career would equate to the length of War and Peace...or longer.
Add to that some... of the funnier stories would shock people and you would have to remove them. ...
I will mention one. Working in A/E we had a guy admitted who was in a car accident and went through the windscreen. Cut and bleeding and semi conscious. We spent 30 minutes removing glass from his poor battered body and chucking it in the sharps box. His wife arrived and asked if we had found his briefcase.
We had ...it was open. Apparently he was a diamond merchant. Just guess what we had been throwing in the bin? ....*Coughs*....
