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aruarian_dancer

Question to My Flist

May 13, 2009 10:02

"What was the strangest / the weirdest / the most ridiculous job assignment you ever had?"

bftly asked me this question and I answered the following, but I'm curious what my friends would have to say.

Aru-san's answer:
I once had a guy ask me to draw him a "centerfold" of a giant bud of a certain illegal plant. He brought along a half dozen issues ( Read more... )

strange job

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keelieinblack May 13 2009, 17:05:31 UTC

That Easter job sounds like torture! Being in that stuffy bunny suit would torture, but making you skip around as well? I can't believe some people actually do that kind of thing for a living. (It is entirely possibly to run into/over children and not notice, too--speaking as someone who once got crashed into. XD )

I'm so boring--I don't think I've ever had a truly weird job! Unless you want to count the three days I spent as a survey girl for a major soft drink company, or the fact that my job now occasionaly requires me to leave the books for an hour or two and do catering work.

aruarian_dancer May 13 2009, 17:43:14 UTC

I was glad it was only for that "Grand Arrival" shift that they asked me to skip. And it was a 40-minute shift (job description: skip to get there, hug the kids, shake hands, and look cute), compared to 3 hours of "sit with the kids for the pictures" shift. XD

How was the survey job for the soft drink?

keelieinblack May 13 2009, 17:57:04 UTC

Ooh, yes, the second would have been much worse! I would have been snarling and terrifying the kids after the first hour or so.

The survey job wasn't bad--it was a comparison taste-test they did for a few days at big convention, so it was loud and busy, but the work itself was pretty easy. The most aggravating part were people who, er, wanted a little too much help in filling out the forms.

Them: "I can't decide which I liked better! Can you tell me which one I should pick?"
Me: "You want me to tell you which one you preferred?"
Them: "Yes, could you?"
Me: "Um..."

aruarian_dancer May 13 2009, 18:10:44 UTC

Were they maybe flirting with you? (Or were they just clueless? XDD)

That reminded me. I had a college sociology professor who was convinced that there was no dicernable difference between Diet Pepsi or Diet Coke. This was also a demonstration of how to go about your hypothesis and do a stasistical analysis, and whatnot... I was in the minority few who were convinced that we could tell, to beat the odds. I named names and I was correct. In fact, the class as a whole was able to distinguish the two by a slight margin.

Speaking of which, this was another weird job I had -- a hand-picked-by-the-professor tutor for Sociology340: methods of social research.

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liralen May 13 2009, 17:09:19 UTC

*laughs* My weirdest job was to dress up as a Hawaiian girl to wait tables at a Sea World Luau after working in an ice cream shack in brown polyester uniforms all summer. That was... odd.

aruarian_dancer May 13 2009, 17:40:35 UTC

Hehehe. At least they didn't ask you to dance in the outfit, or did they? I used to do that up until last year, as a part of the dance studio's "community outreach program" to go dance at nursnig homes and parks. I sure am glad I don't have to do that any more! They always asked me because I did the best hula hips (jazz dance teacher after all) and I look the part the most... out of all pasty white blondies. XD

liralen May 15 2009, 04:07:32 UTC

Yes, thank God, they didn't ask me to dance in it. Whew. That would have been too much for completely klutzy me. Hee.

You would!! Wow... XD

theamazingfetus May 13 2009, 19:35:13 UTC

I sold vegtable on the side of the high way for one summer. That wasn't strange what was strange though is that every day some kid my age would waltz on over there, and STRIP TEASE on the tent poles then leave like nothing had happened.

aruarian_dancer May 13 2009, 19:41:51 UTC

*sporfle* Tent pole dancing! Was this a girl or a guy???

theamazingfetus May 13 2009, 19:56:44 UTC

A guy.

aruarian_dancer May 13 2009, 19:58:43 UTC

I thought so, but I just had to ask. XD Was he at least halfway decent looking or a total loser?

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hidden_gems May 13 2009, 20:49:05 UTC

Hmm... An offer to translate a website all about sex toys XDDD

aruarian_dancer May 13 2009, 20:51:48 UTC

Hee! Did you do it?

hidden_gems May 13 2009, 21:04:38 UTC

No ^_^; It was a Russian client who paid even-less-than-peanuts that I no longer work with and fortunately for me something else lined itself up shortly after.

alukahnicapot May 14 2009, 02:03:26 UTC

The bunny suit one...gods, I don't think anyone can top that.

The most ridiculous job I have ever had was babysitting these two kids. They attempted to light me on fire.

aruarian_dancer May 14 2009, 02:07:25 UTC

Hehe. Now I know I have something to tell my grandkids. XD

Man, that's not funny... I hated babysitting and didn't do much of it, but goodness, that is insane!

alukahnicapot May 14 2009, 15:11:19 UTC

The little pukes waited until I went into the bathroom. They took a few shirts, put them under the door, and lit them on fire with one of those lighters with the trigger. I was lucky to get out before the shirts caught too badly.

I quit the next day, and their mother thought I was making things up.

aruarian_dancer May 14 2009, 17:14:47 UTC

Future criminals. Those stupid parents who think their kids can do no wrong...

I'm glad you were unharmed though.

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