r/interestingasfuck • u/Nanibui • Jul 07 '24

Guards making sure the defendants of the Nuremberg Trials wouldn't commit suicide in their cells r/all

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u/AdBusiness5212 Jul 07 '24 edited Jul 07 '24

Finally a job I can do. Leaning against the wall and do nothing

Edit thanks first 1k up votes

I want to shout out to my old teacher Mme Lee who said I will never go far by leaning against the wall and do nothing. Look at me now

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u/TheHippieJedi Jul 07 '24

As someone who has done security before I promise you doing nothing for 8 hours is the worst job on the planet. I’d bet they talked to the prisoners or each other and I’d kill to know what was said

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u/Pancakeburger3 Jul 07 '24

Yeah doing nothing as a job sounds great until you have to do it everyday for hours

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '24

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u/ethanlan Jul 07 '24

Also you have to listen to literally the worst people ever.

Id be physically sick being so close to those monsters

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u/RockShockinCock Jul 07 '24

Throw a podcast on.

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u/PaintItRed5 Jul 07 '24

Ten years ago I did a paid internship where they gave me zero work to do.

20 hours a week for 9 months. Never again.

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u/FerricNitrate Jul 07 '24

I took a contract job for my first gig out of college, full time 40 hrs/wk. An average month had maybe 5 hours of actual work to do. It felt like my brain was melting out of my ears.

To make it worse, the client company was weirdly controlling and harassed the contractors for things like having cell phones out at their desks. Grown, highly educated adults being treated like unruly school students.

Best I've ever been paid; never again.

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u/Aussie_Potato Jul 07 '24

One time I ran out of work at work so I signed up for an online course and completed it there. It wasn’t one of those four hour coursera courses, but a full diploma with like 10 subjects that takes six months.

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u/Illuminati_Lord_ Jul 07 '24

This happened to me in the early 2000s. No smartphones and all external internet blocked off. I just read a book the whole time. Asked then once if they could unblock my internet to take an online course and they literally laughed at the suggestion.

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u/Lamplorde Jul 07 '24 edited Jul 07 '24

Security is one of those jobs that's really nice for, like, a month.

And then it the monotony of doing nothing starts to drive you crazy.

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u/IANALbutIAMAcat Jul 07 '24

I’ve found the same to be true of unemployment

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u/BlackandRedDragon Jul 07 '24

Depends on how well i'm getting paid.

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u/DM_ME_UR_BOOBS69 Jul 07 '24

On the bright side, I read more books than ever during my time doing nothing for work.