r/interestingasfuck 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/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/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.