Turbo2

Which jobs get your goat as being completely pointless? You know the made-up ones that don't seem to make any difference to everyday life, except to the bank accounts of those employed to do them. I guess some of you will say traffic wardens, but I think they do help to reduce anti-social parking in congested towns and cities. Others may say civil servants, and I am sure that plenty of them would be eligible, but some of them do serve a purpose, so you would need to be specific.

Here's my list:

HIPS / Energy efficiency inspectors for house sales. What's that all about? Are you really going to turn down buying a house, because the vendor may have the wrong kind of light-bulbs fitted? Surely there are more important factors to consider and if you're that bothered you can look for the loft insulation yourself, before handing over your 6-figure payment?

Community Service Officers: undertrained, underpaid, disrespected toy-town police officers.

Highways Agency Motorway patrols: money for old rope

Health & Safety officers: as above

ISO-style corporate certification compliance inspectors: companies just pay lip-service to the inspectors on their tri-annual visits, pay the fee and then just go back to doing what they always did.

MEPs: 'nuff said!

Gossip columnists: who cares if it's not true, you've got to try and justify your job somehow!

"Celebrity" chefs: there's a new one every week.

Personal injury claims lawyers & their staff: get a life!

Curiously all of the above are relatively recent inventions, without whom we managed very well in the past, thank you!

FlightMan

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kingofturds

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Our local council is looking for a gypsy and traveller liason officer.

darts_aint_sport

Nutritionist
Homeopathist
Astrologist
Woman who pushes the big red button on the Lottery.

Scoobychick

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You're banned

The most pointless job I've ever seen is the one done by the bloke employed by my local council whose sole purpose in life is to open and close the gate across the pedestrianised high street of my local town every time a bus comes along, which are the only vehicles allowed through and don't come along very often. They've even built him a little shelter next to the gate to sit in when it rains.

I hate to even begin to think about how much it costs to have him do that all day, every day. A hell of a lot more than two 'No vehicles except buses' signs, that's for sure

Leslie

So many jobs have been created which have impressive sounding names but practically are of no significant value to the community. The people doing them seem to be very well paid and doubtless will vote in such a way to try to keep the jobs.

Les

Coffin Dodger

My job, well at least it seems that way at the moment

Damn shame the pay is so good

madscoob

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in remember seeing a absolute classis advertised it the paper a council wanted a STREET FOOTBALL SAFETY LIASON OFFICER ,,, WTF IS THAT ALL ABOUT £38000 A YEAR AS WELL LMFA

J4CKO

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"Human Resources", used to be the Staff Dept, then the Personnel Dept, responsible for hiring, firing and sending letters, now there are whole swatches of the company devoted to HR, seemingly they have to find stuff to do to justify their existence and you get all manner of crap circulating, taking up time and annoying everybodys when they should just sit in their office and stop reminding everyone they are there.


plus,


Aromatherapy

Car "Detailer"

Life Coach

J4CKO

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"Human Resources", used to be the Staff Dept, then the Personnel Dept, responsible for hiring, firing and sending letters, now there are whole swatches of the company devoted to HR, seemingly they have to find stuff to do to justify their existence and you get all manner of crap circulating, taking up time and annoying everybodys when they should just sit in their office and stop reminding everyone they are there.


plus,


Aromatherapy

Car "Detailer"

Life Coach

Turbo2

Just thought of a couple more for the ladies:

Nail technician, I think they call themselves

Any other "beautician" type of job, especially to do with cosmetic surgery

Personal shopper: dear oh dear!

Tidgy

mathmatician.

they can crunch mega sums, but what is the actual point, like does it realy matter it alow us to work out pie to the 999 trillion digit?

dunx

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Immigration officer - we are drowning in immigrants,,,
Customs officer - we are drowning in drugs....
Teacher - we are drowning in scum...
Social worker - well say no more.
HR - anyone involved.
Politicians - halve their numbers, and make them work for the gravy.

LOL

dunx

M4RKG

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"Chicken Catcher"... genuine job I applied for when travelling in Oz

... I didnt even get an interview!

Moley

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Moley

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There is also an occupation called 'chicken sexer'

Tidgy

you sound very knowledgable about that gary

Camoscooby

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I work for the government..............enough said

fivetide

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Anyone with a degree in science that chooses to spend their career developing the latest de-wrinkling face smoothing wonder cream guaranteed to turn Dot Cotton into a lively young cherub (i.e. exactly the same thing they said the last one did) rather than doing something helpful like researching a cure for cancer etc etc.

5t.

oldsplice

Don't knock it...........I could do with a vat of it!

Alg

Fluffer

I reckon if someone needs the services of a fluffer in that situation then they're probably in the wrong job.
I guess using the services of a fluffer might have been invented by a man as something nice for the chaps "hanging" around to enjoy whilst waiting for their turn. (Receiving it, not giving it. It's not that kind of film)

Camoscooby

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I worked for 2 months as a 'stick picker' in Oz. The most amusing thing about it was that I earnt more doing it than in my job in England at the time. Ooooooh the memories

Bram

Tan Sprayer in a Tanning Salon it costs me a fortune

rifleman

agree with all them except pcso's.just burried my friend who served with 6 rifles and was killed in afghan on valentines day(was serving with 3 rifles) and he did a great job and had more respect than a lot of the proper coppers around his way.

Ray_li

HR

[-(o)-]

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Has no one elses HR department rebranded itself as 'People'. Mine must have more spare time on their hands than most...


Was going to add Estate Agents - but have realised their job is to wind you up. Therefore not pointless.

dunx

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Have you ever done any secure transactions over t'internet ?

Prime number theory...

Now leave us engineers to get on with making something !

dunx

StickyMicky

Councils usually advertise for some crazy things tbh

Ray_li

Dont even bother trying in an interview if HR's sitting in.

I had an interview at a company with the HR Manager and HR Director.

My opening line at the interview was "Oh. Two HR's at one company. Not seen that before LOL"

They didnt like me and I didnt get the job haha

M444GY

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when i went to the northern end of the country i was driving through a field on a single track backward sort of road on a shortcut i came across a level crossing with a padlocked gate and a guy sitting in a little cabin , you could see up and down the track for miles each way . he told us to wait while he came out unlocked the gate and waved us through the re locked the gate and went back into his hut ?bearing in mind this was not a main line track as looked like a industrial line that was not used very often due to the overgrowth of bushes ect . we were about 3 miles each way from a main road so id emagine he just sits there all day doing **** all , that is a pointless job
imo

why the gate and why the man , all you do is stop look left look right and the road we were on didnt look like it was used very often as we were the only car for miles of driving .