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10-11-2002, 01:44 AM
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A few years ago in New Zealand there was a competition to find the person with the worst job in the country. The person who won worked at a sewerage plant where he had to get in a motor boat and zoom around huge lakes of crap all day, to mix it up.

As for me, all my life I've had to fold letters into envelopes for both my parents (generally unpaid). But the worst job I've had was for my father. He's a lawyer and he had recently upgraded his computer system so he wanted me to transfer his client list from a word file to a new program he got. So first I had to compare 3 word files to make sure there were no repetitions (took about a week). Then I had to transfer each client one by one (a few thousand, took me another week). Then he decided that I should add clients in from another list he had. Every time I was close to finishing te job he changed the conditions; first I was not supposed to add in certain client, then he changed his mind, then he changed his mind again then he added a new list etc etc etc. I wasted two summers and I never actually finished it. When the last summer came round he asked me to come in but I refused.
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