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Badly explain your job

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Greenandcabbagelooking · 09/04/2020 17:14

Because I think we all need a laugh at the moment! Inspired by a Twitter hashtag, explain your job (or an old one) and guess what other posters’ jobs were.

I use dangerous chemicals and fire around children.

OP posts:
Wauden · 09/04/2020 23:42

@AthelstaneTheUnready
I tell large businesses they're being greedy bastards and to hand some of it back right now.
Tax collector?
Charity worker?

Wauden · 09/04/2020 23:46

@Penguin40
I hoard old papers, arrange them into an order and occasionally let other people look at them.
Archivist?

Wauden · 09/04/2020 23:50

@villainousbroodmare
I spend my days organizing the optimal timing of (ideally) a single annual shag for my darlings. It's important that my sleeves are closely fitted yet can be rolled to my shoulder.
Farmer?
Breeder?

MajesticWhine · 09/04/2020 23:52

@InkogKneeToe - do you work in suicide prevention / mental health crisis team?Confused

villainousbroodmare · 09/04/2020 23:53

Stud vet. Grin

Penguin40 · 09/04/2020 23:53

Yep, that’s me @Wauden Smile

Wauden · 09/04/2020 23:53

@HollowTalk
I try to frighten people, in particular women.
Doctor?

fodderbeet · 09/04/2020 23:53

@villainousbroodmare I'm assuming that your name is ever so slightly a bit of a giveaway and that you do indeed work with villainous broodmares and/or their other halves. And I hope some are less villainous.

@InkogKneeToe not even a tiny bit close

fodderbeet · 09/04/2020 23:54

bit of a cross post there

Runbikeswim · 09/04/2020 23:55

We get given problems that people want us to solve. There is never enough backing, motivation, time, money or people to get behind what really needs to be done. We try and solve the complicated problem with basic instruments. Everyone then piles in and criticises whatever we are doing particularly those whose sole purpose it to carp from the sidelines 😀

When we do actually achieve good things it is usually despite not because of the systems we try and work with

fodderbeet · 09/04/2020 23:56

@LittleAndOften recruitment and/or CV advice?

HollowTalk · 09/04/2020 23:56

@Wauden no, thriller writer!

LunchBoxPolice · 09/04/2020 23:58

I wait for people to leave their homes. Then I go in and touch all of their stuff and take some money.

InkogKneeToe · 09/04/2020 23:59

@MajesticWhine yep, suicide intervention/negotiation

Wauden · 10/04/2020 00:01

@HollowTalk GrinGrinGrin

Weenurse · 10/04/2020 00:02

I tell people “ no sex, no exercise, no lifting, no straining, no sex toys, no suppositories, no tampons, no enemas. Nothing up there front or back for the next six weeks.”

fodderbeet · 10/04/2020 00:08

@LunchBoxPolice I would love for you to be a nasty burglar, but I suspect that you're a lovely cleaner?

Wauden · 10/04/2020 00:09

@LunchBoxPolice
I wait for people to leave their homes. Then I go in and touch all of their stuff and take some money.
Forensics? Finger print supremo?

Weenurse · 10/04/2020 00:12

@LunchBoxPolice cleaner?

aliasname · 10/04/2020 00:15

I tell doctors and nurses to be quiet.

I also tell them how to find things, usually by pointing to a large sign which says 'How to find things'.

itsamadmadworld · 10/04/2020 00:20

According to lots of people I get to sit and play all day instead of doing actual work

Weenurse · 10/04/2020 00:20

@aliasname medical librarian or receptionist?

LunchBoxPolice · 10/04/2020 00:20

Yes I am a cleaner Grin

Redglitter · 10/04/2020 00:27

I tell Police Officers where to go

InTheShadowOfTheMushroomCloud · 10/04/2020 00:29

I watch mainly middle aged sweaty men snog rubber dolls