Reading: The worst job in the world? Read about three people’s experiences of bad jobs. A: I worked for a firm of architects, which was (unofficially) run by the wife of one of the directors. She was also an expert at creating useless jobs for administration staff to do, such as removing and re-gluing stamps which hadn’t been stuck on straight enough. This wasn’t as bad as the ‘email confirmation form’, though. This was her strangest invention, whereby all emails had to be copied into a Word document, printed, and signed at the bottom by someone. When I suggested this might be a waste of time, she shouted at me. I left a month later. B: The most boring job ever is working in a call center dealing with people for driving lessons. Most of the time it was booking people in with the same three-minute conversation over and over again. Booking a re-test was even worse, because then the people at the other end of the line had just failed their test and wanted to explain why. I lasted three weeks, including a week’s training. C: I’ve had some terrible jobs but in the 1960s, my mother worked in a sugar factory. The packs of sugar used to travel along the conveyor belt and at one point, where the sugar was in the bags but still open, they had to travel around a corner. For some strange reason every sixth bag would often fall over. My mother’s job was to stand at the corner, eight hours a day, with a pole to help the sixth bag round. She lasted three weeks and got a job in a café instead. Later she heard they replaced her with a piece of plastic on the corner. Look at the statements below about the three jobs. Which job does each statement refer to (A, B or C)? There is more than one answer in some questions. 1. These two jobs were the same every day. _______ _______ 2. The job description for this job didn’t include this! ______ 3. This job probably wasn’t in a paperless office. _______ 4. This job became unnecessary. _______