Entertainment For Lively Minds
Think your job's a bit tedious?
Posted by Richard Lowe on 4 November 2010 - 11:18am.
Get this:
"This is an excerpt from a recording I found on an old wire spool (pre magnetic tape recording medium). On April 23rd, 1950, a New Jersey man by the name of Fred Weber was setting his wire recorder up to record a phone conversation, and to test the signal he called the local Time Bureau. On the surface this would appear to be a rather mundane recording, but it isn't until you hear the time lady sneeze at 1:43 that you realize - this is a LIVE person reading off the time in 15 second intervals!"
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erm does that mean it's live
it could be a sneeze on the original recording that they didn't notice or couldn't be bothered to edit out/redo ?
Tedious jobs
Give this a try:
Funnily enough my first job was working
for waddintons packing playing cards, although they had machine that did the bit in the video and we just put them in bigger boxes et.c That being said we did put the little houses in boxes of Monopoly and the tiny pots of paint into cardboard pallets for Ninja turle "paint by numbers" sets. Although the dullest job must have been counting the pieces (for QC purposes) of jigsaws puzzles :(