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Open thread: what's the strangest thing your boss has asked you to do? Open thread: what's the strangest thing your boss has asked you to do?
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Update: Thank you all for participating! You can read the best of the responses here.
Once I was asked to frame a boss’s third-grade report card. Another time, I spent a summer delivering pizza, slicing lettuce and spraying RAID in the basement – all for a man who paid me out of a burlap sack he kept under the cash register ... and never asked for my last name. Then there was that one day, on a freelance job, when I watched a CEO make his secretary design, print, laminate and hang 20 copies of Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel’s face above the quote, “A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.” Does this deep weirdness resonate with you? You’ve come to the right place.Once I was asked to frame a boss’s third-grade report card. Another time, I spent a summer delivering pizza, slicing lettuce and spraying RAID in the basement – all for a man who paid me out of a burlap sack he kept under the cash register ... and never asked for my last name. Then there was that one day, on a freelance job, when I watched a CEO make his secretary design, print, laminate and hang 20 copies of Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel’s face above the quote, “A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.” Does this deep weirdness resonate with you? You’ve come to the right place.
Welcome to the second in a series of open threads for bored, desk-bound workers on a hot summer day, so you can all bond over the mundane oddities of working life. The first was a great success – over 180 of you shared the spirited grievances that you’ve been itching to tell your coworkers but can’t. Among the best: “I used to get £10 an hour, and now I get £8. Move your expectations in the direction of my wage – lower.”Welcome to the second in a series of open threads for bored, desk-bound workers on a hot summer day, so you can all bond over the mundane oddities of working life. The first was a great success – over 180 of you shared the spirited grievances that you’ve been itching to tell your coworkers but can’t. Among the best: “I used to get £10 an hour, and now I get £8. Move your expectations in the direction of my wage – lower.”
This week’s topic: the oddest, saddest, most inane or most inappropriate thing you’ve had to do on the job. Use the comments below to share. If you need another level of anonymity, paste your admission in the box right here and I’ll post it on your behalf. This week’s topic: the oddest, saddest, most inane or most inappropriate thing you’ve had to do on the job. Use the comments below to share.
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