The Easiest Job In the World: A Look at Costco Employees

[fourier jr]

What is the easiest job in the world? I think it would be the person at a Costco who stands at the exit and checks people's receipts, or maybe the person who stands at the entrance and makes sure people have their membership cards.

 

[Anttech]

What is the easiest job in the world? I think it would be the person at a Costco who stands at the exit and checks people's receipts, or maybe the person who stands at the entrance and makes sure people have their membership cards.

What do you mean by easy?

If you had serious problems standing up, the jobs you just said would probably be very hard to do, for example Stephen Hawkins would certainly find it difficult, wouldn't he.

So what is your point? Easy for who?

 

[dontdisturbmycircles]

Parking lot attendant, its like the costco scenario except you even get a chair :-)

 

[Cyrus]

(1) Being a religious leader. Throw common sense out the window and just spew garbage "God" told you 1 on 1. Then collect money for the church to buy yourself something nice. You don't even need to have a 9-5...:rofl:

(2)Being a news reporter. You don't have to do your homework, check your facts, or even write your own piece. Plus you get to be on TV and become famous.

 

[Moonbear]

I had an uncle who used to work security on construction sites at night. Basically, sit around reading books or listening to the radio and making sure nobody wanders into steal a crane. That sounded pretty easy (he did that when his eyesight got too bad to be allowed to operate the equipment, which was his previous job in construction).

 

[radou]

(2)Being a news reporter. You don't have to do your homework, check your facts, or even write your own piece. Plus you get to be on TV and become famous.

Yeah, if people like you. If they don't, then the job s.u.c.k.s.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

People who get paid to sleep for sleep disorder studies.
Beer tasters
Food critics
Movie critics

 

[Cyrus]

Yeah, if people like you. If they don't, then the job s.u.c.k.s.

Who wouldn't tune into watch me, only a communist wouldnt. You're not communist are you? LOL!

 

[D H]

To me, an easy job is one in which time flies by quickly. I want the hours of the workday to pass by in what seems like minutes. A security job would be awful. The job would be dreadfully boring 99% of the time. The only thing worse would be when something exciting happens; bad guys often carry guns and shoot at the security guards.

 

[dontdisturbmycircles]

Ahhh yes I didn't even think about the food tasters. I would probably pay to get a job as a Breyer's ice cream taste tester or w/e they call them

 

[radou]

People who get paid to sleep for sleep disorder studies.
Beer tasters

:rofl:

Who wouldn't tune into watch me, only a communist wouldnt. You're not communist are you? LOL!

No. But I'm sure I'd rather watch Oprah.

 

[Cyrus]

You didnt get my joke, because you don't watch US media. When the US media disagrees with you, they say something stupid like that. Like watching oprah, she supports the terrorists. You don't watch oprah and support the terrorists do you??

 

[radou]

You didnt get my joke, because you don't watch US media. When the US media disagrees with you, they say something stupid like that. Like watching oprah, she supports the terrorists. You don't watch oprah and support the terrorists do you??

I got your joke.

And I still wouldn't turn into watch you.

I'd still rather watch Oprah and support terrorism.

:tongue:

 

[Cyrus]

I got your joke.

And I still wouldn't turn into watch you.

I'd still rather watch Oprah and support terrorism.

:tongue:

You terrorist supporting commie puke :tongue2:

 

[radou]

You terrorist supporting commie puke :tongue2:

You journalist supporting Oprah fan. :tongue2:

 

[Cyrus]

You journalist supporting Oprah fan. :tongue2:

Let's not say things we can't take back.

 

[turbo]

The easiest job is one that is challenging enough and satisfying enough to be rewarding, but also has some routine aspects that keep you so busy that the day flies by. The best job I ever had (not considering pay and benefits) was running a large flat-bed gang-saw in a mill that made cabinet panels for Scoville/Nutone, etc. Setting up the saws, getting precise trims, minimizing waste, etc, etc, was demanding, like doing machine-shop work, but with materials that were not as predictable as metal billets. The great part was making long runs of cuts, feeding big laminated veneered panels to the saw for hours at a time. I could stand there working while composing lyrics or thinking about stuff while the day just flew by.

Edit: Probably second-best was mucking out the stalls in my uncle's Hereford tie-ups. You always accomplish something, the job is never really done, and the cattle really like it when you give them a little grain, and scratch their heads roughly, and slap them on the flanks calling their names. I never got kicked (something you can't always count on in a dairy environment) and as long as you respect the hierarchy of the herd, the matriarch will be your friend.

 

[russ_watters]

On merchant ships, they get completely skill-less people to watch for a blinking red light on the autopilot that tells them they should wake the captain...

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

Patent office clerk.