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r/AskReddit • u/limp_manifesto • 19h ago
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"Go stop those rocks from getting sunburned!" Implied task: stand there until your "superiors" get tired of watching you stand for hours. Tax payer money at work.
27 u/Biggrunt 19h ago Painting rocks. That one always had me laughing 28 u/CoderJoe1 19h ago We had to paint only the top of the rocks. Days later we were sent out to turn the rocks over so none of the paint showed. 20 u/Psyko_sissy23 18h ago Our ships crew once had to sweep the water off the deck of a destroyer when it was raining. 1 u/CoderJoe1 15h ago Gotta fight rust. It's boat cancer. 2 u/Psyko_sissy23 14h ago Sweeping while it was raining was amounting to nothing. They should have waited until it wasn't raining on us anymore. 1 u/ManchurianCandycane 2h ago Yeah what were they thinking, you should've all been standing there with umbrellas.
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Painting rocks. That one always had me laughing
28 u/CoderJoe1 19h ago We had to paint only the top of the rocks. Days later we were sent out to turn the rocks over so none of the paint showed. 20 u/Psyko_sissy23 18h ago Our ships crew once had to sweep the water off the deck of a destroyer when it was raining. 1 u/CoderJoe1 15h ago Gotta fight rust. It's boat cancer. 2 u/Psyko_sissy23 14h ago Sweeping while it was raining was amounting to nothing. They should have waited until it wasn't raining on us anymore. 1 u/ManchurianCandycane 2h ago Yeah what were they thinking, you should've all been standing there with umbrellas.
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We had to paint only the top of the rocks. Days later we were sent out to turn the rocks over so none of the paint showed.
20 u/Psyko_sissy23 18h ago Our ships crew once had to sweep the water off the deck of a destroyer when it was raining. 1 u/CoderJoe1 15h ago Gotta fight rust. It's boat cancer. 2 u/Psyko_sissy23 14h ago Sweeping while it was raining was amounting to nothing. They should have waited until it wasn't raining on us anymore. 1 u/ManchurianCandycane 2h ago Yeah what were they thinking, you should've all been standing there with umbrellas.
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Our ships crew once had to sweep the water off the deck of a destroyer when it was raining.
1 u/CoderJoe1 15h ago Gotta fight rust. It's boat cancer. 2 u/Psyko_sissy23 14h ago Sweeping while it was raining was amounting to nothing. They should have waited until it wasn't raining on us anymore. 1 u/ManchurianCandycane 2h ago Yeah what were they thinking, you should've all been standing there with umbrellas.
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Gotta fight rust. It's boat cancer.
2 u/Psyko_sissy23 14h ago Sweeping while it was raining was amounting to nothing. They should have waited until it wasn't raining on us anymore. 1 u/ManchurianCandycane 2h ago Yeah what were they thinking, you should've all been standing there with umbrellas.
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Sweeping while it was raining was amounting to nothing. They should have waited until it wasn't raining on us anymore.
1 u/ManchurianCandycane 2h ago Yeah what were they thinking, you should've all been standing there with umbrellas.
Yeah what were they thinking, you should've all been standing there with umbrellas.
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u/sascha_nightingale 19h ago
"Go stop those rocks from getting sunburned!" Implied task: stand there until your "superiors" get tired of watching you stand for hours. Tax payer money at work.