Marks and SpencerWorking in 'Standards Team' in a welsh M&S store. My job was to stand in the menswear department for eight hours a day tidying up shirts and trousers.
It was so mind-numbingly dull that my brain quickly shut down entirely, so that whenever someone actually spoke to me it took me a good thirty seconds to work out what they said.
After a few weeks I discovered that because of this, all my collegues and my immediate boss had concluded that I spent my days stoned out of my brains. Not true, but nearly got me fired.
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It was so mind-numbingly dull that my brain quickly shut down entirely, so that whenever someone actually spoke to me it took me a good thirty seconds to work out what they said.
After a few weeks I discovered that because of this, all my collegues and my immediate boss had concluded that I spent my days stoned out of my brains. Not true, but nearly got me fired.