Is it friday all ready?

I am beginning to think that Martin1 makes these up and can not wiat until Friday.

Modern photocopiers will collate for you, if asked nicely they will also staple them together. Person no longer needed, so one less potential problem and more space in the office. ( I know you should not consider people as potential problems waiting to happen, but experience is telling me otherwise )

Alternatively tell them to close their eyes and then they will not get so dizzy.

How long is this job going to last? Is it a one off ors the poor person going to be doing this until they retire?

can't you just email the report or whatever the document is? Then instead of having to bin it they can just delete it

Tell them to alternate going round the circle clockwise then anti-clockwise!!! ;-)

Thats what you call a lazy susan - see #2

Thanks walker - I did not know that - thought it was an Employee they worked with!

The task as described seems extremely tedious. If it needs to be done frequently, whether on a full or part time basis, I understand that machines designed specifically to collate paper are available. If it's an occasional task, consider making it a shared job if this is feasible. One possible advantage of this is that those involved can talk to each other as a means of reducing the tedium.

The suggestion about sharing reminds me of the days before the constituent parts of the IOSH network started using e-mails to inform their members about forthcoming events. During my early years as a committee member of the excellent Manchester & North West Districts Public Services Section, printed paper information flyers had to be stuffed into envelopes and posted to some 500+ members on a monthly or sometimes two monthly basis. To save time and reduce the boredom it was the norm for several committee members to meet and do the envelope stuffing as a team effort, aided by tea/coffee and discussion alias a good natter.

As an aside about tedious jobs/tasks, would any forum members care to nominate contenders for the most tedious ones? Many years ago soon after joining HSE I had a conversation along these lines with an experienced colleague, probably my second boss. He reckoned the most boring job he'd seen was that of manually placing a walnut on the top of every 'walnut whip' as it passed along a conveyor belt in a confectionery factory. As a further aside, I've just checked and found from the internet that such confections are still made and have been since 1910 - possibly a snippet of information worthy of inclusion somehow on an episode of BBC TV's "QI" (Quite Interesting)!

p.s. martin1 - if the suggestion about obtaining a machine sadly results in the employee being made redundant, please don't let them know that it came from this forum! :-(

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Bit of a roundabout way to the collate the paperwork isn't it?

Hi,
Most boring job - as a printing apprentice at 15-16 folding exercise book paper for the local public school - 10 sheets, fold in half with a bone, put a cover on, stapling was for a skilled journeyman not an apprentice. This went on for several weeks at a time the pile of paper was over 6 feet high and when I'd done that they guillotined another 6 ft pile of lined paper. Also spent months and months collating receipt and invoice book. Even the printing machines were hand-fed, 10,000 run seemed to take forever.
Cheers
Steve