What is the weirdest thing you have been paid to do?

[Scott]

I think mine was the day I was hired to clean a car wash for a Conoco Station. The manager had a mean streak and several times while I was in the wash cleaning it, he started the rinse cycle    (he was nice enough not to use the soap cycle)   

Another time I was  hired to stand in front of a candy machine and box candy bars for shipping. I had to count 50 bars of candy spewing out of the mouth of a dragon (candy wrapper). Those bars came out fast and I had to switch boxes in a hurry. It almost felt like the classic Lucy routine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NPzLBSBzPI

[Chseeads]

Bring a rooster to the Memorial Union building at Indiana University for some people that were part of some strange scavenger hunt.  They were like middle aged business people.  They already had 5 roosters in a cage with them, and they just had to present them, along with the one I brought to the front desk of the hotel there, and they gave me $50 and their cage full of roosters they already had. 

[Heather]

Make and sell snocones at an outdoor music concert.

[taco_harvell]

Worked for awhile at a place called Labor Ready. You worked for whoever showed up and needed people. Well one day these guys came in and picked up about 8 of us and loaded us in a pick-up. They then drove several miles outside of Phoenix and then literally several more miles off road into the desert. We then spent the next 8 hours digging "sprinkler trenches" by hand. The guys never would tell us what we were digging them for. (They literally told us "it's none of your business".) Sometimes I wonder exactly what we were doing out there.

[Scott]

When I worked security after high school; I once had to guard a sidewalk after they poured cement. It was in the ghetto and my job was to make sure no one wrote on it or walked on it.  4 hours standing there, feeling foolish.