These tasks were definitely NOT in their job descriptions …
Recently, weaskedassistants from theBuzzFeed Communityto share the wildest tasks and requests they’ve ever been asked to do while working. Here are some of their most memorable responses:
1.This icky clean-up request:
2.This awkward getting busy request:
" Once I had a doctor who want me to get him sex workers to keep him busybodied in between patient role . Two or three a day . "
— Anonymous
3.This suuuuper specific font sizing request:
4.This beyond the grave request:
" I work in an admin role jolly closely with a senior VP in our company but was not his personal assistant . Yet somehow in the sentence I was there I was still leash into doing thing like scheduling his wiener ’s neutering service , running the guest list for his girl ’s marriage ceremony , and craziest of all , design the keystone for his mother ’s grave ( who I had never contact btw ) . Not kidding at all . I designed the headstone of his mother ’s grave accent on freaking PowerPoint and emailed it to the Isidor Feinstein Stone company that made it . Talk about outside my job description . "
— stephyelisabeth
5.This cat lover request:
6.This post-employment carpet cleaning request:
" While exercise as a legal help I had one attorney boss who was forever challenge me . On my last solar day at the house ( Friday ) he shout me into his office and asked if I could provide my paint for the carpeting dry cleaner schedule to come the next day ( Saturday ) . I secern him that I had already hand them in to HR because this was my last day .
He then inquire if the other helper could leave her keys . I tell him that she had already left for the day . He did n’t say anything else , so I left his office and function home at the remainder of the day , no longer utilise there . The next morning ( Saturday ) , I got an angry headphone call from the same lawyer foreman demanding an explanation as to where I was . I was SUPPOSED to be at the office to let in the rug cleaner !
When I recounted our conversation of the previous daytime , he acted like he had no recollection of it . I would be lie if I said he did n’t call me a few week after with a interchangeable delusional asking . "
7.This wild attempt to skip rush hour request:
8.This wacky “take a journey around the city” request:
" I was interning ( as an recreational assistant ) for a non - profit artistic production / filmmaker radical in NYC . My boss was ' from the diligence ' so she got aside with a slew of diva behavior . One morning , she came in extremely hungover saying she had lost her shoes the night before and I had to line up them . Not only was I raw to the urban center , this was in 2010 .
She could n’t remember where she go bad but she was pretty sure she had checked into Foursquare most of the night . I drop most of the mean solar day following her check - ins with printed MapQuest directions but could n’t find the shoes . I did find her dark glasses she did n’t recognise she left behind . When I come back empty - handed , she was furious . Eventually one of her friends texted her that she had her shoes . She never apologized . "
9.This seemingly simple pencil sharpening request:
10.This lazy OOO message request:
" I make for in IT . Once we had an administrative assistant postulate us to go in on the backend and go for an out of office response on her gaffer ' email . The kicker is that the boss asked her to do this rather than doing it herself . The entitlement bollocks up my psyche . "
— maetelle
11.This vasectomy appointment request:
12.This post-surgery patient request:
" My old Bos had me pick up his married woman after her facelift surgery . I had to help her get dressed , get her to my car ( while she still had drain in her case ) , cease at the pharmacy for her prescriptions , take her home , get her to bed , and check that she had her H2O , birth control pill , and cell before she would permit me allow and go to the part . "
13.This penny-pinching tire request:
14.This petty noise-cancelling request:
" When my party boss wanted me to go downstairs and ask the sustainment men to stop using the leaf blower because it was annoying them . Yeah … I did n’t go do that . "
15.This impromptu babysitting request:
16.This post-op cream application request:
" My boss had a bunch of suspicious mole remove and take me to put antibiotic ointment on the spots . I refused since he was already stand in his government agency in only his underwear . "
17.This pretty gross toilet request:
18.This worn-in shoes request:
" I had a boss evoke I wear his raw leather shoe in to yield them for him . "
19.Finally, this over-the-top and entirely shocking horse request:
Note : Some responses have been cut for distance and/or clearness .
