Top 50 bizarre tasks Brits have had to do at work revealed

Peeling pith from individual satsuma segments, removing hair from hairbrushes and following a fellow employee – all tasks we highly doubt were put on the job specification.

According to a study conducted on 2,000 UK employees by animal charity SPANA, the top fifty most bizarre tasks assigned to employees has been revealed.

The top request on the list was being asked to clean the toilets or sweep the floors at work despite employees not being in cleaning roles. Removing excrement from swimming pools, cleaning up road kill and eating dog food were other unsavoury tasks on the list.

The tasks varied from strange to gross to hilarious, with one respondent recalling being asked to follow another member of staff who left work ill, as the boss suspected that he was off to the pub. Another revealed how they were asked to work overtime to allow another colleague go home and make love due to his partner’s fertile window – The Sun reports.