One of my early jobs, when I was a lowly student, was as a computer site monitor for the University library. My duties were fairly simple: When people came in, they needed to fill out a short form and leave their ID card. I’d give them a number corresponding to a computer and file their ID under that number. When they left, they’d give me back the number card, I’d give them back their ID and I’d put the form in a box for a supervisor to do the site statistics with later.
It wasn’t too complicated, but somehow people would still manage to screw things up.
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