In an earlier interview with my colleague, the founder of r/NotMyJob, redditor Ani625, told Bored Panda that the subreddit is all about people doing the bare minimum. And not an iota more!
“This results in the 'product' being far from neat/complete/usable, depending on what it is,” the founder and moderator explained to Bored Panda previously. And that leads to some truly bizarre and absurd situations which the ‘Not My Job’ subreddit is happy to share with the world.
#6 Previous Owners Built This House, Told Us There Was Insulation In The Roof. True Story
The subreddit will be celebrating its 8th birthday at the end of the month, on July 30, so if you like their stuff, go on and give them a quick ‘hi, congrats.’
The entire ‘Not My Job’ project was started way back in 2013 all thanks to a single viral post on another subreddit. “An image of a dead animal painted over on a road became popular on another subreddit,” the founder said that the road painters were too lazy to do a better job. Things took off from there thanks to someone dropping a spot-on comment.
“Someone said the phrase 'not my job!' in the comments, and people seem to be interested in such an idea. I created /r/NotMyJob and linked the subreddit then and there, which got its first few subscribers.”
After that, “users kept on mentioning the sub all over Reddit whenever they saw such content, and the subreddit grew.”
#14 Instead Of 2 A's And 2 E's, We Got 4 A's In This Happy New Year Balloon Pack
#16 Not Sure How This Made It Through Proofreading, Peer Review, And Copyediting
