G-Job

Martha, do you remember a couple of shows ago we had a call about the origin of the term G-job?

Sure, that was Titus, and he worked on the crew of Fox 24, right?

Yeah, he wanted to know about the use of the term G-job, meaning a job that nobody wants to do.

I never heard the term, and I don’t think you had either, Martha, and so we threw the call out to our listeners, and boy, did they ever respond.

No kidding.

Most of you wrote to say that it’s a joking reference to the expression government job.

Pete from Ramona, California, emailed to say that he’s heard the term G-job for decades in the aerospace industry.

And there it’s used to describe personal work done on company time, like making 10 copies of the Little League schedule on the work copier.

And then Vicki and Larry Gilmore emailed us to say that they think G-job was also used in that same industry in a derogatory sense, as in the phrase, good enough for government work.

That is work that’s barely good enough to pass.

You know, that’s not quite how Titus described it, though, is it?

He said it was a job that nobody wanted.

I don’t doubt that there’s more than one G-job, but I’m wondering if maybe there isn’t still a more specific use of it in Hollywood.

And any one of our listeners who works in Hollywood wants to email us or call us and let us know, I’d be happy to take that call and find out.

Yeah, so Brad and Angelina, give us another call and let us know what you think.

Yeah, we’ll see you in Paris next week.

Thanks.

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