On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:21:02 -0700, RST Engineering
wrote:

On Sun, 17 Apr 2011 10:21:52 -0700, Jim Thompson
wrote:


"G-job" is American slang for a personal build using company stuff. I
have no idea of its origin.

"Government Job". When working on a government contract lots of stuff
"used for prototyping" got built and carried home in a briefcase "for
study".

Jim

According to one reference it was from wartime when there might be
secret projects that the supervisor was not directly aware of, so
saying it was a "Government Job" (when it was actually a personal
project) was a way of telling him to get lost.