I have found this is more common at small companies where they may not have a huge staff so everyone wears multiple hats. But even at some larger companies I have found sometimes this happens. You end up doing work that is not at all IT related. At least, I have. Here are some examples that me or my staff have done that I would definitely not consider IT work at all, but ended up doing it (mostly at small companies):

- Move furniture around. At one company I worked at we had an office full of unused office furniture. And any time a new employee would come in or someone wanted something changed, it was IT's job to move the furniture in and out of offices. I asked once why it was IT's job and not someone else's, they told me that nobody else was strong enough to do it, which was probably right. They would see us carry around PCs and servers all the time, so I guess we had more muscles than most of them.

- Video record meetings and ceremonies. We were the only ones who knew how to operate the video camera, even though we had tried to teach many others. So we often got the pleasure of sitting in meetings video taping them, just because we knew how to work the equipment.

- Alarm company "on call" person. I had this at one of my companies where, because I was IT and might need to come into the office at any time anyway, they put my pager number as the on call for the facility alarm company. I can't tell you how often I'd get paged at 3am because the cleaning crew forgot the code to the door so would set off the alarm.

- Not me but one of my employees on a small team once got tagged as the "minor electrician". Kid you not. He had no experience, but the company deemed him good enough to do things like replace electrical sockets, and replace florescent ballasts. This was all and good until a couple mishaps. One time he accidentally electrified a metal pole he was holding on to, his fingerprints got burned into the metal, and he got blown onto the floor. The next time he was changing a ballast and though the power was off but it was on the border of two circuits. When he pulled off the hot wire it snapped back and hit the metal shroud and blew out a whole phase to the building. Nice thing was, after that, he didn't have to work on electrical stuff any more.

- Roofer. I kid you not. Not me, one of my staff guys. I wasn't there that day and apparently there started to be a leak in the roof near the server room. They were very concerned so the President of the company said "grab the bucket of tar and the mop out of the store room, and get up on the roof and fix it." So, he attempted to, but it didn't work. Luckily we got the roof replaced soon afterwards.

What are some stuff that you all have had to do that is in no way IT related?