Sometime last year I got in touch with a 'rigging' company introduced to me by a forum .. i thought it would be some extra easy cash.. fuck me was i wrong.
i went there once and some dude gave me a fucking cloth and spray to clean up a catwalk for a fashion parade.. on my hands and knees.. sigh..
when i was looking like a floor shining grunt, out comes miss universe (yes miss universe) to do an interview from the catwalk.. i felt like i was at the opposite end of the spectrum to her at that moment... i decided to never ever do that shit again, not even for some spare cashola.
tonight while i was watching TV they showed fashion week was on and i saw that same catwalk, then the presenter went on to say "and now to meet the least glamorous side of fashion week" and went to interview the poor sod who was shining the catwalk this year, i cant say how glad i felt that it wasn't me.
[OT] What's the worst job you've ever had?
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sweetjesus
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i had a 10 year run as main engineer at an indie music venue (performance hall held about 800) so, besides being a full timer there (booking engineers and maintenance), i had to take tours literally half the time to actually make a living.
looking back, i did it for the music, (some great shows!) but what made it a travesty was the complete asshole running things,,,his favourite saying was "everyone is paid too much"
while hanging out in his hot tub/sauna at home. he did shit like stuff insulation in the ventilation system to save on heat and ac cost...in a smoking venue. i had to go outside regularly my eyes would burn so bad. to boot, he was able to buy the building some how which jumped from 2million to 3 million value almost immediately.
after 10 years service i was making more than anyone else including managers, at a whopping 16.00/hr (minimum skilled in the us is 20.00 starting pay) with no benefits or retirement. at least i made my own schedule i guess...
i found a replacement and unceremoniously left...
motherfucker still pays his door staff minimum wage.
i hope he gets colon cancer.
looking back, i did it for the music, (some great shows!) but what made it a travesty was the complete asshole running things,,,his favourite saying was "everyone is paid too much"
while hanging out in his hot tub/sauna at home. he did shit like stuff insulation in the ventilation system to save on heat and ac cost...in a smoking venue. i had to go outside regularly my eyes would burn so bad. to boot, he was able to buy the building some how which jumped from 2million to 3 million value almost immediately.
after 10 years service i was making more than anyone else including managers, at a whopping 16.00/hr (minimum skilled in the us is 20.00 starting pay) with no benefits or retirement. at least i made my own schedule i guess...
i found a replacement and unceremoniously left...
motherfucker still pays his door staff minimum wage.
i hope he gets colon cancer.
sweetjesus wrote: tonight while i was watching TV they showed fashion week was on and i saw that same catwalk, then the presenter went on to say "and now to meet the least glamorous side of fashion week" and went to interview the poor sod who was shining the catwalk this year, i cant say how glad i felt that it wasn't me.
In many ways ....
Realizing that even the most stupid daily product has to be made with some human involvement. Suppose that would be your job for live .... a life dedicated to toilet paper.
The paper entered the factory on a giant roll and was then wind on a 1 meter roll of normal size thickness. I had to break the 1 mter roll into seperate rolls of normal size by hitting the big roll with a firm Kung Fu hit. They were precut but normally stuck together. Then I had to reshape them into its original round form. Normally at the end of the day my skin was gone because of all the moist that it absorbed ....
Alternatively, you could work in the "hygenic toilet seat department". here you were paid per piece 0.03 c to fold a hygenic paper toilet seat into a nice wrap. This was for people going on holidays being afraid of all kind of diseases on the road. the regular guys prefered this work because with a lot of practice you would earn more than the 3 $/hr. The frustration was managed by spitting into the hygenic toilet seat before putting in the wrap ....
Clear?
Realizing that even the most stupid daily product has to be made with some human involvement. Suppose that would be your job for live .... a life dedicated to toilet paper.
The paper entered the factory on a giant roll and was then wind on a 1 meter roll of normal size thickness. I had to break the 1 mter roll into seperate rolls of normal size by hitting the big roll with a firm Kung Fu hit. They were precut but normally stuck together. Then I had to reshape them into its original round form. Normally at the end of the day my skin was gone because of all the moist that it absorbed ....
Alternatively, you could work in the "hygenic toilet seat department". here you were paid per piece 0.03 c to fold a hygenic paper toilet seat into a nice wrap. This was for people going on holidays being afraid of all kind of diseases on the road. the regular guys prefered this work because with a lot of practice you would earn more than the 3 $/hr. The frustration was managed by spitting into the hygenic toilet seat before putting in the wrap ....
Clear?
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Worst job for me was working in a bleach factory. I lasted a week. My job was to to fill the canisters for pool chlorine, transport them from the giant vat to the garage and then put them in customer's cars.
The place smelt of bleach real bad (they gave me gloves). if any chlorine splashed on my cloths they immediatlly turned white and then dinsenegrated when put in the wash. I was almost crushed (perhaps an exaderation) when a forklift clipped a box of empty bleach bottles; There were 6 or 8 bottles in each box. The box was about 2 foot tall and was part of a stack that was about 30ft high; there were about 1000 stacks. I was walking down the corridor between the left half and right half when this happened I was about 1/3 of the was from the loading dock door. the forklift clipped the box near the other end. I froze for a second and then ran like hell as the boxes began toppling and spewing their contents cascading toward me and jumping the area in the middle and taking down the other side too. Luckily the screenprinting place I worked the summer before called me that night and offered me a job.
The place smelt of bleach real bad (they gave me gloves). if any chlorine splashed on my cloths they immediatlly turned white and then dinsenegrated when put in the wash. I was almost crushed (perhaps an exaderation) when a forklift clipped a box of empty bleach bottles; There were 6 or 8 bottles in each box. The box was about 2 foot tall and was part of a stack that was about 30ft high; there were about 1000 stacks. I was walking down the corridor between the left half and right half when this happened I was about 1/3 of the was from the loading dock door. the forklift clipped the box near the other end. I froze for a second and then ran like hell as the boxes began toppling and spewing their contents cascading toward me and jumping the area in the middle and taking down the other side too. Luckily the screenprinting place I worked the summer before called me that night and offered me a job.
divonic wrote:Worst job for me was working in a bleach factory. I lasted a week. My job was to to fill the canisters for pool chlorine, transport them from the giant vat to the garage and then put them in customer's cars.
The place smelt of bleach real bad (they gave me gloves). if any chlorine splashed on my cloths they immediatlly turned white and then dinsenegrated when put in the wash. I was almost crushed (perhaps an exaderation) when a forklift clipped a box of empty bleach bottles; There were 6 or 8 bottles in each box. The box was about 2 foot tall and was part of a stack that was about 30ft high; there were about 1000 stacks. I was walking down the corridor between the left half and right half when this happened I was about 1/3 of the was from the loading dock door. the forklift clipped the box near the other end. I froze for a second and then ran like hell as the boxes began toppling and spewing their contents cascading toward me and jumping the area in the middle and taking down the other side too. Luckily the screenprinting place I worked the summer before called me that night and offered me a job.
Well it must be reassuring to know the skills you acquired playing sonic the hedgehog for days on end weren't wasted
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This one takes the cake for me...Kirb wrote:alright, here we go:
I don't like my job. Hey that felt good.
I'm a sterile processing tech at a hospital. Today I was in the decontamination area cleaning out a flexible reamer (a long, hollow metal pole with basically a drill bit on the end) that had just been used in a surgery, but it was so clogged with a huge chunk of bone and flesh that when I stuck my trusty long metal brush through it, found it clogged, and pulled it out, the brush flicked blood all over me. Of course I was wearing tons of personal protective equipment, but still in 2 years there I've never sprayed myself with that much blood.
Later in my shift, the drain on the machine that cleans the cannisters full of blood and other fluids that are sent to me from the operating rooms clogged with a piece of the machine that broke off inside. This caused it to back up with about 2 feet of liquid. The liquid: a mixture of blood, saline solution, bile, other bodily fluids, bleach, and enzyme solution. It was gross. I had to dig around the bottom of the machine with a long metal instrument and unclog it (luckily not my with hand). But still.
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For a summer job years ago I worked for a hospital as a lab courier so I would drive around the city to various doctors' offices and pick up things like blood samples, tissue samples and... oh yess... steaming hot piss and shit samples to bring them back to the lab for testing. To make maters worse the couriers office was directly across the hall form the entrance to the morgue so when I wasn't carrying around bags of shit I got to watch people depositing and picking up dead bodies including babies in little zip bags- no joke. Ahhh what a great summer.
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