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July 24, 2009, 10:28:24 AM
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putting up hay!  100 degrees Putting it in the hay loft sucks no breeze at all and dusty, coughing sneezing.  Your blowing dirt out of you nose for weeks after putting up hay.  Oh and your shoulders and back hurt for awhile too.  But as my dad always said it build character. 

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July 24, 2009, 10:33:42 AM
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I cleaned the kill floor and butcher lab in Weber Hall....I lasted 1 day at that job.

July 24, 2009, 12:36:43 PM
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July 24, 2009, 01:42:39 PM
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July 24, 2009, 02:05:19 PM
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Worked at a foundry pulling 1600 degree plow shanks out of the high heat furnace, no AC, no breeze, in mid KS summer.
Same place but grinding the bulge left from the punch that made bolt holes in the shanks, they weighed 35 pounds.  Wore me the frack out and hands would be numb for hours. 
Shoveling hot asphalt laying down road surface in KS summer.


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July 24, 2009, 02:14:17 PM
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Worked at a foundry pulling 1600 degree plow shanks out of the high heat furnace, no AC, no breeze, in mid KS summer.
Same place but grinding the bulge left from the punch that made bolt holes in the shanks, they weighed 35 pounds.  Wore me the frack out and hands would be numb for hours. 
Shoveling hot asphalt laying down road surface in KS summer.




Outside of shoveling asphalt I have no idea what you're talking about. 

July 24, 2009, 02:19:38 PM
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July 24, 2009, 02:38:35 PM
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Worked at a foundry pulling 1600 degree plow shanks out of the high heat furnace, no AC, no breeze, in mid KS summer.
Same place but grinding the bulge left from the punch that made bolt holes in the shanks, they weighed 35 pounds.  Wore me the frack out and hands would be numb for hours.  
Shoveling hot asphalt laying down road surface in KS summer.

Outside of shoveling asphalt I have no idea what you're talking about.  

Steel foundry.  Picture an oven running at 1600 degrees about 40 feet in length with a 3' wide by 12" high gap at each end.  One end you are the guy reaching in with a rod that has a hook on the end to grab the plow shank and pull it into a press machine to form it.   The other end you are the guy who has to grind down bulges that occur when a previous process punched holes in the ends for bolt holes.   Suffice it to say it is hard, hot work. 
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July 24, 2009, 02:42:11 PM
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Worked at a foundry pulling 1600 degree plow shanks out of the high heat furnace, no AC, no breeze, in mid KS summer.
Same place but grinding the bulge left from the punch that made bolt holes in the shanks, they weighed 35 pounds.  Wore me the frack out and hands would be numb for hours. 
Shoveling hot asphalt laying down road surface in KS summer.




Outside of shoveling asphalt I have no idea what you're talking about. 

what's asphalt?

July 24, 2009, 02:54:55 PM
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Food service jobs are cake (except dishwasher).  The hardest job I had involved doing yard work in the summer.  The most boring job I had was filling tiny baggies with grain samples and stapling these little bags to pieces of paper, for the International Grain Program at KSU... several hours a day... five days a week.  Mind-bogglingly boring.  Both jobs sucked in different ways.

Dishwasher's not that bad.  You are just all sweaty and smell like skanky food when you're done.  Did it at Applebees in Manhattan way back.  The daytime guy was mildly retarded, so it can't be that hard.

July 24, 2009, 03:00:02 PM
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July 24, 2009, 03:01:47 PM
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pixie dust spreader on the tilt-a-whirl.

July 24, 2009, 03:04:26 PM
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pixie dust spreader on the tilt-a-whirl.

Sounds like you would just hover in one place what is so hard about that?  Damn Pixies always complaining about there enchanting jobs.

July 24, 2009, 03:17:02 PM
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Farmhand, worst job I had to to was dismantle and remove an entire sprinkler that had been blown over by a storm. 

July 24, 2009, 03:31:53 PM
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Grain elevator during summer.  Climbing hundreds of feet in the air, shoveling out boot pits etc.  definantly worst job ever.  Close second was at McCall's in Manhattan I lasted a week.

I'm working at a mill right now. I did some elevator work on Wednesday. Smelled pretty bad.


July 24, 2009, 03:52:19 PM
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Worked at a foundry pulling 1600 degree plow shanks out of the high heat furnace, no AC, no breeze, in mid KS summer.
Same place but grinding the bulge left from the punch that made bolt holes in the shanks, they weighed 35 pounds.  Wore me the frack out and hands would be numb for hours.  
Shoveling hot asphalt laying down road surface in KS summer.

Outside of shoveling asphalt I have no idea what you're talking about.  

Steel foundry.  Picture an oven running at 1600 degrees about 40 feet in length with a 3' wide by 12" high gap at each end.  One end you are the guy reaching in with a rod that has a hook on the end to grab the plow shank and pull it into a press machine to form it.   The other end you are the guy who has to grind down bulges that occur when a previous process punched holes in the ends for bolt holes.   Suffice it to say it is hard, hot work. 

Gotchya.  Sounds terrible. :yuck:

July 24, 2009, 05:15:33 PM
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July 24, 2009, 05:20:57 PM
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Dishwasher's not that bad.  You are just all sweaty and smell like skanky food when you're done.  Did it at Applebees in Manhattan way back.  The daytime guy was mildly retarded, so it can't be that hard.

I dunno, three hours of that and I was ready to kill someone.  Maybe location makes a difference (I worked at the Derby - bleargh).

Worst job for me was being a telemarketer (needed the money).  You got 30 minutes for lunch and maybe two 10 minute breaks.  Other than that, you were stuck in a tiny cubicle all day, calling jagoffs who hate your guts, with no break because they set the thing up to autodial the second your previous call ends.  So basically, the best calls were the ones that droned on for 40 minutes because the person on the other end of the line was too stupid to hang up.   :whatthe:

This is why telemarketers don't want to let you go ... they have to call someone else up the second you hang up.

After nine hours of people telling you to  :suicideispainless: , you generally felt like they might be right.  The only real way to entertain yourself (and keep from slitting your wrists) was to try to be a bigger creep, just to piss them off worse and see how far they would go.  It was a never-ending cycle of escalation.

Good times.  :beerchug:

July 24, 2009, 05:24:04 PM
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Dishwasher's not that bad.  You are just all sweaty and smell like skanky food when you're done.  Did it at Applebees in Manhattan way back.  The daytime guy was mildly retarded, so it can't be that hard.

I dunno, three hours of that and I was ready to kill someone.  Maybe location makes a difference (I worked at the Derby - bleargh).



Did that during Frosh year.  Saw a guy take a swig of pop that came down on one of the trays.

July 24, 2009, 05:29:05 PM
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Yeah, there was always the one weirdo who would eat off the trays.  And then the lazy ones that wouldn't keep up, giving you more work to do.

I sort of liked it when one of the trays would get caught in the assembly and then a ton of glasses and plates and crap would come tumbling down.  Then some dude had to crawl up into the hole to fish it out.  Meant more cleanup, but at least it broke up the monotony.

July 24, 2009, 05:34:17 PM
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Nothing on my original list tops cleaning up after park people use the bathroom, but washing dishes at Little A was pretty terrible. 

July 24, 2009, 05:43:19 PM
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Worst job for me was being a telemarketer (needed the money).

Wouldn't mind this. Would be incredibly boring though. Pay is pretty good isn't it?

July 24, 2009, 09:46:10 PM
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Worst job was a newspaper delivery boy for the Manhattan Mercury when I was 15 except for one really f-ing winter cold morning I was delivering papers at 4 am and walked by this house delivering a newspaper.   In the front window was a neighbor chick I had known and thought she was particularly hot.    SHe was standing in front of the window - completely nude.

When I got home, my mom asked "What took you so long?"

I didn't answer.  I went back to bed.

July 25, 2009, 07:36:13 AM
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some of you guys are pussies, i hauled hay for about 8-10 summers in a row until we finally got a little advanced and went the accumulator/farmhand route, and it didn't even cross my mind as some of the worst jobs :cyclonecarlemoticon?WTFisit?:

and cleaning grain bins is not as bad as shoveling pig crap all year round  :blindfold:

July 25, 2009, 09:22:33 AM
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Worst job was a newspaper delivery boy for the Manhattan Mercury when I was 15 except for one really f-ing winter cold morning I was delivering papers at 4 am and walked by this house delivering a newspaper.   In the front window was a neighbor chick I had known and thought she was particularly hot.    SHe was standing in front of the window - completely nude.

When I got home, my mom asked "What took you so long?"

I didn't answer.  I went back to bed.


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July 25, 2009, 09:25:52 AM
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I don't count farming as I have never done it.  Obviously hard work.  That is the main reason I didn't go to ku, too many farmers.   :nahnah:

July 25, 2009, 09:06:29 PM
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Putting up shingles in the summertime.

Horrible hard labor.

I also worked at a Burger King in high school and we weren't far from I-35 that ran North/South through Iowa...just North of Des Moines so we'd have to serve late night traveler weirdos at 1am. Closing that place down sucked.
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July 25, 2009, 09:08:43 PM
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I cleaned the kill floor and butcher lab in Weber Hall....I lasted 1 day at that job.

geeeezus, dude. surprised you lasted the day.
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July 25, 2009, 11:41:46 PM
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Never minded putting up hay too much.  It would probably kill me now though since I'm fat and out of shape.  The job I hated on the farm the most was chopping/spraying muskthistles.  It seemed like it was never ending.  Worked at an elevator for a couple of harvests and didn't think it was too bad.  I agree with Felix though,  cleaning out under the scales sucked big hairy balls.  Worst job I had was in a manufacturing plant one summer during college.  The work wasn't that hard but the swing shift just blew.
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July 26, 2009, 12:34:40 AM
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some of you guys are pussies, i hauled hay for about 8-10 summers in a row until we finally got a little advanced and went the accumulator/farmhand route, and it didn't even cross my mind as some of the worst jobs :cyclonecarlemoticon?WTFisit?:

and cleaning grain bins is not as bad as shoveling pig crap all year round  :blindfold:

Unless you're highly allergic to moldy grain.