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General Discussion => Essentially Flyertalk => Topic started by: Institutional Control on December 12, 2012, 10:03:37 AM
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I'm sure that I will win this so I will wait until a few others have posted so I don't discourage everyone who thinks they had a bad job from posting.
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i had to stock shelves at k-mart for about 6 months when i was in 10th grade. my responsibility included getting carts from the parking lot in 6 inches of sleet/snow/wet in 10 degree weather, as well as continually mopping the front entrance area to keep it clean from all of the customers walking in the sleet/snow/wet. on top of it all, my manager sucked and all of his shirts had yellow stained armpits and he had terrible breath.
after about 6 months and the winter was over, i got moved to the lawn & garden area (big pimpin). its where everyone wanted to work. i got to drive a forklift around and also, not do crap. this was the great part of the worst job because it was awesome and didn't suck. but then.
one time the security guard brought me into the manager's office and he made me empty my pockets. a customer had accused me of doing cocaine! i wasn't! just had a cold + didn't do coke. manager believed me and nothing ever happened. soon after that, i was like f-this place.
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:popcorn:
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Never really had a bad job. Least enjoyable was working at UPS unloading trailers one summer in college.
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My first job was at a trap shooting range and I had to sit in the concrete hole all day and load clay pigeons one at a time on the thrower. It was filthy and moist and hot and infested and I got paid less than minimum wage. You never knew when the arm was going to be triggered and rip your fingers off.
edit: now that I think about it, that wasn't my worst job.
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after my stint at k-mart, where i was making minimum wage, i took a job at gates & sons bbq where my responsibilities included: busing tables, continuously mopping the floor so it wasn't slippery from the bbq smoke, refilling the sauces from the sauce station that the customers used, reloading kegs on the front line (fun to carry on slippery floors), and cleaning the parking lot of cigarette butts and other ancillary garbage. it was awesome too. i made it about 2-3 months at this job. upside was that the black guys they shipped in on the Gates Shuttle from the inner city would sell me cd's they stole for $5/piece. i'd just tell them what i wanted and boom, they'd have it the next time they worked, waiting for me. also ate as much bbq as i wanted for free.
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I grew up on a dairy farm. Basically, every day I probably had to do something that was worse than any of you puds ever had to do, unless you grew up on a dairy farm, too.
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I grew up on a dairy farm. Basically, every day I probably had to do something that was worse than any of you puds ever had to do, unless you grew up on a dairy farm, too.
You drank fresh milk right from the teet?
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I grew up on a dairy farm. Basically, every day I probably had to do something that was worse than any of you puds ever had to do, unless you grew up on a dairy farm, too.
You drank fresh milk right from the teet?
:dunno:
You got a problem with fresh milk? :dubious:
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agent in her Majesty's secret service.
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another great job i had was carrying those old fashioned kegs w/o handles down those shitty stairs and into the basement of auntie maes on a busy friday night with a band playing, in the wintertime.
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My first summer job during college was at a factory that made heavy duty brakes. They put me at a machine that they called a pin splitter. Basically, it was a machine that opened up cotter pins enough that they could be easily opened by hand. You would place the pin in a jig, push two buttons, remove opened pin and repeat. 640 times an hour, 10 hours a day.
About 3 hours into the shift a mentally handicapped woman would come in and sit at the machine next to me. She would do the exact same job that I was doing. My first day, someone in the department was celebrating a birthday and they brought cake for everyone. I'm not sure if the handicapped girl ate it too fast or what but after we went back to work she threw up all over her machine, my machine, herself, me and all the pins we had split.
So, after I finished cleaning up her machine, my machine and our pins... I spent the rest of the day working my mindless job smelling of puke.
Worst day ever. I decided that day to take college more seriously.
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I'm tempted to say Doorknob Factory, but let's be real, that was a really great job.
Sonic was the worst.
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My first summer job during college was at a factory that made heavy duty brakes. They put me at a machine that they called a pin splitter. Basically, it was a machine that opened up cotter pins enough that they could be easily opened by hand. You would place the pin in a jig, push two buttons, remove opened pin and repeat. 640 times an hour, 10 hours a day.
About 3 hours into the shift a mentally handicapped woman would come in and sit at the machine next to me. She would do the exact same job that I was doing. My first day, someone in the department was celebrating a birthday and they brought cake for everyone. I'm not sure if the handicapped girl ate it too fast or what but after we went back to work she threw up all over her machine, my machine, herself, me and all the pins we had split.
So, after I finished cleaning up her machine, my machine and our pins... I spent the rest of the day working my mindless job smelling of puke.
Worst day ever. I decided that day to take college more seriously.
I love watching "How It's Made" on the Science Channel.
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some crappy dot com start up company that had no clue what they were doing.
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Had a job one summer at a go-kart/batting cage/firework stand... Had to deal with a bunch of drunks and idiot meth-heads (it was in missouri after all) all day and night... but the perk was all the balls I could hit and shredding rubber on the track (was one that you could slide through the turns). On second thought this may have been the pinnacle of my working experience to date... Now I just sit in front of a computer all day, lame.
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I worked in the dorm cafeteria for about 2 weeks when at K-State. Back then, they had a milk machine that would fill up a glass with milk. Above the red button was a sign that said "Push Button Once". Whether people couldn't read or just wanted to be assholes, I don't know but my job was to mop up that milk that would go all over the floor after someone would push the button multiple times and then walk away when their cup was full. And I'm not sure why a hair net was required for me to mop up milk for four hours a morning.
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Had a job one summer at a go-kart/batting cage/firework stand... Had to deal with a bunch of drunks and idiot meth-heads (it was in missouri after all) all day and night... but the perk was all the balls I could hit and shredding rubber on the track (was one that you could slide through the turns). On second thought this may have been the pinnacle of my working experience to date... Now I just sit in front of a computer all day, lame.
Well slide this rough rider on over to my new thread, "the best job you ever had", camKSU!
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Worst summer job - setting and tearing down concrete basement forms.
Best summer job - Framing houses.
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When I was 15 worked for a pool company. Sold and installed and serviced above ground and in ground pools. Mostly I was a laborer putting in new above ground pools. Was hard work, not so bad though. The worst was when some gross eff would let their in ground pool go, so they'd call us to clean it up and replace the liner. First we had to pump out all the water (not so bad). Then remove any dead animals that were in the pool (pretty rough ridin' bad, like dead raccoons or possums, some birds, frogs yuck). Didn't wear gloves, just grabbed them and tossed them. eff. Then we had to remove all the algae and leaves and pine needles and crap like that. Better than dead animals I guess. Then we had to slice up the liner into strips with a box knife and roll them up and throw them on our backs and take them to the truck. They were heavy and all that dead animal juice was running down your neck and back. eff. That was the worst. One summer day it rained so we didn't have to work. Then it rained the next day, another day off. Then I rough ridin' quit.
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In 9th grade, I worked for a place called pump it up. The job wasn't all that bad, some parts were kind of awesome actually. But little kids are rough ridin' disgusting and will literally crap wherever they damn well please.
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Worked road construction/traffic control for a summer. Hard, and hot.
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another great job i had was carrying those old fashioned kegs w/o handles down those shitty stairs and into the basement of auntie maes on a busy friday night with a band playing, in the wintertime.
Do you have any idea how many buckets full of grain I had to carry in the wintertime, summertime, any time?
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Never really had a bad job. Least enjoyable was working at UPS unloading trailers one summer in college.
Do you have any idea as to how many trailers full of hay I had to load and unload?
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I'm tempted to say Doorknob Factory, but let's be real, that was a really great job.
Sonic was the worst.
Do you have any idea as to how many doorknobs I had to turn?
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some crappy dot com start up company that had no clue what they were doing.
Do you have any idea as to how many times I had no clue what I was doing?
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I worked in the dorm cafeteria for about 2 weeks when at K-State. Back then, they had a milk machine that would fill up a glass with milk. Above the red button was a sign that said "Push Button Once". Whether people couldn't read or just wanted to be assholes, I don't know but my job was to mop up that milk that would go all over the floor after someone would push the button multiple times and then walk away when their cup was full. And I'm not sure why a hair net was required for me to mop up milk for four hours a morning.
You don't think I had to clean up a crazy amount of milk in my life? I grew up on a dairy farm!
I am sorry for jacking this thread, but so far, I win hands down.
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Worst job ever was a customer service rep for a cell phone company call center. People only call you if they have a problem, and you basically aren't allowed to help anyone. you just sit in a cube all day with a phone attached to your head fielding call after call after call nonstop of unhappy people. Depressing.
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Worked road construction/traffic control for a summer. Hard, and hot.
Ditto, scraping skunks off rural Kansas highways after baking on blacktop in the summer sun was always a treat.
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Worked road construction/traffic control for a summer. Hard, and hot.
Ditto, scraping skunks off rural Kansas highways after baking on blacktop in the summer sun was always a treat.
Like I know we pay people to pick up roadkill, it's just I have never seen it done.
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I worked at some auto car company where they developed parts. My job was to loosen up wheel barrings. Some were unloose. So I'd dip it in this oil, stick my fingers in the hole, and wretch it back and forth until it came loose. I did that for 8 hours. Worst part was when I met a guy who was a grad from K-State. He was an alum over 10 years before. I was a junior at that time going "wtf?" in my head. :ohno:
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Worst job ever was a customer service rep for a cell phone company call center. People only call you if they have a problem, and you basically aren't allowed to help anyone. you just sit in a cube all day with a phone attached to your head fielding call after call after call nonstop of unhappy people. Depressing.
I did this as well. It wasn't too bad. I liked angering people.
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Worst job ever was a customer service rep for a cell phone company call center. People only call you if they have a problem, and you basically aren't allowed to help anyone. you just sit in a cube all day with a phone attached to your head fielding call after call after call nonstop of unhappy people. Depressing.
I did this as well. It wasn't too bad. I liked angering people.
Yeah, I worked at a telemarketing center one summer in high school and we sold credit card insurance. All we did most of the time was eff with the people we called. Left a lot of crazy answering machine messages. Sometimes we would do this gag where we pretended like we thought the person we had called had called us and get into a big back and forth about who called who. We also had a vending machine that was like this rotating thing with little slots that had pre-made sandwiches and stuff in each one. Pay, punch in the number, open the slot and take your thing. Well I convinced one of the degenerates I worked with it would be funny if he bought a hotdog and then pooped in the little paper container/dish it was in and then replaced the paper container with turd in place of hotdog in the machine. He did and it was rough ridin' hilarious to watch people cycle through the machine selections and discover that there was a turd in one of them. Really fun.
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Worked after-school and a couple of summers for a commercial hog farm, farrow-to-finish. Think 10,000 head. I've seen/smelled some atrocities. Not trying to one-up you dobs, but I would've gladly switched farms.
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I was also a night-time grounds keeper at a golf course one summer in high school. Basically I was there all by myself and every 30-45 minutes I had to ride around rotating the sprinkler heads on each hole as they had shitty water pressure or something and could only have like one sprinkler head going per hole at a time. I wrecked my golf cart once doing a ramp on one of the women's tees. Didn't calculate the trajectory correctly and came down and hit a tree. It bent the front fender pretty good. I had to wail on it with a sledge hammer for a bit so it wasn't rubbing the tire when you drove it. Nobody ever said anything about it.
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Student.
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Worked as a pharmaceutical technician one summer while in college. I counted pills all day long. It was really, really boring. And people were always coming in and telling us their health issues. One smelly old guy came in, took his shoes and socks off and stuck one of his feet on the counter asking me why his feet smelled like rotting ham.
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Worked after-school and a couple of summers for a commercial hog farm, farrow-to-finish. Think 10,000 head. I've seen/smelled some atrocities. Not trying to one-up you dobs, but I would've gladly switched farms.
I GREW UP ON A FARM!
But yeah, eff that, hog farms of any size smell horrible. The non hog crap smelling atrocities I could and did deal with, but the smell of hog farms...
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Another high school summer job I had was at a scrapyard/recycling center. Part of my job was to rip open up the bags of cans that people brought in and dump them into the can compactor machine that made these bricks of smashed cans. Well as you can imagine you would end up being covered in old beer and pop. It was really rough ridin' gross. Sticky and smelly. The dirtiest I've ever felt.
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Worked after-school and a couple of summers for a commercial hog farm, farrow-to-finish. Think 10,000 head. I've seen/smelled some atrocities. Not trying to one-up you dobs, but I would've gladly switched farms.
I GREW UP ON A FARM!
But yeah, eff that, hog farms of any size smell horrible. The non hog crap smelling atrocities I could and did deal with, but the smell of hog farms...
grew up on one too, prob not as big as your dairy farm. Worst part of the smell was getting rid of it. Used to wash my hair with toothpaste after powerwashing farrowing crates.
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college pro painters was a pretty awful job. 12 hour days at 7.50 an hour for painting houses without any safety equipment.
no thanks.
except there was this one kid who came on our crew about halfway through the summer. he really, really sucked at painting houses. anyways, we were painting a house up in st. joe and for lunch we went to wendy's. this was a time when the baconater just came out and this kid was jazzed about it. against our warnings that a baconater would not be the best choice for working in 100 degree heat, he went for it. about an hour and a half later, he had to crap (of course) and used the bathroom via the walkout basement door. 20 minutes later he comes out, looking like he'd seen a ghost, and said "i clogged the toilet." so he had to go to the front door and ask the lady who lived there (who was very attractive btw) if he could borrow her plunger.
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I also worked at Menards the summer after my freshman year of college in Champaign. I was in the receiving department and drove a forklift. Most of the people that worked there were pretty depressing and it sucked because of that. Like I was the only college guy. It was like a suicide support group around there.
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I used to work as a software engineer at this company. My boss was a total dweeb and made me write all kinds of stupid reports, like TPS reports. One day, he stole my red stapler off my desk and wouldn't answer my questions about not getting a paycheck. When I went to the payroll lady, she told her to go talk to my boss, who then told me to talk to the payroll lady. A week later, my boss made me move my office into the basement of the building. Totally sucked...
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Worked road construction/traffic control for a summer. Hard, and hot.
I worked for the Kansas Turnpike the summer they were installing the KTAG system. All of the work was done standing or crawling around on a black asphalt roadway. Was kinda fun to use some of their tools and equipment, have forklift races at the end of the day, etc......
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I see ole dobber's got nothing on my dead animal neck juice. :gocho:
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I see ole dobber's got nothing on my dead animal neck juice. :gocho:
What, you don't think we had dead smelly animals to deal with on the farm? Ever heard of a rendering truck? I'll give you a hint, it's not a picture of a truck!
Plus, I didn't quit because it rained a couple of days. :chainsaw:
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Growing up shoveling crap on the hog farm, I would have killed to be living the pud life of a dairy farmer.
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Question for the farmers: how many times did you take a deep breath, exhale, smile and say "nothing like the smell of money in the morning."
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I performed this job for 1 day, then I quit....
I got a job at Weber Hall when I was in college, paying about twice what I could make anywhere else hourly at the time.
The job was cleaning the kill floor and meat processing labs. You suited up in rubber scrubs and blasted scalding hot water all over everything. It was the most vile thing I have ever experienced. Piss, crap, guts, giant vats filled with dead cow and sheep heads and innards....
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Growing up shoveling crap on the hog farm, I would have killed to be living the pud life of a dairy farmer.
You don't shovel crap on a hog farm. Try shoveling stalls and barns on a dairy farm when the stalls were bedded with straw and then that gets mixed in with 200 tons of crap and urine. Pro-tip: SHOVELS DON'T WORK! Hog farms...phhht....except the horrible smell thing.
Also, I am so thankful for farmers, they feed the world and stuff.
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Growing up shoveling crap on the hog farm, I would have killed to be living the pud life of a dairy farmer.
You don't shovel crap on a hog farm. Try shoveling stalls and barns on a dairy farm when the stalls were bedded with straw and then that gets mixed in with 200 tons of crap and urine. Pro-tip: SHOVELS DON'T WORK! Hog farms...phhht....except the horrible smell thing.
Also, I am so thankful for farmers, they feed the world and stuff.
I shoveled a shitload of crap on our hog farm. Shoveled/scraped it out of the pens every morning and evening.
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Forgot that I caddied for about 2 months at Indian Hills CC in highschool. I had just seen caddy shack and saw a help wanted add at the local high school.
It really wasnt that bad at the start. Get paid around $10 an hour to carry golf bags for old rich people and free golf on mondays. Then it started getting hot and they started having caddies carry bags for 2 people but you only got $10 more. I never showed up after the first day above 80 degrees.
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Question for the farmers: how many times did you take a deep breath, exhale, smile and say "nothing like the smell of money in the morning."
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I performed this job for 1 day, then I quit....
I got a job at Weber Hall when I was in college, paying about twice what I could make anywhere else hourly at the time.
The job was cleaning the kill floor and meat processing labs. You suited up in rubber scrubs and blasted scalding hot water all over everything. It was the most vile thing I have ever experienced. Piss, crap, guts, giant vats filled with dead cow and sheep heads and innards....
Two of my buddies used to do that at the local locker when we were in HS. I'd go there and drink with them while they worked at night. No biggie.
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Question for the farmers: how many times did you take a deep breath, exhale, smile and say "nothing like the smell of money in the morning."
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crap is not worth money, unless you sell crap. "0"
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Oh. Well when I go hunting out west that's what I do/say. Thought I was fitting in. Welp. :flush:
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another great job i had was carrying those old fashioned kegs w/o handles down those shitty stairs and into the basement of auntie maes on a busy friday night with a band playing, in the wintertime.
Do you have any idea how many buckets full of grain I had to carry in the wintertime, summertime, any time?
Do not under estimate the difficulty of schlepping kegs down steep narrow stair wells. A few years ago I rode along with my friend delivering beer in a resort town in Colorado during New Years weekend. I was totally wiped out by the end of the day. The truck driver was popping pain killers all day cause his back was ruined from delivering 80+ kegs a day for 2 weeks straight. My friend was showing off taking 2 kegs on the hand truck down a stair well and lost it. He got flung over the the top of the load and took a nasty digger into the cement wall and floor at the bottom. Keeping the party going is hard work. :cheers:
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Oh. Well when I go hunting out west that's what I do/say. Thought I was fitting in. Welp. :flush:
No, you are fitting in. I have heard lots of farmers say it, but they usually say it to city people who complain about the smell. Also, old farmers are more likely to say it. Nothing wrong with you saying it.
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McDonald's, high school janitor, dairy farm, lab worker grinding fecal samples.
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McDonald's, high school janitor, dairy farm, lab worker grinding fecal samples.
Stud!
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Worked as a pharmaceutical technician one summer while in college. I counted pills all day long. It was really, really boring. And people were always coming in and telling us their health issues. One smelly old guy came in, took his shoes and socks off and stuck one of his feet on the counter asking me why his feet smelled like rotting ham.
Did you "lose" lots of pills?
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I stacked boxes at Amazon my first year in college, unlimited boxes would come down a conveyor belt and I would stack them on pallets. Wrap the pallets with huge rolls of Saran Wrap, then would wrap coworkers with Saran Wrap :gocho: needless to stay it "didn't work out" very long
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sounds like goEMAW.com has a lot of FP, TC's etc.
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Worked at ManKo one summer while in school. Long hours and physical labor. Worked 12 hours a day for a few weeks because we were busy. Came in hungover multiple times, which didn't prove to make it any more enjoyable.
KKK was also supposed to work there, but he "broke his arm" and quit before the summer even started. :nono:
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What's ManKo?
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commercial window company.
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Question for the farmers: how many times did you take a deep breath, exhale, smile and say "nothing like the smell of money in the morning."
I have a friend who probably says that once a week. Yes, from a small farm town.
The first time he said it was mindblowing.
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What's ManKo?
Ya, window manufacturing company in MHK over by Wal-Mart.
Oh also, I worked in the same department as K-State great Joe Rheem. He was a cool dude
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Bartender in a strip club for 3 years. :facepalm:
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Bartender in a strip club for 3 years. :facepalm:
Luked.
http://goEMAW.com/forum/index.php?topic=25162.msg691408#msg691408
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i've lived a fortunate life.
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Probably cow/farm work was the worst but I really liked a lot of it. Mainly hated the getting up before school in the cold to do stuff. Almost all summer cow/farm stuff is fun.
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Probably cow/farm work was the worst but I really liked a lot of it. Mainly hated the getting up before school in the cold to do stuff. Almost all summer cow/farm stuff is fun.
That is why I put it in the best job ever thread, also. I wouldn't change any of it. It sucked, but was awesome (like Stacey, which I also put in the best job thread).
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Mail Boxes, Etc in high school :dunno:
I was, um, asked to leave because I really screwed up someones really important fax, only sent like half of it. I also coudln't grasp the James Bond copy machine.
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Customer service technician at Sykes, summer job that basically people would call everyday pissed off because their sbcglobal internet wasn't working, had to "help" them fix their internet. Sat in a cube all day, made little money and got bitched at.
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worked for the city public works of the town I grew up in. It was the summer after one of the worst late spring storms the town had seen in a long time. Spent the entire summer picking up trees, limbs, etc from ppls curbs from the storm. Hauled an F load of stuff. Also, since it is the city, all the full time workers are lazy as crap and sit around while the high school kids do all the work.
They had a stupid rule that even when it was raining and there wasn't anything to do, we had to be busy. So on rain days there would be 6 or more of us mindlessly sweeping the shop floor. Was horrible.
Hated it.
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Oh, another good one:
Was a little league umpire one summer. Most of the coworkers hated it, but I loved it once I found that I had the power to have parents kicked out of the park during games. Kick a few out and everyone learns and shuts the F up. Work was always between 5 and 9, so you could still do whatevs you wanted at night and sleep in.
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Oh, another good one:
Was a little league umpire one summer. Most of the coworkers hated it, but I loved it once I found that I had the power to have parents kicked out of the park during games. Kick a few out and everyone learns and shuts the F up. Work was always between 5 and 9, so you could still do whatevs you wanted at night and sleep in.
When I was in HS I would ref some soccer games. One time I was reffing a for a team coached by my dad's business partner. This kid hurt his arm and was on the field being a baby and was delaying the game for like 5 minutes:
Emo: Dave, it's the kid's arm. Walk him off the field and we can resume play.
Dave: Emo, my player is hurt! Let me attend to him!
Emo: Dave, it's his arm. He can walk off and you can look after him there, we have a game to play.
Dave: Damnit Emo, what are you going to do, throw me out?
Emo: That's exactly what I'm going to do Dave (then I pulled my red card). You can watch the game from the parking lot. Off you go.
He was speechless. My dad loved it too (this guy was a jackass).
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