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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: speewa158 on December 03, 2010, 02:06:40 AM
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The worst job I have ever had was in a chocolate factory when I was a young bloke . I had to climb in to the huge mixing machines to hose it out with hot water . then wash all the surfaces in & out to clean it for the next batch . Later looking in the mixer to see 2000kg of liquid milk choclate going around & around . Smelt good looked like,,,,,,,,,,,,,,!. It was always funny to get on the bus to go home as everybody could smell the chocolate .
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hahaha.... mine was food related too.
It wasn't the worst job i had but parts of it were.
I was a waiter in Thai Restaurant. I was hired because someone had to have good english.
The amount of people that came in and acted in a very racially degrading manner was awful. I hated it. $15 buys you a curry, not the right to poke fun at someone.
I can't believe how times i slipped back then and people wore their food! ;)
mike
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hahaha.... mine was food related too.
It wasn't the worst job i had but parts of it were.
I was a waiter in Thai Restaurant. I was hired because someone had to have good english.
The amount of people that came in and acted in a very racially degrading manner was awful. I hated it. $15 buys you a curry, not the right to poke fun at someone.
I can't believe how times i slipped back then and people wore their food! ;)
mike
I can understand how dumb people are. I would never put sh*t on somone that is preparing my food. Just as i would never send food back that was crap. I just dont pay. I know what i would do to the food, and i figure if i assume everybody thinks like me i will be safe
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The worst part about my job is similar as above.
We have many people ring us (I work in a insurance call centre) and it bugs me when they get cranky with us because I don't understand there language.
Sorry, but we are in Australia, and the language we speak is English. It isn't rocket science.... if you live in Australia learn the language.
(BTW. I am not racest, I reckon the more the merrier. But I can't see how someone can start a business in Australia and not know how to speak english)
Rant over. :)
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My worst job, was working at Stewart and Lloyds(Tubemakers) on a pipe threading machine screwing sockets onto the freshly threaded pipe >:D boy those machines are loud!!!
Baz.
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My worst job, was working at Stewart and Lloyds(Tubemakers) on a pipe threading machine screwing sockets onto the freshly threaded pipe >:D boy those machine are load!!!
Baz.
My Dad did the same job at S&L in Newcastle. He couldn't wait to get out of there!
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Worst job I ever had was a real $hit off a job
taking portable dunnies to job sites, cleaning them, and emptying them
Man some of the things people do in dunnies is scary...especialy when they run out of paper ???
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My Dad did the same job at S&L in Newcastle. He couldn't wait to get out of there!
Wow, small world, 1971/72 I worked there, just out of school (Belmont High)started as a delivery boy on a 3 wheeled bike with a big box on the front, delivering parts around the factories, then a tally clerk in dispatch next to the pipe threading section.
Baz.
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Worst job I ever had was a real $hit off a job
taking portable dunnies to job sites, cleaning them, and emptying them
Man some of the things people do in dunnies is scary...especialy when they run out of paper ???
And I shall call him... KENNY!!!!
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Years ago before the Cairns waterfront became fashionable the local meatworks [long gone] had Tallow tanks near the then "Barbary Coast" , these tanks were like the large fuel tanks that you see round refineries , they had a manhole near the bottom and on the inside a network of pipes 12inches above the floor to keep the tallow heated for pumping out , you could never totally pump out the last 4 inches of the stuff , tanks needed to be totally emptied , a three man team , strip down to the jocks , into the manhole and scoop up the tallow into buckets to pass outside , slipery as, stinking to high heaven , hotter than hell [ Cairns in January ] we could only stay inside for 10min at a time , get out and jump off the wharf to cool down and then back in ,, that was the worst job ever !!
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Wow, small world, 1971/72 I worked there, just out of school (Belmont High)started as a delivery boy on a 3 wheeled bike with a big box on the front, delivering parts around the factories, then a tally clerk in dispatch next to the pipe threading section.
Baz.
Gee it's a real small world, I worked there about 1968 for one week then wagged work for another 2 weeks and went surfing till the old man caught me, luckily by then S&L wouldn't take me back ;D
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Years ago before the Cairns waterfront became fashionable the local meatworks [long gone] had Tallow tanks near the then "Barbary Coast" , these tanks were like the large fuel tanks that you see round refineries , they had a manhole near the bottom and on the inside a network of pipes 12inches above the floor to keep the tallow heated for pumping out , you could never totally pump out the last 4 inches of the stuff , tanks needed to be totally emptied , a three man team , strip down to the jocks , into the manhole and scoop up the tallow into buckets to pass outside , slipery as, stinking to high heaven , hotter than hell [ Cairns in January ] we could only stay inside for 10min at a time , get out and jump off the wharf to cool down and then back in ,, that was the worst job ever !!
OK you win.
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... by a very long margin. ;)
LJ
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Gee it's a real small world, I worked there about 1968 for one week then wagged work for another 2 weeks and went surfing till the old man caught me, luckily by then S&L wouldn't take me back ;D
While Dad worked at S&L Waratah, I got a job in the uni holidays at BHP steelworks. One job was to cart a 25kg grease tin and air powered grease gun up ladders, gantries, etc to grease the coveyor belt rollers while hot sinter was running through. Earlier when I thought I wanted to be a cadet metallurgist, during a general strike we cadets had to shovel coal down into the coke ovens. The hot gases made one quite 'sleepy', lucky to be alive.
I bailed out of BHP after a second year cadet got burned alive in the BOS plant.
Apparently, Newc (Newie, Novocastria) is a great place these days.
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...hotter than hell [ Cairns in January ] we could only stay inside for 10min at a time , get out and jump off the wharf to cool down and then back in ,, that was the worst job ever !!
You know it's a bad job when during their "relax/cool down" time, the blokes jump off the pier into the mud with the crocodiles. Count me out.
I've led a very sheltered life, and for that I am immensely thankful.
Thanks!
Matto :)
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When I was still at school (I know a long time ago), I had a casual job working at a Coles supermarket. One Saturday morning one of their freezers had failed and they had lost a large amount of frozen chickens. All these chickens had been thrown into one industrial bin, however this made the bin too heavy, and I scored the job of having to climb into the bin and shovel half the now slightly decomposing chooks into another bin.
Been shovelling Shit ever since. ;D
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The one I have now Its only taken me the last 20 yrs to figure it gives me the......!
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Bushman, your current job may give you the ........!, but it's also given you a brand new Pajero and many new Jaycos.
My current job may not be that perfect, but it enables me to do what I like doing. Plenty of travel.
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Bushman, your current job may give you the ........!, but it's also given you a brand new Pajero and many new Jaycos.
Nah didn't actually, they came about by other means. but it does keep them both rolling :laugh:
But i get your point.
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I worked as an engineer at a major airline a few years back (they aren't here any more) and allthough it was generally a good job, when you got the job of overhauling the aircraft Poo tanks, it was a sh1t job. Removal of the pumps,cleaning out the dangly bits, all from through a mall hole in the top...Hmm, great memories!!
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I had a mate that had a job in the snap freezer . Peas were shelled then blown into the snap freezer , it was his job to scrap the frozen peas off the walls as they collected . Outside 30C inside minus 10C . Sounds like fun , NOT > :cheers:
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Hi,
at the back of the RAAF base in Butterworth (1960s) was a local 'night soil' repository.
Our health inspectors were a bit concerned about some of the 'practices' and wanted photographs to back their reports - thus my involvement.
The lorries arrived with cans full of stuff stacked up high on the back, these were emptied into pits (by hand) and then the bins were washed (by hand) over near a fire hydrant style water source.
Once a truck was emptied and the cans washed, the local laundry would get back to their dohby as if nothing had occurred.
Any how my (nearly) worst job experience happened when sighting up a photograph of the truck stuff going into the trench, I stepped back onto what I thought was solid ground to get a bit wider angle.
The ground was wobbly, and felt like I was walking on the skin of a big custard - Yep! I was on top of a recently filled trench.
Immediate steps were taken - and they were very long ones, and fortunately traction was maintained or I would have been in it up to my neck.
So that was (nearly) the worst job.
cheers
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My worst job, was working at Stewart and Lloyds(Tubemakers) on a pipe threading machine screwing sockets onto the freshly threaded pipe >:D boy those machines are loud!!!
Baz.
Somewhat OT but there is a campground in Myall Lakes NP called Stewart and Lloyds.
Mmmmmm, someone call the Accc.
Back to the thread...
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CLIVE:
The worst job I ever had was with Jayne Mansfield. You know, she was a fantastic bird, you know .....
DEREK:
Yeah, yeah.
CLIVE:
..... big bits, huge bum, and everything like that, but I had the terrible job of retrieving lobsters from her bum.
DEREK:
Really? Bloody hell, that must have been a task.
CLIVE:
Well, it was quite a task 'cause she had a big bum .....
DEREK:
Well, I remember.
CLIVE:
..... and they were big lobsters.
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Unclogging a level probe from a turd tank at a sewerage treatment plant.
Opened my eyes to some of the things that people flush down toilets, rather not see that again.
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Collating newspapers, same thing day in day out
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Maintenance Engineer at a Cage Chicken farm... I lasted 3 months... The people were great, just chicken Shit, rats and Caged chickens :( got to me after a while.. We refuse to have caged eggs at home now.... If you buy them you are not just cheap, you are also insensitive $%^& as the way those birds were treated.. :( hell I lasted 3 months, they die in their cages then their carcases are sent back to a fed factory where there are mashed up died turned into chicken food and sent back to where they died to fed the other poor birds.... And you Eat those eggs.... The kicker is if they live to be free of the cages they are killed anyway and end up in nuggets....
Processed Food.... aaarrrruuuggghhhh
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Repairing electric sanitary napkin disposal units (the burner and macerator type). These would often be sent in full (of Tampons etc) as the units had stopped and the users kept filling them up.
I still get flashbacks when I go down that aisle in Woolies.
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Pumping out school septic tanks.
Since I was low man on the totem pole I always had to climb down inside on the ladder and do the stirring with the long handle shovel....
Bill and Morag
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Diesel fitter in a ladies under wear factory. Tops of my ears would be killing by the end of the each day. ;D
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I worked as a GARBO in the days when we picked up the bins by hand.
The job wasn't so bad but at the end of the day we'd pool all the beer we were given then sit down to one cool VB, then one hot Brisbane Bitter (more like Brisbane River water) and then a stale Courage.
Enough to make you vomit but we had some good times.
Regards
Geoff
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My worst job ever was working on an onion farm. You cry all day, you get all dusty and dirty, and you couldn't get the strong onion smell off your hands.
Needless to say my girlfriend at the time dumped me not long after I started!!
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It's a toss up between having to wash the slimy Frankfurts , in a deli I worked at so they could be sold or having to attend post mortems, both repulsive in their own way.
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one word..........Bunnings :'(
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cleaning public servant toilets for a couple of years. GROSS!!!!!!! DIRTY MONGRELS!!!!!!
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i can literally say ive shovelled sh1t for a living
when i was busted broke and struggling to get work i was offered a job with a bloke up the road who sold firewood and sheep poo door to door - 1/2 the day was spent cutting firewood, the other 1/2 spent shovelling out from under a sheep pens while the dirty buggers above piddled all over you as you filled the bags
the next day was spent selling door to door
i hated that job and stuck it for 2 months till i found something better.
the prophetic words of my old man when i used to wag school came back to haunt me every day on that job
"son - if you dont buck your ideas up, you will end up shovelling sh1t for a living"
he still doesnt know about that job btw - never told him :redface:
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I spent two weeks as a 17 year old working in a factory making fibreglass pools. Itched, stunk, hot (big tin shed in summer). Worst was painting gel coat on the insides of the barrels for the pool filters. You couldn't breathe properly in the fumes, so it was take a deep breath, paint as much as you could and then pull your head out for a breath.
Richard
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Diesel fitter in a ladies under wear factory. Tops of my ears would be killing by the end of the each day. ;D
Hope you weren't ask to model them as well....That would be a sight :o
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The very thought of Snow walking around in womans underware Ahhhhhhhhhhh spare me ! :o :o
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Ok, so when did you two genius's spot the humour in my post?? ;D ;D
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Missed it , over the head like a jumbo jet . ;D
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Only worked for one place in my career, and its for just under 21 years. However, during that time I have held 4 different positions which was an interesting part of my working career for the one company. Cant say that the differrent positions were bad at all, frustrating at times yes, but all part of life.
To say I am sad that I will become unemployed as of this Thursday, lunchtime :'( :'( which is a little sad, but as one door shuts, another will open 8) :cheers:
So my worst job is the job that I am leaving due to our parent company moving all processes off shore for the past 4 years now.
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Pumping petrol at a servo.....the owners were freaks.I got the job because the last bloke got stabbed in the throat during an armed hold-up 4 days earlier. I found this out after I started of course. I think I lasted a month or so......NO THANKS!!!
>:(
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As a youngin I used to shovel grapes out of large skip bins... about 8 tons each time...into the grape presses at a winery in Adelaide hills......OH the sweat.....mmmm the taste of that wine. :D
Cheers DP
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one word..........Bunnings :'(
Seconded. It was 4.5 years of hell and I couldn't use any of the many tools on the customers or bosses. I was so glad to make it through to the other side.
How do I unblock my loo? Call a plumber ...
How do I wire up these new lights? Call an electrician ...
I need a do-hicky for my thing-ma-bob ... they are in aisle 9 on the left hand side about 1/3 of the way down.
I'm trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill, how would I go about it? Excavators are in aisle 22, top shelf & they come with instructions ... I think they are on special this week too.
Kit_e
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Ok, so when did you two genius's spot the humour in my post?? ;D ;D
ahhhh to be sure, to be sure Snow. The dim ones might not be gettin a bit of oirish humour
A clue lads...say out loud.....diesel fitter........ with a bit of an oirish twang :D
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A clue lads..
Hi,
Geez, I must be going senile ... I missed that one.
cheers
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Snow I Arrrr missed it all together , but , now its pointed out , Laugh you could have herd a pin drop on sponge . :cheers:
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Well it wasn't a job, more a course back when I was younger. I had to massage 18-20yr old girls for 2 days. I was the only male doing the course and there was about 15 girls.
They got up on the table, I had to tuck a towel into their G string, pull the G string down to their knees and massage.
Being the only male I was reluctant to massage the inner thigh but had to.
These girls were all fitness freaks, peach arsed and very respectable.
I too had to strip off and be massage as it was a rotation system.
It was a hands on massage course for Uni students. This story can be heard in greater depth, around the campfire :)
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Worked as a slaughter man @ the local abby's for years
That can be rough
There was a bloke there who worked in the gut room at the end of the sheep line his job was to put 2000 sheep heads on a guillotine one after the other & scoop the brains out
we called him the brain surgeon
:cheers:
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Well it wasn't a job, more a course back when I was younger. I had to massage 18-20yr old girls for 2 days. I was the only male doing the course and there was about 15 girls.
They got up on the table, I had to tuck a towel into their G string, pull the G string down to their knees and massage.
Being the only male I was reluctant to massage the inner thigh but had to.
These girls were all fitness freaks, peach arsed and very respectable.
I too had to strip off and be massage as it was a rotation system.
It was a hands on massage course for Uni students. This story can be heard in greater depth, around the campfire :)
Yep you can come on the next weekend away mate... your story sound more interesting than Speewa's or Xcvators :)
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NORTY WORDS.. BUT FUNNY AS ROOT
Derek And Clive - The Worst Job (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SentQjMIioY#)
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This might be the WORST JOB as this thread started 03/12/2010 ;D
Things can only get better , :cheers:
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The job I have now. Well its a lot better now than it was 6-7 years ago. I work in a casting plant of a refinery and its regularly over 40 degrees ambient temp in the building, then it just keeps getting hotter when you work next to all the LPG burners and metal furnaces. Along with that we had to knock the lifting pins out of the 1 tonne blocks we make with a sledge hammer. 2 pins per block and the pins would stick badly so we had to hit them, full swing, 6-8 times per pin to get them out and we did that to 185 blocks per shift. Back and hands were killing at the end of each day. The other machine made smaller 25kg blocks and it would regularly run very poorly so we'd end up picking up 10-15 tonnes of these blocks off the floor each shift and loading them into bins. During summer, a lot of blokes would be on their knees at times from fatigue. And it's not just me being a whinger. In 2012 we had 93 blokes, out of a workforce of 280, quit due to the conditions. Things are slowly getting better and more machinery automated.
But I cant complain as there are many out there who have it far worse than me.
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It was to be a short term job, whilst between jobs. Just to keep the money rolling in.
Fairymead sugar refinery. The job was to cart the bagasse (waste after crushing sugar cane) in an old tip truck. There were a fleet of the. Running too & fro. The other drivers told me that I was nursing the truck too much and that management would be on my case if I didn't speed up. So I sped up.
Next thing I'm being told off by the boss for abusing this old tipper, and sent into the conveyor belts to shovel the bagasse that had fallen off, back onto the belt.
Qld summer, hot as hell, 10 metres or so above the ground in a conveyor tunnel.
I didn't need the $$ that much and told them I wouldn't be back.
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Pulling up the plastic used under small crops once they were finished. Old rotten tomatoes, on black plastic middle of summer,
You would flick the plastic to get it out of the dirt, causing hot rotten tomatoes and dust to go flying, you would either step in the rotten tomatoes or wear them
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Would'nt want this job for quids. ;D
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Fancy having to stand there holding an Elephants tale like that, now that would be a mongrel of a job .... ;D
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l don't even want to think about the bloke leaning in to his job Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Think Happy Thoughts . Think Happy Thoughts :cheers:
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Fancy having to stand there holding an Elephants tale like that, now that would be a mongrel of a job .... ;D
Tell ya what, if it farts holding the tail would be bad, you'd be hit by a bloke covered in Shit with great force which would knock the wind out of you and you'd gasp - then get hit by round to.. the pile of nuggets...
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Tell ya what, if it farts holding the tail would be bad, you'd be hit by a bloke covered in **** with great force which would knock the wind out of you and you'd gasp - then get hit by round to.. the pile of nuggets...
& them nuggets ant from KFC ,,, & their not finger licking good ..... Arrrrrr >:D
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The one I currently have. It's a go nowhere, get nothing but pay kinda job. No personal satisfaction at all. Constantly told how we have to pick up the ball and do something with it, but we are continually tied up with "procedures" that are long winded novels for the soul purpose of making someone else's working life easier.
Sigh.
I think I need to go camping.
Kit_e
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15 odd year ago I worked on the phones as a debt collector. There's nothing more depressing than calling a little old lady about the funeral bill of her husband of 50+ years day after day...
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Worked as a slaughter man @ the local abby's for years
That can be rough
There was a bloke there who worked in the gut room at the end of the sheep line his job was to put 2000 sheep heads on a guillotine one after the other & scoop the brains out
we called him the brain surgeon
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Ahh the gut room, what a wonderfull place that was :-\ ! I used to clean the intestines for sausage skins at the Wongan Hills abs many years ago. They would be dropped thru a hatch into a trough and I would string them up, feed them thru some rollers to empty them out, them coil them into a bucket. Spent a fair bit of time salting and stacking skins, and doing all the other crappy outside jobs as well before earning a spot on the chain.
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The job I just left yesterday.
Not like I was shovelling Shit or anything like that, (office job) the business was bought out some months ago and the new owners have been bleeding it's cashflow for their other projects. Think Air New Zealand and Ansett for those who remember that story.
So as people leave they are not properly replaced so the ones remaining just get hammered and it was impossible to be up to date with tasks.
The business is so dysfunctional it's a joke.
Glad to be out of it. having some very stiff drinks this weekend.
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Early 90's, I had to spend the whole week with all the Miss Surf Girl entrants, driving them around and showing them the Gold Coast, going to all the functions etc, etc. It was bloody terrible!!!!!!!
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Mrs Jeepers use to be a teller at a Sperm Bank.
She said it was terrible, always dealing with wankers, and half the time, not knowing if they were coming or going.
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Early 90's, I had to spend the whole week with all the Miss Surf Girl entrants, driving them around and showing them the Gold Coast, going to all the functions etc, etc. It was bloody terrible!!!!!!!
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I was in hospitality for 20 odd years didnt realise how brutal it was until i got out of it,,,,, but could be worse I could have had a gig like broncos11 had, what a nightmare ;D
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l can see how it would be etched into your brain , so wipe the smile off your face >:D
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LOL careful my little sister was in Miss Surf Girl in the early 90's!!
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_a_UKKvUcoE
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15 odd year ago I worked on the phones as a debt collector. There's nothing more depressing than calling a little old lady about the funeral bill of her husband of 50+ years day after day...
That would sux big time :'(
At the time, all the jobs that I've had sux,
But looking back they have all had positive influences on my life.
They have all added to the layers that have got me to where I am today ;D
:cheers:
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