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Nastiest job you've ever had?
wipala
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Was a flagman for a crop duster. I got so much herbicides and other chemicals sprayed on me that when I was sweating I would clear a room with the odor. Probably took 10 or 12 years off of my life
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Merc
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we stupidly bid on a job to rehab an architecht's new loft office(never let that happen again) which required demo of terra cotta 15" bricks, removing plaster/metal lath ceiling, removal of 2000sq' of vinyl adhesive flooring....kid swung a sledge- knocked down terra cotta wall on himself(bump the size of apricot on his head and concussion/stitches). easy part of job done. removal of 20' drop ceiling required 2 guys scarrily in upper crawlspace alternately sawing w/ masonry blade/sawzall plaster/metal into 4' squares that then dropped "harmlessly" 20' to the rubble pile below...100 degree heat outside= 120 (at least!) up in crawlspace. you'd be up there for 5 minutes before it looked like you were in a wet t-shirt contest(not a pretty sight), which turned to mud w/ the incredible amount of plaster dust. took a f@#kin' week. removal of floor needed 40 gallons of jasco[size=1}tm[/size=1],which was highly toxic, vaporous fluid we spread out beneath floor scrubber machine like janitors use. sorta worked- to reveal tar/asphalt based gunk under adhesive layer. more solvents...more scrubbing...i feel sick just describing it again...
"let not your work smack of the trowel, nor your words cause a blow from one either..."
pigs and move the sows out we would set up sprinklers to soak the room overnight. Then the next morning I had to powerspray every spec of hog **** off of all the surfaces. Then disenfect the room for the new batch coming in. It took 4 to 5 hours to clean the room,,,I learned quickly to keep my mouth shut!!!
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Edited by - He Dog on 04/15/2002 16:36:08
I was the guy that stuck the needles in their veins. It was a 16gauge needle (about as thick as a pen refill) and sometimes when you pierced the vein, their blood pressure would cause it to spray all over our face sheilds.
It wasn't that bad, just MINDLESS. Set up machine, stick patients, take down machine, set up machine, stick patients..... For 10 hours a day. I swore I lost part of my sanity on that job.
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So at 4 mph I was bumping and bounceing across the dusty Texas plains for 12-14 hours a day. After a week he put someone else on that tractor -- said I was coming out of my tree. No wonder -- hadn't seen anyone but him and mom at breakfast and supper.
I've had nastier jobs (cleaning out degreasing tanks) but none that came closer to driving me out of my mind.
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A few months outa high school, I got a job, while waiting to finish up welding classes, for certification, I got a job stuffing Kotex into the aircleaners of 671 Detroit Diesel engines, this shop used to overhaul for the Navy on WWII landing craft.
Every Friday after lunch I'd get a few checks from the boss, and I would go shopping to the neighborhood grocery stores and buy all they had on the display shelves, you don't think people noticed when I came up to the checkout stand with all those boxes of the XX supers.
When asked what was up, I responded by saying, I was caring for an acquaintences lady elephant friend, while he was out to sea.
They just laughed..
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The worst job I ever had was tearing off a pitch tar roof on a school one hot summer...we'd taken our shirts off and got that pitch dust on our skin....it's like the worst sunburn you ever had. Then we put on a new hot asphalt roof and tons of gravel...all in 100 degree heat.
I've washed out the hog pens on a comercial farm. I've even scooped the manuer from ground level siloes.
The worse was crawling under a Dow Chemical rental/hospitality house in july with a broken sewage pipe. We did the lime and the builge pump things. Still had to crawl in with tyvek suites, roughly six inches of the good stuff in places with only about 20 inches of head room. Yes I crawled for about 2hrs, and yes I minded, alot!
Once it was cleaned up the plumber fixed the pipe!
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I also worked as a flag man for a cropduster in Bakersfield, California a couple of days; it was terrible ! I came home smelling like rotten onions, my shoes smelled so bad that I left them outside for a month. They still smelled, so I threw them out.
Don't remember why I took that job -
Jim
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This wasn't crops this was cattle country and we were spraying for ticks and other nasties. Besides I couldn't get within 5" of a girl with out her turning green from the odor.
You haven't worked nasty until you have worked in a refinery, paper-mill, pharmaceutical plant, or other industrial site where that cloud floating towards you is not just smelling like a fart, but is looking to kill you.
Present career worst was supervising Traffic Accident Investigations Unit. Saw to many things i'd rather not have seen.
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Cut up dead cows and pigs. Worst part was skinning and deveining cow livers. Nasty crap up to your elbows.
Guys, this was a real good incentive to stay in college.
Clifford A. Reed
Worked for a manufacturer of sewage pumps part of my duties was the service dept. It's amazing what people flush down thier toilet.
After the dairy, I got a job tailing a sawmill, the mill was built on a real swampy spot. The owner had a big contract for quartersawn oak. You picked up one of those boards and sank up to your knees. Still that job wasn't too bad. Still to this day I love the smell of sawdust. Saturday morning were my favorite day, half day cleaning everything. I would much rather shovel sawdust than S*it!
The all time worse thing I ever had to do was cleaning grease traps in the army. There is nothing worse than rancid animal fat. I hated k.p. duty.
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You and I should receive an award for burning the xxxx from the crappers in Vietnam. Those one half 55 gallon drums were really bad.
Remember when you poured the jp4 in and let it go? Bad. I was there the same time frame as you. Difficult to get your men involved unless
you participated. Really did stink. What oufit were you attached to?
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Anyway, the engine was under a metal box right next to the driver and the vehicles had no air conditioning, and those engines always seemed to overheat. The temperature was ridiculous in there, way over a hundred degrees. You drove around all day sweating with the summer sun beating down and getting cooked by that engine housing and brought home less than $20 profit on a good day.
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