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Mar28-05, 08:07 AM
What do you think are the worst jobs? Perhaps school consoler or rat exterminator are high up on your list of very sucky jobs? Or do you hate being the administrators of an online physics forum? What about stunt double? I would hate to be a babysitter, think of all the screaming kids. I Got the idea for this of and old Popular Science story, worst jobs in science.
Fibonacci
Around here, javelin catcher is considered to be pretty near the top of the list...
Oh, no, have you no idea what you've just done by starting this thread??!! Rhinos! Barry White! Electroejaculator! Nooooooooo!!!!!!!!! (You should check the classics thread before starting a thread like this)
Anyway - how about soccer referee .... although some (http://www.texans8687.com/Resources/Videos/00000001.0/00000001.0.042.wmv) seem to have more fun than others.
Moonbear
Mar28-05, 10:15 AM
Or the guy in the circus who has to run around cleaning up after the elephants when they're on parade! :rofl:
Rhino love. :!!)
Like hippopotamus love, but hornier?
Anyway - how about soccer referee .... although some (http://www.texans8687.com/Resources/Videos/00000001.0/00000001.0.042.wmv) seem to have more fun than others.
Thanks for the link. I was expecting it to be a porn site, but it was amusing anyhow. :biggrin:
Bladibla
Mar28-05, 11:13 AM
teacher suck up, if that counts as job.
teacher suck up, if that counts as job.
"I want to grow up to have a brown nose." - monster.com commercial from a few years ago.
hypatia
Mar28-05, 02:28 PM
Cub Scout camp leader....500 screaming little boys under the age 8. It was like a nighmare in the daytime.
Monique
Mar28-05, 02:35 PM
I'd hate to stand waist deep in pigeon droppings to cure leather from animals that just have been skinned.
Chronos
Mar28-05, 04:01 PM
Crime scene cleaning technician.
Cub Scout camp leader....500 screaming little boys under the age 8. It was like a nighmare in the daytime.
Were they screaming before you performed the dance of the 7 veils? :wink:
I'd hate to stand waist deep in pigeon droppings to cure leather from animals that just have been skinned.
You really expect us to believe that? C'mon... you know you'd love it.:biggrin:
hypatia
Mar28-05, 04:53 PM
No but they were screaming AS they toppled all the port-o-pots!
the dance came later
No but they were screaming AS they toppled all the port-o-pots!
Occupied? :biggrin:
BicycleTree
Mar28-05, 05:20 PM
How about subsistence farmer?
Bladibla
Mar28-05, 05:23 PM
Around here, javelin catcher is considered to be pretty near the top of the list...
You got my vote on that.
BicycleTree
Mar28-05, 05:31 PM
Coal miner.
BicycleTree
Mar28-05, 05:32 PM
Or if the song is to be believed, chemical worker: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/greatbigsea/thechemicalworkerssongprocessman.html
(I like this song. It's catchy.)
Or if the song is to be believed, chemical worker:
The link just gave me the lyrics, not the song, so I have to take your word that it's catchy. This sounds a lot more like a process worker (hence the title), than a chemical one. In my area, at least, a process plant is where they would for instance pulverize and arc-smelt magnacite ore to extract magnesium. There are quality control chemists on site, but it's strictly a down-and-dirty mill job. (You oughta see the scars one of my friends has from being splashed with liquid magnesium when an electrode failed.)
BicycleTree
Mar28-05, 06:00 PM
Wow. I recommend you get the song then. It really is catchy.
Wow. I recommend you get the song then. It really is catchy.
Well, I really love "Workin' In a Coal Mine", so who knows...?
mathlete
Mar28-05, 08:52 PM
Anything in a morgue or funeral home... it would just be so depressing, I don't know how people can do that let alone voluntarily go into those fields.
BicycleTree
Mar28-05, 08:58 PM
Aw cmon, funerary professions are cushy compared to mining coal. Talk about morbidity--how about knowing you're going to die of black lung disease by the time you're 50!
how about knowing you're going to die of black lung disease by the time you're 50!
Well... I'm only 49, but the way the emphysema is progressing... (it's damned near enough to make me quit smoking) :biggrin:
Ivan Seeking
Mar29-05, 01:07 AM
1999 Darwin Award Winner
PADERBORN, GERMANY - Overzealous zoo-keeper Friedrich Riesfeldt fed his constipated elephant Stefan 22 doses of animal laxative and more than a bushel of berries, figs, and prunes before the plugged-up pachyderm finally let fly, and suffocated the keeper under 200 pounds of poop!
Investigators say that the ill-fated Friedrich, 46, was attempting to give the ailing elephant an olive-oil enema when the relieved beast unloaded on him like a dump truck full of mud.
“The sheer force of the elephant's unexpected defecation knocked Mr. Riesfeldt to the ground, where he struck his head on a rock and lay unconscious as the elephant continued to evacuate his bowels on top of him,” said flabbergasted Paderborn police detective Erik Dern.
“With no one there to help him, he lay under all that dung for at least an hour before a watchman came along, and during that time, the keeper suffocated. It seems to be just one of those freak accidents that happen.”
http://www.biogasworks.com/Goodies/1999%20Darwin%20Award%20Winner.htm
Moonbear
Mar29-05, 01:20 AM
And in related news:
PRAGUE (Reuters) - A Czech tractor driver died under eight tons of manure in a bizarre accident that has baffled his employers, local media reported.
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2005-03-28T160320Z_01_L27589345_RTRIDST_0_ODD-PEOPLE-CZECH-MANURE-DC.XML
re: Darwin Winner
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: I am so glad that I finished my beer before I read that, 'cause it sure as hell would have come out my nose if I'd still been drinking it.
Coal miner.
I have a brother-in-law that did that for one day. On the way down, they turned the lights out and let the elevator free-fall most of the way down (I guess something in the shaft automatically deploys the brakes before they reach the bottom?). Plus I guess being down there in a cave isn't too great an experience, either - he just couldn't shake that feeling that he'd die before getting up to the top again. He couldn't get up the nerve to go back down after that first day and had to quit.
BicycleTree
Mar29-05, 12:38 PM
Yeah, it's awful. How about coal miners before they had unions and were basically indentured servants to the company because of debt to the company store, so they couldn't even quit?
Moonbear
Mar29-05, 12:55 PM
I have a brother-in-law that did that for one day. On the way down, they turned the lights out and let the elevator free-fall most of the way down (I guess something in the shaft automatically deploys the brakes before they reach the bottom?). Plus I guess being down there in a cave isn't too great an experience, either - he just couldn't shake that feeling that he'd die before getting up to the top again. He couldn't get up the nerve to go back down after that first day and had to quit.
When I was in Poland many years ago, I visited a salt mine there. As we were taking the "stomach plunging" elevator ride back out, our tour guide told us they slow the elevator down for the tourists, actual workers would take a much faster ride not to waste as much time. :yuck: Though, once they were down, they stayed down a while, which is how they had enough free time to carve chapels and ballrooms (beautiful!) into the mines.
One summer I worked as a disaster restoration specialist for a company here. My main job was cleaning up after sewage backups and I was on call at night (this all for $9/hour). Anyways, there are not many things worse than being called into work at 2am to try and salvage someones house from floating feces. It was horrible. On top of that, we were constantly fighting our cheap owners for the correct safety gear. We had to buy our own boots. I didn't have a respirator for the whole time I worked there, only a little dust mask. That was the worst.
When I was in Poland many years ago, I visited a salt mine there. As we were taking the "stomach plunging" elevator ride back out, our tour guide told us they slow the elevator down for the tourists, actual workers would take a much faster ride not to waste as much time. :yuck: Though, once they were down, they stayed down a while, which is how they had enough free time to carve chapels and ballrooms (beautiful!) into the mines.
Was this the salt mine outside of Krakow? My fiance's brother did his masters at the Jagallonian (sp?) Institute in Krakow and for my spring break last year we went to visit him. We didn't get to the salt mine, but I really wanted to go and hear a concert there- it is said to be so wonderfully created that the music just purrs... I want a Zywiec now. I love that beer.
BicycleTree
Mar29-05, 01:45 PM
Norman, that also sounds like an awful job... at least you were getting paid $9/hr.
kaos, yeah, I guess that would be truly awful. The most you can say is it's generally over in a couple weeks. Sitting in freezing trenches with smoke all around you and bullets and bombs flying out from the smoke and killing people around you.
WW1 cannon fodder......
WWII Russian soldiers defending Leningrad during the siege. It wasn't the Germans that were so bad. It was the fact that the soldiers were the only edible food left in Leningrad (the civilians usually had no meat left on their bones by time they died of starvation). Leningrad women would lure the Russian soldiers into an ambush with the promise of sex, then drag them home for dinner.
Moonbear
Mar29-05, 03:45 PM
Was this the salt mine outside of Krakow? My fiance's brother did his masters at the Jagallonian (sp?) Institute in Krakow and for my spring break last year we went to visit him. We didn't get to the salt mine, but I really wanted to go and hear a concert there- it is said to be so wonderfully created that the music just purrs... I want a Zywiec now. I love that beer.
Might have been...I was there with a choir, and we were just dragged around on a tour bus often not knowing what our choir director had planned for us until we got there. It was sure better than yet another palace or museum. I think it was a trip we made out of Krakow...I should see if I can find the photo album from that trip; I might have noted where it was.
I imagine that being Moonbear's assistant is a treat. :wink:
She probably lays traps for the poor guy all over the place and just crouches in the weeds waiting... :devil:
Moonbear
Mar29-05, 04:30 PM
I imagine that being Moonbear's assistant is a treat. :wink:
She probably lays traps for the poor guy all over the place and just crouches in the weeds waiting... :devil:
*bats eyelashes* Who, me? o:)
*bats eyelashes* Who, me? o:)
Yes, you. Now get that gorgeous *** of yours over to the thread killer thread and stay there. We're going out of our way to hit the bimillenium before you have to leave.
Moonbear
Mar29-05, 04:49 PM
Yes, you. Now get that gorgeous *** of yours over to the thread killer thread and stay there. We're going out of our way to hit the bimillenium before you have to leave.
You'll have to post faster then. :rofl:
You'll have to post faster then. :rofl:
I'm trying, dammit! I've only got 233 mHz here... :redface:
TheStatutoryApe
Mar30-05, 12:48 AM
I once worked at a department store and was asked to clean up vomit. I didn't really mind doing it at all since I had worked at a vetrinary hospital and cleaned up some pretty nasty messes in my time but my manager felt so bad about it that she insisted on giving me a free CD for having done the job. Free music is always nice.
I once worked at a department store and was asked to clean up vomit.
Yet another of the joys of working in a bar. On the whole, though, I think that I'd rather do that than be a sapper.
This thread is boring :zzz:
So the vilest job is reading this thread :wink:
This thread is boring :zzz:
So the vilest job is reading this thread
Nice deke there. I love a surprise ending. :biggrin:
SOS2008
Mar30-05, 08:30 PM
Talk about vile jobs, this might be best left for illegal immigrants, or...
WASHINGTON, DC—AFL-CIO vice president Linda Chavez-Thompson, representing the American Federation of Interrogation Torturers, released a statement Monday deriding the CIA's "extraordinary rendition" program, under which American torturing jobs are outsourced to foreign markets. "Outsourcing the task of interrogating terror suspects to countries like Egypt, Syria, and Saudi Arabia is having a crippling effect on the Americans who make a living by stripping detainees nude, shackling them to the floor, and beating the living **** out of them," Chavez-Thompson said. "And specialists within the field—corrosive-material chemists, ocular surgeons, and testicular electricians—are lucky to find any jobs at all. How are they supposed to feed their families?" Attorney General Alberto Gonzales defended extraordinary rendition, saying the program will create jobs in the long run by fostering a global climate of torture tolerance.
Oh, okay, that's not very nice... :uhh:
Moonbear
Mar30-05, 08:33 PM
:rofl: I like that job title: "testicular electricians." :rofl: Watch it guys! I've got jumper cables, and I'm not afraid to use them! :devil:
I've got jumper cables, and I'm not afraid to use them! :devil:
Do you and MIH share a set, or do you have your own?
(Notice that despite nearly overwhelming provocation, I made no mention of nipple clamps....)
SOS2008
Mar30-05, 08:54 PM
:rofl: I like that job title: "testicular electricians." :rofl: Watch it guys! I've got jumper cables, and I'm not afraid to use them! :devil:From the Superficial Love thread...
Personally, I'm superficially attracted to those with a fondness for Tetraboric acid and Borax.Perhaps BobG could hook you up--though you may have to go overseas... :uhh:
Perhaps BobG could hook you up--
She should be able to hook herself up.:confused: That's why they have clamps instead of requiring a wrench...
Moonbear
Mar30-05, 10:33 PM
She should be able to hook herself up.:confused: That's why they have clamps instead of requiring a wrench...
Wait, I wasn't supposed to be the one getting hooked up, I was supposed to be hooking up someone else! :bugeye:
Wait, I wasn't supposed to be the one getting hooked up, I was supposed to be hooking up someone else! :bugeye:
Snooz'n'looz, babe. :biggrin:
SOS2008
Mar31-05, 01:29 AM
Yeh, who's the hookee and who's the hooker! :confused: I'm sure there's a hook to this.
Moonbear
Mar31-05, 01:39 AM
Yeh, who's the hookee and who's the hooker! :confused: I'm sure there's a hook to this.
Are you callin' me a 'ho?! :rofl:
Wow, I blinked and you've got yet another new avatar! I like the cowboy kitty. :biggrin:
Yeh, who's the hookee and who's the hooker! :confused: I'm sure there's a hook to this.
I say there, SOS, nice pusoh crap, even I won't go that far.
Math Is Hard
Mar31-05, 01:44 AM
I like cow-kitty, too. awwwrrr...
I like cow-kitty, too. awwwrrr...
Cow-kitty? Shouldn't that be in the 'Cloning Gone Wrong' thread?
Leningrad women would lure the Russian soldiers into an ambush with the promise of sex, then drag them home for dinner.
I've never heard that one before! There is an entire Tolstoy novel's worth of drama and human nature in that one sentence.
No matter the company or industry, whoever does the cleaning has the worst job. At the community college where I work, someone has been leaving human waste on the bathroom floor in front of the sink every morning for the past week. :eek: The poor janitor has to clean it up every day. He is VERY motivated to catch the culprit! I feel for him, but I have to laugh. Probably some student is dissatisfied with his college experience. :rofl:
Moonbear
Mar31-05, 01:31 PM
At the community college where I work, someone has been leaving human waste on the bathroom floor in front of the sink every morning for the past week. :eek: The poor janitor has to clean it up every day. He is VERY motivated to catch the culprit! I feel for him, but I have to laugh. Probably some student is dissatisfied with his college experience. :rofl:
That's just nasty! I don't find it funny at all. If someone is that dissatisfied, I'm sure when they get caught, someone can help them find the door to leave through if they aren't intelligent enough to find it for themselves.
Probably whoever it is will wash out if he isn't kicked out.
We try to take it all in stride. Laughter helps. Honestly, no one but the janitor is upset by it. To everyone else it's just another day in higher education.
fourier jr
Mar31-05, 03:39 PM
What do you think are the worst jobs? Perhaps school consoler or rat exterminator are high up on your list of very sucky jobs? Or do you hate being the administrators of an online physics forum? What about stunt double? I would hate to be a babysitter, think of all the screaming kids. I Got the idea for this of and old Popular Science story, worst jobs in science.
Fibonacci
-- roofer/labourer
-- marker/grader for a university/college course
-- any job where you'd have to sit at a cubicle under humming flourescent lights & remain quiet & still (except punching numbers into a computer) all day long
-- at a recycling depot with all the smashing glass & other loud noises. that would be the ultimate worst job to go to when hungover
-- dentist, at least if you don't like to cause people pain
-- doing the cleaning of all the machinery during the nights at a meat-packing plant in the US (anyone read fast-food nation?)
-- prison guard at a private prison
I don't imagine that most palace eunichs are volunteer labour... :eek:
Math Is Hard
Mar31-05, 05:36 PM
-- doing the cleaning of all the machinery during the nights at a meat-packing plant in the US (anyone read fast-food nation?)
I did read that actually. <shudder> :bugeye: Took all the fun out of going to McDonalds for me. :frown:
You just made me think of something else, fourier: another book about low-wage jobs in the U.S. --- Nickel and Dimed by by Barbara Ehrenreich. She took all the fun out of going to Walmart for me. :frown:
I should probably read less.
I did read that actually. <shudder> :bugeye: Took all the fun out of going to McDonalds for me. :frown:
You used to have fun there? :bugeye:
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