What Are Considered the Worst Jobs in Science?

[Moonbear]

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. 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.

 

[Norman]

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.

 

[Norman]

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. 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.

 

[kaos]

WW1 cannon fodder...

 

[BicycleTree]

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.

 

[BobG]

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]

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.

 

[Danger]

I imagine that being Moonbear's assistant is a treat.









She probably lays traps for the poor guy all over the place and just crouches in the weeds waiting...

 

[Moonbear]

I imagine that being Moonbear's assistant is a treat.


She probably lays traps for the poor guy all over the place and just crouches in the weeds waiting...

*bats eyelashes* Who, me?

 

[Danger]

*bats eyelashes* Who, me?

Yes, you. Now get that gorgeous ass 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]

Yes, you. Now get that gorgeous ass 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.

 

[Danger]

You'll have to post faster then.

I'm trying, dammit! I've only got 233 mHz here...

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

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.

 

[Danger]

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.

 

[Reshma]

This thread is boring :zzz:

 

[Reshma]

So the vilest job is reading this thread

 

[Danger]

This thread is boring :zzz:

So the vilest job is reading this thread

Nice deke there. I love a surprise ending.

 

[SOS2008]

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...

 

[Moonbear]

I like that job title: "testicular electricians." Watch it guys! I've got jumper cables, and I'm not afraid to use them!

 

[Danger]

I've got jumper cables, and I'm not afraid to use them!

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]

I like that job title: "testicular electricians." Watch it guys! I've got jumper cables, and I'm not afraid to use them!

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...

 

[Danger]

Perhaps BobG could hook you up--

She should be able to hook herself up. That's why they have clamps instead of requiring a wrench...

 

[Moonbear]

She should be able to hook herself up. 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!

 

[Danger]

Wait, I wasn't supposed to be the one getting hooked up, I was supposed to be hooking up someone else!

Snooz'n'looz, babe.

 

[SOS2008]

Yeh, who's the hookee and who's the hooker! I'm sure there's a hook to this.

 

[Moonbear]

Yeh, who's the hookee and who's the hooker! I'm sure there's a hook to this.

Are you callin' me a 'ho?!

Wow, I blinked and you've got yet another new avatar! I like the cowboy kitty.

 

[Danger]

Yeh, who's the hookee and who's the hooker! 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]

I like cow-kitty, too. awwwrrr...

 

[Danger]

I like cow-kitty, too. awwwrrr...

Cow-kitty? Shouldn't that be in the 'Cloning Gone Wrong' thread?

 

[Type 7]

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. 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.