[quote]Uncle Gabby wrote:
Was it hard or was it soft?
Are you asking if it turned him on?
Why were you? lol
Ha! That was a little strange. The poop was soft, but my pants are liquid resistant (not quite luquid proof). I was definately not turned on.[/quote]
I agree, I didn’t ask you anything.
Night stocker at a large grocery store. The shift was 12:00 midnight until 8:00 am, 6 nights a week. For the first half-hour, you would go with everyone else back to the warehouse to load up your carts with all the food, then there was no human contact until your shift ended. I spent the entire night in maybe 2-3 aisles.
It wasn’t the most difficult work and the pay wasn’t bad; minimum wage plus $3.00, but it was utterly mind-numbing. I often spent 3-4 hours strictly sorting through canned cat food (of which there are more varieties than I could possibly imagine).
I was working while everyone I knew was sleeping, and I was sleeping while they were all doing shit. I felt like I got really out of sync with the rest of the human race when I worked there; sort of a DeNiro in Taxi Driver kind of feeling. Also, kneeling down on the hard floor for hours at a time fucking destroyed my knees.
We tried to put little pieces of cardboard down like prayer mats, but that didn’t really work. I couldn’t squat for a good 3 months after I quit.
[quote]BJack wrote:
Night stocker at a large grocery store. The shift was 12:00 midnight until 8:00 am, 6 nights a week. For the first half-hour, you would go with everyone else back to the warehouse to load up your carts with all the food, then there was no human contact until your shift ended. I spent the entire night in maybe 2-3 aisles.
It wasn’t the most difficult work and the pay wasn’t bad; minimum wage plus $3.00, but it was utterly mind-numbing. I often spent 3-4 hours strictly sorting through canned cat food (of which there are more varieties than I could possibly imagine).
I was working while everyone I knew was sleeping, and I was sleeping while they were all doing shit. I felt like I got really out of sync with the rest of the human race when I worked there; sort of a DeNiro in Taxi Driver kind of feeling. Also, kneeling down on the hard floor for hours at a time fucking destroyed my knees.
We tried to put little pieces of cardboard down like prayer mats, but that didn’t really work. I couldn’t squat for a good 3 months after I quit.[/quote]
I don’t know how people can do overnight shifts. I think I would start to lose my mind if I had to work something like 12:00 - 8:00. I work a quasi-second shift right now that I find rather annoying. In my ideal world I would probably work something like 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Who am I kidding??? My ideal shift would be 10 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. lol
[quote]WhiteSturgeon wrote:
[quote]BJack wrote:
Night stocker at a large grocery store. The shift was 12:00 midnight until 8:00 am, 6 nights a week. For the first half-hour, you would go with everyone else back to the warehouse to load up your carts with all the food, then there was no human contact until your shift ended. I spent the entire night in maybe 2-3 aisles.
It wasn’t the most difficult work and the pay wasn’t bad; minimum wage plus $3.00, but it was utterly mind-numbing. I often spent 3-4 hours strictly sorting through canned cat food (of which there are more varieties than I could possibly imagine).
I was working while everyone I knew was sleeping, and I was sleeping while they were all doing shit. I felt like I got really out of sync with the rest of the human race when I worked there; sort of a DeNiro in Taxi Driver kind of feeling. Also, kneeling down on the hard floor for hours at a time fucking destroyed my knees.
We tried to put little pieces of cardboard down like prayer mats, but that didn’t really work. I couldn’t squat for a good 3 months after I quit.[/quote]
I don’t know how people can do overnight shifts. I think I would start to lose my mind if I had to work something like 12:00 - 8:00. I work a quisi-second shift right now that I find rather annoying. In my ideal world I would probably work something like 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Who am I kidding??? My ideal shift would be 10 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. lol [/quote]
Thats not the worst.
The really bad thing is an unpredictable night/day schedule.
[quote]orion wrote:
[quote]WhiteSturgeon wrote:
[quote]BJack wrote:
Night stocker at a large grocery store. The shift was 12:00 midnight until 8:00 am, 6 nights a week. For the first half-hour, you would go with everyone else back to the warehouse to load up your carts with all the food, then there was no human contact until your shift ended. I spent the entire night in maybe 2-3 aisles.
It wasn’t the most difficult work and the pay wasn’t bad; minimum wage plus $3.00, but it was utterly mind-numbing. I often spent 3-4 hours strictly sorting through canned cat food (of which there are more varieties than I could possibly imagine).
I was working while everyone I knew was sleeping, and I was sleeping while they were all doing shit. I felt like I got really out of sync with the rest of the human race when I worked there; sort of a DeNiro in Taxi Driver kind of feeling. Also, kneeling down on the hard floor for hours at a time fucking destroyed my knees.
We tried to put little pieces of cardboard down like prayer mats, but that didn’t really work. I couldn’t squat for a good 3 months after I quit.[/quote]
I don’t know how people can do overnight shifts. I think I would start to lose my mind if I had to work something like 12:00 - 8:00. I work a quisi-second shift right now that I find rather annoying. In my ideal world I would probably work something like 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Who am I kidding??? My ideal shift would be 10 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. lol [/quote]
Thats not the worst.
The really bad thing is an unpredictable night/day schedule. [/quote]
Yup. In January I bounced around from first shift to third, then second to third, then back to second again.
My sleep patterns and head is still all screwed up and I can’t seem to get reset.
Worst should be described as relative to a good job you have had. Yeah Cmdads story is the best worse job but the worse job to someone could be selling life insurance to people knowing that they won’t get alot of money out of it in reality. That would by far be the worse selling shit with a guilty conscience.
I think someone who works for a sketchy insurance company could think that what they were currently doing is a horrible job yet still do it. But to someone else it would be a seemingly good job, I’m trying to say that it’s relative to what jobs that person has held. I just used an example where the morality of the job made one feel guilty and thus it could be a bad job yet seemingly good to an outsider.
I had this one job, off the books and I was collecting unemployment. It was at a warehouse unloading tractor trailer trucks. We worked in teams, 2 of us. We each got $25 for every trailer we unloaded, on a good night we’d do 3 trailers. Some stuff was on pallets and we used pallet jacks and maybe a forklift if one was open to use. Sometimes it was all boxes that we had to hump onto carts. Once we opened a trailer, we had to see it through, no matter what. A few times I got out of there at 3 AM. I did that for 2 months.
Rob
Once I spent a whole summer delivering the “white pages”(government supplied local phone directories). It was a requirement to deliver them to the front door of every house. By the end of the 6 week stint I was throwing them from the van like a frisbee.
It was actually very physically taxing as I was walking to and from the van for days on end in 40 degree celsius heat. When not delivering, I was sitting in a back of a van traveling to the next street/suburb.
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[quote]Jlabs wrote:
I think someone who works for a sketchy insurance company could think that what they were currently doing is a horrible job yet still do it. But to someone else it would be a seemingly good job, I’m trying to say that it’s relative to what jobs that person has held. I just used an example where the morality of the job made one feel guilty and thus it could be a bad job yet seemingly good to an outsider. [/quote]
Guilty conscious about something Jlabs?
[quote]beachguy498 wrote:
I had this one job, off the books and I was collecting unemployment. It was at a warehouse unloading tractor trailer trucks. We worked in teams, 2 of us. We each got $25 for every trailer we unloaded, on a good night we’d do 3 trailers. Some stuff was on pallets and we used pallet jacks and maybe a forklift if one was open to use. Sometimes it was all boxes that we had to hump onto carts. Once we opened a trailer, we had to see it through, no matter what. A few times I got out of there at 3 AM. I did that for 2 months.
Rob [/quote]
Did you work for the Mob?
[quote]theBird wrote:
Once I spent a whole summer delivering the “white pages”(government supplied local phone directories). It was a requirement to deliver them to the front door of every house. By the end of the 6 week stint I was throwing them from the van like a frisbee.
It was actually very physically taxing as I was walking to and from the van for days on end in 40 degree celsius heat. When not delivering, I was sitting in a back of a van traveling to the next street/suburb.
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The people who do that around here get paid to deliver X units, so everybody gets 2 or 3 because who ever is delivering them doesn’t want to drive around too much. I turned someone in for littering up my driveway when they threw 4 of them at the bottom and it rained on them.
[quote]SkyzykS wrote:
[quote]theBird wrote:
Once I spent a whole summer delivering the “white pages”(government supplied local phone directories). It was a requirement to deliver them to the front door of every house. By the end of the 6 week stint I was throwing them from the van like a frisbee.
It was actually very physically taxing as I was walking to and from the van for days on end in 40 degree celsius heat. When not delivering, I was sitting in a back of a van traveling to the next street/suburb.
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The people who do that around here get paid to deliver X units, so everybody gets 2 or 3 because who ever is delivering them doesn’t want to drive around too much. I turned someone in for littering up my driveway when they threw 4 of them at the bottom and it rained on them.
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I got paid by the hour.
I did try convince my team that we should drop of a whole lot of books into the bin and take the afternoon off, and then tell the boss that we did deliver those books.
Nerds would not listen to me.
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Personal Trainer at a 24 hour gym… Graveyard shift…
Masons apprentice → that job just fukin sucked!
Attempting to sell pay TV door to door. I just didn’t have the gift;
Me: Hey, Im just in the area today having a chat about Foxtel…
Person: Oh, we don’t watch TV (TV is blasting in the background)
Me: Oh, really? Fair enough then. Sorry to bother you! (walk away thinking that did NOT go as planned)
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[quote]Mitch87 wrote:
Attempting to sell pay TV door to door. I just didn’t have the gift;
Me: Hey, Im just in the area today having a chat about Foxtel…
Person: Oh, we don’t watch TV (TV is blasting in the background)
Me: Oh, really? Fair enough then. Sorry to bother you! (walk away thinking that did NOT go as planned)
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You just needed to be a lot more assertive. Years ago I sold gym membership packages and I was making almost what I’m making now. If they were undecided or reluctant to buy I would turn the heat up, way up, maybe to the point of intimidation. Some skinny assed 18 year old kid would come in and I would assure him that he too could look like me, but the only way would be to buy the package. I did as well selling to women too. My strategy was different but equally successful using a combination of instilling hope and flirting, maybe even a light touch on the arm to seal the deal.
[quote]Mitch87 wrote:
Attempting to sell pay TV door to door. I just didn’t have the gift;
Me: Hey, Im just in the area today having a chat about Foxtel…
Person: Oh, we don’t watch TV (TV is blasting in the background)
Me: Oh, really? Fair enough then. Sorry to bother you! (walk away thinking that did NOT go as planned)
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LOL! I wasn’t cut out for sales either.