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Post by 973beachbum on Sept 18, 2013 16:03:35 GMT -5
.. if someone said they wanted mashed potatoes, or corn, or whatever, I'd scoop it into a bowel ... Directly into a bowel, huh? Mashed potato enemas... yeah, kinky. I think that is the funniest typo ever!
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Post by shanendoah on Sept 18, 2013 16:10:08 GMT -5
I actually found reshelving the porn easier than other reshelving because the room was much smaller. The only annoyance was the fact that so many titles were incredibly similar.
I don't know why, but that just struck me as hilarous! I'm picturing it only taking 30 seconds to reshelve a handful of "high school girl" "horny housewife" "hot asian chick" titles. Actually it was the "18 & ..." titles that most got on my nerves. I seemed to be the only person in the store who realized that you then alphabetized by the word after the ampersand. I would sometimes spend an extra 10 minutes in there rearranging the shelves to put things in the proper order.
Apparently, my work OCD overrules any embarrassment I might feel in those situations.
But otherwise, it was quick. Just like with any stack of movies to reshelve, I'd organize them at the front counter before I headed back into the stacks. And with the small room, it really did take only 2-3 minutes most days.
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Mardi Gras Audrey
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Post by Mardi Gras Audrey on Sept 19, 2013 1:02:16 GMT -5
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Post by Nazgul Girl on Sept 19, 2013 1:02:37 GMT -5
Stripping. More degrading - stripping for YM.
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Sum Dum Gai
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Sept 19, 2013 3:10:57 GMT -5
I worked the night shift at a hole in the wall truck stop for a while. I was the waiter/cook/dishwasher/cashier/janitor. I don't know if any of you have ever seen truck stop bathrooms but these ones had showers and porn vending machines in them. We rented them in half hour blocks. I had to clean up after each customer in between making food. First, and thankfully only, time I've ever had to clean up feces and semen smeared on a wall while making somebody food in the same 10 minute block of time. The tips blew too.
The bodily fluids smeared on the walls weren't a rare occurrence unfortunately.
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Jake 48
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Post by Jake 48 on Sept 19, 2013 5:52:41 GMT -5
I have worked fast food, cleaning, food prep, etc.. Then spent many years in different facilities maintenance positions where I have changed out/replaced garbage disposals on autopsy tables, changed out sewer ejector pumps in commercial buildings, unclog toilets, remove homeless people from the building. in my present job of public safety I have stepped/knelt or been exposed to a variety of body fluids, feces, urine, vomit, blood, brain matter etc.. So while not degrading it makes my life interesting
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Post by sunshinegal1981 on Sept 19, 2013 8:15:04 GMT -5
I worked the night shift at a hole in the wall truck stop for a while. I was the waiter/cook/dishwasher/cashier/janitor. I don't know if any of you have ever seen truck stop bathrooms but these ones had showers and porn vending machines in them. We rented them in half hour blocks. I had to clean up after each customer in between making food. First, and thankfully only, time I've ever had to clean up feces and semen smeared on a wall while making somebody food in the same 10 minute block of time. The tips blew too. The bodily fluids smeared on the walls weren't a rare occurrence unfortunately. Oh barf... that's a good one. (Did you clean under your fingernails?)
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jkapp
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Post by jkapp on Sept 19, 2013 8:26:47 GMT -5
none that were "degrading" per se, but my very first job ever was as a bagger in a grocery store. I wish I only bagged! I also had to take out the garbage in the store and by the cart return, clean up spills, and clean the restrooms.... women are nasty! LOL! Same here...I spent the summer working at a grocery store as a bagger doing the same stuff but jumped over to making pizzas in the fall. I LOVED making pizzas in comparison
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Post by jkapp on Sept 19, 2013 8:34:38 GMT -5
I don't think I've had any degrading jobs...I probably wouldn't have stayed with them if I had felt that way. grocery bagger pizza cook/delivery driver (hated delivering, but wasn't degrading) customer svc rep for phone company (sucky job but not degrading) worked a short stint at a Septic tank cleaning company (but worked in the office, thank God!) clerk at movie rental store (best...job...ever!!!) and then I finally started working my various accounting jobs...nothing degrading, but every once in a while I had to work with jerks.
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NomoreDramaQ1015
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Sept 19, 2013 8:39:08 GMT -5
I don't really have a most degrading job. The most degrading THING I've ever been asked to do at a job was rub ointment all over a mouse's prolapsed penis in an attempt to get it to go back in so I wouldn't have to euthanize him.
Both mice experienced that so I've always wondered if it was an issue unique to the transline.
Yeah, you try looking your co-workers in the face after you've fondled a mouse.
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Post by zibazinski on Sept 19, 2013 10:22:07 GMT -5
Counting the wrappers in the garbage at McDonalds. I worked one night and never came back.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Sept 19, 2013 11:40:34 GMT -5
Despite the fact that I milked rates (and occasionally did CPR on them), fed frogs, cleaned out containers of larvae, bled animals, fed monkeys, etc. I don't consider those jobs degrading. They were all jobs that someone had to do and as I was low man on the totem pole, they were my responsibility and I did them, and I did them well.
I think that the most degrading job I had was my first professional job at "very prestigious research institution" where I was treated as a lackey. I would come into work to find that one of the doctors (MDs) who were playing at research had trashed the lab and I got to clean up after them. I never had to clean up after the rest of the lab staff, just the MDs who were playing with the P32 and would leave it all over the lab, who would leave a hemocytometer of cells drying on the microscope stage, who would leave reagents open to the air, spatulas still in them, etc. and expected someone to come into the lab and just clean up after them.
Same thing with the professional students who would come in. They'd come into the lab and pour gels to run and not get to them. The gels would dry out and someone would have to salvage the equipment that they used before it became unusable.
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Post by greeniis10 on Sept 19, 2013 11:40:38 GMT -5
Counting the wrappers in the garbage at McDonalds. I worked one night and never came back. Why?? I never worked fast food, so I'm unsure as to why they would have you do this. Just curious. Or, am I missing a reference again, like I did early in the thread??
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Post by Phoenix84 on Sept 19, 2013 12:02:42 GMT -5
Yeah, I guess it is true that dining all food is crappy. And I did it for $5.25 an hour. This was before they increased the minimum wage, and it wasn't even that long ago, 2006 I think? These kids today, complaining about their $7/hour+ wages and going on strike. They don't know how good they have it.
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NomoreDramaQ1015
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Sept 19, 2013 12:07:27 GMT -5
I never had to clean up after the rest of the lab staff, just the MDs who were playing with the P32 and would leave it all over the lab, who would leave a hemocytometer of cells drying on the microscope stage, who would leave reagents open to the air, spatulas still in them, etc. and expected someone to come into the lab and just clean up after them.
Ever have to clean up refuse left behind after a lab relocates? OMFG. It really doesn't take that long to properly dispose of things but apparently that's way too much trouble. ES said don't worry about it, they find them and bill the crap out of them.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Sept 19, 2013 12:20:45 GMT -5
I never had to clean up after the rest of the lab staff, just the MDs who were playing with the P32 and would leave it all over the lab, who would leave a hemocytometer of cells drying on the microscope stage, who would leave reagents open to the air, spatulas still in them, etc. and expected someone to come into the lab and just clean up after them.
Ever have to clean up refuse left behind after a lab relocates? OMFG. It really doesn't take that long to properly dispose of things but apparently that's way too much trouble. ES said don't worry about it, they find them and bill the crap out of them. Yep.... When we moved, one of the basic scientists on the faculty became my bestest friend. As I was new to the area and didn't have any friends, we did a lot together. Well, she had a lab and had released her tech. The lab needed to be cleaned out (and this was after I had already cleared out our lab in TX AND put together another lab in KY) and as I was still waiting for some things, I agreed to 'help' her. Uh......she came in dressed to the nines in a fresh clinic lab coat and told me what needed to be done (I was dressed in my grungiest jeans, sneaks and a sweatshirt), then left. I figured she'd change and be back to help after her clinic hours. Nope, I cleared out that whole freaking FILTHY lab by myself, trying to figure out what was a biohazard and what was not because nothing was labelled correctly. The minute that the lab was cleared out, she dropped me like a hot potato. Bitch.
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NomoreDramaQ1015
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Sept 19, 2013 12:27:24 GMT -5
I warned my bosses that when it comes time to move to the new COP I will be stalking them until they get in the lab and help me clean. I'm not packing up and hauling a bunch of crap and I'm not leaving it for the next person to deal with.
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Post by zibazinski on Sept 19, 2013 13:42:00 GMT -5
Nope. The girl who got me the job said she was NEVER asked to do anything like that. Must have been my lucky night.
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Post by happyscooter on Sept 20, 2013 8:10:04 GMT -5
Being cursed out/at and having to sit there and take it. Then say 'thank you' or risked being fired. Not even the union could get you out of that one since you knew taking the job this was something that was going to happen.
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Post by happyscooter on Sept 20, 2013 8:14:53 GMT -5
I worked as a temp for many years (my choice). I was sent to a drug rehab clinic as a front desk worker/phones/clerk, etc... The girl who worked there was showing me around and then started showing me the form I filled out when I had to take someone to the restroom for a urine sample. I politely told her that I would not be watching anyone go to the bathroom, nor would I be handling that. And that I couldn't believe that her company had put her in that position because her not being certified or licensed could become a major problem if someone didn't pass. They could claim that she didn't know what she was doing and had contaminated their sample.
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