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I tried insulation install between jobs in my early 20's. Oh my god how can anyone do that shit?!?! I eventually wore a hoodie with Oakley goggles and gloves above my wrists. Nothing worked, I made it to Tuesday of the second week. 
and no "mop guy" at the peep show stories Peely.
and no "mop guy" at the peep show stories Peely.
The Shop
Customer Service Rep for Jaguar North America. I hated it so much... but the people I worked with were really great.
It was sand casting, and when they shook the molds out the sand went underground onto a conveyor belt that took it to be re-oiled so that it could be used again.
I had to go into those tunnels and shovel sand back onto the conveyor belt. You couldn't see your hand in front of your face for the dust.
You could only stay down there for about 15 minutes at a time before the sand had worked through the respirators and you were choking on dust.
I quit that place after a month!
Plugs were styrofoam inserts in the doors where the hinges were applied after being sanded and painted.
It was 140 degrees in there! The formaldehyde worked up my asthma so bad I felt like I was racing a 20 lap moto in a few minutes. They didn't provide respirators or dedicated fresh air. That job showed me who I didn't want to be.
Worked there for $8.60 an hour at 18 years old. Walked out after 4 months. The only job I ever walked out of. Applied to ups part time and stayed there for 7 years. Best job I ever had! Fun, demanding awesome benefits! Perfecto college job!
The same uncle, during the summer while school was out would take me on his Servomation truck. We kept the vending machines full at the mills and factories. I got the honor of cleaning the coffee machines..... It was more nasty than the horse poo. To this day, I hate horses and the very thought of coffee.
For example..
My boss created a trucking company in his wife's maiden name and then leased the race haulers back to Yamaha at a cost determined by him.
He used to pump the shop floor drain holding tank (gas, anti-freeze, etc) into the woods to save money in his budget
He used to sell prototype products that were supposed to be destroyed to his friends..or products that were written off. For example- Those products were to be destroyed, serial numbers cut out and pictures taken as proof - he would destroy one and take multiple pictures making them appear as though he destroyed 10 or 15 and then sell them.
He would fill his truck up from the gas pump at the shop..
He would buy equipment for the shop (lathes, Bridgeport, washer, dryer, etc) but have them shipped to his house.
He would sometimes get angry at work and not talk to any of us for 6 months at a time! LoL
The Japanese completely trusted him and he knew it so he was able to get away with anything he wanted..
That was just the tip of the iceberg!
Anyways he was "let go" a few years ago..
Pit Row
But the worst job was my late teens, trying to juggle racing, girls, parties, and girls. Me and some buddies went to work for a painting company prepping houses.
I can recall more than one morning going straight from some party and sleeping in the truck for a couple hours in front of the job site. Get woke up, hungover, in middle of hot AZ summer. Even at 5am it's hot.
We got fired because one of us (Curtis) decided it would be funny (it was) to use the masking tape to outline a big 6' tall penis drawing on this huge front window of one of the houses getting built. He probably used 4 rolls of tape, and spent 2 hours making this masterpiece. That was our last day and end of the painter apprentice career. We laughed all the way home....
Oilfield. I cleaned out the sludge in the bottom of a tank. Once completed, color me gone. H2S2?
Schwan's was a bit of a bitch, but the customers where ok.
Fuck Sales!!!
Hey Reese you win a handjob from NutterButter....that job would suck.
hahaha my jobs have not been as shitty as some of yalls
It was so hot in there I thought it would be interesting to see what the temp inside the building was, after hanging the thermometer (in the morning) I started my day. It wasn't 30min before the plant manager was asking me if I wanted to keep my job! Needless to say they removed the thermo.
Obviously the horror didn't stop there but I quit shortly after.
12hr.
Hauled sheetrock, Roofed houses, Worked in four or five bike shops. Those were cake.
The worst would have to be Legal Messenger. I’ve never been threatened so many times in my life.
Serving some guy divorce papers was fucking horrible. He would be thinking that I’m the guy boning his soon to be ex.
My last day was when I found the guy I had papers for hiding in a camp trailer behind his house.
If you have ever had a .45 stuck in your face then you’ll know why I didn’t give my two week’s notice.
It seemed like every stupid sonuvabitch who lived in a trailer park would end up with frozen/burst pipes. We would have to climb under the trailer which had been spraying water for who knows how many hours and crawl through the mud while trying to repair a broken line in the freezing cold. There were normally dead raccoons, possums, snakes, rats etc and usually smelled like hell under there. Crawling past dead animals in the mud while digging through wet insulation, looking for the burst line, on a zero degree day was no piece of cake.
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