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Old 05-16-2008, 06:42 PM

Hey,

I'm at the moment employed on a day-to-day basis through an employment agency for students and boy, do they send me out to weird places. Just a little over two weeks ago I was stuck cleaning toilets on Queen's Day (a national holiday to celebrate our Queen's birthday which isn't even in April but is basically a nation wide carbooth sale with lots of drunk people) in a restaurant. Before that I was glueing cardboard forms into actual boxes (never, ever give a gluegun to me, I get stuck with my sweater to most interesting things), I've cleaned vacation houses people can rent for a few days to weeks (seen enough used underwear to last me a lifetime) and yesterday I worked at an assembly line where the two people at the same stationw ound up chasing eachother around the floor with a dead cockroach.

All this made me wonder: have you ever done strange jobs, what are your experiences on these jobs? Or just strange chores. Humour me ;)

LemonTree.

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Old 05-16-2008, 09:38 PM

i don't really work. I get paid each summer for a week-long internship-thing, but otherwise, nothing.
Those are really interesting jobs. they sound really fun =]

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Old 05-16-2008, 09:58 PM

They're not as much interesting as incredibly painful and/or mind numbing. The assembly line thing was just this: take the shoeboxes out of the big boxes, move the seperate boxes on the running band and repeat. Plus it involved standing for eight hours in security shoes with steel noses and stiff soles. Ouch, my poor feet, especially when you're not used to it.

What kind of internships do you do then?

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Old 05-16-2008, 10:14 PM

i have a science internship over the summer, though it's more like a class than anything. We spend all day doing experiments and blowing up stuff. Then in late september, i get a check.
I was just thinking, you know that show dirty jobs? I feel bad for people who have those jobs.

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Old 05-16-2008, 10:45 PM

It wasn't so muc ha strange job as much as the concept of the job soudns strange.

I designed cubicle layouts, in a cubicle, inside of a cubicle factory. Lots of people claim to work in a cubicle land... I worked in the cubicle MOTHERland.

I also worked in a goth store, but that wasn't so much strange as fustrating (and no, mostly not because of the customers... though we hada few jems)

Oh yes... and just so you know... people that work in cubicle factories are the dirtiest nastiest sexual pervs you'll ever know. Main reason I finally left.

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Old 07-04-2008, 03:58 PM

A Wrinkle Chaser is somebody that irons the wrinkles from shoes as they are being made to ensure they are perfectly smooth when you buy them.
A person who sorts through baby chicks to find out if they are male or female is called a Chicken Sexer. (Yup, it's a real job!)
A Celluloid Trimmer is the person who shaves down a golf club and adds celluloid bands onto the clubs to make the leather grip stay put.
Odor Judgers smell armpits all day to help them to make deodorants that will properly mask the smell of sweat.

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Old 07-06-2008, 07:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Cleopatra16 View Post
Odor Judgers smell armpits all day to help them to make deodorants that will properly mask the smell of sweat.
I would die if I had that job. I really would.
I am so sensitive to smell that I would literally gag and then fall to the floor convulsing for lack of fresh air.
I get crazy when I smell too many candles or scented items in a row. It's almost as if I'm high.
Everyone is always shoving things at me to smell because I have such a good sniffer.

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Old 07-06-2008, 08:13 PM

Never had a strange job before... only mediocre jobs...

strangest thing I did was volunteer to paint the boy's bathroom in school o.O

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Old 07-06-2008, 08:26 PM

I've been very lucky with respect to the jobs I've held, so the strangest things I've had to do haven't been unpleasant (although dishwashing in the dining hall had its fair share of mundane unpleasant things).

The why of it is a bit of a long story, but for a few weeks last year I had to go all over campus every Wednesday and take both lots-of-context and close-up photos of forty or so tagged plants. Most of the walk was spent slowly circling groups of trees, looking for the tiny tag on the right one. I got a few very nice pictures, a lot of strange stares, and terrible allergies. xD

It might not be a strange thing to do in and of itself, but it's not something I would have expected working in the spatial analysis lab to entail.

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Old 07-07-2008, 06:20 AM

I work at a fast-food place, the one with the creepy ass clown. The strangest...and well most disgusting job I had to do was. To scape off, a used *aughh* pad from the underside of a patio dining table. It was gross, so, I had a facemask and gloves and an apron on, I didn't want it coming anywhere near me.

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Old 07-07-2008, 07:04 PM

Nah, not really. If you wanna see some real strange jobs, watch Dirty Jobs on Discovery Channel. iLove that show :'D

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Old 07-08-2008, 06:07 AM

I've actually never had a job. I need one really bad, I'm going to start looking at the end of summer. I was thinking of possibly trying an employment agency, but not sure I want to do that if they make you do really strange jobs... Like I absolutely refuse to clean bathrooms. I just won't. It's too dirty for me and I get grossed out easily. Are you allowed to turn down jobs or do you have to do every job they assign you without an option?

 


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