Jobs worse than mine

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-that guy who cleans up after each 'booth' showing
-carnie
-that guy who runs around cleaning up sweat from a bball game.
-door 2 door encyclopedia rep
-door 2 door vacume rep
- ok anything door to door - including jehovahs

How about you?

Where is my fizzy-lifting drink?

[Lindercles 0]

I think being Jehovah would actually be pretty cool.

[beowulf 1]

I once worked at a meat packing plant. They killed about 7,000 hogs a day. I worked in the Rendering Dept. as an Expeller Operator and also worked as a Cooker Operator. The Expeller Operator was one hardest jobs in there. That is the hardest and worst smelling job I have ever worked. If you are really hard up for work, they are always hiring.

[PrairieDoug 0]

What exactly does an "Expeller Operator" do?

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Fluffer.

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[beowulf 1]

On the first post I didn't have time to explain. But since you asked here goes.

The Rendering dept. is where they process all the inedible parts of the pig. The first step is all the garbage such as intestines, head and any scraps that can't be used for anything etc, goes to what was called the Condemn room. In the Condemn room all of this goes through what is called a prebreaker. The prebraker is a set of two huge rollers with big teeth on them. The stuff goes between these rollers to get broken down to smaller parts and into a blow tank. Once the blow tank is full it is blown through pipes over to an empty cooker tank. In the cooker tank the stuff gets cooked to around 250 degrees F. (I might be wrong on the temp. it has been awhile). Any way once it has all been cooked down it then gets poored out into a drain pan. Once the stuff has been drained of the liquid it gets dumped into an auger which goes to the Expeller. The Expeller squeezes as much of the grease out of it as possible. The more grease that is squeezed out the higher the percentage of protein in what is left. What is left is called Meat and Bone meal. That then goes to Mill and gets ground down to a fine powder.

As an Expeller operator it was my job to keep the Expeller operating and dump the pans into the auger. There were 7 cookers all running at the same time. It was a lot of work.

The Expeller op position was the first position I had. I signed on to the Cooker Operator and won that. But I couldn't move on to it till I had trained someone to take my place. I went through about 10 or 12 new hires before I found someone willing to stay long enough to learn the job. And that turned out to be someone that had already been working there and signed for the job.

A few of the guys that I trained didn't even last one day. One guy just walked in for his first day and turned around and walked out. Another only lasted to the first break. The closest a new hire came to taking my place was one week. He was an older guy that gave it his best, but at the end of the week he shook my hand and said he just couldnt handle it.

[riddler 0]

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I think being Jehovah would actually be pretty cool.

But not if you had to go door-to-door. "Hello, I am the living Christ ... OW! Hey, don't slam the door on my foot, I'm wearing sandals here!"

Other bad jobs:

- Sewer diver - dive in sewers looking for cracks and holes to patch up. I knew a guy who did that, and he said it wasn't that bad because only one out of every eleven gallons comes from toilets

- Bare-handed line repairman - Yes, they wear electrically insulated suits, and climb on the high-volatge wires while they are still ON, and attempt to repair them. Very high incidence of injury on this job.

- Greenie. God, what a thankless job. Always moving threads around and trying to keep the herd of thankless dz.commers in line. I hear the only consolation is naked night in the greenie forum. Might be worth it to see pics of skymama

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[ypelchat 0]

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-that guy who cleans up after each 'booth' showing
-carnie
-that guy who runs around cleaning up sweat from a bball game.
-door 2 door encyclopedia rep
-door 2 door vacume rep
- ok anything door to door - including jehovahs

How about you?

There are jobs worse than others....

For example: Rectal thermometer testing, for Johnson & Johnson.

Just purchase a J&J rectal thermometer, and, in fine print, it is written on the booklet: "all rectal thermometers have been tested for accuracy by our trained personnel"



Yves.

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Fluffer.

I hear they work for tips

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[kenz 0]

if you want to feel better about your jobs, i suggest watching "dirty jobs" on discovery - thats got em all :)

"life does throw curveballs sometimes but it doesn't mean we shouldn't still swing for the homerun" ~ me

[SpeedRacer 1]

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-door 2 door encyclopedia rep
-door 2 door vacume rep

when's the last time you saw anyone like this? 1975?

Speed Racer
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[freeflir29 0]

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- Sewer diver - dive in sewers looking for cracks and holes to patch up. I knew a guy who did that, and he said it wasn't that bad because only one out of every eleven gallons comes from toilets

Yeah but the $2500 you make for a short dive might make things a little better.