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**Skip Towne** · 10-09-2009, 08:09 AM

Mine was hauling small square bales of hay. It is hot, often over 100 degrees in the barn. You have to wear a long sleeved shirt or your arms will get bloodied. And it is damn hard work. Bales of alfalfa can weigh up to 90 pounds. No way I could do it today.

KC Jones · 10-09-2009, 04:47 PM

hmmm....

I'd have to go with working in a grain elevator one summer while home from college. I believe it's now the Bartlett Grain, Co. and it's off or Armour Rd. just north of the river by 435. I could get decent pay there ~ $7.00/hour since they weren't union. A union shop required 3 months at minimum wage ~$4.00 before you got the union wage ~$12.00.

Anyway, since I was going to college the inbred toothless pieces of shit that worked there referred to me as "college puke" - at least when they thought I was out of ear shot. It was hard hot nasty dirty work. You'd get grain dust in your nostrils, hair, ears, - anything that was exposed. There was spilt rotten grain all over the place teaming with maggots and various insects in different stages of their lives. Some of the silos were old with flat bottoms so when they needed to be emptied you had to climb in and shovel the last of it (piled about 20' high) into the corner drop that fed the elevator. It could be 110 or more in there. Dust everywhere and your goggles would steam up and you could barely breath. Bugs would be crawling all over everything including you. The foremen was a tiny grumpy old drunk who would sometime pass out. A few times he forgot to turn on the lift and grain would pile up at the bottom of the elevator and we'd have to shovel it out. Harvest time would be July-August, so it was 12+ hour days, 7 day weeks in the hot humid KC summer. That's when they gave me probe duty which meant climbing up into the top of every truck that was in line and taking a sample. The metal of the trucks would be so hot from sitting in the sun all day I would occasionally get burned. The truckers were a pretty nice lot, but I'd say at least half were loaded on speed.

Some honorable mentions for me:
construction gopher
rehabbing fire damaged homes

'Hamas' Jenkins · 10-09-2009, 04:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Jenson71

Working at the cash register at Hy-Vee. Hated it. And doing inventory was so boring.

I'd take detasseling 300 days a year over working Hy-Vee 100 at same pay. I kind of like detasseling.

I worked at Hy-Vee for a year and a half. Did courtesy, cashier, backstock, truck, dairy, even worked in the pizza shop.

It was ok at times, and certainly better than a lot of other jobs, but for the most part, it gagged dick.

Dr. Johnny Fever · 10-09-2009, 04:51 PM

Unloading trucks at Big Lots. Fairly back breaking work much of the time with no available back support belts and made $7 an hour. Got well over 100 degrees in those trucks too. Thankfully it was just a part time second job. Only did it for a few months.

KC Jones · 10-09-2009, 04:52 PM

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Originally Posted by KC Fish

Worked shift work at a fiberglass insulation plant in McPherson during the summers when I was in college. Outstanding pay, but it was pretty tough. Worked 6am-6pm for a few days straight, then a few days off, then a few more days working 6pm-6am. The ovens that melt the glass were always running at around 3000°, so it was very very hot in the plant. And the fiberglass insulation would get in your pores because you were sweating so much, the itch would be unbearable for the first few weeks. And every once in a while, we would have to do an oven cleanout. Which required us to bundle up head to toe and crawl inside the ovens and scrape off the baked crap on the oven walls with a hand jackhammer. It was like being inside a ventilation shaft that was about 140°. Hot, dark, and claustrophobic. Awful awful work. But it was incredible motivation to finish college.

Heh - my father in law was a top engineer there and my wife did those jobs too.

Fish · 10-09-2009, 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by KC Jones

Heh - my father in law was a top engineer there and my wife did those jobs too.

Inspector Packer. Whoohoo.

DTHOF · 10-09-2009, 04:57 PM

Doing dishes at a truckstop in highschool.

Worst day of that job having to work Christmas day. You would think that no one would eat out at a truckstop restuarant on Christmas day but it was the busiest day I ever worked there . I lasted about 6 months.

KC Jones · 10-09-2009, 04:59 PM

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Originally Posted by KC Fish

Inspector Packer. Whoohoo.

Was that the job where you had to just sit and watch the machine and stop the line if it started to **** up? She said that was just mind numbingly brutal.

tonyetony · 10-09-2009, 05:00 PM

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Originally Posted by KC Jones

hmmm....

I'd have to go with working in a grain elevator one summer while home from college. I believe it's now the Bartlett Grain, Co. and it's off or Armour Rd. just north of the river by 435. I could get decent pay there ~ $7.00/hour since they weren't union. A union shop required 3 months at minimum wage ~$4.00 before you got the union wage ~$12.00.

Anyway, since I was going to college the inbred toothless pieces of shit that worked there referred to me as "college puke" - at least when they thought I was out of ear shot. It was hard hot nasty dirty work. You'd get grain dust in your nostrils, hair, ears, - anything that was exposed. There was spilt rotten grain all over the place teaming with maggots and various insects in different stages of their lives. Some of the silos were old with flat bottoms so when they needed to be emptied you had to climb in and shovel the last of it (piled about 20' high) into the corner drop that fed the elevator. It could be 110 or more in there. Dust everywhere and your goggles would steam up and you could barely breath. Bugs would be crawling all over everything including you. The foremen was a tiny grumpy old drunk who would sometime pass out. A few times he forgot to turn on the lift and grain would pile up at the bottom of the elevator and we'd have to shovel it out. Harvest time would be July-August, so it was 12+ hour days, 7 day weeks in the hot humid KC summer. That's when they gave me probe duty which meant climbing up into the top of every truck that was in line and taking a sample. The metal of the trucks would be so hot from sitting in the sun all day I would occasionally get burned. The truckers were a pretty nice lot, but I'd say at least half were loaded on speed.

Some honorable mentions for me:
construction gopher
rehabbing fire damaged homes

I shoveled grain in situation much like that. I remember one load of millet that had about a thousand ****ing wolf spiders along for the ride. I eventually caught the biggest one and put it in a plastic baggy. One of my inbred coworker's offered to eat it alive for 20 bucks. We took up a collection and he shoved it in his mouth alive and started chomping it up and then swallowed the damn thing.
After he was done he said it tasted like black licorice. Truly one of the most disgusting things I had seen up to that point in my young life.

Pioli Zombie · 10-09-2009, 05:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Skip Towne

Mine was hauling small square bales of hay. It is hot, often over 100 degrees in the barn. You have to wear a long sleeved shirt or your arms will get bloodied. And it is damn hard work. Bales of alfalfa can weigh up to 90 pounds. No way I could do it today.

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Fish · 10-09-2009, 05:09 PM

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Originally Posted by KC Jones

Was that the job where you had to just sit and watch the machine and stop the line if it started to **** up? She said that was just mind numbingly brutal.

That job had lots of responsibilities. Normally you were catching insulation rolls off the conveyor, and packaging it with different machines. The rolls of insulation varied in size and weight. And no, you couldn't just stop the line. It didn't work that way. If the conveyor stopped, all hell broke loose and people and clamp trucks were hauling ass everywhere. They would lose lots of money when the conveyor stopped. That was a no-no. There were some easy parts of that job too. Sometimes you'd get the machine where all you did was guide the packaged insulation into a machine sitting in the same spot. Barely had to touch anything. Never let the summer hires do that one though.

Simplex3 · 10-09-2009, 05:13 PM

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Originally Posted by kc rush

I did the HyVee thing in college and I didn't mind it at all. The only thing that irritated me was the people on welfare wearing nicer clothes, eating better food and driving nicer cars than me. That or the people buying a million little items (one at a time) with food stamps so they could collect enough change to buy a carton of cigs with that change.

Damn, thanks for reminding me of that.

**Skip Towne** · 10-09-2009, 05:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Pioli Zombie

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**Rain Man** · 10-09-2009, 05:19 PM

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Originally Posted by tonyetony

I shoveled grain in situation much like that. I remember one load of millet that had about a thousand ****ing wolf spiders along for the ride. I eventually caught the biggest one and put it in a plastic baggy. One of my inbred coworker's offered to eat it alive for 20 bucks. We took up a collection and he shoved it in his mouth alive and started chomping it up and then swallowed the damn thing.
After he was done he said it tasted like black licorice. Truly one of the most disgusting things I had seen up to that point in my young life.

I'm kind of speechless about this.

Pioli Zombie · 10-09-2009, 05:22 PM

Washing the backseat of Bugeaters moms car out.
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crispystl · 10-09-2009, 05:36 PM

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I'm kind of speechless about this.

Agreed.

10-09-2009, 08:09 AM
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10-09-2009, 04:47 PM	#106
KC Jones Genious Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Colorado Casino cash: $10012761	hmmm.... I'd have to go with working in a grain elevator one summer while home from college. I believe it's now the Bartlett Grain, Co. and it's off or Armour Rd. just north of the river by 435. I could get decent pay there ~ $7.00/hour since they weren't union. A union shop required 3 months at minimum wage ~$4.00 before you got the union wage ~$12.00. Anyway, since I was going to college the inbred toothless pieces of shit that worked there referred to me as "college puke" - at least when they thought I was out of ear shot. It was hard hot nasty dirty work. You'd get grain dust in your nostrils, hair, ears, - anything that was exposed. There was spilt rotten grain all over the place teaming with maggots and various insects in different stages of their lives. Some of the silos were old with flat bottoms so when they needed to be emptied you had to climb in and shovel the last of it (piled about 20' high) into the corner drop that fed the elevator. It could be 110 or more in there. Dust everywhere and your goggles would steam up and you could barely breath. Bugs would be crawling all over everything including you. The foremen was a tiny grumpy old drunk who would sometime pass out. A few times he forgot to turn on the lift and grain would pile up at the bottom of the elevator and we'd have to shovel it out. Harvest time would be July-August, so it was 12+ hour days, 7 day weeks in the hot humid KC summer. That's when they gave me probe duty which meant climbing up into the top of every truck that was in line and taking a sample. The metal of the trucks would be so hot from sitting in the sun all day I would occasionally get burned. The truckers were a pretty nice lot, but I'd say at least half were loaded on speed. Some honorable mentions for me: construction gopher rehabbing fire damaged homes
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10-09-2009, 04:51 PM	#108
Dr. Johnny Fever stax of wax Join Date: Feb 2004 Casino cash: $10004900	Unloading trucks at Big Lots. Fairly back breaking work much of the time with no available back support belts and made $7 an hour. Got well over 100 degrees in those trucks too. Thankfully it was just a part time second job. Only did it for a few months.
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10-09-2009, 04:57 PM	#111
DTHOF Starter Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Melbourne FL Casino cash: $4650477	Doing dishes at a truckstop in highschool. Worst day of that job having to work Christmas day. You would think that no one would eat out at a truckstop restuarant on Christmas day but it was the busiest day I ever worked there . I lasted about 6 months.
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10-09-2009, 05:22 PM	#119
Pioli Zombie Banned Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: olathe,kansas Casino cash: $10004900	Washing the backseat of Bugeaters moms car out. Posted via Mobile Device
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