Worst job

[Hitch]

Whats the worst one job you have done?
I seem to be getting lined up for my worst ever..

Started doing a LOT of work at a local incineration plant, deals with mostly cattle.
Defra have to test a section of the spinal cord, so when the carcasses are delivered, the ear tags are cut off, and necks cut, and a small portion taken to sample.
Then they are fed into a huge lift auger which carrys them into a giant mincer, then pipes the mince to the actual incinerators throught a pipe about 250mm diameter.
Not mince like you buy at the butchers, this has the lot in it, leather, guts, the lot :full

The smell and smoke is bad enough, let alone the blood and general 'dead juice' as we call it

Someone will have to cut into the main 'mince' feed pipe at somepoint, to tee off it, remove a section, weld flanges on each end and bolt in new tee piece and valves.
No chance im doing it for my normal wages, or even normal wages plus the 'dirt money' we get for going over there.

 

[Wozzaaah]

That does sound a bit grim Hitch, not something I'd fancy doing

 

[matt1978]

Then they are fed into a huge lift auger which carrys them into a giant mincer

Bet he's not happy, whats his name??

 

[weldequip]

Well, apart from selling welders I think the worst job I've had is lagging ductwork... after we'd fitted it on-site it had to be lagged, in very confined spaces, with that horrible glass fibre insulation stuff. Itched like feck for days after
Picking zuchinis in Australia was a ball wrencher aswell... start at 5am, bent double all day in 30 degrees
weldequip

 

[Hitch]

I reckon Ratty would love it there
Apparently they ahd a giraffe there once, but it didnt fit into the lift auger, so they chainsawed its legs off

 

[Ratty]

I reckon Ratty would love it there
Apparently they ahd a giraffe there once, but it didnt fit into the lift auger, so they chainsawed its legs off

Oh I'd be well at home
My worst job(s) involve all of yours but with the added lustre of having been rotting for a few weeks.
Any chance of getting any dogs before they burn them? I'm also after a llama and some ostrich legs.... (no really).

 

[Hitch]

Hey Rats, whats your pipe welding like.... i might have a little job for you

 

[TonyWilk]

Worst job?
Years (and years...) ago I had a summer job helping refurb and fit actuators (big motor with gearbox and switchgear), some of these were at a sewage plant.
Of course, the only ones which needed refitting were on gates and valves in parts of the plant that had stopped working - and backed up with sewage.

One particular day I remember, it was lovely and hot and sunny - could hardly breathe <- that's me going green just thinking about it.

Yours,
Tony Wilk

 

[MrFluffy]

Worst official non dodgy proper employment contract job was a vehicle inspector for vauxhall fleet, that paid minium wage yet still had a dress code that included tie trousers and shirt (yet still demanded you crawl round a car fresh off the transporter looking for damage, and the same for the old dirty car being de-fleeted) whilst inspecting the cars of proddy line workers making 10 times your rate for a easier less stressfull job, and they all thought we were on a packet and gave us tonnes of crap as a result. And because we were all poor self employed agency cannon fodder we didnt get holiday or sick pay or anything.
At one point the depot manager went on a months holiday, and the other two perm staff members left, and it was to be a record week following with me and two trainees who started on the following monday, one of which spent the week high on glue and had a fragile temper, was the same age as me and had to be handled with kid gloves, and the other who was some office based admin lady in her 50's, she was good but the paperwork was incredibly complex and legally binding... That week we turned over 1500 cars and I was working until 1-2am to keep the ship afloat and back in at 7.30am to open up. Somehow I managed it, and my reward was to be pulled into the office when I put my hours down on the timesheet (straight time, not even o/t rate, no o/t for agency staff) and got the "timesheet fraud is a serious offence" speech from the regional manager who had been flowin in by helicopter to tell us about new dress code (all body jewelry to be removed as we were customer facing, ummm I had a fresh piercing that would heal up in 8hrs??).
I handed my notice in to him in disgust, and my boss and him then begged me to stay. I told them to stuff it in temper, the best thing I ever did.

 

[rtbcomp]

........Not mince like you buy at the butchers, this has the lot in it, leather, guts, the lot :full

Try Netto's "Butchers Sausages"

The worst job I ever had was working on a mink farm during university vacations.

We got the bits from the slaughtehouse that weren't fit for human comsumption, sheep, cattle & chicken offal, day-old chicks, fish past its best......

This was all minced up and fed to the brutes and then we had to go round and shovel it all up when the mink had finished with it.

 

[Dangle_kt]

I used to work in Safeway, and my job was to spit up about 500 chickens a day for the rotisary oven. Horrible job, lots of out of date stinking chicken. Then after I'd done that and cleaned up at the end of the day I'd have the joy of emptying the fat pan at the bottom of four huge inductrial ovens by hand (as the taps didn't work) I'd scoop it into massive vats, which once a week I'd have to take out the freezer (where they were stored to stop them stinking) let them thaw out and then take them across the car park, covereing myself in off chicken bits, juice and fat and pour it into a large container for collection.

Did it for about a year, and stunk the WHOLE time.

 

[Wozzaaah]

Mmmmmm, I'm hungry now....not!

 

[zardoz]

I once worked in a chicken factory where my job was to wait beside a huge wheeled container which collected the chicken feet and heads as they were chopped off, then when it was full try to quickly get it over to the skip and empty it on my own without getting any over me.

That was a doddle though compared to working on the Maggot "farm"!

 

[rtbcomp]

I once worked in a chicken factory where my job was to wait beside a huge wheeled container which collected the chicken feet and heads as they were chopped off, then when it was full try to quickly get it over to the skip and empty it on my own without getting any over me.

That was a doddle though compared to working on the Maggot "farm"!

We got the heads & feet, minced them up and fed them to the mink.

The uneaten food went to a firm called Dunnings who rendered it all down to use as the base for soaps & cosmetics.

Another local mink farmer also bred maggots and fed those on his waste.

 

[Dangle_kt]

ooooooo magot farm, now that sounds worse than chicken head even. Do tell Zardoz!!

 

[peterd51]

Hi,

I once had the job of installing an extension phone in a maggot farm and my clothes had to be scrubbed afterwards. I could still smell it in the van the next day!

And I worked in a chicken factory for six years, although I was the network engineer in IT, but I did still get into some mucky places when running cables, etc.

During my time there I re-cabled most of our seven sites...

Regards
Peter

 

[Barking Mat]

Chicken factories seem popular. I once worked in a battery chicken farm scraping the sh*t out of the bottom of the cages, I lasted about six minutes, long enough.
I also briefly (on a voluntary basis) helped out Darjeeling libary sort out its borrowed books slips, it was a huge room with a mountain of slips on the floor, I mean a Mountain. Did that for a day or so, didnt involve chickens!

 

[Baz-Cem]

Peterd51,

I worked in the Turkey factory in Abergavenny as the IT Administrator for eight years, it was pretty clean there though. I once tried the slaughter job slitting the throwts.I did about 50 and was dripping in blood, head to foot. Injested some blood and caght compilabacter, raging ****s and stomach cramps for two weeks. Even had environmental health down the house to find out where I'd caught it.

I never want compilabacter again

Baz.

 

[peterd51]

Hi,

I was shown around the slaughter facility on my second week but that was the only time I went in there, no phones/IT kit in that room!

Although I left the factory three years ago I still wash my hands 20 times a day!

I do miss the alcohol rub too...

Chicken factories are habit-forming!

Regards
Peter

 

[Baz-Cem]

I haven't worn a watch since I started at the turkey factory and I also wash my hands alot

I still eat turkey though, but I think I'll stop eating rotissery chicken from super markets