JOBS

[BUNNY]

I have the misfortune to be working tonight(Saturday).I am a biomedical scientist and normally love my job,exept for when it interferes with my social life as it is doing tonight!!I've had other jobs over the years the worst being a research post in a cockroach lab which involved feeding and cleaning a room full of huge cockroaches and holding them right up to my face to disect them!I was wondering what jobs other AB members have and has anyone done anything worse than working in rooms full of nasty roaches??

[luckystrike]

Cleaning toilets and showers in an all female, post-surgical operation ward in an underfunder hospital.  For one year.

[Kay]

Me too Lucky, The worse place I've cleaned is the toilets in a pub! Vomit,pools of pee but worse of all pebbledashes lavs Yuk. I packed that one in!

[Kay]

Bunny my hubby is a lab tech so I know what you mean about the shifts interfering with your social life.The firm my hubby's worked for was BP Chemicals until it became Zeon Chemicals (Japanese owned) they cut the workforce from 16 men per shift right down to 1. He is permanently knackered.

[Bangkok]

As a summer job, fastening chains round trees fallen into a lake (after the storm of 87) so they could be winched out.  The lake was not deep, but had never been dredged, so there was 4 feet of silt at the bottom that basically comprised of duck waste.  When I got home at night I had to stand in the garage, strip naked and wash myself down with a bucket and brush.  Didn't have a lot of luck dating that summer.

[Yinzer]

Mine certainly doesn't beat the cockroaches, but I once had a frien who worked in the seafood dept. in a gorcery store and never seemed to be able to get the smell out. He didn't have much luck dating that summer either!

[apricot2]

Defending people in disciplinaries and about to lose their jobs is never much fun either.  I used to get very nervous then I got into my stride and gained confidence.  I never did lose a member of staff, a record I'm proud of.

[FP]

As a youngster I had a saturday job in M&S.  They put me on the mens underwear counter.  (There were counters in those days and no self-service)  At 16 it was so embarrasing  to deal with such questions as 'Do you think these underpants will fit me, etc.'.

 

I then changed jobs and went to Woollies.  And they put me on the Toilet Roll counter!

[FP]

I can't understand how I cannot envisage working cleaning up in toilets when I happily have undertaken voluntary work cleaning up after cats in a rescue sanctuary.

[smudge]

You really crease me up FakePlastic!

[smudge]

I have to say the worst/embassarring job I ever had to do, was to stitch up my boss's suit trousers that had split from his crutch to his waist, after he'd bent down to pick something up. I had to rush out to buy a packet of needles & cotton. This man, the MD, still had them on whist I was sewing them up! I've never been so embarrassed in my life, but couldn't really say no, as he was just about to leave for a meeting! Thank god he had clean underpants on & didn't have bad wind!