What have you done today thread?

[MrLongbeard]

I once did a summer job at an injection mouldings firm. I had to take a plastic bowl out of the machine every 30s and press the go button again. If you opened the door at anything less than 29s it would sound an alarm and you'd have to start again. It also showed the average cycle time...

Got my average down to 29.1s after about a month

I doubt I could have stomached it as a career.

I did similar, but at a plastics extrusion company, 12 hour night shifts, 5 minutes of activity every hour whilst you topped the hopper off and took off a roll or bag of finished product off the end.
Easy work, easy money, unless the machine went tits up, then it was burnt fingers a plenty as you tried to re-thread the extrusion through the die and tension wheels.

[cheb]

Well, I'm a bully, ignorant, a twat, obnoxious, a c'unt, up my own arse, a wanker..... I thought, tell me something I don't know, but that's beside the point.

Bad school results = limited options = shit, dead end work and at the bottom of that pile, imho, is pulling the guts out of chickens on a meat processing line. One person tried to say "my husband owns a chicken factory". Yeah love, that's slightly different to sitting on the evisceration line, eh.

I'll see anything in your chicken factory and raise it to working on a fish farm harvest line. Blood and guts aplenty, and with the stink of fish thrown in.

Worst job on a fish farm? IME diving into a cage and having to haul out any dead rotting fish that have fallen to the bottom of the cage.

I'd still rather do that than deal with the general public.

[Wreckless Rat]

Well, I'm a bully, ignorant, a twat, obnoxious, a c'unt, up my own arse, a wanker..... I thought, tell me something I don't know, but that's beside the point.

Bad school results = limited options = shit, dead end work and at the bottom of that pile, imho, is pulling the guts out of chickens on a meat processing line. One person tried to say "my husband owns a chicken factory". Yeah love, that's slightly different to sitting on the evisceration line, eh.

I'll see anything in your chicken factory and raise it to working on a fish farm harvest line. Blood and guts aplenty, and with the stink of fish thrown in.

Worst job on a fish farm? IME diving into a cage and having to haul out any dead rotting fish that have fallen to the bottom of the cage.

I'd still rather do that than deal with the general public.

Yeah, that's pretty grim as well. There are no fish farms around here that I know of though. It's possible there are some, but it's not been a career choice of mine, so I haven't really looked into it.

I suppose it's heartening to know some people's parents aim low for their kids, we all need cheap food after-all. Although, as Silly alluded to earlier, it was used as a threat at school when I was there. How times change.

So Jonny, what do you want to be when you grow up?

"Me Sir, well I want to sit on a chair for 9hrs a day, cutting off the bits of guts that the machine misses. Apparently, if I work really hard, I can work my way up to 'killer', and kill the chicken that the machine misses, some have half their heads missing but are still alive. I think that's a good job Sir. It pays £9.85 an hour you know, and you can get some overtime in each week, nearly enough to make your salary up to the national average, not quite, but nearly"

Sounds like a plan Jonny, you'll be well suited.

[cheb]

I know it's unusual, but I know quite a few very well educated people doing menial jobs up here as they'd prefer to live here than have a proper job IYSWIM.

One of the chaps at the fish farm had a Classics degree from Cambridge. Earned enough to pay the bills and bit over and was happy.

[Wreckless Rat]

I know it's unusual, but I know quite a few very well educated people doing menial jobs up here as they'd prefer to live here than have a proper job IYSWIM.

One of the chaps at the fish farm had a Classics degree from Cambridge. Earned enough to pay the bills and bit over and was happy.

But that's via choice. If you CHOOSE to work in such places, that's a totally different ball game to ONLY being able to. IMHO of course.

[cheb]

Of course.

[chillitt]

Feeling quite lucky that my worst job was grave digger...

[Yorick]

My worst job ? Pool cleaner. Just has to do it in 35c.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

"Me Sir, well I want to sit on a chair for 9hrs a day, cutting off the bits of guts that the machine misses. Apparently, if I work really hard, I can work my way up to 'killer', and kill the chicken that the machine misses, some have half their heads missing but are still alive. I think that's a good job Sir. It pays £9.85 an hour you know, and you can get some overtime in each week, nearly enough to make your salary up to the national average, not quite, but nearly"

Sounds like a plan Jonny, you'll be well suited.

To be fair, killer was the pick of the chicken factory jobs, sat on your arse doing sod all for most of the shift, only things to do, adjust the ring saw occasionally depending on the size of chicken, cut the throats of any skinny necked chickens and let one go through when you were bored so that you could watch it boil to death and go purple in the machine that took the feathers off. The bloke I sat next to on the bus had that job, he was a bit weird, though not as weird as his transsexual cousin who also worked there.

And I'd rather work in a chicken factory again than travel to London every day on public transport, did that for 18 months, I was constantly picking up minor illnesses and the travelling gradually drove me mental.

[Horse]

... with the stink of fish ...

I'd still rather do that than deal with the general public.

I'm an outsider in this downsmanship competition. I was going to say 'rank', but I did have one fish related job. While at 6th for. I used to do 1.5 days at weekends, gardening etc. at a house. There was a pond. In the hot summer of 76 it almost dried up, all of the fish suffocated. That weekend we did 18 hours of dragging them out, burying and burning.

Otherwise, next worst was 6 weeks at a motorway services, so the great British public. See them on a Bank Holiday Monday, queuing after hours in traffic, for full effect. Only one fight

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

I don't see it as "downmanship" I left school as soon as I could because I hated it, I then fucked up a lab assistant job in a beer kit factory so they sacked me (can't say I blame them I was useless and clumsy) so for the next 4 years I did whatever job was available that paid the most as I had no idea what I wanted to, tbh 35 years later I still don't know what I want to do for a living and I'm still doing whatever pays the most for the least effort.

[Horse]

I don't see it as "downmanship"

Just that the jobs have got more and more horrific as the thread progressed.

As it happens, my first proper job was determined by what I was offered after 30 applications. Wasn't what I wanted to do.

[KungFooBob]

My first proper job (after a few years on the YTS) was inputting fax and mail order for a stationery company... Neat Ideas if anyone remembers them.

I got upgraded to the inbound call centre, then after 18 months got a break into IT, been doing it ever since.

Fuck all that fish and chicken killing.

[KungFooBob]

Talking of jobs... the wife just called, she's been offered a job!

I can start looking at loud exhausts for the Guzzi now!

[Yorick]

My worst job ? Pool cleaner. Just has to do it in 35c.

Just had a skinny dip and was surprised to see water temp at 31c. Normally high 20s in summer.

[Nidge]

Jayne Mansfield lobsters etc

[cheb]

Repaired a broken compressor, rebuilt a Henry vacuum cleaner and badly sprayed the TDR's swinging arm.

[Yorick]

Got a nice letter from Trafico. Oh fuck, they're gonna do me for the big fuck up on way back from Gran Canaria

Aha, only €100 fine, reduced to €50 if paid within 7 days. 116 in a 100 area. In the photo I'm only wearing light jacket and jeans, so not a fast ride. No loss of points. Hmm, consider myself lucky.

[rodbargee]

after having put three thousand trouble free miles on the discovery in the last fortnight (Italy and back) its bitten back, it started vibrating whilst driving to the point i got out to see if I had a flat tyre. slightly warped disk has cooked the pads (Again) and disc caliper is fu-barred along with the new hub carrier I put on less than two months ago, so its a re-run without having to replace the control arms, which have already been replaced. Ended the trip out on the back of a recovery truck

[Taipan]

Had a Meze ata local Greek restaraunt that I've been meaning to go to for some time. Annoyed I'd delayed it now as it was top nosh!