Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Miserable Jobs

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Nathan Odle wrote:

> So, does anyone have some *horrible* job stories to share? 
> 
> Or alternatively, a *good* job opportunity?

Here are the 3 most horrible jobs I have held outside the food 
industry:

1) Night manager at Kinko's.  I had to do all of the big production
   jobs that were due overnight, and fend off the crazy people who
   would always show up around 2 am with a baseball bat.  We kidded 
   a lot about the hazards of "Toner Lung".

2) 3rd shift worker at a film processing plant.  I had to fulfill a
   quota for cutting and pricing other people's horrible vacation 
   pictures while listening to early 80s Top-40 hits and inhaling 
   the not-so-sweet smell of photo developing fluid.  I needed 
   money for college, so I worked 60-80 hours per week at this.  The 
   co-workers were similarly...interesting.  Including one who I 
   half expected to meet later at job 3 below:

3) Research assistant on a research study in the intake floor
   of a VA hospital psych ward.  This wasn't really so horrible, just 
   completely surreal.  We had to weedle and cajole actively 
   psychotic individuals into completing a series of psych 
   experiments including one which was a fused words dichotic 
   listening experiment.  Yes, the patients were hallucinating, and 
   we had them wear headphones and report what second and third 
   messages we were sending them were.  Oh yeah: and we had to hide 
   the scissors, the stapler, any electrical cord longer than n 
   inches long and anything else that could be made to be harmful.

   But hey: I did get Columbus Day off. :-)

jking


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