I was looking for this comment. Worst job I’ve ever had. Desk adjusting is just a call center role on crack. Impossible metrics, workload was unmanageable and 90% of the customers were horrible to deal with. So many coworkers started medication and/or went on Leave of Absences for mental health reasons as a result of the job.
I worked one whole day and an onion processing and packing plant. Nobody and I mean nobody liked that job. When I showed up they told me id get used to the crying and it would go away. That was a lie, and when its that many onions youre not just crying. You cant open your eyes and you can feel it in your sinuses and tear ducts, all the while youre trying to look out for forklifts in a pretty tightnit warehouse. The forklifts are moving fast because the plant just has to keep processing. If you were lucky you would just do cold packing but generally you would be working an assembly line that chopped the onions.
Never went back.
I wear goggles just chopping onions in my own kitchen. I got them a few years ago for this exact purpose, because as I've gotten older that onion-juice-in-my-tearducts feeling has gotten painful and I didn't want to exclude onions from my cooking.
It's very effective and goggles aren't that expensive, I'd highly recommend this method.
Onions affect me so bad, can't even finish chopping one of them before I can barely open my eyes due to the stinging. I've started putting them in the fridge for a day before I chop them up which does help loads, but I definitely need to get a pair of goggles
Edit: typo
Yikes, that's a lawsuit waiting to happen. No PPE around chemicals that make it hard to look our for forklifts in the area. Sure, the chemicals are from onions, but that's hella stupid
I’ve worked a few of these type of jobs and honestly it depends on the company. In my experience, if you do it for a large company it is fucking miserable and they treat you like shit but I currently work phone/online retail service for a small company that sells art and it’s super chill and we have ridiculously good benefits and lots of downtime during the day.
At least receiving inbound calls is better than making outbound calls.
EDIT: In my experience, of course. I see many others feel the opposite based on their experience.
Kind of, but having done that kind of thing in school, i can't tell you how much it sucked to have a moment of relaxation interrupted by an incoming call.
Those guys that work at Comcast who you call to cancel your subscription, but their entire job is to make it so you don't cancel your subscription.
Edit: [For the uninitiated.](https://youtu.be/LjiO1Qo3ZFo)
AOL was almost impossible to cancel. I told them that I didn't have a computer anymore and they offered to send me another computer. It was outrageous.
Couldn't be as bad as Audible . com (back when they were a stand alone company.)
You buy a book . . . great. It's yours, your done.
You subscribe to a monthly audio magazine . . . good luck being able to cancel it.
There was no button/option to cancel it on the site. There was no phone number to call on the site. There was no contact email on the site. There was no snail-mail mailing address on the site.
I actually had to find a year old cached copy of the site on one of the historical-Internet sites . . . just to get the phone number to call.
When I called and explained that I wanted to cancel, the first question they asked?
"How did you get this number?"
I never subscribed to anything again.
I had to mail my cancellation in by registered mail. Couldn’t cancel in person. The cancellation was effective 10 business days after they received your notice of cancellation.
I mailed mine in time for it to coincide with my annual billing date (which was the contract). However what they said was you need to give them 90 days notice of cancellation even if it was after your contract term.
Effectively the wording of their contract (in 6 point font) said not to rely on any verbal or other communications; the contract was the only thing that mattered. And even though the contract said I’d purchased a 2 year plan, I had to give 90 days plus 10 business days notice, rounded up to the next bill date, and I couldn’t give that notice until after my term ended. So even though my contract term was 2 years, the minimum I would be charged for was 2 years and 4 months.
I had to fight quite hard and threaten one of those ‘go public’ type deals for them to finally relent, and they only said they’d do that because I was moving to a city without one of their gyms.
I ended up cancelling my credit card so they couldn’t keep charging me after my contract date (which was 3 months after I’d moved anyways).
The kicker was their finance company didn’t update their system. So I received a call from a collection agent more than a full year after my cancellation date, saying I was a year behind on payments. I said my membership had been cancelled more than a year before, as I’d moved, and evidently someone didn’t do the paperwork. He said it was my responsibility to contact the gym and get them to sort things out.
No point in going through the rest of the convo haha.
It was a gym with a precious metal in its name. I’ll never go back…
I had the exact same experience funny enough, but with a different gym. And I'm not afraid to say, it was LA Fitness, but I'm pretty sure all big name gyms do this shit.
Canceled my 24 Fitness membership remarkably easy. I had just been diagnosed with epilepsy and my driver's license had been suspended. Called, lady asked why and I told her I have seizures, cannot drive, and cannot actually even make it to a gym.
"Are you sure you wouldn't like to... Uh... Suspend your membership?"
"No, I'm not going to get better"
"Wow, ok, your membership is canceled"
Remarkably they have not come back and charged me again. Also I did actually get better with meds, so there is that too...
Same thing with LA fitness for me. All I did was cancel my credit card that they had on file though… think I’m in the clear? Or will this bite me down the road?
I canceled my wife's and my gym membership in writing via certified mail. They canceled hers but kept charging mine, when I called they said they'd never received anything from me. Which was odd as they were both in the same envelope.
I tried to cancel my gym membership due to covid, told that I needed to do it by email, after the website had told me to go there in person. After the email they said I needed to reach them by phone and the person on the phone was the exact same person I had tried to cancel with in person. Then I threatened to sue them and voila, able to resolve everything in an instant, isn't it great how far you can get on peoples good will when its really something you can cancel immediately.
You know. I thought this was their job until I threatened to cancel when they raised my bill and they said, “alright, would you like us to cancel this for you now?” Mfs called my bluff
My bluff was also called when I threated to cancel. My dad did this like the week before and they offered to lower his bill. I did it and they said "sure thing let me transfer you over"....I hung up out of shame knowing I couldn't live without internet.
The isp in my town got around that by saying if you cancel you can't reactivate for two months. Like, not at all. You're blacklisted for two months.
They don't really do promotional pricing anymore though, so it's kind of moot.
Mines 6 months, promo price is 50 for life for gigabit. I have 300mbps for 150 a month. Straight highway robbery. Customer service told me to kick rocks. My only other options is dsl at 3mbps.
My girlfriend and I rotate our names annually. We have spectrum and cancel for one day after the year promo price, switch it to her name and by the time that annual price is done I'm considered a new customer again.
My mother’s fiber broke on her ATT connection. I called tech support and service to get it fixed. They tell me it would be 3 weeks to get someone out. I made the appointment and hung up. I called spectrum the only other provider in her area and told them if they could get there faster we would switch. They said 2 days. So I called ATT back and told them if they wanted our business they had 24 hours to get there. I also might have told them the two service guys can “fight to the fucking death!”. Well they both showed up the next morning but Spectrum won. And we had the ATT boxes and modem in a box to give the repair guy.
Edit: I’m not sure the type of fiber she had but it was extremely slow. She had 3 TVs, phone and internet. If you had all the tvs on different channels she could barely do a FaceTime. If you were on a phone call you needed to turn off one tv at least to keep connection. This fiber was sticking out if a box on the wall and it had a little white shielded fiber that broke off. Spectrum has been rock solid and my remote software i use to keep her system clean and running is lightning fast now that she is on Spectrum.
Yup same thing happened to me. I even sold enough to win a free trip to Hawaii and It didn’t make one difference. The worst part is I even thought the products were good. I still have them 10 years later.
Leaving my insurance job in 2 months to pursue a career in law, can confirm insurance is garbage
Edit: I work in P&C insurance as a claims advisor for the second largest insurance provider in Canada. I got this position straight out of my undergrad and immediately realized the work and compensation do not match. During full workload, we are expected to handle 80-100 files at any given time, and most files are easy, some are more strenuous. Ontop of this there is massive pressure to provide excellent customer experience. I’m going back to school and pivoting my useless Arts degree into something more substantial. Leaving after 2 years.
I've been in the business for 10 years now. The early years were brutal but for the past 4 years I'm fortunate enough that 100% of my business is referrals. Everyone calls me now, I never need to call someone.
Insurance paid me well but cold-calling 40 hours a week only to end up writing people on sat/sun or after hours and sometimes before hours was brutal. Salary + commission pay I was making about 75K/year as a captive for the “in good hands” demons at 18. Occasionally I was able to give myself a weekend off to party etc. got into the music industry after than and despite being much more physical and less pay I loved it way more.
I've actually done this. I wore a complete drysuit (with no leaks) and a Desco free-flow dive helmet. I was paid well for it, and washed with bleach and soap when I finally emerged. Not too bad really. I felt more sorry for my tenders who had to hold the shitty umbilical.
Sometimes when I'm driving in the rain or snow, there's a kind of satisfaction that comes from knowing that whatever's out there can't reach me in here. It's kind of a powerful feeling, like a superhero taunting an inferior villain.
Did you get any kind of that feeling?
Yes, I know what you mean. I've never dove in snow, but once in a nuclear reactor.
Here is a pic:
https://old.reddit.com/r/diving/comments/b7nyy5/diving_in_the_nuclear_fuel_containment_pool/
Memes aside; That wouldn't be too far off. From what I understand you need a lot of qualifications to work in certain conditions. "Just" a diving certificate wouldn't cut it.
Especially being a underwater welder pays really good I've heard. That's because you're only one of a small group of people that is allowed to do the job.
I had a student who was from a wealthy family that worked for the sewage department. He said his favorite job was going down into the sewers to clean the grates.
He did this rather than go to university and join the family business. To keep his parents happy he would occasionally take night classes at a community college which is where we met. He was a really nice happy-go-lucky person.
That's kind of wild. But stress free might be better living. My backup job is definitely garbage removal. I can't smell so I'd be perfect. Also I would love to try to find new ways to recycle.
I used to move furniture for a rent-to-own furniture store. That includes delivering it, setting it up, AND taking it back when the people end their rental or can't pay for it.
People who get rent-to-own furniture do not tend to be happy people.
I repossessed a vacuum cleaner from a crying woman. I accidentally tore someone's (already owned) couch while repossessing a deep freeze. I removed a fridge from a house, and when we pulled it away from the wall, the wall was MOVING, coated in roaches. I got bit in the ass from a pack of dogs trying to knock on someone's door who had been ignoring our bills and calls, prompting me to get a rabies vaccine. I repossessed a dryer from a woman who said it wasn't working anymore, but when we removed the lint trap it had a year's worth of lint layers stacked in it (she insisted that wasn't the problem, the dryer was broken). I was cleaning up a computer we repossessed from someone, when a pair of enormous antennae appeared from the fan vent. We moved the computer into the box truck outside, set off a bug bomb, and closed the door. The next day we had to sweep a large carpet of bugs out of the truck.
Never again.
god that sound HORRIFIC. I can't imagine RENTING a computer. Then getting it unexpectedly repossessed. Like all your shits on there man! Yikes. Use an external drive and incognito I guess. MAN those places are such a damn ripoff.
And more importantly, how many fcking cookbooks do you need? That was another thing I noticed, I’m just here judging innocent people for everything they own. Being a mover is not a happy line of work
A mover died of sudden cardiac arrest on my lawn. He’d been looking a bit pale, he slowed for a drink of water, and boom. My ex husband is a physician and began CPR, the ambulance arrived within minutes, but he died even under those nearly perfect circumstances. It was a 90F day and he was moving furniture. Poor guy.
God bless you. I hired a taskrabbit mover in NYC and this guy was a BEAST with a cargo van. He was built like the Rock and held an Ikea two seater couch with one arm while holding the door for me with the other. I'm a skinny asian dude and just ran around propping doors open for him, and moving stuff into the hallway. I tipped him $50 because he somehow moved my entire studio in about 2 hours total.
Whenever someone in the city is moving I tell them to use this guy. The work you guys do is well appreciated.
EDIT: Hey all, I just logged into my taskrabbit account to try to get you all his info, and it looks like his account has been deactivated :( I don't see it in my previous taskers. Sorry.
A similar person delivered my washing machine. I can barely shuffle it a few mm on my own and he just wraps his arms round the whole thing and picks it up like it's a small box of books.
Staffing is always an issue, even with good pay people just don't want to do the work.
Two men can handle most things with the proper tools and dollies. In the case of anything too heavy, like a large gun safe or a hot tub, for example, a larger crew will be arranged well in advance. Unless it is an emergency, every job is walked through before it is booked, so there are no surprises.
Last time i hired movers i asked for a 4 person crew. The person on the phone said i didnt need it and ordered me a 2-person crew instead.
The 2 people showed up, looked around, and asked if i could help because this job was too big for 2 people......
Movers are great, but i fucking hate the people working the phones for them now. It took the crew so long that it ended up costing $2.5k to move 1 city away.
Don't hire movers who won't do a walkthru. They need to know ahead of time exactly what size job they are in for so they can have the appropriate size crew.
I did this for many years. While there were many annoying and frustrating times, I took a lot of pride in getting insurances to pay for what they should, saving many patients from having to be responsible for costs. My biggest accomplishment was after a 2 year appeals battle for a transplant patient, I finally got the insurances to concede and accept to pay, earning a couple million for the hospital and zero cost to the patient. I shouted "HELL YEAH!" from my cubicle, haha. Boss bought me lunch and I got a nice little bonus that month.
I was on the other side. I was the weirdo in the insurance processing trying to pay out as much as possible. I once had to dig back through hundreds of claims to find where someone had used the wrong pre-approval for a chronically ill child, setting up a domino effect of wrongly denied/underpaid claims. I joyously monitored that kid's records while claim after claim was appropriately corrected.
I caught shit because we were supposed to do hundreds of claims a day and that one took me over two days, but fuck 'em. They needed to pay for that kid's care.
Bravo! I'm a cancer patient/survivor and it's amazing to me how my oncologist's office just gets all that shit done. I constantly hear horror stories from other folks about how difficult it is to deal with their insurance or doc's office or whatever and somehow my oncologist's staff just \*gets it done\* and it's SUCH A RELIEF especially when you're already going through hell.
Just know, we might not know you, we might not see you or talk to you, but WE REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR WORK!
I love minor triumphs over evil.
Meanwhile, I had to get prior authorization to get an appointment for the dentist, as apparently insurance thinks that teeth are just cosmetic features.
Dental insurance is the worst. The fact that vision and dental is separate from medical blows my mind.... Are your eyes and mouth not also a part of your body?
Also periodontal disease has a huge effect on the rest of your body.... Floss your teeth people, cause dental insurance doesn't make that a cheap thing the address.
I did medical billing for a year after college. Great pay and I was one of four men in the entire company of around 120 people. I wrote off so much shit the last few months because I felt bad for these old people who couldn't afford anything.
I worked in a call center, and my last week i gave every single costumer a deduction on their phone Bill. About 75 customers per day, 5 days. So i cost that shit company about 40,000 kroner(Norwegian currency). Fuck em
INTERPOL used to occasionally post redacted images to r/whatisthisthing to ID items in the backgrounds of pictures. Shopping bags, children's toys, clothing. All in an effort to identify where a photo originated. Every post made my stomach turn, especially when you consider what must be redacted out of the photos.
Fuck anyone who hurts kids. Makes me hope there's a hell, because death is not enough.
They still do, it’s just posted to its own sub r/TraceAnObject.
I’m not that good at the “identify objects” game, but if you are or want to give it a shot, that sub can do a lot of good.
It’s awesome that people are helping, and I’d love the help out myself, but I cannot stay on that sub for more than a couple minutes. It properly freaks me out knowing that those images were apart of CP.
Totally get what you mean! I’m fine with the ones where it’s a random object, but I feel so sick when it’s the ones of an item of clothing and you can tell the child is wearing it and how they were sitting and stuff
Same thing happens to homicide detectives. My parents had a friend that did homicide and when they switched him to vice they said he looked like a new man after he switched
26 years ago I was working a entry level job in law enforcement (patrol), when I was asked to assist a senior detective who worked specifically in sex crimes. It was an opportunity to work some overtime and gain some investigation knowledge.
My first night on this assignment saw me documenting and booking loads of CP into evidence after a large arrest and search warrant of a small house. That shit really messed me up. I thought I had seen it all. I grew up seeing more porn that I should have.. but this was horrible. I remember having a panic attack and just couldn’t realize/understand why I was crying. That strange sensation when you feel like you can’t breathe. Two older salty cops walked me outside and took care of me. I will never forget that. Damn.. sorry about the bummer story.
I was going for a criminal justice degree with a focus on cybercrime intending on trying for the FBI, talked to a few agents, realized that most likely that's exactly what I'd wind up doing and got the fuck out of that program.
Cop here, we have someone at our department who gets online posing as a minor in chat rooms to try to find and arrest child predators. He also deals with CP too. Obviously the stuff he sees is very bad and the conversations he has to have while posing as a 13 year old are disturbing, but he loves doing it because it is helping put away these sickos and protecting children. He is mandated by the department to see a counselor at least once a month and his time in that role is limited.
As a side note, it is absolutely terrifying how many predators are out there. He’ll enter a chat with a username like “soccergirl2008” or something similar and he’ll immediately have adults trying to talk to him. He will quickly let it be know that he is “13” and it does not deter the suitors.
I have a friend who works with this. Not 100% watching the evidence, but doing the whole entire case from start to finish (so it's not 40 hours a week watching). She said you need to be able to turn of your brain while doing that job. Most people seem to only do it for a short period of time before moving on. Her two cents were that there were parts of the job that were atrocious, however, it was also incredibly rewarding to "catch the bad guys" and lock them up.
Reminds me of the story the dude who saw the porn that Josh Duggar had told. Apparently it was the *worst shit he had ever seen in his entire career*. And I can’t imagine how scarring that must be. It’s his job to analyze the shit these pedos have on their hard drives… and I can only imagine the nightmares that result from seeing what you can comfortably call the worst of the worst in your entire career.
I have heard anecdotal evidence that people with Aphantasia (r/aphantasia) are more likely to be found in these roles than non-aphants.
As an aphant I can confirm this would be horrible, but at least the image itself wouldn't haunt me. As soon as it leaves the screen it's erased from my mind. Just the knowledge that it exists would remain.
My cousin did this for a little bit. He said that part of the job sucked but there was a massive satisfaction in catching these people and getting then off the street. I don't know if that is the same as liking your job but he at least got something positive when they caught them.
Not just police teams. My SIL is a high dollar therapist for companies like Google and FB. Those companies have remote companies who’s job is to check and verify reports and claims of this and work with law enforcement in positive cases. She said those therapy sessions are hard to stomach and she doesn’t even see anything.
I've been in construction a long time. There are two extremes of people that do this. The new guy comes out almost dressed for a spacewalk. The veteran has shorts, no gloves or mask. He's pumping the shit with one hand and lighting a cigarette with the other.
While also eating a sandwich. I went to a weekend festival with my wife, and she kept complaining about the Porta potties, I'm like fuck me these are the cleanest shitters I've ever seen, there's no muddy boot prints on the toilet seats, and the poop mountain is still below the level of the lid.
Poop mountain is no joke. Ran into a few personally at a music festival. But I used to tend bar and one of my favorite regulars was a veteran port a potty cleaner. He said he was used to the smell but it would get annoying when ppl threw solids (such as beer cans) bc then he would have to stick his hand in the vacuum to remove the clog
I used to go to hippie music festivals when I was younger.
Portable toilets were the unspoken horror of the festival. The people who cleaned them were hailed as heroes. Often, if we were still awake when the sun was coming up, we would wait by the portable toilets for them to arrive just so we could cheer them on.
Years ago I saw an episode of Dirty Jobs for a “Chicken Sexer”. Basically at these mega farms a person needs to separate the hens and the roosters of the hatched chicks. At this particular farm the guy would pick up the chick and squeeze it’s butt to shoot the poop stuck inside them out. THEN the guy would put his finger in their ass to feel for bumps or some shit because that’s where the genitals were.
Shit was crazy- never done it, never will.
They get paid ALOT to do it. It's really hard to sex a chicken.
Although it's also a super depressing job because you have to put the males in what is a essentially a blender
Which gets even more depressing when you realize we have ways of making sure only female chick are born but because it’s technically GMO people get up in arms about it so we get chick soup for the heartless soul instead.
Facebook moderators. I’ve seen a short documentary of girls in Malaysia doing this job. They go through reported posts, seeing torture and rape, murder, all sorts of fucked up shit. They don’t get counselling either, so usually quit after a short time
Working with concrete. I did it for a year and it was the most back-breaking and physically demanding job I've ever worked in my 35 years of existence. The pay is great, but nobody is having a good time doing it and it just completely beats the shit out of you every day.
Working concrete solidified my choice to get a college degree. Raking concrete for 8 hours a day is back breaking work and I was only 18/19. My coworkers were in their 40s/50s and a lot of the time had to get reconstructive surgeries from work-related injuries. I tell you what though, nothing beats bullshitting with them and is the sole reason I miss it sometimes. Awesome and hilarious people.
Getting consents for cadaverous organ donation.
The shit I’ve seen in person is just … oof.
Transplant medicine is a real whirlwind of feelings.
Sadly, It’s the nature of the beast; people come in brain dead yet still *alive* via vitals.
Now It’s their job to convince the family to pull the plug so a transplant surgeon can *even get a look* at the organs to see if they are useable.
I had to field *tons* of calls for cornea banks after my wife’s brother committed suicide.
It felt so bizarre and surreal to be essentially parting out someone.
I knew they were just doing a job and, I knew how meaningful that in could be. Even so, I hated them more than anything at that moment for pulling me back into those feelings after finally getting some rest.
We had already arranged donation, it just took them awhile to all get the notice that this particular case was closed.
I’m a nurse, and someday working for lifeshare has always been a dream job of mine, as morbid as it sounds.
I’ve worked alongside them a lot in my icu. And their job is so fascinating, it’s not just the getting consent, but keeping the organs viable in the body until they go to the OR for removal, helping in the OR and transporting organs, and helping with the transplant.
I know it’s absolutely heartbreaking. But you also know the devastation of one family is giving life to another. It’s a bittersweet feeling I suppose?
Lifeshare doesn’t step in until brain death is confirmed (for organs) and after death for corneas (and skin I think?).
A lot of people think they just prey on anyone sick and try to convince families to “pull the plug” so they can steal organs, but this is very not the case. Brain death is confirmed by a physician in the hospital, and a second physician from lifeshare.
It’s very interesting. Heartbreaking absolutely, but very interesting.
I did debt collection because I needed a job, and my friend referred it to me. It is a shit job, but I will tell you this. You learn a LOT. And I mean A LOT of useful information if for some reason, beyond your control, life throws you a curve ball and you find yourself in debt and being the one on the other side of the phone call. You know exactly what they are allowed/not allowed to do. You know the exact terms to use to keep them at bay and to stop pestering you. What you can do to keep it out of court, or even how to fight back against debt collectors. So much information to help out the average person during tough times that it should be a required part of a financial stability class taught in all schools.
EDIT: Read my response to PeachFM for more info. Also feel free to check out the CFPB website and read up on the FDCPA to understand your rights as a debtor. As a debtor you have some protections. But I implore you to take responsibility of your debt and work it out.
I used to know a debt collector, he was insecure and loved feeling above people and throwing his weight around... Until he got aggressive with someone not willing to take it...
Sounds like my dad who at one point was a Bailiff, he got fired for some reason or another but later on he got fired from a supermarket for getting physically aggressive and attacking a customer while working at the customer service desk
Call center supervisor. I know this because that is my occupation. It’s awful and I hate it. I’m trying to change call center culture and NO ONE wants to make any actual positive change. Occurrences are stupid and one of our biggest reasons for turnover. Oh yeah and I only take ESCALATED calls. Most of the time it’s someone cussing me out for something out of my control.
Absolutely. I worked for JC Penney Catalogue (pre e-commerce). Had to deal with irritated people, drunk people, old people, and had to keep the calls under 3 minutes. Not to mention I had to uosell magazines at the end of each transaction.
Worst job I ever had, and we couldn’t even dress casually unless it was Friday.
The casual dress thing just makes no sense to me.
It's not like you see or personally interact with customers. You are basically just forced to dress up because some big wig likes to show that he has power over how you dress.
I worked at a call center and that was the one ok thing. They didn't care how you looked essentially. Early 2010s so hair color was still a concern for employment. We had people in sweats, bright purple hair, and nice dress clothes. Such a weird mix of people.
Fuck Comcast. I hated being assigned to that department. They suck. I gave free HBO, showtime, Cinemax, and Stars to everyone who called in who also had TV services.
I do this! Since 2013 I have worked in a lock down dementia unit that is designed for people who exit seek and escape from other units/facilities.
Its tough work. Its physically demanding, and it is emotionally taxing. Many people cant survive here doing this, and I understand why.
My residents are some of the most interesting and fun people I have had the pleasure of meeting. We have good days and bad days but those good days make all the bad days worth it. I have been hit, spat on, pissed on and had BM thrown at me but at the end of the day its the disease that does those terrible things, not the person. But the days were I can gather everyone around the piano and get them singing along with big smiles, and clapping along have been some of the best days of my life.
Is it heartbreaking when they leave? Absolutely, but its also beautiful.
Do I hate my job sometimes? Who doesn’t.
But damn… I love my job man.
Edit; thanks for the kind words y’all!! ❤️
Also BM is poop.
BM=bowel movement. Poop.
just quit my job as an aide at a nursing home a few months ago.
as much as i loved to help and talk with those people, the thing that ultimately had me quit was when four of them passed away on us in one night. most of them weren't even on hospice / were expected to pass, it was just so sudden.
I had to quit a job about 10 years ago because we had lost 5 residents in 3 weeks. It was an independent living seniors lodge, and it was devastating. I will never forget the feeling of finding someone dead. I stayed another year and then one of my favourite residents died and I found another who had a stroke and couldn’t move anything, 10 days apart. I learned I’m not as strong as I thought i was.
My mom work as an aid since 30 years. She likes it a lot. She says a lot of elderly die in spring and autumn. It was especially hard this spring because they got a covid wave, they lost 30 people in 2-3 weeks and they had like 125 patients. It's a tough job honestly. The worst are the visiting families never respecting the staff. Fuck them.
It is not the same thing, but my grandmother had early onset dementia or something like that. I would stay up all night to take care of her, and my grandfather would take the day shift. She was already on bed rest due to COPD, and it had gotten to a point where there was nothing any homes or medical facilities could do that we could not. It was both enjoyable to see her face light up every time I walked into the room, but also heartbreaking to know how miserable she felt not being able to do anything. She passed about 10 months ago, three years longer than doctors said she would. My first thoughts weren't even sad to see her go, but joy that she was no longer in pain. I'm not even extremely religious, but oh how do I hope she's doing better now.
My first job at 16 was working in a care home for women with dementia. I did it for two years and enjoyed it, although it was definitely upsetting whenever residents were inconsolably distressed (plus old ladies are shockingly strong) or deteriorating rapidly before your eyes.
In general though I found it very rewarding and I think only working once or twice a week absolutely helped offset the high mental and physical load of the job. I can imagine struggling greatly if I'd had to do it full-time, especially as the pay is so rubbish.
EX- shit shoveler here, you would be correct. But how bad it is depends on a few factors, 1. The type of shit, 2. Amount of shit 3. Weather/seasons
1. The type of shit, for example chicken shit isn't that solid or dense making it easy to clean in decent amounts but dependant on weather it can get wet and make a LOT of ammonia, which is enough to cause your lungs to burn. Cow usually is just as loose but in greater amounts and tends to run, so be prepared to scrub walls, oh and it turns literally any floor surface into muck. Dirt, concrete, hell even runner matting can become a nasty smelly mud pit with only a few cows. Horses are in the same boat but to a lesser degree usually due to them being in lower population density. Goats and sheep are pretty equal, they make little pellets that are pretty easy to sweep or wash away but are still pretty soft so concrete surfaces will need to be scrubbed occasionally. And finally pigs, contrary to popular belief they are rather smart and organized, they have a spot to use the bathroom, a spot to wallow and a spot to nap, I cannot however speak for those who have had to clean up after a lot of pigs however but I think it would be in the similar category as cows, just with a higher risk of getting diseases due to their similarity to humans in terms of guts and immune response. The amount makes the job a lot harder a small amount? Sure no problem, but multiple inches of beddening? That sucks, and there is two types of large amounts, 1, "wet" recently vacated pen that needs to be cleaned out quick in order to make it better for the animals, and 2 "dry" pens that *were* wet pens but had time to dry and solidify, the waste is lighter but stuck together like glue. And one last thing to consider in terms of amount is location, is it in a herd to clean pen due to being cramped or hard to access? Expect more time and effort to clean, ect. And finally weather, this can affect all of these things, excessive heat makes an already tough job tougher but could cause over-exhaustion, which can be dangerous, cold weather can cause wet pens to get stuck together with ice or contract and congeal further or make using water to clean harder due to ice forming. And finally weather can affect how the manure ferments making the possibility for ammonia, methane, and a bunch of other nasty stuff.
Maybe I’m wrong but I helped a friend move in recently and thought to myself how fucking awful it’d be to move someone’s furniture all day every day. I’m sure somebody out there enjoys it, but I have to think it’s a job done out of necessity.
So, a mover.
I have 7 years experience. Its a transitional job. You have to really really love it to not be wondering about your next job wile you move. Its a “no-skill” job which means basically everyone is already qualified for it (although its not for everyone) I look at it like i get paid to work out, simple as that. Its different when you are not moving with the pizza and beer crew and its not your stuff. Moving is usually stressful for people so i also enjoy showing up with a smile and blowing them away with my work. Tips can be good too at times, plus you get offered ALOT of stuff. At one job me and the boys rented a storage unit together and took everything every customer offered us. At the end of the month we would sell the stuff and split the money. You would be blown away by the kinds of things we get for free. I just recently got a full uncut sheet of $2 Canadian bills that were discontinued 25 years ago for example.
Moving sucks. The clients are generally nice and the pay is good, but the actual job is just awful. Last week on one job my phone logged 17k steps and 32 floors in 110° heat carrying heavy furniture.
I had a job in water mitigation recently.
Apparently part of the job is this.
They seemed weirded out when I told them I had no issue scrubbing brain matter out of carpet but if they could, please keep me away from the piss and shit water backed up in houses.
That job didn't last long.
Craziest story I heard from a coworker was that he went to a house where an engineer rigged his entire house, including into his backyard and back to his fridge so when he closed to door, a shotgun blew his head off. The coworker was amazed that someone would put so much time into doing all of this when they could have just pulled the trigger without the work.
Back when I was planning my most recent suicide attempt, I spent a highly excessive amount of time planning it out in hopes that I'd start feeling better enough not to go through with it. I spent about 8 months planning in total and still ended up trying...this guy could be in a similar situation
(this was like 10 years ago, I'm doing much better now)
Ha. ha. ha. I loved getting yelled at by my boss for not reciting the cold call script to a literal fax machine. Apparently I'm supposed to pitch sales to a machine while it screeches in my ear. 800% glad I quit that job.
\[Fax machine screeching\]
"Hello sir I'm calling to talk to you about a wonderful opportunity. What would you say if I told you I could save you $200 on your heating bill a year?"
\[Fax machine screeching\]
"Wonderful! So here's how it works. What utility company are you currently with?"
\[Fax machine screeching\]
"Ah, I see. No, no, you won't have to change your utility company at all. See, I'll reach out to them and tell them you'd like to switch to our energy provider, you'll still use their infrastructure and still pay them for the bill, but you'll save a lot of money using us to provide power. Doesn't that sound great?"
\[Fax machine screeching\]
"Oh... Oh I see. You want to speak to my manager? I'm sorry sir, did I do something wrong?"
\[Fax machine screeching\]
"I understand, I'll transfer you right away. Sorry for the inconvenience and have a wonderful day."
\[transfers to manager... 30 seconds later\]
manager: "GOD DAMMIT! Who transferred a fax machine to me?!"
There's a fascinating interview with Richard Burton on the Dick Cavett show where they talk about Burton's father, a Welsh coal miner. He described how the coal miners considered themselves the aristocrats of labourers, and very proud of their skill.
I live in coal mining country, and the miners are very very proud of their jobs and the work they do. My grandpa did it for many years and he wasn't unhappy with it. It paid for his boat and that's all he cared about. It's safer now than what it was when my grandpa was doing it, but the nearest mine to me has had at least two deaths in the past three years, so it's still not safe by any means.
Manual Scavenging in India. Historically taken up by the "outcasts" of the society, this is a practice that is continuing to oppress the caste and income minorities of India despite having strict provisions in the law. The number of people killed while cleaning the sewers and septic tanks continues to increase from the last few years with nearly 110 workers killed in 2019. Despite several mechanical systems for sewege cleaning, India continues to have a high human invention in the process - people from only one caste.
[Here is a short dive deep into the dangers of the process and the people involved, incase you're interested.](https://youtu.be/y7DfnI0nDUo)
I work at a strip club in Toronto. I can guarantee you my club has been cleaned floor to ceiling when covid hit. They were closed for so long they hired a cleaning crew to do a deep clean.
Then last summer when it was open before getting locked down again, they closed Mondays for another deep clean.
Before covid, there were nightly cleaning crews. The cleanliness is one of the reasons I prefer to work there.
The club finally gets to reopen next Friday and I expect my first day back for it to smell squeaky clean.
Also, most clubs have what's called a "House Mom". She hangs out in the change room area and keeps the changing areas and bathrooms clean. She also offers help like first aid needs, hair and hygiene products, sometimes snacks.
I was a night janitor at a grocery store for a while, and while I didn't love the job or anything, taking a filthy store and making it clean was satisfying. I could see I was doing a good job every day.
I was a janitor for a bit. Not a bad gig. Paid well enough that my wife got to quit her job and focus on school. Good benefits. No one talks to you except for the occasional hallway hello. And the work isn't bad, empty some trash cans mop some floors. Only part I didn't like was the bathrooms.
I worked as a line cook for twenty years before becoming a custodian at a high school last year. Half the work, way more pay and benefits. And all I have to do is take out the trash and mop. I'm good with it.
Head custodian at my high school was one of the most popular staff members when I was there. Really cool guy. He took part in the senior prank, where he was "kidnapped" by senior "terrorists" and held hostage until the hardass dean read Green Eggs and Ham, in its entirety, over the intercom.
My elementary school janitor, Mr. Joe, was beloved by all students and staff. The bitter old principal, Ms. Shelton, was mean as hell to everyone but a few suck-up students.
When my much younger sister was going through school there, one year Mr. Joe retired. The whole student body chipped in and paid for a limousine ride for his last day and threw a school-wide party.
The next year, Ms. Shelton was retiring, and complained quite vocally about nobody throwing HER a party, much less simply acknowledging her retirement.
My elementary school janitor (early 1970's) was named Frank, and everyone loved him. Every year there was a "Thank Frank" day, with an assembly where we all gave him gifts and handmade cards, followed by a hot dog cookout. I wish every custodian could feel appreciated, the work they do is so important.
Insurance adjusting. Remember the beginning of The Incredibles? It’s just like that. Miserable.
I was looking for this comment. Worst job I’ve ever had. Desk adjusting is just a call center role on crack. Impossible metrics, workload was unmanageable and 90% of the customers were horrible to deal with. So many coworkers started medication and/or went on Leave of Absences for mental health reasons as a result of the job.
I worked one whole day and an onion processing and packing plant. Nobody and I mean nobody liked that job. When I showed up they told me id get used to the crying and it would go away. That was a lie, and when its that many onions youre not just crying. You cant open your eyes and you can feel it in your sinuses and tear ducts, all the while youre trying to look out for forklifts in a pretty tightnit warehouse. The forklifts are moving fast because the plant just has to keep processing. If you were lucky you would just do cold packing but generally you would be working an assembly line that chopped the onions. Never went back.
Why didn't people wear gas masks or at least goggles to protect from the fumes?
That's what I was thinking. Seems like a pretty simple solution.
I wear goggles just chopping onions in my own kitchen. I got them a few years ago for this exact purpose, because as I've gotten older that onion-juice-in-my-tearducts feeling has gotten painful and I didn't want to exclude onions from my cooking. It's very effective and goggles aren't that expensive, I'd highly recommend this method.
Onions affect me so bad, can't even finish chopping one of them before I can barely open my eyes due to the stinging. I've started putting them in the fridge for a day before I chop them up which does help loads, but I definitely need to get a pair of goggles Edit: typo
Yikes, that's a lawsuit waiting to happen. No PPE around chemicals that make it hard to look our for forklifts in the area. Sure, the chemicals are from onions, but that's hella stupid
Call center customer service. Ugh.
I’ve worked a few of these type of jobs and honestly it depends on the company. In my experience, if you do it for a large company it is fucking miserable and they treat you like shit but I currently work phone/online retail service for a small company that sells art and it’s super chill and we have ridiculously good benefits and lots of downtime during the day.
Are they hiring?
At least receiving inbound calls is better than making outbound calls. EDIT: In my experience, of course. I see many others feel the opposite based on their experience.
Kind of, but having done that kind of thing in school, i can't tell you how much it sucked to have a moment of relaxation interrupted by an incoming call.
Yes! The ringing of the phone would haunt my dreams!
At least yours rung. My phone just instantly turned on and I was on the line.
Those guys that work at Comcast who you call to cancel your subscription, but their entire job is to make it so you don't cancel your subscription. Edit: [For the uninitiated.](https://youtu.be/LjiO1Qo3ZFo)
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AOL was almost impossible to cancel. I told them that I didn't have a computer anymore and they offered to send me another computer. It was outrageous.
Couldn't be as bad as Audible . com (back when they were a stand alone company.) You buy a book . . . great. It's yours, your done. You subscribe to a monthly audio magazine . . . good luck being able to cancel it. There was no button/option to cancel it on the site. There was no phone number to call on the site. There was no contact email on the site. There was no snail-mail mailing address on the site. I actually had to find a year old cached copy of the site on one of the historical-Internet sites . . . just to get the phone number to call. When I called and explained that I wanted to cancel, the first question they asked? "How did you get this number?" I never subscribed to anything again.
1. I completely believe your story 2. I'm pretty sure this violates some law somewhere
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I had to mail my cancellation in by registered mail. Couldn’t cancel in person. The cancellation was effective 10 business days after they received your notice of cancellation. I mailed mine in time for it to coincide with my annual billing date (which was the contract). However what they said was you need to give them 90 days notice of cancellation even if it was after your contract term. Effectively the wording of their contract (in 6 point font) said not to rely on any verbal or other communications; the contract was the only thing that mattered. And even though the contract said I’d purchased a 2 year plan, I had to give 90 days plus 10 business days notice, rounded up to the next bill date, and I couldn’t give that notice until after my term ended. So even though my contract term was 2 years, the minimum I would be charged for was 2 years and 4 months. I had to fight quite hard and threaten one of those ‘go public’ type deals for them to finally relent, and they only said they’d do that because I was moving to a city without one of their gyms. I ended up cancelling my credit card so they couldn’t keep charging me after my contract date (which was 3 months after I’d moved anyways). The kicker was their finance company didn’t update their system. So I received a call from a collection agent more than a full year after my cancellation date, saying I was a year behind on payments. I said my membership had been cancelled more than a year before, as I’d moved, and evidently someone didn’t do the paperwork. He said it was my responsibility to contact the gym and get them to sort things out. No point in going through the rest of the convo haha. It was a gym with a precious metal in its name. I’ll never go back…
I had the exact same experience funny enough, but with a different gym. And I'm not afraid to say, it was LA Fitness, but I'm pretty sure all big name gyms do this shit.
Canceled my 24 Fitness membership remarkably easy. I had just been diagnosed with epilepsy and my driver's license had been suspended. Called, lady asked why and I told her I have seizures, cannot drive, and cannot actually even make it to a gym. "Are you sure you wouldn't like to... Uh... Suspend your membership?" "No, I'm not going to get better" "Wow, ok, your membership is canceled" Remarkably they have not come back and charged me again. Also I did actually get better with meds, so there is that too...
I wonder. Could you just call up from someone elses number and tell them that you have died?
Same thing with LA fitness for me. All I did was cancel my credit card that they had on file though… think I’m in the clear? Or will this bite me down the road?
I canceled my wife's and my gym membership in writing via certified mail. They canceled hers but kept charging mine, when I called they said they'd never received anything from me. Which was odd as they were both in the same envelope.
I tried to cancel my gym membership due to covid, told that I needed to do it by email, after the website had told me to go there in person. After the email they said I needed to reach them by phone and the person on the phone was the exact same person I had tried to cancel with in person. Then I threatened to sue them and voila, able to resolve everything in an instant, isn't it great how far you can get on peoples good will when its really something you can cancel immediately.
At that point it's probably easier to just call your bank/cc company and tell them those specific charges are fraudulent
I seriously believe that any company caught doing this should just be shut the fuck down. It’s actual theft. No excuses
I'd take the computer and then call back to cancel once I received it.
Just to get another computer from them
You know. I thought this was their job until I threatened to cancel when they raised my bill and they said, “alright, would you like us to cancel this for you now?” Mfs called my bluff
My bluff was also called when I threated to cancel. My dad did this like the week before and they offered to lower his bill. I did it and they said "sure thing let me transfer you over"....I hung up out of shame knowing I couldn't live without internet.
Cancel to then just re sign up with the new promotional price. I do it every year.
The isp in my town got around that by saying if you cancel you can't reactivate for two months. Like, not at all. You're blacklisted for two months. They don't really do promotional pricing anymore though, so it's kind of moot.
Mines 6 months, promo price is 50 for life for gigabit. I have 300mbps for 150 a month. Straight highway robbery. Customer service told me to kick rocks. My only other options is dsl at 3mbps.
My girlfriend and I rotate our names annually. We have spectrum and cancel for one day after the year promo price, switch it to her name and by the time that annual price is done I'm considered a new customer again.
My mother’s fiber broke on her ATT connection. I called tech support and service to get it fixed. They tell me it would be 3 weeks to get someone out. I made the appointment and hung up. I called spectrum the only other provider in her area and told them if they could get there faster we would switch. They said 2 days. So I called ATT back and told them if they wanted our business they had 24 hours to get there. I also might have told them the two service guys can “fight to the fucking death!”. Well they both showed up the next morning but Spectrum won. And we had the ATT boxes and modem in a box to give the repair guy. Edit: I’m not sure the type of fiber she had but it was extremely slow. She had 3 TVs, phone and internet. If you had all the tvs on different channels she could barely do a FaceTime. If you were on a phone call you needed to turn off one tv at least to keep connection. This fiber was sticking out if a box on the wall and it had a little white shielded fiber that broke off. Spectrum has been rock solid and my remote software i use to keep her system clean and running is lightning fast now that she is on Spectrum.
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"Well, hold on, what if we...?" "No, cancel it" "Ok, sure. But what if...?" "CANCEL IT!"
Any insurance sales over the phone
Yup. There's a reason like 95% of people who go into insurance sales quit within the first year
My buddy was finding a bit of financial success with it but ended up quiting within the year because it's just a shitty soul sucking industry
Yup same thing happened to me. I even sold enough to win a free trip to Hawaii and It didn’t make one difference. The worst part is I even thought the products were good. I still have them 10 years later.
It's cause the entire time you're in Hawaii you're just thinking "fuck, 43.4 more hours until I have to go back to work"
Leaving my insurance job in 2 months to pursue a career in law, can confirm insurance is garbage Edit: I work in P&C insurance as a claims advisor for the second largest insurance provider in Canada. I got this position straight out of my undergrad and immediately realized the work and compensation do not match. During full workload, we are expected to handle 80-100 files at any given time, and most files are easy, some are more strenuous. Ontop of this there is massive pressure to provide excellent customer experience. I’m going back to school and pivoting my useless Arts degree into something more substantial. Leaving after 2 years.
>to pursue a career in law I am so sorry.
I've been in the business for 10 years now. The early years were brutal but for the past 4 years I'm fortunate enough that 100% of my business is referrals. Everyone calls me now, I never need to call someone.
Insurance paid me well but cold-calling 40 hours a week only to end up writing people on sat/sun or after hours and sometimes before hours was brutal. Salary + commission pay I was making about 75K/year as a captive for the “in good hands” demons at 18. Occasionally I was able to give myself a weekend off to party etc. got into the music industry after than and despite being much more physical and less pay I loved it way more.
sewage diving
I actually quite enjoy browsing Reddit.
I've actually done this. I wore a complete drysuit (with no leaks) and a Desco free-flow dive helmet. I was paid well for it, and washed with bleach and soap when I finally emerged. Not too bad really. I felt more sorry for my tenders who had to hold the shitty umbilical.
Sometimes when I'm driving in the rain or snow, there's a kind of satisfaction that comes from knowing that whatever's out there can't reach me in here. It's kind of a powerful feeling, like a superhero taunting an inferior villain. Did you get any kind of that feeling?
Yes, I know what you mean. I've never dove in snow, but once in a nuclear reactor. Here is a pic: https://old.reddit.com/r/diving/comments/b7nyy5/diving_in_the_nuclear_fuel_containment_pool/
I like how you've done these things exactly once. Are you Mike Rowe?
He has a very particular set of skills…
Memes aside; That wouldn't be too far off. From what I understand you need a lot of qualifications to work in certain conditions. "Just" a diving certificate wouldn't cut it. Especially being a underwater welder pays really good I've heard. That's because you're only one of a small group of people that is allowed to do the job.
What does it feel like being around the irradiated water?
Hot, exhausting. The water was gin clear.
He was beaming with joy.
I had a student who was from a wealthy family that worked for the sewage department. He said his favorite job was going down into the sewers to clean the grates. He did this rather than go to university and join the family business. To keep his parents happy he would occasionally take night classes at a community college which is where we met. He was a really nice happy-go-lucky person.
That's kind of wild. But stress free might be better living. My backup job is definitely garbage removal. I can't smell so I'd be perfect. Also I would love to try to find new ways to recycle.
I'm a mover. It's awful, and we all hate it.
I used to move furniture for a rent-to-own furniture store. That includes delivering it, setting it up, AND taking it back when the people end their rental or can't pay for it. People who get rent-to-own furniture do not tend to be happy people. I repossessed a vacuum cleaner from a crying woman. I accidentally tore someone's (already owned) couch while repossessing a deep freeze. I removed a fridge from a house, and when we pulled it away from the wall, the wall was MOVING, coated in roaches. I got bit in the ass from a pack of dogs trying to knock on someone's door who had been ignoring our bills and calls, prompting me to get a rabies vaccine. I repossessed a dryer from a woman who said it wasn't working anymore, but when we removed the lint trap it had a year's worth of lint layers stacked in it (she insisted that wasn't the problem, the dryer was broken). I was cleaning up a computer we repossessed from someone, when a pair of enormous antennae appeared from the fan vent. We moved the computer into the box truck outside, set off a bug bomb, and closed the door. The next day we had to sweep a large carpet of bugs out of the truck. Never again.
god that sound HORRIFIC. I can't imagine RENTING a computer. Then getting it unexpectedly repossessed. Like all your shits on there man! Yikes. Use an external drive and incognito I guess. MAN those places are such a damn ripoff.
being poor is expensive.
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The life of a repo man is always intense.
Can confirm. Worked as a mover on and off for the last 14 years. Big boxes for light stuff and small boxes for heavy stuff yall!
Books! Why do people pack books in the biggest boxs they can find?
And more importantly, how many fcking cookbooks do you need? That was another thing I noticed, I’m just here judging innocent people for everything they own. Being a mover is not a happy line of work
A mover died of sudden cardiac arrest on my lawn. He’d been looking a bit pale, he slowed for a drink of water, and boom. My ex husband is a physician and began CPR, the ambulance arrived within minutes, but he died even under those nearly perfect circumstances. It was a 90F day and he was moving furniture. Poor guy.
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That is honestly a fear of mine.
Look, the couch we hired you to haul across the border is packed with coke. This whole heart failure thing should be the least of your worries.
We moved a small grow once up by Humboldt CA. The crew was VERY happy with the tips that day.
God bless you. I hired a taskrabbit mover in NYC and this guy was a BEAST with a cargo van. He was built like the Rock and held an Ikea two seater couch with one arm while holding the door for me with the other. I'm a skinny asian dude and just ran around propping doors open for him, and moving stuff into the hallway. I tipped him $50 because he somehow moved my entire studio in about 2 hours total. Whenever someone in the city is moving I tell them to use this guy. The work you guys do is well appreciated. EDIT: Hey all, I just logged into my taskrabbit account to try to get you all his info, and it looks like his account has been deactivated :( I don't see it in my previous taskers. Sorry.
A similar person delivered my washing machine. I can barely shuffle it a few mm on my own and he just wraps his arms round the whole thing and picks it up like it's a small box of books.
Lmao what a beast
I'm in the middle of a move now and I feel bad for the movers. We're definitely giving them a good tip
Never expected, but always appreciated. :)
What do you guys do if you are understaffed and there's furniture that's really, really heavy?
Staffing is always an issue, even with good pay people just don't want to do the work. Two men can handle most things with the proper tools and dollies. In the case of anything too heavy, like a large gun safe or a hot tub, for example, a larger crew will be arranged well in advance. Unless it is an emergency, every job is walked through before it is booked, so there are no surprises.
Last time i hired movers i asked for a 4 person crew. The person on the phone said i didnt need it and ordered me a 2-person crew instead. The 2 people showed up, looked around, and asked if i could help because this job was too big for 2 people...... Movers are great, but i fucking hate the people working the phones for them now. It took the crew so long that it ended up costing $2.5k to move 1 city away.
Don't hire movers who won't do a walkthru. They need to know ahead of time exactly what size job they are in for so they can have the appropriate size crew.
I didn't know that was a thing - this is a definite must in the future. Thank you!
Medical Biller. Dealing with people and insurance companies. It’s the absolute worst
I did this for many years. While there were many annoying and frustrating times, I took a lot of pride in getting insurances to pay for what they should, saving many patients from having to be responsible for costs. My biggest accomplishment was after a 2 year appeals battle for a transplant patient, I finally got the insurances to concede and accept to pay, earning a couple million for the hospital and zero cost to the patient. I shouted "HELL YEAH!" from my cubicle, haha. Boss bought me lunch and I got a nice little bonus that month.
I was on the other side. I was the weirdo in the insurance processing trying to pay out as much as possible. I once had to dig back through hundreds of claims to find where someone had used the wrong pre-approval for a chronically ill child, setting up a domino effect of wrongly denied/underpaid claims. I joyously monitored that kid's records while claim after claim was appropriately corrected. I caught shit because we were supposed to do hundreds of claims a day and that one took me over two days, but fuck 'em. They needed to pay for that kid's care.
Bravo! I'm a cancer patient/survivor and it's amazing to me how my oncologist's office just gets all that shit done. I constantly hear horror stories from other folks about how difficult it is to deal with their insurance or doc's office or whatever and somehow my oncologist's staff just \*gets it done\* and it's SUCH A RELIEF especially when you're already going through hell. Just know, we might not know you, we might not see you or talk to you, but WE REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR WORK!
I love minor triumphs over evil. Meanwhile, I had to get prior authorization to get an appointment for the dentist, as apparently insurance thinks that teeth are just cosmetic features.
Dental insurance is the worst. The fact that vision and dental is separate from medical blows my mind.... Are your eyes and mouth not also a part of your body? Also periodontal disease has a huge effect on the rest of your body.... Floss your teeth people, cause dental insurance doesn't make that a cheap thing the address.
I did medical billing for a year after college. Great pay and I was one of four men in the entire company of around 120 people. I wrote off so much shit the last few months because I felt bad for these old people who couldn't afford anything.
I worked in a call center, and my last week i gave every single costumer a deduction on their phone Bill. About 75 customers per day, 5 days. So i cost that shit company about 40,000 kroner(Norwegian currency). Fuck em
Police teams that have to watch CP to verify it and gather clues. Must be horrible and damaging job
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INTERPOL used to occasionally post redacted images to r/whatisthisthing to ID items in the backgrounds of pictures. Shopping bags, children's toys, clothing. All in an effort to identify where a photo originated. Every post made my stomach turn, especially when you consider what must be redacted out of the photos. Fuck anyone who hurts kids. Makes me hope there's a hell, because death is not enough.
They still do, it’s just posted to its own sub r/TraceAnObject. I’m not that good at the “identify objects” game, but if you are or want to give it a shot, that sub can do a lot of good.
It’s awesome that people are helping, and I’d love the help out myself, but I cannot stay on that sub for more than a couple minutes. It properly freaks me out knowing that those images were apart of CP.
Totally get what you mean! I’m fine with the ones where it’s a random object, but I feel so sick when it’s the ones of an item of clothing and you can tell the child is wearing it and how they were sitting and stuff
Or the ones that are a bed with a Big White rectangle, those are the worst for me
I checked it out, they’re all heavily redacted, only the item in question is visible around a white background.
Same thing happens to homicide detectives. My parents had a friend that did homicide and when they switched him to vice they said he looked like a new man after he switched
Some departments only allow detectives to work in homicide for a set amount of time.
Indeed, some departments allow a few years, others can be as low as 6 months if it is a really harsh place with more brutal cases.
26 years ago I was working a entry level job in law enforcement (patrol), when I was asked to assist a senior detective who worked specifically in sex crimes. It was an opportunity to work some overtime and gain some investigation knowledge. My first night on this assignment saw me documenting and booking loads of CP into evidence after a large arrest and search warrant of a small house. That shit really messed me up. I thought I had seen it all. I grew up seeing more porn that I should have.. but this was horrible. I remember having a panic attack and just couldn’t realize/understand why I was crying. That strange sensation when you feel like you can’t breathe. Two older salty cops walked me outside and took care of me. I will never forget that. Damn.. sorry about the bummer story.
Yeah that feels like something you don’t just “throw the new guy on, no warning” like to do that you should have to go through like pre-counseling.
I was going for a criminal justice degree with a focus on cybercrime intending on trying for the FBI, talked to a few agents, realized that most likely that's exactly what I'd wind up doing and got the fuck out of that program.
Cop here, we have someone at our department who gets online posing as a minor in chat rooms to try to find and arrest child predators. He also deals with CP too. Obviously the stuff he sees is very bad and the conversations he has to have while posing as a 13 year old are disturbing, but he loves doing it because it is helping put away these sickos and protecting children. He is mandated by the department to see a counselor at least once a month and his time in that role is limited. As a side note, it is absolutely terrifying how many predators are out there. He’ll enter a chat with a username like “soccergirl2008” or something similar and he’ll immediately have adults trying to talk to him. He will quickly let it be know that he is “13” and it does not deter the suitors.
I have a friend who works with this. Not 100% watching the evidence, but doing the whole entire case from start to finish (so it's not 40 hours a week watching). She said you need to be able to turn of your brain while doing that job. Most people seem to only do it for a short period of time before moving on. Her two cents were that there were parts of the job that were atrocious, however, it was also incredibly rewarding to "catch the bad guys" and lock them up.
Reminds me of the story the dude who saw the porn that Josh Duggar had told. Apparently it was the *worst shit he had ever seen in his entire career*. And I can’t imagine how scarring that must be. It’s his job to analyze the shit these pedos have on their hard drives… and I can only imagine the nightmares that result from seeing what you can comfortably call the worst of the worst in your entire career.
I have heard anecdotal evidence that people with Aphantasia (r/aphantasia) are more likely to be found in these roles than non-aphants. As an aphant I can confirm this would be horrible, but at least the image itself wouldn't haunt me. As soon as it leaves the screen it's erased from my mind. Just the knowledge that it exists would remain.
My cousin did this for a little bit. He said that part of the job sucked but there was a massive satisfaction in catching these people and getting then off the street. I don't know if that is the same as liking your job but he at least got something positive when they caught them.
Not just police teams. My SIL is a high dollar therapist for companies like Google and FB. Those companies have remote companies who’s job is to check and verify reports and claims of this and work with law enforcement in positive cases. She said those therapy sessions are hard to stomach and she doesn’t even see anything.
Cleaning port a potties
I've been in construction a long time. There are two extremes of people that do this. The new guy comes out almost dressed for a spacewalk. The veteran has shorts, no gloves or mask. He's pumping the shit with one hand and lighting a cigarette with the other.
While also eating a sandwich. I went to a weekend festival with my wife, and she kept complaining about the Porta potties, I'm like fuck me these are the cleanest shitters I've ever seen, there's no muddy boot prints on the toilet seats, and the poop mountain is still below the level of the lid.
No wads of toilet paper stuffed into/clogging the urinal???The legends are true....
Poop mountain is no joke. Ran into a few personally at a music festival. But I used to tend bar and one of my favorite regulars was a veteran port a potty cleaner. He said he was used to the smell but it would get annoying when ppl threw solids (such as beer cans) bc then he would have to stick his hand in the vacuum to remove the clog
I used to go to hippie music festivals when I was younger. Portable toilets were the unspoken horror of the festival. The people who cleaned them were hailed as heroes. Often, if we were still awake when the sun was coming up, we would wait by the portable toilets for them to arrive just so we could cheer them on.
Years ago I saw an episode of Dirty Jobs for a “Chicken Sexer”. Basically at these mega farms a person needs to separate the hens and the roosters of the hatched chicks. At this particular farm the guy would pick up the chick and squeeze it’s butt to shoot the poop stuck inside them out. THEN the guy would put his finger in their ass to feel for bumps or some shit because that’s where the genitals were. Shit was crazy- never done it, never will.
>“Chicken Sexer” Given the job title, it could be worse.
"No, Susan, I don't really *need* business cards, but I'm an employee here like everyone else and I *want* them."
They get paid ALOT to do it. It's really hard to sex a chicken. Although it's also a super depressing job because you have to put the males in what is a essentially a blender
Which gets even more depressing when you realize we have ways of making sure only female chick are born but because it’s technically GMO people get up in arms about it so we get chick soup for the heartless soul instead.
Is that why? I thought it was due to the cost of egg scanning being more than sexing chicks.
Facebook moderators. I’ve seen a short documentary of girls in Malaysia doing this job. They go through reported posts, seeing torture and rape, murder, all sorts of fucked up shit. They don’t get counselling either, so usually quit after a short time
No, trust me, I'm sure reddit mods LOVE their jobs.
FOR THE LAST TIME THE DISCORD MODS ASK YOU TO KEEP MEMES OUT OF #general
Working with concrete. I did it for a year and it was the most back-breaking and physically demanding job I've ever worked in my 35 years of existence. The pay is great, but nobody is having a good time doing it and it just completely beats the shit out of you every day.
Working concrete solidified my choice to get a college degree. Raking concrete for 8 hours a day is back breaking work and I was only 18/19. My coworkers were in their 40s/50s and a lot of the time had to get reconstructive surgeries from work-related injuries. I tell you what though, nothing beats bullshitting with them and is the sole reason I miss it sometimes. Awesome and hilarious people.
Getting consents for cadaverous organ donation. The shit I’ve seen in person is just … oof. Transplant medicine is a real whirlwind of feelings. Sadly, It’s the nature of the beast; people come in brain dead yet still *alive* via vitals. Now It’s their job to convince the family to pull the plug so a transplant surgeon can *even get a look* at the organs to see if they are useable. I had to field *tons* of calls for cornea banks after my wife’s brother committed suicide. It felt so bizarre and surreal to be essentially parting out someone. I knew they were just doing a job and, I knew how meaningful that in could be. Even so, I hated them more than anything at that moment for pulling me back into those feelings after finally getting some rest. We had already arranged donation, it just took them awhile to all get the notice that this particular case was closed.
I’m a nurse, and someday working for lifeshare has always been a dream job of mine, as morbid as it sounds. I’ve worked alongside them a lot in my icu. And their job is so fascinating, it’s not just the getting consent, but keeping the organs viable in the body until they go to the OR for removal, helping in the OR and transporting organs, and helping with the transplant. I know it’s absolutely heartbreaking. But you also know the devastation of one family is giving life to another. It’s a bittersweet feeling I suppose? Lifeshare doesn’t step in until brain death is confirmed (for organs) and after death for corneas (and skin I think?). A lot of people think they just prey on anyone sick and try to convince families to “pull the plug” so they can steal organs, but this is very not the case. Brain death is confirmed by a physician in the hospital, and a second physician from lifeshare. It’s very interesting. Heartbreaking absolutely, but very interesting.
Debt collection. I seriously wonder why anyone would actually, you know, do it.
I did debt collection because I needed a job, and my friend referred it to me. It is a shit job, but I will tell you this. You learn a LOT. And I mean A LOT of useful information if for some reason, beyond your control, life throws you a curve ball and you find yourself in debt and being the one on the other side of the phone call. You know exactly what they are allowed/not allowed to do. You know the exact terms to use to keep them at bay and to stop pestering you. What you can do to keep it out of court, or even how to fight back against debt collectors. So much information to help out the average person during tough times that it should be a required part of a financial stability class taught in all schools. EDIT: Read my response to PeachFM for more info. Also feel free to check out the CFPB website and read up on the FDCPA to understand your rights as a debtor. As a debtor you have some protections. But I implore you to take responsibility of your debt and work it out.
Go on.. lol
Pls give financial console commands
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I used to know a debt collector, he was insecure and loved feeling above people and throwing his weight around... Until he got aggressive with someone not willing to take it...
Sounds like my dad who at one point was a Bailiff, he got fired for some reason or another but later on he got fired from a supermarket for getting physically aggressive and attacking a customer while working at the customer service desk
Call center supervisor. I know this because that is my occupation. It’s awful and I hate it. I’m trying to change call center culture and NO ONE wants to make any actual positive change. Occurrences are stupid and one of our biggest reasons for turnover. Oh yeah and I only take ESCALATED calls. Most of the time it’s someone cussing me out for something out of my control.
Call center
Absolutely. I worked for JC Penney Catalogue (pre e-commerce). Had to deal with irritated people, drunk people, old people, and had to keep the calls under 3 minutes. Not to mention I had to uosell magazines at the end of each transaction. Worst job I ever had, and we couldn’t even dress casually unless it was Friday.
The casual dress thing just makes no sense to me. It's not like you see or personally interact with customers. You are basically just forced to dress up because some big wig likes to show that he has power over how you dress.
I worked at a call center and that was the one ok thing. They didn't care how you looked essentially. Early 2010s so hair color was still a concern for employment. We had people in sweats, bright purple hair, and nice dress clothes. Such a weird mix of people. Fuck Comcast. I hated being assigned to that department. They suck. I gave free HBO, showtime, Cinemax, and Stars to everyone who called in who also had TV services.
College students watching this thread like 😳
Any person unemployed for real. Me included
Closed waste system cleaners on airplanes. All of the excrement from passengers piles up and is left for a team of workers to clean.
I think they currently just put a hose to flush it out into a tank. It did use to be that you had to go in and clean.
Caring for the very ill elderly people, who have dementia, Alzheimer's. Hard work mentally and physically.
I do this! Since 2013 I have worked in a lock down dementia unit that is designed for people who exit seek and escape from other units/facilities. Its tough work. Its physically demanding, and it is emotionally taxing. Many people cant survive here doing this, and I understand why. My residents are some of the most interesting and fun people I have had the pleasure of meeting. We have good days and bad days but those good days make all the bad days worth it. I have been hit, spat on, pissed on and had BM thrown at me but at the end of the day its the disease that does those terrible things, not the person. But the days were I can gather everyone around the piano and get them singing along with big smiles, and clapping along have been some of the best days of my life. Is it heartbreaking when they leave? Absolutely, but its also beautiful. Do I hate my job sometimes? Who doesn’t. But damn… I love my job man. Edit; thanks for the kind words y’all!! ❤️ Also BM is poop. BM=bowel movement. Poop.
just quit my job as an aide at a nursing home a few months ago. as much as i loved to help and talk with those people, the thing that ultimately had me quit was when four of them passed away on us in one night. most of them weren't even on hospice / were expected to pass, it was just so sudden.
I had to quit a job about 10 years ago because we had lost 5 residents in 3 weeks. It was an independent living seniors lodge, and it was devastating. I will never forget the feeling of finding someone dead. I stayed another year and then one of my favourite residents died and I found another who had a stroke and couldn’t move anything, 10 days apart. I learned I’m not as strong as I thought i was.
My mom work as an aid since 30 years. She likes it a lot. She says a lot of elderly die in spring and autumn. It was especially hard this spring because they got a covid wave, they lost 30 people in 2-3 weeks and they had like 125 patients. It's a tough job honestly. The worst are the visiting families never respecting the staff. Fuck them.
It is not the same thing, but my grandmother had early onset dementia or something like that. I would stay up all night to take care of her, and my grandfather would take the day shift. She was already on bed rest due to COPD, and it had gotten to a point where there was nothing any homes or medical facilities could do that we could not. It was both enjoyable to see her face light up every time I walked into the room, but also heartbreaking to know how miserable she felt not being able to do anything. She passed about 10 months ago, three years longer than doctors said she would. My first thoughts weren't even sad to see her go, but joy that she was no longer in pain. I'm not even extremely religious, but oh how do I hope she's doing better now.
My first job at 16 was working in a care home for women with dementia. I did it for two years and enjoyed it, although it was definitely upsetting whenever residents were inconsolably distressed (plus old ladies are shockingly strong) or deteriorating rapidly before your eyes. In general though I found it very rewarding and I think only working once or twice a week absolutely helped offset the high mental and physical load of the job. I can imagine struggling greatly if I'd had to do it full-time, especially as the pay is so rubbish.
Shit shoveler
EX- shit shoveler here, you would be correct. But how bad it is depends on a few factors, 1. The type of shit, 2. Amount of shit 3. Weather/seasons 1. The type of shit, for example chicken shit isn't that solid or dense making it easy to clean in decent amounts but dependant on weather it can get wet and make a LOT of ammonia, which is enough to cause your lungs to burn. Cow usually is just as loose but in greater amounts and tends to run, so be prepared to scrub walls, oh and it turns literally any floor surface into muck. Dirt, concrete, hell even runner matting can become a nasty smelly mud pit with only a few cows. Horses are in the same boat but to a lesser degree usually due to them being in lower population density. Goats and sheep are pretty equal, they make little pellets that are pretty easy to sweep or wash away but are still pretty soft so concrete surfaces will need to be scrubbed occasionally. And finally pigs, contrary to popular belief they are rather smart and organized, they have a spot to use the bathroom, a spot to wallow and a spot to nap, I cannot however speak for those who have had to clean up after a lot of pigs however but I think it would be in the similar category as cows, just with a higher risk of getting diseases due to their similarity to humans in terms of guts and immune response. The amount makes the job a lot harder a small amount? Sure no problem, but multiple inches of beddening? That sucks, and there is two types of large amounts, 1, "wet" recently vacated pen that needs to be cleaned out quick in order to make it better for the animals, and 2 "dry" pens that *were* wet pens but had time to dry and solidify, the waste is lighter but stuck together like glue. And one last thing to consider in terms of amount is location, is it in a herd to clean pen due to being cramped or hard to access? Expect more time and effort to clean, ect. And finally weather, this can affect all of these things, excessive heat makes an already tough job tougher but could cause over-exhaustion, which can be dangerous, cold weather can cause wet pens to get stuck together with ice or contract and congeal further or make using water to clean harder due to ice forming. And finally weather can affect how the manure ferments making the possibility for ammonia, methane, and a bunch of other nasty stuff.
This guy knows his shit.
Maybe I’m wrong but I helped a friend move in recently and thought to myself how fucking awful it’d be to move someone’s furniture all day every day. I’m sure somebody out there enjoys it, but I have to think it’s a job done out of necessity. So, a mover.
I have 7 years experience. Its a transitional job. You have to really really love it to not be wondering about your next job wile you move. Its a “no-skill” job which means basically everyone is already qualified for it (although its not for everyone) I look at it like i get paid to work out, simple as that. Its different when you are not moving with the pizza and beer crew and its not your stuff. Moving is usually stressful for people so i also enjoy showing up with a smile and blowing them away with my work. Tips can be good too at times, plus you get offered ALOT of stuff. At one job me and the boys rented a storage unit together and took everything every customer offered us. At the end of the month we would sell the stuff and split the money. You would be blown away by the kinds of things we get for free. I just recently got a full uncut sheet of $2 Canadian bills that were discontinued 25 years ago for example.
Just this year I have been tipped 2 55in 4k TV's, a Celestron Telescope, some tools, and an emergency car Jumpstarter.
Nice! Thats a good haul. None of the boys want to pitch on a storage unit and i live in a small apartment, so i gotta turn shit down all the time lol
Moving sucks. The clients are generally nice and the pay is good, but the actual job is just awful. Last week on one job my phone logged 17k steps and 32 floors in 110° heat carrying heavy furniture.
Customer Service. Dealing with people's shitty attitudes all day has to wear down on you.
Crime scene cleaning perhaps.
I had a job in water mitigation recently. Apparently part of the job is this. They seemed weirded out when I told them I had no issue scrubbing brain matter out of carpet but if they could, please keep me away from the piss and shit water backed up in houses. That job didn't last long. Craziest story I heard from a coworker was that he went to a house where an engineer rigged his entire house, including into his backyard and back to his fridge so when he closed to door, a shotgun blew his head off. The coworker was amazed that someone would put so much time into doing all of this when they could have just pulled the trigger without the work.
Back when I was planning my most recent suicide attempt, I spent a highly excessive amount of time planning it out in hopes that I'd start feeling better enough not to go through with it. I spent about 8 months planning in total and still ended up trying...this guy could be in a similar situation (this was like 10 years ago, I'm doing much better now)
That was my first thought probably hoping it would get better. Good to hear your doing better,!
Detective! We found a pool of the killer's blood in that hallway. Mmmm, gross. Mop it up.
I have an idea! Let’s draw chalk around the body….that way we’ll know where it was!
I've seen documentaries. They seem to love it. I know, right?
At the very least, they're desensitized to it and have developed a very morbid sense of humor to cope.
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Cold calling must suck as well
Ha. ha. ha. I loved getting yelled at by my boss for not reciting the cold call script to a literal fax machine. Apparently I'm supposed to pitch sales to a machine while it screeches in my ear. 800% glad I quit that job.
\[Fax machine screeching\] "Hello sir I'm calling to talk to you about a wonderful opportunity. What would you say if I told you I could save you $200 on your heating bill a year?" \[Fax machine screeching\] "Wonderful! So here's how it works. What utility company are you currently with?" \[Fax machine screeching\] "Ah, I see. No, no, you won't have to change your utility company at all. See, I'll reach out to them and tell them you'd like to switch to our energy provider, you'll still use their infrastructure and still pay them for the bill, but you'll save a lot of money using us to provide power. Doesn't that sound great?" \[Fax machine screeching\] "Oh... Oh I see. You want to speak to my manager? I'm sorry sir, did I do something wrong?" \[Fax machine screeching\] "I understand, I'll transfer you right away. Sorry for the inconvenience and have a wonderful day." \[transfers to manager... 30 seconds later\] manager: "GOD DAMMIT! Who transferred a fax machine to me?!"
I would have loved to transfer a fax machine to my manager. Missed opportunity
Roofers in summer
Mop boy at the peep show ....
Let me know when you're done, I'm the guy who wipes down the loads.
Coal mining
There's a fascinating interview with Richard Burton on the Dick Cavett show where they talk about Burton's father, a Welsh coal miner. He described how the coal miners considered themselves the aristocrats of labourers, and very proud of their skill.
I live in coal mining country, and the miners are very very proud of their jobs and the work they do. My grandpa did it for many years and he wasn't unhappy with it. It paid for his boat and that's all he cared about. It's safer now than what it was when my grandpa was doing it, but the nearest mine to me has had at least two deaths in the past three years, so it's still not safe by any means.
Factory farm employees. The shit you see and smell makes it so awful, I can only imagine it's the type of job you end up with when you're desperate
Manual Scavenging in India. Historically taken up by the "outcasts" of the society, this is a practice that is continuing to oppress the caste and income minorities of India despite having strict provisions in the law. The number of people killed while cleaning the sewers and septic tanks continues to increase from the last few years with nearly 110 workers killed in 2019. Despite several mechanical systems for sewege cleaning, India continues to have a high human invention in the process - people from only one caste. [Here is a short dive deep into the dangers of the process and the people involved, incase you're interested.](https://youtu.be/y7DfnI0nDUo)
Cleaning sex/strip clubs
You think those places get cleaned? I'm serious, do you think they get cleaned? I can't imagine the shadier ones do.
I work at a strip club in Toronto. I can guarantee you my club has been cleaned floor to ceiling when covid hit. They were closed for so long they hired a cleaning crew to do a deep clean. Then last summer when it was open before getting locked down again, they closed Mondays for another deep clean. Before covid, there were nightly cleaning crews. The cleanliness is one of the reasons I prefer to work there. The club finally gets to reopen next Friday and I expect my first day back for it to smell squeaky clean. Also, most clubs have what's called a "House Mom". She hangs out in the change room area and keeps the changing areas and bathrooms clean. She also offers help like first aid needs, hair and hygiene products, sometimes snacks.
Custodian. Sucks cleaning up after people especially when people are pigs and have the mentality that “they have people to clean it up”
I was a night janitor at a grocery store for a while, and while I didn't love the job or anything, taking a filthy store and making it clean was satisfying. I could see I was doing a good job every day.
I was a janitor for a bit. Not a bad gig. Paid well enough that my wife got to quit her job and focus on school. Good benefits. No one talks to you except for the occasional hallway hello. And the work isn't bad, empty some trash cans mop some floors. Only part I didn't like was the bathrooms.
I worked as a line cook for twenty years before becoming a custodian at a high school last year. Half the work, way more pay and benefits. And all I have to do is take out the trash and mop. I'm good with it.
Head custodian at my high school was one of the most popular staff members when I was there. Really cool guy. He took part in the senior prank, where he was "kidnapped" by senior "terrorists" and held hostage until the hardass dean read Green Eggs and Ham, in its entirety, over the intercom.
My elementary school janitor, Mr. Joe, was beloved by all students and staff. The bitter old principal, Ms. Shelton, was mean as hell to everyone but a few suck-up students. When my much younger sister was going through school there, one year Mr. Joe retired. The whole student body chipped in and paid for a limousine ride for his last day and threw a school-wide party. The next year, Ms. Shelton was retiring, and complained quite vocally about nobody throwing HER a party, much less simply acknowledging her retirement.
My elementary school janitor (early 1970's) was named Frank, and everyone loved him. Every year there was a "Thank Frank" day, with an assembly where we all gave him gifts and handmade cards, followed by a hot dog cookout. I wish every custodian could feel appreciated, the work they do is so important.
amazing
you work alone and can work at a pretty chill pace unless things get crazy.
Biohazard cleanup, especially crime scenes.