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kindra68 · 10-09-2009, 08:46 AM

K-Mart and Toys R Us. they were both Christmas jobs. i have never worked another seasonal job again. people are mean.

**ChiTown** · 10-09-2009, 08:47 AM

Cleanup crew at the Circle Jerk Lounge...............

Dayze · 10-09-2009, 08:58 AM

UPS.

unloded trucks for $8/hr for about 1 month after high school. I was in great shape from playing football, track (discus and shot put) etc...and that job kicked my butt.

non-stop work out for 4 hours. Non......stop. ...ok, well, there is a '10 minute' break in there.

CoMoChief · 10-09-2009, 09:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Dayze

UPS.

unloded trucks for $8/hr for about 1 month after high school. I was in great shape from playing football, track (discus and shot put) etc...and that job kicked my butt.

non-stop work out for 4 hours. Non......stop. ...ok, well, there is a '10 minute' break in there.

I worked there too.....the one downtown off of James St. Around Xmas time. 1 person to scan and load. ****in bullshit...here in the UPS in Columbia they have 2-3 people per truck. and KC gets 1000x the load CoMo gets. I worked there 2months and that was it. I'm a tall guy and my back was killing me, no matter how great my lifting technique was.

Dayze · 10-09-2009, 09:30 AM

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Originally Posted by CoMoChief

I worked there too.....the one downtown off of James St. Around Xmas time. 1 person to scan and load. ****in bullshit...here in the UPS in Columbia they have 2-3 people per truck. and KC gets 1000x the load CoMo gets. I worked there 2months and that was it. I'm a tall guy and my back was killing me, no matter how great my lifting technique was.

Yep; one dude per 50’ trailer to unload (which was me). I tried very hard to keep my technique firm, but after 2 hours of non-stop lifting, fatigue sets in and you lose the technique. I bought some batting gloves to help with my hands - which were damn near bloody after the first few days; - and the batting gloves lasted ½ of a shift.

Lol.
That place was brutal. Get there – whistle blows….and it’s non-stop (aside from that 10 minute break) for 4 hours. Trailers were so hot in the summer you almost had to stay kneeling because if you stood up it was so hot you nearly passed out. The trailers were translucent – which made them feel like a green house.

You could not stay hydrated at that place.

$8/hr. lol.
F that.

ChiefJustice · 10-09-2009, 11:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Dayze

UPS.

unloded trucks for $8/hr for about 1 month after high school. I was in great shape from playing football, track (discus and shot put) etc...and that job kicked my butt.

non-stop work out for 4 hours. Non......stop. ...ok, well, there is a '10 minute' break in there.

THIS

I worked the month of December one year loading trucks that only went to Salina,KS.......night after night.

The worst part was leaving at 12 or 1 a.m,wearing clothes soaked with sweat,and walking a half mile in sub-freezing weather to an ice-cold car.

**rockymtnchief** · 10-09-2009, 09:09 AM

I actually liked bucking bales for some reason. The pay wasn't good, but...

My worst jobs had to be roofing and when I worked at Sweetheart doing lids. You stand next to the 300 degree lids coming out of the oven and load/unload them on narrow shelves...with a cotton rag to protect your hands. The first week I had burns from finger tip to bicep.

Fish · 10-09-2009, 09:16 AM

Worked shift work at a fiberglass insulation plant in McPherson during the summers when I was in college. Outstanding pay, but it was pretty tough. Worked 6am-6pm for a few days straight, then a few days off, then a few more days working 6pm-6am. The ovens that melt the glass were always running at around 3000°, so it was very very hot in the plant. And the fiberglass insulation would get in your pores because you were sweating so much, the itch would be unbearable for the first few weeks. And every once in a while, we would have to do an oven cleanout. Which required us to bundle up head to toe and crawl inside the ovens and scrape off the baked crap on the oven walls with a hand jackhammer. It was like being inside a ventilation shaft that was about 140°. Hot, dark, and claustrophobic. Awful awful work. But it was incredible motivation to finish college.

KC Jones · 10-09-2009, 04:52 PM

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Originally Posted by KC Fish

Worked shift work at a fiberglass insulation plant in McPherson during the summers when I was in college. Outstanding pay, but it was pretty tough. Worked 6am-6pm for a few days straight, then a few days off, then a few more days working 6pm-6am. The ovens that melt the glass were always running at around 3000°, so it was very very hot in the plant. And the fiberglass insulation would get in your pores because you were sweating so much, the itch would be unbearable for the first few weeks. And every once in a while, we would have to do an oven cleanout. Which required us to bundle up head to toe and crawl inside the ovens and scrape off the baked crap on the oven walls with a hand jackhammer. It was like being inside a ventilation shaft that was about 140°. Hot, dark, and claustrophobic. Awful awful work. But it was incredible motivation to finish college.

Heh - my father in law was a top engineer there and my wife did those jobs too.

Fish · 10-09-2009, 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by KC Jones

Heh - my father in law was a top engineer there and my wife did those jobs too.

Inspector Packer. Whoohoo.

KC Jones · 10-09-2009, 04:59 PM

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Originally Posted by KC Fish

Inspector Packer. Whoohoo.

Was that the job where you had to just sit and watch the machine and stop the line if it started to **** up? She said that was just mind numbingly brutal.

Fish · 10-09-2009, 05:09 PM

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Originally Posted by KC Jones

Was that the job where you had to just sit and watch the machine and stop the line if it started to **** up? She said that was just mind numbingly brutal.

That job had lots of responsibilities. Normally you were catching insulation rolls off the conveyor, and packaging it with different machines. The rolls of insulation varied in size and weight. And no, you couldn't just stop the line. It didn't work that way. If the conveyor stopped, all hell broke loose and people and clamp trucks were hauling ass everywhere. They would lose lots of money when the conveyor stopped. That was a no-no. There were some easy parts of that job too. Sometimes you'd get the machine where all you did was guide the packaged insulation into a machine sitting in the same spot. Barely had to touch anything. Never let the summer hires do that one though.

Simplex3 · 10-09-2009, 09:17 AM

Quaker Wheat Germ plant in Manhattan, KS in August. Basically it's a giant warehouse with a 30 foot long 10 foot diameter oven. You dump three kinds of 100lb bags of wheat germ into a hopper that's up on a platform just below the ceiling. To keep the hopper full you dump a bag every 30 seconds or less which means you have to pick it up off the pallet, carry it about 10 feet, put it beside the hopper, cut it open, then pick it up at almost arm's length to dump it in.

Hot as hell, dust in the air all day, and one 30 minute break for lunch. I lasted a couple of days before I decided it was better being broke.

L.A. Chieffan · 10-09-2009, 09:19 AM

Piecing dead hookers back together. They're always missing a limb or two...

Hog's Gone Fishin · 10-09-2009, 09:20 AM

Do I need to go into detail. I think not!

10-09-2009, 08:46 AM	#1
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10-09-2009, 09:16 AM	#8
Fish Ain't no relax! Join Date: Sep 2005 Casino cash: $-1231081	Worked shift work at a fiberglass insulation plant in McPherson during the summers when I was in college. Outstanding pay, but it was pretty tough. Worked 6am-6pm for a few days straight, then a few days off, then a few more days working 6pm-6am. The ovens that melt the glass were always running at around 3000°, so it was very very hot in the plant. And the fiberglass insulation would get in your pores because you were sweating so much, the itch would be unbearable for the first few weeks. And every once in a while, we would have to do an oven cleanout. Which required us to bundle up head to toe and crawl inside the ovens and scrape off the baked crap on the oven walls with a hand jackhammer. It was like being inside a ventilation shaft that was about 140°. Hot, dark, and claustrophobic. Awful awful work. But it was incredible motivation to finish college. __________________
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10-09-2009, 09:17 AM	#13
Simplex3 MVP Join Date: Sep 2003 Casino cash: $10004900	Quaker Wheat Germ plant in Manhattan, KS in August. Basically it's a giant warehouse with a 30 foot long 10 foot diameter oven. You dump three kinds of 100lb bags of wheat germ into a hopper that's up on a platform just below the ceiling. To keep the hopper full you dump a bag every 30 seconds or less which means you have to pick it up off the pallet, carry it about 10 feet, put it beside the hopper, cut it open, then pick it up at almost arm's length to dump it in. Hot as hell, dust in the air all day, and one 30 minute break for lunch. I lasted a couple of days before I decided it was better being broke.
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