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The Weirdest/Craziest Job You Have Ever Done

Posted by khalling 8 years, 11 months ago to Business
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I hope there are a few spies who come forward. Anyway, Aj's post on robots is the muse for this post. This is going to be a wild ride. ok I'll start with a sad job-but I will save my most controversial job for later-I want to see what you all can bring to the table.
to pay for college tuition, I sat in a back room at the bookstore and tore off book covers. Yes-from most beloved novels to Aristotle. We sent the covers back to the publisher's and we torched the books. Yes! Torched them! If you were caught "stealing" the body of a book to be torched (!) you were fired.

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  • Posted by $ rockymountainpirate 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Hahahaha. Thank you. The world is a fascinating place with wonders to see and things to do, and I try to do as many as I can. I think I'll pass on the gut grabber though.
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  • Posted by Mamaemma 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Kind of like the time I fired an employee for good cause, and of course she collected unemployment. I called the unemployment office and told them I could get a photo of her at her new job, and they said, no, they didn't care.
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  • Posted by $ rockymountainpirate 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    A guy told his doc that he'd hurt his back so badly at work that he couldn't even drive to work. He flew from his home on the the east coast to Reno, and I have 2+hrs of video of him bowling at the National Bowling Stadium with his name in lights.
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  • Posted by $ rockymountainpirate 8 years, 11 months ago
    OK, round 3 of some of my less than usual jobs. I was a spy of sorts. I was a private investigator for many years, most of them doing sub rosa investigations of workman's comp fraud cases. I took videos of people claiming to be injured. I have stories and the videos to go with them. Talk about looters.
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  • Posted by ameyer1970 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    One of my funniest memories is going to a gas station around 2 in the morning with blood all over me and the cashier freaking out. She asked me if I was hurt, I told her no, I just got off of work. She's like 'what the hell do you do?' I gut hogs!
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  • Posted by cjferraris 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I can't remember what it was.. Fun Parties, or something like that.. Was really big around 1990..
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  • Posted by $ rockymountainpirate 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    If that was the worst that ever happened in the ER.....truly a weird place and you see it all. We had a drunk come in one night and had to be stitched up. He wouldn't hold still and was being a complete jerk. The doc ended up sewing his ear lobes to the the gurney and the guy finally lay still long enough for the doc to do his work. The absolute worst was the car wreck lady we had to do open cardiac massage on while the drunk that hit her was yelling from the next gurney. It's amazing how quiet he finally got after a couple of jerks on his catheter.
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  • Posted by $ rockymountainpirate 8 years, 11 months ago
    I just remembered a weird, or rather creepy incident that happened when I was working in the ER. A guy came in from a home (the kind where they take your SS check and give you a bed) who had been in a cane fight with another resident. He was on the gurney and as I reached across him to adjust the IV I noticed his chest hairs weren't chest hairs. I jumped back with an "Ewwwwwww his chest hairs are moving!" The entire ER, the Xray tech, the ambulance and the paramedics had to get treated for lice. We emptied the town supply of Quell.
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  • Posted by $ winterwind 8 years, 11 months ago
    jlc, the Wizard and I did much the same thing, only in America. Live steel, stage combat, acting - the Robin Hood Story. I played the mouthy minor Saxon noble who picked on Prince John incessantly. Hard work, much fun.
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  • Posted by JoleneMartens1982 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Ugh! I have so done that, but not as long. I was a jogger stacker at a crappy add printings company. The lines were down a lot and anytime they were, we would have to clean parts of the printing press with chemicals and rags.
    Horrible job! In two weeks I ruined half my clothes and could barely use my thumbs or grasp anything. I quit to go to a concert.
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  • Posted by $ jlc 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    If you can arrange your plans to meet at Schuyler House on the 18th, I will re-arrange to accommodate. I am looking forward to seeing you.

    Jan
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  • Posted by khalling 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    well, I would never want to cramp your vacay plans. I'll be there, if it works for you then it will work for me. If not, there will be other times!
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  • Posted by $ jlc 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    What a great element that would be in a novel (no one would believe it was real)!

    Jan
    (Inclined to think of the rich Cadillac guy as being an element in the uber arc - maybe he was not as dumb as he seemed...)
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