Willow Posted November 21, 2008 Share Posted November 21, 2008 Oddest job definitely my current one ! Ickest was w/e job as meat wrapper at local supermarket. Job included collecting up green packs of meat so the butchers could put them through the mincer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimmyCustard Posted November 21, 2008 Share Posted November 21, 2008 Worked in a bakery for 60p an hour when I was 13! Then next door in a greengrocer's for £1.06 an hour. (oh the wage increase made my head spin!) Cousin worked in a crematorium when he was 18 and still maintains that when the bodies heat up, they knock on the lid of the coffin......... Brother is a butcher and makes all his own sausages, NO nasties in his ones or I wouldnt eat them! Dad used to work in a stocking factory and had to have a manicure once a week. Kimmy x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janty Posted November 22, 2008 Share Posted November 22, 2008 In my student days I ...packed MFI kitchens (and put extra bits in to confuse people). Ahh so that was you Are you sure it wasn't you who left pieces out??? We decided that leaving pieces out was thoroughly evil. We just wanted to confuse rather than frustrate! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KAZAROO Posted November 22, 2008 Share Posted November 22, 2008 Thought I had added to this one..... I milked cows for 10 years- my best job ever.... But one of the down falls was that my completely bonkers boss used to electricute me with the cattle fencing on a regular basis; by getting me to do stuff and then forgetting I was doing the task and flicking the wire back on.... He also tried to drown me in a slurry pit once- which was much deeper than we thought...YUKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK! telling me it was about 3ft deep instead of 30ft..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted November 22, 2008 Share Posted November 22, 2008 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KAZAROO Posted November 22, 2008 Share Posted November 22, 2008 Thought I had added to this one..... I milked cows for 10 years- my best job ever.... But one of the down falls was that my completely bonkers boss used to electricute me with the cattle fencing on a regular basis; by getting me to do stuff and then forgetting I was doing the task and flicking the wire back on.... He also tried to drown me in a slurry pit once- which was much deeper than we thought...YUKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK! telling me it was about 3ft deep instead of 30ft..... I don't think it was on purpose! But he seemed to forget a lot.... He's still milking cows- be it 50 at the ripe age of 86...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarah-w Posted November 23, 2008 Share Posted November 23, 2008 Well where do I start I was a veterinary nurse for many years, so as you can imagine I've seen my fair share of grizzly smelly things. The most memorable was defrosying a (dead and frozen) dogs neck with a hairdryer because the owner decided she DID want the collar back I've had to manually extract semen (if you get what I mean) from a stud dog that was "not performing" And whilst working in a farm animal practice I had my hands in more warm, dark places than I care to imagine. Retired in Feb aged 35 (old in vet nurse terms) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KAZAROO Posted November 23, 2008 Share Posted November 23, 2008 the smell of amniotic fluid and cow poo.... hmmm I sympathise Its a smell you never forget! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cordelia Posted November 24, 2008 Author Share Posted November 24, 2008 lol..i thought my job odd...but all or yours...were scary !!!! lovely posts...nice to have a smile and remember... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Webmuppet Posted November 24, 2008 Share Posted November 24, 2008 My first Saturday was working in a pig farm for a friend of the family..........I had to look after the piglets that had been rejected by the sows and to keep an eye on the sows who were about to have piglets ( a bit like being a piggy midwife).........I knew everything there was to know about the internal workings of a mummy pig after a little while. I did seem a little odd when one of my babies turned up a pork chops for tea! I also had a summer job working in a plastic factory making cardboard box lids for dolls house kits. I can still make those box lids in my sleep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewis Posted November 24, 2008 Share Posted November 24, 2008 Not a job as such, but on Lambing work experience I know what sarah-w means about warm dark places! And I have the photos to prove it Odd things I've got planned: Plucking and dressing 600 Free Range Turkeys ready for Christmas A job at a vets, with a Horse stud farm, which does Artificial Insemination. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
