when i was 15
I was paid, along with a friend of mine, to clear out an office of computer equipment and office supplies, the kind of stuff found in an office, funnily enough.
We were shown an office and told everything has to be taken down and put into the waiting skips. Then we were left to get on with it.

We started with the huge cardboard boxes, which we assumed was for us to put the equipment in and carrying down stairs. We just threw them down the stairwell so that they filled the small hallway at the bottom and came halfway up the stairs.
We then spent god knows how long throwing ourselves down the satirs into the boxes. It was like being the stuntman i'd always wanted to be and they break your fall pretty well, for a while, anyway.

Once we'd cleared the stairs of knackered cardboard, the electricals came next. Again, just stood at the top of the stairs launching the stuff down.
I discovered that day just how tough crt monitor screens are. I broke most of them, apart from one, which survided being repeatedly thrown at the corner of the skip in an ultimately futile attempt to break it.

We got paid pretty nicely for that, though i would've done it for nothing.
( real i'm not happy 'til you're not happy, Mon 13 Sep 2010, 17:37, Reply)