Working in a shit farm1st Post!
Anyways, this summer I was labouring for an engineering company who were the contractors for basically all the sewage treatment works in the north east (Aberdeen to Inverness ish). We were installing a new water main at Nigg Bay Waste water and sludge treatment plant in Aberdeen, this involved being in the main treatment room for 8-9hrs a day for 2 weeks. This room stank of human shit and had various pipes with what looked to be mushed up pubic hair, toilet paper, tampons, etc... all emptying into skips, the mushed up stuff had mushrooms growing out of it (never been able to eat one since). Occasionaly the skips would fill up and they would be moved, in this process some stuff was spilt out onto the floor area I was working in. What fun! working amongst other peoples pubic hair and shit etc... When I got home at night all my clothes would go into the washing machine and I would jump in the shower. No matter what I did I couldn't get rid of the smell, my mates wouldn't sit next to me in the pub for about a week after I had finished working there and my girlfriend wouldn't see me!. The best bit was having to get a Hepititus B inoculation before I could work there. All to pay off student debts.
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Mon 10 Nov 2003, 19:31,
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Anyways, this summer I was labouring for an engineering company who were the contractors for basically all the sewage treatment works in the north east (Aberdeen to Inverness ish). We were installing a new water main at Nigg Bay Waste water and sludge treatment plant in Aberdeen, this involved being in the main treatment room for 8-9hrs a day for 2 weeks. This room stank of human shit and had various pipes with what looked to be mushed up pubic hair, toilet paper, tampons, etc... all emptying into skips, the mushed up stuff had mushrooms growing out of it (never been able to eat one since). Occasionaly the skips would fill up and they would be moved, in this process some stuff was spilt out onto the floor area I was working in. What fun! working amongst other peoples pubic hair and shit etc... When I got home at night all my clothes would go into the washing machine and I would jump in the shower. No matter what I did I couldn't get rid of the smell, my mates wouldn't sit next to me in the pub for about a week after I had finished working there and my girlfriend wouldn't see me!. The best bit was having to get a Hepititus B inoculation before I could work there. All to pay off student debts.
Potato Packing near DundeeSome of the kids at my school (Carnoustie) used to work for a local vegetable packing firm.
One memorable job was "pickin aff". You would stand for 4 hours shifts and pick off the rotten potatoes as they bounced along a series of rollers, it was hypnotic. Fingers squishing into stinking rotten white pussy potatoes in a freezing cavernous barn in the winter for £1:25 an hour was .....character building
Thing is we all did this for YEARS till college came along (some guys still work there)
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Mon 10 Nov 2003, 21:04,
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One memorable job was "pickin aff". You would stand for 4 hours shifts and pick off the rotten potatoes as they bounced along a series of rollers, it was hypnotic. Fingers squishing into stinking rotten white pussy potatoes in a freezing cavernous barn in the winter for £1:25 an hour was .....character building
Thing is we all did this for YEARS till college came along (some guys still work there)
rabbitsUsed to do sommit similar on my mates farm in Shropsire - £2.75 an hour to "grade" potatoes. Since they were coming straight in from the fields we also had to remove rocks and rabbits as well as rotten potatoes ... and a "ploughed rabbit" is not the nicest (or easiest, unless you have a shovel) thing to pick off a conveyer..... mind you watching one of the thick-as-shite tractor drivers getting blown 30 feet across a room trying to "isolate" a 415V 3phase supply with a metal pole more than made up for it :)
(one-way to hell.. economy class you say?)
((one-way to hell.. economy class you say?)
the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side,
Tue 11 Nov 2003, 11:00,
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