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Old 08-14-13, 11:43 AM   #14
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Opposite end of the same job. I once had a temp agency assign me to unload a boxcar full of boxes of cigars on a hot summer day. I don't know which was worse - the heat inside the boxcar or the smell it generated.

Likewise cleaning up a train wreck in the middle of the desert wasn't a lot of fun.

I also spent a couple of days at a brick factory taking bricks of the molds and stacking them on pallets. That got old real fast.
I wonder if pulling insulation bats from a ceiling and loading them into a trailer to be reused later on a hot and humid summer day counts as one up on that one. That was an... itchy job, and i was coughing up "hairballs" at the end of the day despite wearing a dust mask. Still though, i think i hated the retail job i had more.

I must be odd, I'd rather bust my ass in a ditch or do some kind of manual labor then deal with workplace politics or customer service. It's much more honest and straightforward.
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