I never really had a bad job.The worst "assignment" I ever had was in the Air Force "paint prep" you had to prep machinery for paint so removing all of the panels,doors,plexiglass then you had to cover up any exposed parts.The bad part was the sanding I had to wear one of those"bunny suits" and a respirator mask and gloves and we had to tape up every opening.Then you stood there and used an air sander all day.
It got very tiring those damn bunny suits and breathing though a mask all day gets very hot and uncomfortable.Then your hand and wrist gets numb from the sander.To top it all off they sand paper pads where really soft grit so you had to press really hard to get any effect and they only lasted about 30 seconds so you had to constantly change out paper.After an hour or two you get paint flakes all over the points where you tapped up like around your neck and that just made you feel ever more like you where in a blast furnace.When the day was done and take off the bunny suit there are these bands of paint flakes at the point where you taped off.The bright side was that you only got stuck doing this wonderful detail for 2 moths.
What was stupid to me is they had hired contractors to do the actual paint why they did not just contract the pros to also do the prep work is beyond me.Waste of taxpayer dollars to take a person away from their trained specialty to do something they are not trained to do.
I know guys that do the same job on ships only they also apply new paint as well as remove the old they have it much worse.I here that it gets so hot according to OSHA you can only be in the suits and up inside the hull for a certain amount of time.Of course the employers want the guys to do it longer than that.This guy said that once they made a worker stay too long and he a heat stroke.Not me you tell me to do something like that I would simply refuse to do it especially when it violates the law.
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