429: Picking Fights

[Cubby]

Originally Posted by spaceboy

And HOW he would quick. One job a week for a year, think of the publicity.

Eventually it would turn into Jackass, where the pranks/quittings would get harder and harder since people would start recognizing who he was.

But I think it's a brilliant idea!

[armenta]

Yeah, its true a fast food job has absolutely no cache, but so far as crappy jobs go I've had more than a few. The worst job I had was removing fiberglass insulation in a crawl-space under a house in the middle of a Maine winter. I was covered head to toe, but no matter how much duct tape I put around my shirt and pant cuffs I would get fiberglass fibers embedded in my skin. That crap itches for a long time, especially around my eyes. That coupled with the fact I had a little over 2ft to move around in proved to be my worst day on a job.

I am curious fellow KATG'ers. What have been some of your horrible jobs? We already know about K & C.

p.s. Keith and Chemda
By now we all know brother Michael is taking over the reins of the website and all, but if you want an experienced/professional web designer (that can handle his booze) to do some work. Please look no further. Just sayin'.

-Peesch

[Blitzgal]

Originally Posted by armenta

I am curious fellow KATG'ers. What have been some of your horrible jobs? We already know about K & C.

1) Doing telephone surveys of HMO clients on behalf of a New York based health insurance company. Those people were really not happy about their health coverage. And I got to hear about it in great detail.

2) Cashier at a grocery store.

[Cubby]

Originally Posted by armenta

I am curious fellow KATG'ers. What have been some of your horrible jobs? We already know about K & C.

1: Lifeguard. Everybody thinks this job is awesome, but if you take it seriously it's the most high stress job ever. My health went downhill when I was a lifeguard because of the stress.

2: Merchandise Stocker. I worked from 4:00 AM until 12:30 PM Tuesday through Saturday (plus overtime every day) at a G.I Joes (sports, cars, camping, fishing, etc. store) with the most backstabbing coworkers I've ever had. One guy named Ramiro was a 40-year-old Mexican dude who could stock shelves like nobody's business. He'd stock a cart and then start stalking me by hiding behind the shelves and then going to tell the boss I wasn't working hard enough. Plus going to bed by 7:00 PM is damn near impossible.

[Gunderling]

I was an assistant at a nursing home for several years in high school. I had to change diapers and give showers, etc. I really loved most of the old folks though so it really wasn't that bad. Oh, I was also an in-home health care assistant too -- same kind of work.

Truly bad job: telemarketing. I overheard a fellow telemarketer repeatedly harrassing an old woman on the other line and it was all I could take. I ratted her out and quit.

Almost forgot the worst: field work. Nintey plus degree days picking up rocks (larger than your fist) and beanwalking. Almost killed me.

[armenta]

Originally Posted by Cubby

One guy named Ramiro was a 40-year-old Mexican dude who could stock shelves like nobody's business.

No comment really. That just sounds really funny.

Hey Cubby I'm pretty sure we met at the Boston show at the Can-Tab Lounge. I was the douche wearing the home-made KATG shirt.
You should have hung out at the after show. Max (God-bless his departed Soul) did some great tricks, Patrice, well we know what Patrice was all about and best of all got to hang out with the King and Queen of podcasting.

You came to Boston all the way from Washington, damn boy you be dedicated. Peace brotha.

[gumby013]

Originally Posted by armenta

I am curious fellow KATG'ers. What have been some of your horrible jobs? We already know about K & C.
-Peesch

Busboy
GPS Sugar Beet Field Mapping - 60 hours a week on a 4 wheeler sucks.

[Cubby]

Originally Posted by armenta

No comment really. That just sounds really funny.

Hey Cubby I'm pretty sure we met at the Boston show at the Can-Tab Lounge. I was the douche wearing the home-made KATG shirt.
You should have hung out at the after show. Max (God-bless his departed Soul) did some great tricks, Patrice, well we know what Patrice was all about and best of all got to hang out with the King and Queen of podcasting.

You came to Boston all the way from Washington, damn boy you be dedicated. Peace brotha.

I wasn't at the Boston show, but thanks for thinking of me.

Had I been there, though, I would have hung around and tried every beer in the bar and then talked shit about how the Pacific Northwest has the best beer and then gotten beat up by a drunk Bostonian and then taken a train to New York because I couldn't see straight and missed my flight back to Spokane and missed work the next day and gotten fired and been stuck on the East coast.

So maybe it's good I didn't go. But maybe I'll see you at the next one!

[armenta]

Originally Posted by Cubby

I wasn't at the Boston show, but thanks for thinking of me.

Wow, I'm an idiot, but thanks for playing it down.

You have a point there about your brews over there. New England also has its fair share of fine English Ales. I have found that the further you go South the more watery, less flavorful the beer gets.

At the Boston show. I bought Keet a bunch of brews and at one point I asked him if he wanted to shotgun a beer. He was like giddy-yup, but Chemda wasn't having it. You should have seen the looks she was giving him. A moment not soon to forget.

One day we will be able to hold up our beer cans sideways with gaping holes in their sides and say cheers to the best show.

[Cubby]

Originally Posted by armenta

One day we will be able to hold up our beer cans sideways with gaping holes in their sides and say cheers to the best show.

I hold mine straight up and down with the hole in the bottom so that gravity sucks the beer into my mouth in one and a half gulps.

My roommates and I used to do it standing in tha bathtub so as not to spill and then we made a pyramid of empty cans on the counter infront of the mirror. It looked pretty impressive.