FB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[57Johnnie]

One of my fellow agents asked me one time to try and guess what the guy he had just interviewed on an investigation did for a living. I think he gave me some hints, but I had never even heard of a chicken catcher prior to that, so as you might figure out, I was not able to guess correctly. He also said that the guy was not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Did you have any stimulating conversations with any of your fellow chicken catchers KR?

Didn't end up getting the job, and even if I had, I don't think most people on here speak enough spanish to understand the conversations!





Great stories of bad jobs!

I'll throw one more on:

The summers after my freshman and sophomore years I worked for BFI picking up trash often riding on the back of the big trucks on overnight routes in the rain and everything.

After the smells and sights of that job, nothing in med school has come close to bothering my stomach!

Nastiest one: End of August, a lady finally pays her bill (and the next 3 months) which had been unpaid for 3 months under the condition that her back trash be picked up that day (friday) since she is having company that weekend. Being low man on the totum pole, I get sent to pick it up.

As I'm driving down the back country road to the house about a half mile from the house I start to smell the trash! It gets stronger as I approach the house. By this time, I had been picking up trash 60+ hours a week for 3 months straight, so it takes a lot to offend my nose, but this one did it. I literally dry-heaved as I approached the pile. WARNING graphic description coming, women, children, and tommies should stop reading now There were maggots swimming in a puddle of their own feces on top of one of the bags! The grossest thing I have ever seen and/or smelled in my entire life! I wouldn't wish that smell on anyone.

Holy crap.  The competition is over and we have a winner for stinkiest job!.

Apparently nobody ever worked at a rendering plant

[Kilted Rat]

Apparently nobody ever worked at a rendering plant

I'll render your plant.... no clue what that means

[Rugman]

Apparently nobody ever worked at a rendering plant

St Cloud State in the early 70's was downwind from Landy Packing in the summer and it was pretty bad.  How much worse was it inside?

[57Johnnie]

Apparently nobody ever worked at a rendering plant

I'll render your plant.... no clue what that means

http://jivdaya.org/rendering_plants.htm     

[Gray Fox]

Apparently nobody ever worked at a rendering plant

I'll render your plant.... no clue what that means

http://jivdaya.org/rendering_plants.htm     

Thanks for sharing.

[kubiack78]

my cousin just sent me this in an email and after reading it I knew it needed to be put on here:

Three Norwegians went down to Mexico to celebrate college graduation, got
> > drunk, and woke up in jail, only to find that they were to be executed in
> > the morning, though none of them can remember what they did the night
> > before.
> > The first, Sven, was asked if he has any last words. He says, "I yust
> > graduated from Saint Olaf in Northfield, Minnesota and believe in the
> > almighty power of God to intervene on the behalf of the innocent."
> > They throw the switch and nothing happens. They all immediately fall to
> > the floor on their knees, beg for Sven's forgiveness, and release him.
> > The second, Lars, is strapped in and gives his last words, "I yust
> > graduated from the Gustavus Adolphus in St. Peter and I believe in the
> > power of justice to intervene on the part of the innocent."
> > They throw the switch, and again, nothing happens. Again, they all
> > immediately fall to their knees, beg for his forgiveness, and release him.
> > The last o ne, Ole, is strapped in and says, "Vell, I'm from the University of Minnesota
> > in the cities and just graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering, and
> > I'll tell ya right now, ya ain't gonna electrocute nobody if you don't
> > plug this thing in."

[tmerton]

Apparently nobody ever worked at a rendering plant

I'll render your plant.... no clue what that means

http://jivdaya.org/rendering_plants.htm     

There is a remarkable French documentary on slaughterhouses, Le Sang des Bêtes.  If you've the stomach for it, there are clips on YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFAUA8_mfXs

[retagent]

I think you meant MSNBC and CNN.

57, +k for your recent win in "Can you top this?"

[janesvilleflash]

I was a shower room towel boy at a ladies weight watchers convention.

[57Johnnie]

I was a shower room towel boy at a ladies weight watchers convention.

Oh Oh - I've been displaced 

[tmerton]

I was a shower room towel boy at a ladies weight watchers convention.

Oh Oh - I've been displaced 

Not to fear - Flash's fantasies don't count.

[Rugman]

57, +k for your recent win in "Can you top this?"

No disrespect to 57 but I had a stonger gut reaction to KR's story.  So I vote KR by a maggot.

[OzJohnnie]

my cousin just sent me this in an email and after reading it I knew it needed to be put on here:

Three Norwegians went down to Mexico to celebrate college graduation, got
> > drunk, and woke up in jail, only to find that they were to be executed in
> > the morning, though none of them can remember what they did the night
> > before.
> > The first, Sven, was asked if he has any last words. He says, "I yust
> > graduated from Saint Olaf in Northfield, Minnesota and believe in the
> > almighty power of God to intervene on the behalf of the innocent."
> > They throw the switch and nothing happens. They all immediately fall to
> > the floor on their knees, beg for Sven's forgiveness, and release him.
> > The second, Lars, is strapped in and gives his last words, "I yust
> > graduated from the Gustavus Adolphus in St. Peter and I believe in the
> > power of justice to intervene on the part of the innocent."
> > They throw the switch, and again, nothing happens. Again, they all
> > immediately fall to their knees, beg for his forgiveness, and release him.
> > The last o ne, Ole, is strapped in and says, "Vell, I'm from the University of Minnesota
> > in the cities and just graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering, and
> > I'll tell ya right now, ya ain't gonna electrocute nobody if you don't
> > plug this thing in."

Ha.  That made me both chuckle with mirth and squirm with guilt simultaneously.  A funny joke, but the Ole and the Gustie were the good guys.  How's a Johnnie to react?

[OzJohnnie]

57, +k for your recent win in "Can you top this?"

No disrespect to 57 but I had a stonger gut reaction to KR's story.  So I vote KR by a maggot.

Before I joined the Navy, I went to Macalester for a short time.  In fact, America's attack on Libya had happened the week before my first visit to the campus.  The admissions officer proudly proclaimed the flag was flying at half mast in honor of the Libyans killed by the fascist imperialist American warmongers.  My dad turned to me and said in response, "Are you sure you want to go here?"  Like Robert Young in Father Knows Best, father knew best.

No pile of maggots will ever turn my stomach like that place.  But then if I hadn't gone that route, I would have never ended up at SJU.  So, since picking up garbage would be seen as "socially empathetic" by the Mac crowd, I pick the rendering plant since no proper Mac associate would ever been seen in a PETA condemned enterprise like rendering.

Update: On thoughtful review I pick the wife's dental-exam widget factory, of course, because a man must stand by his woman, but given the pick between Johnnie stories, I'm into rendering.

[Kilted Rat]

I was a shower room towel boy at a ladies weight watchers convention.

Oh Oh - I've been displaced 

Is this the before or after shower? 

No pile of maggots will ever turn my stomach like that place.  But then if I hadn't gone that route, I would have never ended up at SJU.  So, since picking up garbage would be seen as "socially empathetic" by the Mac crowd, I pick the rendering plant since no proper Mac associate would ever been seen in a PETA condemned enterprise like rendering.

What would the folks at PETA prefer us to do with the leftover animal carcasses? Release them back into the wild???