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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
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 Posted - 05/19/2005 : 13:14:12
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An elderly man claiming to be a Holocaust survivor
literally cornered me and started weeping
and mumbling about the horrors of the concentration
camp he'd been sent to. My co-workers were literally
moving away from us as his sobs got louder
and his arthritic ancient hands grabbed at my Chanel
knockoff suit. Nothing I said comforted him. Suddenly
he got it together, said goodbye and left. A half hour
later the man's son called and apologized and said
that his father was never taken to a camp, was just
delusional. I told my boss and he ordered me to
leave work for the day and go straight to the pool,
which I did. It was so freaky.
What's the most uncomfortable thing you've had to do at your job?
this thread's a flimsy attempt to have dayanara
dish more of her job's gross-out stories
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Edited by - kathryn on 05/19/2005 13:20:48 |
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Surfer Rosa
> Teenager of the Year <
4209 Posts |
Posted - 05/19/2005 : 13:37:27
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Open the post - never a pre coffee task - it used to be a total lottery as to whether I was going to be greeted by the sight of 50 & Up or the latest issue of Fox.
this answer is a flimsy attempt to have dayanara
dish more of her job's gross-out stories
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. |
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broken part
- FB Fan -
226 Posts |
Posted - 05/19/2005 : 13:41:41
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dayanara
* Dog in the Sand *
Australia
1811 Posts |
Posted - 05/19/2005 : 13:42:36
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you guys should be bugging tre, she worked in ostomy care, which is far grosser than anything i'll ever see. waaaaaaay grosser.
i'll have to think, i'm getting ready for work right now. |
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
15320 Posts |
Posted - 05/19/2005 : 13:46:45
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quote:
Originally posted by broken part
why were you told to leave?
Because I worked for the nicest man on the planet
who not only recognized that that encounter
and, especially, the subsequent phone call
left me jarred and in need of de-stressing, but
who would also come over on Saturday nights
with his adorable wife, and weed and booze and
cook huge meals for us all and we'd all play poker
and blast music.
Good point, Dayanara. While we wait for Tre, regale us!
I still believe in the excellent joy of the Catholics |
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
15297 Posts |
Posted - 05/19/2005 : 13:47:32
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i had to mop up the bathroom after the toilet overflowed.
sorry, that's the best i got.
oh, and cleaning up after one of my bosses dog's after they vomited on the carpet |
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
15320 Posts |
Posted - 05/19/2005 : 13:51:36
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This is why we need those forum members who've worked
in the medical field to start posting here.
I still believe in the excellent joy of the Catholics |
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BLT
> Teenager of the Year <
South Sandwich Islands
4204 Posts |
Posted - 05/19/2005 : 14:10:58
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Crawling inside large ducts to remove fiberglass insulation.
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VoVat
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
9168 Posts |
Posted - 05/19/2005 : 15:32:16
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I'm just glad I never did have to clean up puke when I worked in the movie theater.
I was all out of luck, like a duck that died. I was all out of juice, like a moose denied. |
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Cheeseman1000
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Iceland
8201 Posts |
Posted - 05/19/2005 : 15:34:51
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Clearing out waste disposal units with my bare hands on a regular basis, maybe.
As serious as your life |
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
15297 Posts |
Posted - 05/19/2005 : 15:45:48
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VoVat
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
9168 Posts |
Posted - 05/19/2005 : 16:27:53
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Maybe Frank should post here.
I was all out of luck, like a duck that died. I was all out of juice, like a moose denied. |
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mosleyk
= Cult of Ray =
USA
607 Posts |
Posted - 05/19/2005 : 16:49:39
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| Once when I was younger and working on a friends farm we encountered a sheep in a bottom field that somehow was missed when the herd was brought up at night. It had gotten tangled in a fence and had been stuck there for days. It was looking just awful. We quickly untangled it and when we rolled it over we discovered a puncture wound on its side about the size of a silver dollar. We thought at first that it wasn't too bad, so we moved the sheep over more for a closer look. To our horror a ton of maggots started to pour out of the wound. We didn't know what to do. The sheep was still alive and its breathing had a horrible crackling sound. We just sat there with the sheep crying and holding it until it died a few minutes later. |
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
15320 Posts |
Posted - 05/19/2005 : 18:06:40
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This thread's getting better. Good job, mosleyk. Dayanara, I know
you have a maggots story involving humans. C'mon! Give it up!
I still believe in the excellent joy of the Catholics |
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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
2674 Posts |
Posted - 05/20/2005 : 02:37:06
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during college I did part-time in a shop and one day the manager caught a rather large mouse, the mother, so next few days all the babies came out looking for food, so it was watching my manager stamp on baby mice.
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"Here love," brakes on a high squeak, "itīs not backstage at the old Windmill or something, you know." |
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Thomas
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1615 Posts |
Posted - 05/20/2005 : 02:45:42
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Dead people.
"Our Love is Rice and Beans and Horses Lard" |
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dayanara
* Dog in the Sand *
Australia
1811 Posts |
Posted - 05/20/2005 : 06:29:35
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Originally posted by kathryn
This thread's getting better. Good job, mosleyk. Dayanara, I know
you have a maggots story involving humans. C'mon! Give it up!
I still believe in the excellent joy of the Catholics
i think i already told the maggot story on the forum. i'm trying to think of something really good, but things just don't gross me out like they used to.
i had to remove sutures from someones eye this morning - is that gross? |
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -
Ireland
11546 Posts |
Posted - 05/20/2005 : 06:40:46
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 Gross enough. |
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Carolynanna
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Canada
6556 Posts |
Posted - 05/20/2005 : 06:52:22
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A guy's wife was dying of cancer and he was really distraught.
We had to clear up all her investment accounts/life insurance which involves some notes from doctors and such before she died. Not really gross but uncomfortable.
A girlfriend of mine is a nurse and had to remove a stolen bottle of hairspray from the woman who stole it...
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
17125 Posts |
Posted - 05/20/2005 : 11:12:07
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My chair at work is the most uncomfortable thing I have to deal with I'm pleased to say (though I would like a new chair).
I guess floop WAS right!
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PsychicTwin
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1772 Posts |
Posted - 05/20/2005 : 11:28:56
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quote:
Originally posted by kathryn
quote:
Originally posted by broken part
why were you told to leave?
would also come over on Saturday nights
with his adorable wife, and weed and booze and
cook huge meals for us all and we'd all play poker
and blast music.
Holy shit, that is THE perfect boss! Offerings of booze and herb would win my respect over a hundred times easier than stern, iron-fisted management. |
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PsychicTwin
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1772 Posts |
Posted - 05/20/2005 : 11:31:08
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Originally posted by mosleyk
Once when I was younger and working on a friends farm we encountered a sheep in a bottom field that somehow was missed when the herd was brought up at night. It had gotten tangled in a fence and had been stuck there for days. It was looking just awful. We quickly untangled it and when we rolled it over we discovered a puncture wound on its side about the size of a silver dollar. We thought at first that it wasn't too bad, so we moved the sheep over more for a closer look. To our horror a ton of maggots started to pour out of the wound. We didn't know what to do. The sheep was still alive and its breathing had a horrible crackling sound. We just sat there with the sheep crying and holding it until it died a few minutes later.
Wow. That is one of the most disturbing things I've ever heard.
Newo - what a dick! did you call him out on how cruel that is?? |
Edited by - PsychicTwin on 05/20/2005 11:33:14 |
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Surfer Rosa
> Teenager of the Year <
4209 Posts |
Posted - 05/21/2005 : 09:39:27
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Come to think of it the yuckiest thing I've ever had to deal with at work was a colleague called Patrick, when I worked as a temp. This creature was unlike anything I've ever encountered. Apart from being completely socially inept and probably not ever washing the man ate so many cheese doritos he dyed the handset of his telephone orange. No amount of bleach could bring that telephone back to it's orginal colour.
What scared me is that he didn't use the phone that much.
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. |
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Little Black Francis
> Teenager of the Year <
3648 Posts |
Posted - 05/21/2005 : 13:41:40
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abused animals when I used to work at the animal shelter.. probably a cat with Warbles growing on/in it... puke=( I did see a cat with half of his face decayed off, you could actually see a tunnel through his face...
but I can say from experience on both sides, it's a lot worse when it happens to your baby! I became desensitized to euthaniasia and abuse after awhile... but not when it's personal
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shineoftheever
> Teenager of the Year <
Canada
4307 Posts |
Posted - 07/05/2013 : 22:45:28
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lbf COULDNT KILL THAT THREAD. ALAS. WHO WILL? C'mon i kinda wanna hear some gross out work stories since 2005. something really sick and demented must have happened somewhere.
"Do Re Me So Far So Good" |
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PixieSteve
> Teenager of the Year <
Poland
4698 Posts |
Posted - 07/06/2013 : 09:53:44
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VB.NET
I like to complain |
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pot
> Teenager of the Year <
Iceland
3910 Posts |
Posted - 07/06/2013 : 10:13:13
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| Cleaning out the ice machine after the toilets upstairs leaked and flooded it. Never put ice in my drinks there every again. |
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Carolynanna
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Canada
6556 Posts |
Posted - 07/26/2013 : 15:59:00
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Fricken bed bugs!!!
They had to heat the whole joint upto 60 degrees celcius.
But the bed bug sniffing dog was cute as fuck.
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Fuck off I got work to do. |
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pot
> Teenager of the Year <
Iceland
3910 Posts |
Posted - 07/27/2013 : 01:04:43
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| I just started a new job in a bar, they've got me dressing up like a royal butler to work in some skanky locals bar like The Jockey out of Shameless. So there I am yesterday with all cleanly washed trouser and shirt, expensive wedding shoes because I can't afford cheap new black ones. There's nothing to do so let's clean under the sink! For the minimum wage. Who says slavery was abolished. Thing is it wasn't even dirty, but because we weren't busy and the cunt I work for wanted his money's worth out of us we had to do it. So under the sink got marginally cleaner and I got bits of shit off the floor all over my clean clothes. Who's pockets got lined with silver and who's with brass? Might not be working there much longer, Rose Street here I come. Fucking dick. |
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hammerhands
* Dog in the Sand *
Canada
1594 Posts |
Posted - 07/27/2013 : 03:14:52
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| Them [adulterers]...in that filthy, smelly bathroom. puke. |
Edited by - hammerhands on 07/27/2013 10:52:49 |
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tisasawath
= Cult of Ray =
Wallis and Futuna Islands
783 Posts |
Posted - 07/27/2013 : 19:17:28
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Originally posted by Carolynanna
Fricken bed bugs!!!
They had to heat the whole joint upto 60 degrees celcius.
But the bed bug sniffing dog was cute as fuck.
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Fuck off I got work to do.
i know they can be used to find pretty much anything that has scent, but this is the first i've heard of dogs being used to do that, and i've been working with search dogs for 15+ years. i'm amazed. it's educational, this board. was there a trained alert they gave for a find, like sit, or bark, or glazed stare at the handler? what was the reward? |
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Carolynanna
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Canada
6556 Posts |
Posted - 07/28/2013 : 04:45:57
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I thought it was cool that it was just bedbugs the dog hit on. No other bugs, just bedbugs.
I know it was a border collie cross of some sort.
It sat when it found the bugs. The handler had some sort of treat for it.
We kind of knew which rooms were probably contaminated and it went straight to those rooms, it was really neat.
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Fuck off I got work to do. |
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tisasawath
= Cult of Ray =
Wallis and Futuna Islands
783 Posts |
Posted - 07/28/2013 : 10:23:47
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| great, i love watching dogs work scent. given how they can tell one person from another or also a person with a particular disease from a healthy one just by scent, it's not that surprising they can discern species. but i didn't imagine there'd be business for them in bugs even. |
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What's the yuckiest thing you've dealt w. at work?
