• shani66@lemmy.comfysnug.space
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    10 months ago

    Now that i think about my first job was fucking wild.

    My buddy was in a forklift taking some stock down and i was spotting, basically just hanging out and making sure no one got in the way. A few minutes after the normal time it’d take he thinks something is wrong and calls me to take a look (from afar) to see how fucked we are; the answer was very, the pallet was barely holding together at all, but i couldn’t see a damn thing from my position. Before i could get back to spotting we heard a loud crack and the world went still, i imagine for much longer by him, and not a second later we had hundreds of pounds of foul smelling mulch everywhere.

    I had a lot more there too; babysitting an old man that looked on the verge of death with no management anywhere to be found, moving hundreds of pounds at a time by hand, dealing with the best conspiracy theorist ever.

    I’ve been bored everywhere else I’ve ever worked.

    • Dio9sys@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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      10 months ago

      There’s something about physical labor jobs that result in everybody having one story about babysitting somebody who is actively dying