You lightweight f'uckers don' know you're born! why back in my day I.......
Scored a job as a stoney broke backpacker in a steel foundry in Brisbane Australia. Had to wear work boots, thick cotton overalls, 1/4" thick leather apron, leather oversleeves, leather gauntlets, breathing filter, helmet with a visor, safety glasses, earplugs and ear-protectors.
I stood by a work-bench in front of a giant furnace all day, with its door open to allow it to cool, and my job was to grind the sharp edges off those teeth that are fixed on the front of the buckets of mechanical diggers. Some were small, the size of your thumb, and some were massive weighing 30kg or more. They came along randomly on a conveyor belt, and were still hot enough to light a cigarette off.
It was fucking deafening. And because it was 35-40 degrees C outside, i cant begin to guess the temp. where i was standing.
For 10 hours a day with a 30 minute lunch break.
The other workers were all sullen, sorry ***** redneck types who were all deaf and poisoned from the fumes.
I managed 2 weeks before I cracked and hitch hiked to the beaches up north.
The guy at the work station next to me was 64. he'd been there since he was 15, usually doing his 40 hours plus a day of OT on a saturday.
He said, "its not so bad...I usually just switch off while I'm here".
Switched off for 748,800 hours of his life.
Poor *******.
2nd worse job was as a roofer in the Negev desert in Israel. 12 hour days, 6 days a week. from 6 degrees C, at 5.30am (start time) to 54 degrees C by 11am.
Drank 12 litres of water a day. Took first **** of the day at 7pm after 2nd beer of day. Got paid the princely sum of 100 shekels a day. (US$24 at todays rate) by the robbing Irish cnut of a boss.
Those were the worst. but I've done plenty of other crappy ones too.
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