truthseeker
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Just thought of this from the cushy number thread.
Despite many a good doss in youthful jobs, I also had to do some things that theres no way youd be allowed do them today.
1: Paper round, back when dogs were just 'out', one dog in particular hated my sibling so I had to deliver to that house, dog didnt mind me for some reason, but as I was younger and scared, the sibling would stand watch, many a run away with the dog snapping on the heels of us both (less so me in fairness). I was around 12 at the time - can you imagine it now?
2: My husband had to get into the compactor in the supermarket we both worked in after a rep thought he threw a handheld barcode scanner into it. The compactor was due to be changed and was full of rotting meat carcasses, and a variety of other biological waste, plus, there was no way of turning it off from the mains, so although someone guarded the switch, it could have come on!
3: Standing in a warehouse, a forklift next to me putting a load up high, knocks a pallet directly above me off, a manager rugby tackled me to the ground to save me from possible death.
4: Cutting the mould off the unseen side of a quiche before selling it to a customer (that was just a bad boss who ordered me to do it - I was young, today Id resist that).
Despite many a good doss in youthful jobs, I also had to do some things that theres no way youd be allowed do them today.
1: Paper round, back when dogs were just 'out', one dog in particular hated my sibling so I had to deliver to that house, dog didnt mind me for some reason, but as I was younger and scared, the sibling would stand watch, many a run away with the dog snapping on the heels of us both (less so me in fairness). I was around 12 at the time - can you imagine it now?
2: My husband had to get into the compactor in the supermarket we both worked in after a rep thought he threw a handheld barcode scanner into it. The compactor was due to be changed and was full of rotting meat carcasses, and a variety of other biological waste, plus, there was no way of turning it off from the mains, so although someone guarded the switch, it could have come on!
3: Standing in a warehouse, a forklift next to me putting a load up high, knocks a pallet directly above me off, a manager rugby tackled me to the ground to save me from possible death.
4: Cutting the mould off the unseen side of a quiche before selling it to a customer (that was just a bad boss who ordered me to do it - I was young, today Id resist that).