posted 06-07-2001 12:03            

For example:
My grocery store's oil change center.

Benefit: When I bring in my own car, I rarely have to pay to have the fluids checked and topped off.

Hidden Danger: A surprising number of people cannot follow directions. Like when you guide them over the pit in the floor and tell them to "STOP"(complete with hand gestures)... and they just keep staring at you and almost run you over.

I'm also waiting for the day that I get blown up by the morons who insist on smoking while filling their gas tank at the gas station next door... Yes they really do it.

Me: Sir, you have to put out that cigarrette while pumping gas.
Jackass: HuH? What? Why?
Me: Sir, put the cigarrette out. Now.
Jackass: Who's your manager? *begins to toss cigarrette on the ground*
Me: NO! For the love of god this is a gas station.

So, the question before you is: Does your job have hidden dangers that most people wouldnt' think of?

posted 06-07-2001 12:16            

Liquor Store

Benefit: Very little supervision, and you get to throw people out of the store.

Hidden Danger: Very little supervision, so you have to throw people out of the store. Some of these people get violent if deprived of their alchohol.

posted 06-07-2001 12:58            

Plus: Good pay, little work done.

Hidden danger:
YOU'RE SURROUNDED BY RETARDS THAT WON'T STOP SAYING
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH"

posted 06-07-2001 12:51            

Benefit: Not having to work very hard. Order some stuff, count some money, read magazines, tell other people what to do.
Great fun.

Hidden Danger #1: The supermarket was broken into one night, and about $15.000 was stolen. The backdoor was forced open, BUT the alarm had been turned off with the proper code. Also, the burglars knew where to find the key to the safe (yeah, prety dumb to leave it there). I was one of three people who knew the alarmcode and hidingplace of the key to the safe, and had a key to the store. Not a lot of fun at all.

Hidden Danger #2: It's expected of an assistant-manager to calm his coworkers after a robbery involving a junkie waving a knife around... -even when his legs are shaking so bad he can barely stand and is two seconds away from shitting his pants.

posted 06-07-2001 13:21            

One time, one summer, a man chased another man through the entire restaurant with a baseball bat. Pretty scary. The store manager was hard at work doing her end-of-the-month paperwork when they ran by. What was her response? She never looked up to see who was running... "Hey, no running in the store!"

ANother time, a man dropped a fry in his moving car, as he bent to pick it up, he stepped on the gas pedal and ran right into the center of our lobby. Luckily no one was hurt.

Robberies had been going on around town at every McD's except ours, so far. We were all pretty tense. Someone noticed a van "casing out the joint' so a manager called the police. Turned out she called the police on the police. Hey, at least we were observant.

Let's see, the McD's I worked at here in Ft Lauderdale was right next to a homeless camp. Most of you might know that most people are mentally handicapped. Several have brought in knives, sticks, etc. Jesus knocked out one of the other managers. Great fun.

I also worked a vitamin manufacturing plant. One night, just 1/2 hour before we were scheduled to leave, there was shooting outside the business. (random shooting, even) No one heard a thing because it's so loud inside, but I read about it the next day in the paper.

Gosh.... give me time to think, I know I have more.

posted 06-07-2001 14:25         

good: free room and board, excellent workout program, free education

posted 06-07-2001 21:08            

Hidden danger: Leaving the work till too late, your boss coming in and telling you to do stuff yopu don't have time to do.

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posted 06-08-2001 17:02            

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Originally posted by psyci:
[b]Prison:

good: free room and board, excellent workout program, free education

bad: ass rapings[/B]

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Realize that if you are a bad boy whilst in prison, there are isolation housing units. These are one inmate to a cell, no contact with other inmates. Most do not get TV, magazines, books, etc. They have to stare at the walls to pass the days. It's enough to drive an inmate crazy... and it does.

posted 06-08-2001 21:17            

Benefit: If its not busy I find plenty of time to indulge in a few slices of very good ($6.00/lb) sandwich meat.

Hidden Danger: I sometimes work with people who shouldn't handle knives. I've come very close to losing body parts due to someone "slipping" or trying to throw knifes and throwing them the wrong way. They just laugh. Then they cut themselves (again). These are the people handling your steaks and sandwich meat by the way

I actually have refused to work in the meat department if certain people are allowed to have knives while I'm in the same room.

-Chris

posted 06-09-2001 00:57            

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Originally posted by Amazon:
It's enough to drive an inmate crazy... and it does.

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As it should.

posted 06-09-2001 02:16            

Anal rape doesn't drive one crazy after awhile?

I dont mean to brag... but I happen to know it drives the goats crazy with desire.

But yeah... NORMALLY I thought that solitary was meant to drive them a little crazy. But frightened kitten crazy rather than homicidal crazy, which they probably were before they were thrown into solitary.

posted 06-09-2001 16:48            

The oil change center is just outside the store, and I get called upon to help or work out there periodically.

We have no "club cards" "MVP cards" etc. "Everybody in the whole fucking world is a member". (not official motto)

But yes, many of the people who work the meat department regularly have some problems... but not as bad as our baggers

posted 06-10-2001 09:47            

pros- good pay 8.15/hour while in high school and if manager wasnt around could do homework and take calls and not talk to the people.

cons- you are THE MOST hated person in the world, every 2-3 calls someone lets out on you screaming and swearing and you Have to listen to it, or else you can get in trouble. (lose your job for hangin up on a customer)
me: "oh im sorry sir, were you eating supper?"
customer: "no i wasnt"
me: "oh ok sir ill just call back at that time sir"
customer: "fuck you budy, i gonna fuckin kill you if you call me during supper you sunuvabitch, fuck you fuck you ect.."
me: "thank you sir and have a terrific day"

posted 06-10-2001 17:58         

Of course, a good half of the problems occur because the chain is too cheap to buy decent equipment and hire good programmers...

posted 06-11-2001 18:28            

Biggest Danger: Catching plague or West Nile Virus as a result of the research projects. At least I could take antibiotics for plague.
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Current job: Veterinary Technician

Biggest Danger: Catching Salmonella or Crytosporidium from my patients. While I tend not to get bitten (although some have tried), I have been kicked, body slammed into walls, shit on, pissed on, bled on and dribbled with pus.

Fortunately, I love my job.