The Best and Worst moments of your career Page 3
Worst part of my working life was when I was 18 and worked in Gateway supermarket. I worked in the warehouse and there was a huge compacter machine that basically chewed up rubbish as well as damaged / out of date stock. Every fortnight I had to get inside the thing and scrape the walls clean of old beans and rotting fish etc. The stench was incredible. One day when I was in there I heard a "pop" noise - I'd stood on one of those dog food packages that look like plastic sausages. The contents were absolutely rancid and as I felt the liquidised rotten meat squirt up my trouser leg I actually threw up.
Then there was another time in my late twenties when I worked on oil rig construction and nearly died. We were working on a huge accomodation module that was part of the replacement for the Piper Alpha disaster. Its towering walls were made of gleaming stainless steel, but every inch was covered in protective plastic film that obviously should've been removed prior to construction. So I was sent up to start removing the plastic - about a hundred feet on one of those motorized windowcleaner's cradles. Unfortunately while I was up there a force 5 gale blew up and the cradle started swinging back and forth and crashing into the sides of the module. I laid on the cradle floor and wrapped my arms and legs around the guardrail until the wind dropped. After I was safely lowered to the ground, the boss looked at me, shivering and terrified. He then sneered and called me a "big girl's fanny".
This video brought back unpleasant memories. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvvSytXuQKs&playnext=1&list=PLC20241BB3729250B&index=27
Best moment of my working life was getting an unexpected bonus cheque for 10 grand. Result!!
Quote: Lee Henman @ January 11 2011, 6:58 PM GMTBest moment of my working life was getting an unexpected bonus cheque for 10 grand. Result!!
What the hell job was that in?
Quote: zooo @ January 11 2011, 7:31 PM GMTWhat the hell job was that in?
Writing greeting cards. That was a while ago though when writing competition wasn't so fierce. 
Good God and blimey.
Haha big girls fanny.
I would like ten grand please.
Quote: Nat Wicks @ January 11 2011, 8:44 PM GMTHaha big girls fanny.
I would like ten grand please.
It's not a good slogan, marketing wise.
Yes Nat it makes you sound like a pricy comedic Balinese whore.
Hehe. Hadn't realised. Oh well.
Quote: Tuumble @ June 16 2009, 5:32 PM GMTOn Twitter yesterday someone had posted a link to a blog post about their top five best and worst perks over 10 years working in the journalism industry.
Jaysus, the guy lists going to Euro Disney and seeing Take That as being among the top 5 moments of his journalism/PR career. Poor bastard. And he lists exotic food in Marrakesh as one of his worst moments. Boring prat. Further affirmation that I'm not missing much by not regularly perusing Twitter.
Yep, that's the only guy who uses Twitter.
I'm actually amazed that it's 18 months since I started this thread. I resurrected it because of a funny disciplinary notice I found early but it's coming up with the dratted 'posted image' line - let me do it again...
...as it was funny...
Quote: zooo @ January 11 2011, 11:40 PM GMTYep, that's the only guy who uses Twitter.
Is there anything amazingly great to be gleaned from Twitter? I follow some politicians, organizations and companies for work-related stuff, I know a few people follow Stephen Fry and various sportspersons to know their thoughts, but I'm a bit underwhelmed by it all. It seems largely a tool of shameless self-promotion designed to entertain people with short attention spans. Is there something I'm missing out on?
Cheers. I'll peruse next time I'm stuck in a taxi and without a book.
Can you read in a car? I would get majorly car sick.