who here is a laborer?

Eat Bass · Post by **Eat Bass** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 1:23 am

just out of curiosity does anyone do mind numbing labor for their work? im in college but this summer i have a landscaping job as well a job at a sink company and my god i've been learning why i definitely want to be in school. i really dislike the feeling of being worked like a slave and not having any input as far as more important ideas and such because the company has some really stupid inefficiencies in some departments.

today i unloaded a tractor trailer truck full to the top with porcelain sinks in which were boxed up with anywhere from 2-5 sinks per box. it was terrible...by the end of it i could barely lift a thing. and to top it of i had some kid the same age as me trying to tell me what to do because he has a full time job at his cubicle with no power whatsoever but thinks hes better for some reason because hes not a laborer. im like buddy this is a part time summer job for me...have fun for 20 years here...

on a more positive note, i feel i have gotten noticeably stronger as well as a bit more used to waking up early. this is going to make my job i have when i go back to college feel like a dream.

Shane Says · Post by **Shane Says** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 2:57 am

In construction, the new guy never gets taken seriously. Laborers get paid from the neck down until you make foremen.

Eat Bass · Post by **Eat Bass** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 3:10 am

Shane Says wrote:In construction, the new guy never gets taken seriously. Laborers get paid from the neck down until you make foremen.

yeah its so true. i was a bit pissed off being talked down upon when im probably more intelligent than the majority of the employees there and in the offices. but hey its not something i plan on sticking with so it wont get under my skin too bad.

ketamine · Post by **ketamine** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 4:12 am

Just believe, Lyons, you can be whatever you want. Be a unicorn! Or a table!

wormcode · Post by **wormcode** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 5:49 am

I have soft hands like a girl.
My dad's hands are like fucking sandpaper though.

I've done physical work before, but you can bet I was rocking the expensive gloves.

Phigure · Post by **Phigure** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 5:56 am

Eat Bass wrote:im probably more intelligent than the majority of the employees there and in the offices

never a good attitude to have, even if it might be true.

ht2 · Post by **ht2** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 6:00 am

I love working hard, digging holes and shit sign me up. Men are supposed to work hard, save the easy stuff for girls and homos
I think people these days are too soft and need to harden the fuck up

NickUndercover · Post by **NickUndercover** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 6:15 am

Used to do chain work in a factory every summer... Its crazy how they treat their employees like shit, and I mean barely legal !!

Worked in a removal firm too, physically harder but at least I had some proper laughs with the team and I didn't have to eat next to a steaming machine

Edit:

ht2 wrote:and homos

Electric_Head · Post by **Electric_Head** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 6:21 am

I work in a production facility as a Mechanical Engineer.
Luckily I am not on the production lines but during strike time I have had to work on the line for extended periods doing 12 hr shifts.
2 weeks of the same process over and over and over.
Manual labor is nothing when you're in a production facility.
Trust me, your brain literally stops working and muscle memory kicks in.
We've had people loosing fingers from this sort of brain dead activities.
Important to the larger picture but seriously mundane.

NickUndercover · Post by **NickUndercover** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 6:26 am

Electric_Head wrote:I work in a production facility as a Mechanical Engineer.
Luckily I am not on the production lines but during strike time I have had to work on the line for extended periods doing 12 hr shifts.
2 weeks of the same process over and over and over.
Manual labor is nothing when you're in a production facility.
Trust me, your brain literally stops working and muscle memory kicks in.
We've had people loosing fingers from this sort of brain dead activities.
Important to the larger picture but seriously mundane.

I was working at conditioning lines... Pharmaceutical industry. Everyone there wants to change job but they're stuck, sometimes for 30 years because they don't have any qualification and they can't handle the soul destroying job + evening courses...

Cybertrash · Post by **Cybertrash** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 6:44 am

I don't do manual labour, but I still get treated like shit

nowaysj · Post by **nowaysj** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 6:49 am

Phigure wrote:
Eat Bass wrote:im probably more intelligent than the majority of the employees there and in the offices
never a good attitude to have, even if it might be true.

If he was smarter, he wouldn't be working there.

Phigure · Post by **Phigure** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 6:53 am

nowaysj wrote:
Phigure wrote:
Eat Bass wrote:im probably more intelligent than the majority of the employees there and in the offices
never a good attitude to have, even if it might be true.
If he was smarter, he wouldn't be working there.

and EVEN if he was (lol), there's the old adage to "never be the smartest person in the room"

Dead Rats · Post by **Dead Rats** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 6:55 am

nowaysj wrote:
Phigure wrote:
Eat Bass wrote:im probably more intelligent than the majority of the employees there and in the offices
never a good attitude to have, even if it might be true.
If he was smarter, he wouldn't be working there.

Not 100% son,

Sounds like a bad attitude to have, sometimes you just gotta bite the bullet.

nowaysj · Post by **nowaysj** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 6:57 am

You are not smart if you find yourself biting bullets.

Electric_Head · Post by **Electric_Head** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 6:58 am

Smart-ass is not necessarily smarter.

We have qualified Electrical Engineers working as production staff because they just can't get a job anywhere else.
It's not always a choice that you get to make.

Dead Rats · Post by **Dead Rats** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 7:03 am

Electric_Head wrote:Smart-ass is not necessarily smarter.

We have qualified Electrical Engineers working as production staff because they just can't get a job anywhere else.
It's not always a choice that you get to make.

Yeah,

Sum £££ is better than no £££, you can't have a sense of humour about this shit a lot of the time.

Electric_Head · Post by **Electric_Head** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 7:08 am

Damn right.
Lots of sheltered people in this thread imo.

nowaysj · Post by **nowaysj** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 7:22 am

Electric_Head wrote:Damn right.
Lots of unintelligent people in this thread imo.

wub · Post by **wub** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 7:26 am

Eat Bass wrote:im probably more intelligent than the majority of the employees there and in the offices

Anyone who thinks that never actually is.

Phigure wrote:"never be the smartest person in the room"

It's a fucking curse.

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