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The former is a dorm who treats their garbage and recycling facilities (okay, they're pretty much places near the laundry room) like it's a place to leave the most nasty, disgusting, evil stuff that I won't go into because just thinking about it makes me gag. Suffice to say, every week that someone is forced to go into West Hall, they find at least one policy or health code violation per floor. That is not a joke: PER FLOOR.
The latter is just the opposite. They're surprisingly clean and organized, but they're in a "secret" area of one of the main buildings that an information desk has to place a call to, just to let us in. And everyone in there acts as if their jobs are too important to be interacting with those filthy college students who just work to earn some money. For the record: their "jobs" involve taking old books out of circulation. It's not exactly something one needs a degree for, or at least doesn't need a smarmy attitude for.
"Oh, you hate your job? There's a club for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet down at the bar." ~Drew Carey
At my job its working. Trust me we have some pro's that do everything in their power to get out of it.
LOL I worked with a lot of those people, too. I mean there were literally people that just stood there and did nothing, all day long, and if you asked them to do something they would sigh heavily and then take their sweet, sweet time getting around to it. And they didn't even get fired, they eventually quit. Sometimes seeing what other people get away with makes you wonder why you put in as much effort as you do.
For me it was the service desk...I hated it with an unholy, neverending passion. I compared it to being a portapotty cleaner - you just caught crap all day long (yes, I blatently stole that joke from Bill Engvall).
Most people hated working in the backroom, but I loved that - no customers!
"Even arms dealers need groceries." ~ Ziva David, NCIS
Tony: "Everyone's counting on you, just do what you do best."
Abby: "Dance?" ~ NCIS
- Pain in the ass to move the displays
- Cord is covered in filth from getting dragged around the carpet, so you get it all over your dress clothes
- Constantly needing to stop when customer walks in; can't just get damn thing over with
- Vacuum is piece of crap; you have to go over same section of carpet three times, and it still doesn't look clean
If you have to ask, it's probably better posted at www.fratching.com
Inputting the changes to the cellular network. Every day, somewhere in the US and Canada, some cellular company adds/removes/changes a range of phone numbers. These changes have to be kept up in a database for each company, in case those phones end up in the market. Big companies have a staff for this, and software to assist them.
We are not one of those. We have me, or whomever I can get to do it.
The worst part is the big companies, who send out and update once a month with all changes they've made -nationwide- in the last 30 days. :P
Clearing the drains in the kennels in April.
Over the course of the winter all sorts of stuff gets frozen into the outdoor kennel drains...dog hair, the hay that the dogs sleep in, frozen pee...we can't clean them in the winter cause they are blocks of ice, so in April when they thaw you have to reach in and pull all the crud out. It smells SO BAD.
Clearing the drains in the kennels in April. ...we can't clean them in the winter cause they are blocks of ice, so in April when they thaw you have to reach in and pull all the crud out. It smells SO BAD.
Okay, you win the Gross-Out contest right there. Oh so gross.
Now I work at home, and the thing I hate doing is anything dealing with the turpentine-stuff. It's mineral spirits or something to that effect and it's not as stinky as real turp, but gosh it's acrid. Ew.
That, or just stupid stuff like cleaning the sink, which involves sticking my hand into the disconnected disposal system and poking around in the gunk to make sure no utensils or brushes or tools got washed into it.
"Respect: to admit that something one may not enjoy or prefer might still have great value." ~L. Munoa
Clearing the drains in the kennels in April.
Over the course of the winter all sorts of stuff gets frozen into the outdoor kennel drains...dog hair, the hay that the dogs sleep in, frozen pee...we can't clean them in the winter cause they are blocks of ice, so in April when they thaw you have to reach in and pull all the crud out. It smells SO BAD.
Ok, that's the sort of situation where I'd go through with a kettle of very hot water and de-ice the drains about once a week just to avoid the thaw.
^-.-^
Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others. - Dresden
At the bookstore: straightening the children's section. I volunteered to take on the computer/business section, which I knew nothing about, just to avoid children's.
At the vet: autoclaving the surgical packs, but only because nobody but the doctors themselves really knew what was supposed to go into each pack and nobody wanted to screw up. Otherwise, cleaning the parvo kennels.
Everything will be ok in the end. If it's not ok, it's not the end.
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