• @shani66
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    126 months ago

    Now that i think about my first job was fucking wild.

    My buddy was in a forklift taking some stock down and i was spotting, basically just hanging out and making sure no one got in the way. A few minutes after the normal time it’d take he thinks something is wrong and calls me to take a look (from afar) to see how fucked we are; the answer was very, the pallet was barely holding together at all, but i couldn’t see a damn thing from my position. Before i could get back to spotting we heard a loud crack and the world went still, i imagine for much longer by him, and not a second later we had hundreds of pounds of foul smelling mulch everywhere.

    I had a lot more there too; babysitting an old man that looked on the verge of death with no management anywhere to be found, moving hundreds of pounds at a time by hand, dealing with the best conspiracy theorist ever.

    I’ve been bored everywhere else I’ve ever worked.

    • @Dio9sys@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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      66 months ago

      There’s something about physical labor jobs that result in everybody having one story about babysitting somebody who is actively dying

      • @shani66
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        46 months ago

        Turns out the world is flat. And under a dome. And Jesus is on top of the dome. And aliens have visited us in the dome. And so much more.

        • @Hadriscus@lemm.ee
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          16 months ago

          wow ! I knew the world was flat and under a dome, but I had no idea Jesus was literally on top. Thanks for completing my world view 😂 I’ve had crazy exchanges with some of these people but I have yet to meet any IRL. I guess they don’t hang out where I live