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I see stuff like this and am suddenly grateful all I do is push paper....
VSalonistas
My best freind at School worked at the Cheerwine factory in Salsbury, NC.
He did quality control, and they paid him well.
He had a number of jobs, but one of he main jobs was to sit in a chair and inspect every bottle that passed on the conveyor belt. The hypnotic and repetative nature mixed with a constant hangover from the night before would often lull him to sleep. At least ten times he would wake up to shear CHeerwine fury, with hundreds of bottle getting jammed together and exploding that nasty cherry flavored soda all over the place. Alarms would go off, bottles would explode, and people would yell. He said it was like a veitnam movie.
To this day, if he smells cheerwine, he turns green.
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running a blast cabinet will put grit in orifices you didn't even know you had............i used to hand polish aluminum rafting gear all day with steel wool.........a filth level all unto its self........the bottom rung. but, it's like dishwasher - nobody will F with you because if they piss you off & you quit they have to do it. Steve.
Steve Garro, Coconino Cycles.
Frames & Bicycles built to measure and Custom wheels
Hecho en Flagstaff, Arizona desde 2003
www.coconinocycles.com
www.coconinocycles.blogspot.com
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Has to smell better than the chicken coop. If you can call a barn with 60k little ones in it a 'coop'. Used to flip flocks every seven weeks. Housing for 60,000 birds is a lot of linear feet of dropping boards and pits that need regular attention. No complaints. Happy to have grown up with all the open space and am also happy to not be working on that farm today. Helps one to be self-reliant and develops character.
- Anne G
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VSalonistas
We need to start a new thread. "Describe the worst job you ever had."
VSalonistas
Do current jobs count? :shot:
Mom: He was very sickly until he started riding around on that bicycle.
Dad: Yeah... well... now his body's fine, but his mind is gone.
-Breaking Away
VSalonistas
wait??? confused??? I thought all you needed to get into the biz was a goatee and a flckr site????
VSalonistas
I love the fact that at least one of those images was shot with a LF camera.
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roman,
have the kids sell the bait.
send me the money.
ill keep yr share aside for later.
Administrator
special note: if someone here gets the job, 25% of their paycheck goes to the darren and roman beer refund (as outlined in the vsalon rules) for 1 year.
VSalonistas
The photo of the top of the oven battery was from my Dad's collection....conditions were never that clean as a series of shots were taken for the corporate boys. They removed some oven lids for the photo to get the flame effect. In real conditions, the machine in the background (called a Larry car) would be over the oven holes, depositing 17 tons of pulverized coal in each oven. When the coal was deposited, that's when the action started and the flames kicked up. My job was to stand under the Larry car and secure the oven lids when the coal had been fully charged. Thus the job title....lidman.
The photos of the "door side" of the ovens and of the "pusher side" were from a camera that I "forgot" to check at the security gate. One of my friends took the shot of the pusher side as we weren't allowed to take photos in the plant. I wanted some photos to remind myself in later years that I actually worked in a place like that.
Cycling content...I rode a Sears Free Spirit (about 12 miles round trip) to work as I didn't have a car in college. So did a lot of the other mill hunkies, but in their case, most had lost their licenses. All bothers in the cycling fraternity, though.
VSalonistas
They'll get the empties! :)
- Anne G
CX Spread the Addiction
Race joe http://drakescoffee.com/
Race rigs by Kent Eriksen Other fun Cyfac Zanc
Power by Design Coaching, LLC
VSalonistas
so, who got the job? :)
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VSalonistas
Sorry, but now that I'm a titan of industry, I'm just not interested in a low-level manual labor position.
Not to brag, but I'm part of an investment society that just bought a little concern known as general motors. That's right, little people, GENERAL EFFIN" MOTORS.
Top that.
(and to the salonista over at Treasury . . . when I say "top that," I'm kidding. Just kidding.)
VSalonistas
OK I will. My wealth is stored in non redeemable notes (debt instruments) created outa nothing by a private central bank.
Worst job ... Cleaning toilets at 5:30 in the morning .... but paid 4K frns
over the summer and College tuition was only 2.5K frms.
Administrator
so which vsalonista was hired??
VSalonistas
thanks, now where is that place? and i don't wear red sox.
Wade Patton Velo
I think that there is both room for both form and function. A bicycle that rides like hammered hell is useless. A bicycle with good sound geometry is great. A bicycle with spot on geometry and nice aesthetic details is a joy to own. Andy Payne - salonista
VSalonistas
timing is everything and right now mine sucks...hope whomever gets the gig, loves it.:thumbs_up:
VSalonistas
I commuted on a Sears Free Spirit in med school 4 years. I had a better bike but I refused to leave it locked ouside for 8-14 hours a day. I figured for about $140 that was cheaper than trashing my mountain bike or having it parted out in the racks. By the end of med school the bike was was so rusted out I had to put it in the trash.
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