Friday OT #2 - Get A Job

[Bipolarcy]

Was on a project doing a steel truss retrofit. At the time we were rivet busting, which is hard, dirty, work. Probably saw a dozen guys come in (lots of them with "show" muscles) spend the first day with the foreman and most of them didn't show up the second day. Some left at lunch, and at least one of them didn't even make it half way up the stair tower to the bridge.

I mean, who signs up for a job working on a bridge 150' in the air and then decides that they are scared of heights?

I think my fear of heights, while there from the beginning, got much worse when I was on the crew that slipped an elevator in Britt, Iowa. It was a 150 foot elevator. Try scooping cement into a form on a hot summer day, standing up suddenly to see the ground 100 feet below you. I was lucky I didn't get dizzy and topple over the edge. The climb to the top of the elevator on the scaffold didn't help. Luckily, that job only lasted two days. I joined while it was going up and they worked two shifts, 12 hours each shift. So I worked on it 24 hours in two days.

 

[NWICY]

Not me but a friend, got hired by foundry company the dude led him back to a room deep in the factory, handed him a face shield some heavy gloves and arm sleeves. told him to start grinding the rough edges off of the fire hydrants, then walked away. My buddy did some till noon never saw anyone the entire time, he left the stuff on a bench went to his car and never went back.

 

[CtownCyclone]

So I got laid off last May. I was working in pipeline engineering work, so between COVID shutting down a ton of projects and a change in national politics affecting that industry, I was left with no job.

Interviewed at a couple of places with no luck. Finally got an interview at a place, aced it, but when I was leaving had a feeling of dread that they would offer me and I would basically have to accept

Boss was terrible. Come to find out several people had walked out on him, and these were professional people. I was at the point where I was ready to leave and not come back by 8 am one morning.

Literally the next day, a recruiter called me. Jumped right on that one, and so far, I am glad I did.

 

[jcisuclones]

After I graduated from Iowa State, I was waiting to hear about my admission into grad school, so I took a job at Fuzzy's in Ames (RIP) to earn a few bucks and keep me busy. I went in for the first day and they were showing me the ropes, and then after that, I wasn't back in until the following week because I was headed out on vacation.

I come back in for my first shift after vacation and get called over to a table after clocking in. The manager tells me "we're going to have to let you go." I'm baffled and confused and asked why. He responded "we need to cut labor due to the restaurant not being that busy, and also you just haven't been catching onto your duties as quickly as we had expected"

Guess I didn't make a good impression to be that memorable on the one day I had worked over a week prior..

 

[Sousaclone]

I think my fear of heights, while there from the beginning, got much worse when I was on the crew that slipped an elevator in Britt, Iowa. It was a 150 foot elevator. Try scooping cement into a form on a hot summer day, standing up suddenly to see the ground 100 feet below you. I was lucky I didn't get dizzy and topple over the edge. The climb to the top on the elevator on the scaffold didn't help. Luckily, that job only lasted two days. I joined while it was going up and they worked two shifts, 12 hours each shift. So I worked on it 24 hours in two days.

I've had a couple of moments like that. Standing on top of a bridge girder, water moving one way below me, cars moving another way beside you, then look up at the crane boom up in the air and the clouds are going a different direction! Enough to give anyone vertigo!

 

[Isualum13]

Hired a new part time breakfast cook that lasted less than a month. I knew he spent a year in jail for stealing a car. What I didn't know until after he stopped showing up was took the car from the parking lot where he was hired.

 

[MeanDean]

My sister got hired at Minnie Pearl's chicken (a short lived franchise) in our home town. She worked one day. Said the boys kept pinching her and then someone spilled a whole vat of cooking oil on the floor and they spent the rest of the day slipping and sliding on it. She never went back for the second day.

 

[CyCrazy]

My job got terminated at ISU. **** them I have been way better at my new job.