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hiraethified
Man, I felt for this guy.
http://www.urban75.org/blog/no-matter-how-bad-your-monday-morning-is-worst-job-in-london/
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Man, I felt for this guy.
http://www.urban75.org/blog/no-matter-how-bad-your-monday-morning-is-worst-job-in-london/
At least it would keep you warm and nobody you know would recognise you.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
On the scale of shit jobs, I don't think that's anywhere near top of the list.
editor
hiraethified
If you look closely you can see the poor fellas eyes. I've done a similar job (I wore a gorilla suit) and you get grief from smartarse passer-bys all day long.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Scraping grease/shit out of sewers. Office cleaning at 4am. I could go on.......
TopCat
Putin fanboy
Bad for the soul a job like that.
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hiraethified
I've done some REALLY shit jobs - like filling industrial batteries with acid in a sub zero factory with no protective clothing, dodgy roof tiling, motorway construction, industrial temping - but at least you're not in the full public gaze being ridiculed when you're earning your (often less-than) minimum wage.
TopCat
Putin fanboy
Office cleaning has it's advantages. Lots of "free" stuff...
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hiraethified
Well, I guess it's down to personal thresholds. I've done some really grim cleaning jobs at ungodly hours, but I'd still prefer that to my stint as a gorilla. And at least it was warm in the office.
pinkmonkey
2.4 hour party person
Can't understand the connection between dressing up as a bear and waxing
He's in a beaver costume, AFAICR - you can't see the tail. Beaver heheh
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Well, cleaning is a good job, especially if it's someone's house, but getting up at 3am is no fun. Still better than cleaning in a office when the workers are there. They treat cleaners like shit.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
That's a very good point C66. The time would drag unless one has an insanely rich internal life going on. There's probably a limit to how many haiku one can compose, or doing mental arithmetic, or even shopping list compiling.
The "amusing" comments from passers-by are easily ignorable if English isn't really a language you're comfortable in and so long as you can load up many hours of music and podcasts on a mp3 player, you don't really need a rich internal life (which would be lucky for me, because I don't).
But I'm not volunteering for it, either.
But I'm not volunteering for it, either.
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hiraethified
Yep. It's insanely boring and playing music doesn't really help as it makes you feel uncomfortably cut off - and of course you're supposed to answer the rare question that comes your way about the business (even if all you usually get is lost tourists wanting directions).
Oswaldtwistle
Banned
Well people watching in Oxford Street can be fun, but I guess even the novelty of that wears off.
I'd proberbly take the office cleaning and sleep during the day. At least the 4am starts mean you get left in peace to work.
Voice over tannoy system in London Bridge tube station:
Would the contract cleaner proceed to the northbound Northern Line platform, where there has been an incident.
Probably some City boy honked up his Corney & Barrow dinner. Cleaning up City boy sick, and being told to do so by a disembodied voice, does not seem like a life-enhancing job.
It would seem even worse somehow if the tannoy announcement was made by a voice synth, like they have at Kings Cross, rather than a person. Being ordered to mop up sick by a computer.
Would the contract cleaner proceed to the northbound Northern Line platform, where there has been an incident.
Probably some City boy honked up his Corney & Barrow dinner. Cleaning up City boy sick, and being told to do so by a disembodied voice, does not seem like a life-enhancing job.
It would seem even worse somehow if the tannoy announcement was made by a voice synth, like they have at Kings Cross, rather than a person. Being ordered to mop up sick by a computer.
Oswaldtwistle
Banned
Yeah train cleaning is a pretty shit job, and often involves cleaning up sick and anti social hours too. I think I'd take the promotion job in the silly suit in that case.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
Man, I felt for this guy.
http://www.urban75.org/blog/no-matter-how-bad-your-monday-morning-is-worst-job-in-london/
If you don't wax - you too will look like a beaver
davesgcr
Reading books
Having managed a train operattion , I assure you , that what the cleaners have to contend with - especially around Xmas and the New Year really does rank amongst "beyond the call of duty" ........
Being in charge of stations when there is major disruption is no joke either ....the abuse is pretty wearisome , though the bloke who had to clean out the grease from track sewers near Dalston JUnction must have been made of strong stuff....
Being in charge of stations when there is major disruption is no joke either ....the abuse is pretty wearisome , though the bloke who had to clean out the grease from track sewers near Dalston JUnction must have been made of strong stuff....
ShiftyBagLady
Thinks she is a flower to be looked at
Nono, it's the subway sandwich man who works Westminster Bridge. From the sweaty summer when he sits there looking crumpled and despondent to the grey winter where, in the rain he stands there looking alone and forsaken.
This, and not only this; he can never escape that bagpiping or the bimbling tourists while the loudest bell in London tolls the passing of another wasted hour.
This, and not only this; he can never escape that bagpiping or the bimbling tourists while the loudest bell in London tolls the passing of another wasted hour.
Cid
Proper break this time
From what little you can see of his face it looks like he agrees.
Dr Dolittle
Slightly loony
Sounds quite a good job, standing there disguised as a beaver all day, especially when no one can see your face. But do you get toilet breaks? And is the suit waterproof? Must get pretty sweaty on hot summer days though.
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