Worst Job?

['73 H1 Triple]

Originally Posted by HurricaneHeather

Originally Posted by Particle Man

what


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frig

As you can see, chickens aren't the "sharpest tack in the box". Good thing they lay egss and taste good

[xx CURVE xx]

community service

[HokieDNA01]

Chickens are very active after loosing their heads...

Video about Mike the Headless chicken
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATz3A...eature=related

Real chicken with its head cut off....warning...kinda gross
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HksE-7aYmIw&NR=1

Had me fooled...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewpWdzHeoU0&NR=1

[torilynne]

Originally Posted by '73 H1 Triple

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_The_Headless_Chicken

thats just disturbing!!

[Librarian]

Worst job? On-call "retrievals".

You sleep with a dark suit ready on a hanger. When the pager goes off, at 1:00a.m. or 3:30am, you jump up, call the person who took the "first call" for the name and address, put on the suit, go to the office, get the van, and go to the address.

What do you retrieve? The recently deceased. Sometimes they're in a hospital morgue, often in a retirement home, sometimes in pieces on the side of the road. Post-autopsy is the worst because while they have already been bagged, the bag includes all the fluids, and it sloshes. You do NOT want that bag to break.

You tag 'em and bag 'em. Literally. Usually it's easy, as they have been wasting away for years and weigh 85 lbs, and they didn't bother to call you until all the rigor has passed (because the rest home didn't check on them more often than every other day). Sometimes it's more difficult, like the 350 lb guy who collapsed of a heart attack between his bed and the wall, and was in full rigor in a weird position. Have to break the rigor in each limb and then lever up this huge dude onto the bed, then onto the gurney, then try and zip the bag up. All the time with the family members there.

Oh yeah, when you get them back to the funeral home there's more to do. Not much, but it did get to me... you have to put cream on their faces, hands and eyeballs to keep the fridge from drying them out and making it harder for the morticians to make them look good for the funeral.

Then you stick them in the fridge along with the others. Don't think about the standard horror movie plot when you are in the fridge with half a dozen corpses and the door swings shut!

Go back home and try to get a little more sleep before you have to go to your day job.

[HokieDNA01]

Originally Posted by Librarian

Worst job? On-call "retrievals".

You sleep with a dark suit ready on a hanger. When the pager goes off, at 1:00a.m. or 3:30am, you jump up, call the person who took the "first call" for the name and address, put on the suit, go to the office, get the van, and go to the address.

What do you retrieve? The recently deceased. Sometimes they're in a hospital morgue, often in a retirement home, sometimes in pieces on the side of the road. Post-autopsy is the worst because while they have already been bagged, the bag includes all the fluids, and it sloshes. You do NOT want that bag to break.

You tag 'em and bag 'em. Literally. Usually it's easy, as they have been wasting away for years and weigh 85 lbs, and they didn't bother to call you until all the rigor has passed (because the rest home didn't check on them more often than every other day). Sometimes it's more difficult, like the 350 lb guy who collapsed of a heart attack between his bed and the wall, and was in full rigor in a weird position. Have to break the rigor in each limb and then lever up this huge dude onto the bed, then onto the gurney, then try and zip the bag up. All the time with the family members there.

Oh yeah, when you get them back to the funeral home there's more to do. Not much, but it did get to me... you have to put cream on their faces, hands and eyeballs to keep the fridge from drying them out and making it harder for the morticians to make them look good for the funeral.

Then you stick them in the fridge along with the others. Don't think about the standard horror movie plot when you are in the fridge with half a dozen corpses and the door swings shut!

Go back home and try to get a little more sleep before you have to go to your day job.

Hands down winner!!!

[Amorok]

Holy fuck, that job would blow. I can honestly say I've never done anything that bad. I worked at a slaughterhouse for a few hours, it wasn't too bad but the blood smell made my stomach doweird stuff and the ball bearing gun kept jamming up. I dug ditches for the county for a while too, but that actually wasn't so bad, other than being in August. I also worked a Tace Bell like derf, it was my last civilian job. Don't ever eat anything at Taco Bell with lettuce.

[cbrchick]

Originally Posted by Librarian

Worst job? On-call "retrievals".

You sleep with a dark suit ready on a hanger. When the pager goes off, at 1:00a.m. or 3:30am, you jump up, call the person who took the "first call" for the name and address, put on the suit, go to the office, get the van, and go to the address.

What do you retrieve? The recently deceased. Sometimes they're in a hospital morgue, often in a retirement home, sometimes in pieces on the side of the road. Post-autopsy is the worst because while they have already been bagged, the bag includes all the fluids, and it sloshes. You do NOT want that bag to break.

You tag 'em and bag 'em. Literally. Usually it's easy, as they have been wasting away for years and weigh 85 lbs, and they didn't bother to call you until all the rigor has passed (because the rest home didn't check on them more often than every other day). Sometimes it's more difficult, like the 350 lb guy who collapsed of a heart attack between his bed and the wall, and was in full rigor in a weird position. Have to break the rigor in each limb and then lever up this huge dude onto the bed, then onto the gurney, then try and zip the bag up. All the time with the family members there.

Oh yeah, when you get them back to the funeral home there's more to do. Not much, but it did get to me... you have to put cream on their faces, hands and eyeballs to keep the fridge from drying them out and making it harder for the morticians to make them look good for the funeral.

Then you stick them in the fridge along with the others. Don't think about the standard horror movie plot when you are in the fridge with half a dozen corpses and the door swings shut!

Go back home and try to get a little more sleep before you have to go to your day job.

Fun stuff ain't it? I think it would be worse if you had to wake up from a "dead" sleep and dress up for the event. I just have to wait until the family leaves (if there is some) and go in with some other peeps to wrap and tag the body. Sometimes it's really sad. Lots of times it's messy. Gotta keep everything "in/attached" to them if it is a corner's case (unknown cause of death). I've learned to cover certain orifices prior to turning the body - stuff leaks out. Sometimes they make funny noises... air in their lungs escaping.

One time, one lady we thought was deceased. Woke up, grabbed another nurse with her hand, and fell back to the bed. We did another EKG to confirm her death. She was dead prior to the "rising". That freaked us out a little. Whatever maker she was meeting, she didn't want to go.... I can still see her face and that was 5 years ago.

I'm always really respectful of the people I prepare for the morgue. I talk to them like they are still there.... b/c they might still be, you never know. On another floor I worked on, some of the nurses would open a window so the person's soul could escape. Superstitions.... Harmless. Makes the act a little less gruesome.

What strikes me as weird, is that I can run around for 12 hours, dealing with pain the in ass patients, lovely, decent people, dying patients... and then wrap them up if they die... And then go to break.

All in a days work.

[RACER X]

ive never really had a sucky job.

one of Z"s friend just got engaged to some dude who jack-offs pigs..........., to collect their sperm.

[zed]

Originally Posted by RACER X

ive never really had a sucky job.

one of Z"s friend just got engaged to some dude who jack-offs pigs..........., to collect their sperm.

I have a friend that used to breed bulldogs and still does bull mastiffs. some of those dogs still like him more than they really should.