What Are Considered the Worst Jobs in Science?

[BobG]

WW1 cannon fodder...

WWII Russian soldiers defending Leningrad during the siege. It wasn't the Germans that were so bad. It was the fact that the soldiers were the only edible food left in Leningrad (the civilians usually had no meat left on their bones by time they died of starvation). Leningrad women would lure the Russian soldiers into an ambush with the promise of sex, then drag them home for dinner.

 

[Moonbear]

Was this the salt mine outside of Krakow? My fiance's brother did his masters at the Jagallonian (sp?) Institute in Krakow and for my spring break last year we went to visit him. We didn't get to the salt mine, but I really wanted to go and hear a concert there- it is said to be so wonderfully created that the music just purrs... I want a Zywiec now. I love that beer.

Might have been...I was there with a choir, and we were just dragged around on a tour bus often not knowing what our choir director had planned for us until we got there. It was sure better than yet another palace or museum. I think it was a trip we made out of Krakow...I should see if I can find the photo album from that trip; I might have noted where it was.

 

[Danger]

I imagine that being Moonbear's assistant is a treat.









She probably lays traps for the poor guy all over the place and just crouches in the weeds waiting...

 

[Moonbear]

I imagine that being Moonbear's assistant is a treat.


She probably lays traps for the poor guy all over the place and just crouches in the weeds waiting...

*bats eyelashes* Who, me?

 

[Danger]

*bats eyelashes* Who, me?

Yes, you. Now get that gorgeous ass of yours over to the thread killer thread and stay there. We're going out of our way to hit the bimillenium before you have to leave.

 

[Moonbear]

Yes, you. Now get that gorgeous ass of yours over to the thread killer thread and stay there. We're going out of our way to hit the bimillenium before you have to leave.

You'll have to post faster then.

 

[Danger]

You'll have to post faster then.

I'm trying, dammit! I've only got 233 mHz here...

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

I once worked at a department store and was asked to clean up vomit. I didn't really mind doing it at all since I had worked at a vetrinary hospital and cleaned up some pretty nasty messes in my time but my manager felt so bad about it that she insisted on giving me a free CD for having done the job. Free music is always nice.

 

[Danger]

I once worked at a department store and was asked to clean up vomit.

Yet another of the joys of working in a bar. On the whole, though, I think that I'd rather do that than be a sapper.

 

[Reshma]

This thread is boring :zzz:

 

[Reshma]

So the vilest job is reading this thread

 

[Danger]

This thread is boring :zzz:

So the vilest job is reading this thread

Nice deke there. I love a surprise ending.

 

[SOS2008]

Talk about vile jobs, this might be best left for illegal immigrants, or...

WASHINGTON, DC—AFL-CIO vice president Linda Chavez-Thompson, representing the American Federation of Interrogation Torturers, released a statement Monday deriding the CIA's "extraordinary rendition" program, under which American torturing jobs are outsourced to foreign markets. "Outsourcing the task of interrogating terror suspects to countries like Egypt, Syria, and Saudi Arabia is having a crippling effect on the Americans who make a living by stripping detainees nude, shackling them to the floor, and beating the living **** out of them," Chavez-Thompson said. "And specialists within the field—corrosive-material chemists, ocular surgeons, and testicular electricians—are lucky to find any jobs at all. How are they supposed to feed their families?" Attorney General Alberto Gonzales defended extraordinary rendition, saying the program will create jobs in the long run by fostering a global climate of torture tolerance.

Oh, okay, that's not very nice...

 

[Moonbear]

I like that job title: "testicular electricians." Watch it guys! I've got jumper cables, and I'm not afraid to use them!

 

[Danger]

I've got jumper cables, and I'm not afraid to use them!

Do you and MIH share a set, or do you have your own?

(Notice that despite nearly overwhelming provocation, I made no mention of nipple clamps...)

 

[SOS2008]

I like that job title: "testicular electricians." Watch it guys! I've got jumper cables, and I'm not afraid to use them!

From the Superficial Love thread...

Personally, I'm superficially attracted to those with a fondness for Tetraboric acid and Borax.

Perhaps BobG could hook you up--though you may have to go overseas...

 

[Danger]

Perhaps BobG could hook you up--

She should be able to hook herself up. That's why they have clamps instead of requiring a wrench...

 

[Moonbear]

She should be able to hook herself up. That's why they have clamps instead of requiring a wrench...

Wait, I wasn't supposed to be the one getting hooked up, I was supposed to be hooking up someone else!

 

[Danger]

Wait, I wasn't supposed to be the one getting hooked up, I was supposed to be hooking up someone else!

Snooz'n'looz, babe.

 

[SOS2008]

Yeh, who's the hookee and who's the hooker! I'm sure there's a hook to this.

 

[Moonbear]

Yeh, who's the hookee and who's the hooker! I'm sure there's a hook to this.

Are you callin' me a 'ho?!

Wow, I blinked and you've got yet another new avatar! I like the cowboy kitty.

 

[Danger]

Yeh, who's the hookee and who's the hooker! I'm sure there's a hook to this.

I say there, SOS, nice pusoh crap, even I won't go that far.

 

[Math Is Hard]

I like cow-kitty, too. awwwrrr...

 

[Danger]

I like cow-kitty, too. awwwrrr...

Cow-kitty? Shouldn't that be in the 'Cloning Gone Wrong' thread?

 

[Type 7]

Leningrad women would lure the Russian soldiers into an ambush with the promise of sex, then drag them home for dinner.

I've never heard that one before! There is an entire Tolstoy novel's worth of drama and human nature in that one sentence.

No matter the company or industry, whoever does the cleaning has the worst job. At the community college where I work, someone has been leaving human waste on the bathroom floor in front of the sink every morning for the past week. The poor janitor has to clean it up every day. He is VERY motivated to catch the culprit! I feel for him, but I have to laugh. Probably some student is dissatisfied with his college experience.

 

[Moonbear]

At the community college where I work, someone has been leaving human waste on the bathroom floor in front of the sink every morning for the past week. The poor janitor has to clean it up every day. He is VERY motivated to catch the culprit! I feel for him, but I have to laugh. Probably some student is dissatisfied with his college experience.

That's just nasty! I don't find it funny at all. If someone is that dissatisfied, I'm sure when they get caught, someone can help them find the door to leave through if they aren't intelligent enough to find it for themselves.

 

[Type 7]

Probably whoever it is will wash out if he isn't kicked out.

We try to take it all in stride. Laughter helps. Honestly, no one but the janitor is upset by it. To everyone else it's just another day in higher education.

 

[fourier jr]

What do you think are the worst jobs? Perhaps school consoler or rat exterminator are high up on your list of very sucky jobs? Or do you hate being the administrators of an online physics forum? What about stunt double? I would hate to be a babysitter, think of all the screaming kids. I Got the idea for this of and old Popular Science story, worst jobs in science.

Fibonacci

-- roofer/labourer
-- marker/grader for a university/college course
-- any job where you'd have to sit at a cubicle under humming flourescent lights & remain quiet & still (except punching numbers into a computer) all day long
-- at a recycling depot with all the smashing glass & other loud noises. that would be the ultimate worst job to go to when hungover
-- dentist, at least if you don't like to cause people pain
-- doing the cleaning of all the machinery during the nights at a meat-packing plant in the US (anyone read fast-food nation?)
-- prison guard at a private prison

 

[Danger]

I don't imagine that most palace eunichs are volunteer labour...

 

[Math Is Hard]

-- doing the cleaning of all the machinery during the nights at a meat-packing plant in the US (anyone read fast-food nation?)

I did read that actually. <shudder> Took all the fun out of going to McDonalds for me.

You just made me think of something else, fourier: another book about low-wage jobs in the U.S. --- Nickel and Dimed by by Barbara Ehrenreich. She took all the fun out of going to Walmart for me.

I should probably read less.

 

[Danger]

I did read that actually. <shudder> Took all the fun out of going to McDonalds for me.

You used to have fun there?