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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Now that i think about my first job was fucking wild.

My buddy was in a forklift taking some stock down and i was spotting, basically just hanging out and making sure no one got in the way. A few minutes after the normal time it'd take he thinks something is wrong and calls me to take a look (from afar) to see how fucked we are; the answer was very, the pallet was barely holding together at all, but i couldn't see a damn thing from my position. Before i could get back to spotting we heard a loud crack and the world went still, i imagine for much longer by him, and not a second later we had hundreds of pounds of foul smelling mulch everywhere.

I had a lot more there too; babysitting an old man that looked on the verge of death with no management anywhere to be found, moving hundreds of pounds at a time by hand, dealing with the best conspiracy theorist ever.

I've been bored everywhere else I've ever worked.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

There's something about physical labor jobs that result in everybody having one story about babysitting somebody who is actively dying

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

what do you mean, the best conspiracy theorist ??

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Turns out the world is flat. And under a dome. And Jesus is on top of the dome. And aliens have visited us in the dome. And so much more.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

wow ! I knew the world was flat and under a dome, but I had no idea Jesus was literally on top. Thanks for completing my world view ๐Ÿ˜‚ I've had crazy exchanges with some of these people but I have yet to meet any IRL. I guess they don't hang out where I live