Worst. Job. Ever.

Drewcifer · Post by **Drewcifer** » 2003-10-24 02:11am

Milwaukee will be spending $2M on a new filtering system at a wastewater treatment plant to keep used condoms from ending up in Lake Michigan.

However, until the filtering system is online, they are paying "an average of $460 a day for an employee to scoop spent condoms from tanks at a wastewater treatment plant."

I've had some crappy jobs in my day, but that one takes the cake. Not even the prospect of making a 6-figure income would entice me to scoop spent condoms out of sewage.

Bleh.

I worked at a Dairy Queen for two weeks in college. That was a nasty job, because the owner didn't like for us to clean anything, and he kept food waaaay too long. How no one ever got sick was beyond me.

I also ran a pneumatic jackhammer for a week, once. Lugging around a 65 lb. cast iron jackhammer while having your teeth rattled out of your head sucks.

But, both were still better than being a rubber fisherman at the sewage plant!

Darth Fanboy · Post by **Darth Fanboy** » 2003-10-24 02:15am

$460 a day?!!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?

460 x 5= $2300 a week

Assumin I work but 50 weeks out of the year with two weeks unpaid vacation thats $115k per year to do nothing but scoop things with a net.

Shit I could do that.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-10-24 02:17am

$450 a day? I'll take that shit (ha!) any day of the week. Christ, it's not like I have to dive in and catch them with my teeth. If you think this is the worst job ever, you've obviously never worked in a packing plant with a surly Mexican foreman for $6 an hour.

Post by **Kuja** » 2003-10-24 02:22am

Drewcifer wrote:However, until the filtering system is online, they are paying "an average of $460 a day for an employee to scoop spent condoms from tanks at a wastewater treatment plant."

Hell, that's nearly twice what I make in a week! I'll take it.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-10-24 02:25am

Oh come on, if you're scooping up condoms out of a wastewater plant, the condoms themselves are the least disgusting thing in your vicinity. It's a mindless job and undoubtedly very unpleasant (particularly from an olfactory perspective), but the pay is excellent considering the lack of skills. Really, you'd be suited up and sprayed down before and after, so the only real problem is the psychological "ick" factor. More than two grand a week will solve that.

Mind you, it's not exactly a job which looks good on a professional resume, so it's more of a summer student sort of thing.

Trytostaydead · Post by **Trytostaydead** » 2003-10-24 02:28am

OMG! Screw my college education! I want to go into waste management now!

Hethrir · Post by **Hethrir** » 2003-10-24 02:33am

I'd just about take $430 / week. That is some serious cash, and it's not like you'd be taking them out with your hands...

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-10-24 02:37am

I made $385 doing an honest day's work running cable for a shoot.

This doesn't seem so bad. Quiet, peaceful, and you can make a game out of it.

Every fuck around with cables in the grandstand at a racetrack? Yeesh.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-10-24 02:44am

For that kind of money, I'm willing to give up my dignity.

Hamel · Post by **Hamel** » 2003-10-24 02:49am

I'd take that job any day, any time.

Drewcifer · Post by **Drewcifer** » 2003-10-24 02:52am

Damn, you guys make some good lemonade!

But seriously, a job like that probably would make a good summer job and $2K a week can buy a lot of air freshener and soap.

A friend of mine worked at an Alaskan cannery one summer, made something like $30K for three months of work. She hated every minute of it, gutting fish in a frozen factory for 12 hours every day, but she bought a car and paid for college with the money, so it was worth it.

All things considered, 2 grand a week would probably make scooping up other people's condoms out of shit not so bad. A pretty high gross-out factor, but yeah, it'd be gross all the way to the bank.

Dalton wrote:...and you can make a game out of it.

You win the award for funniest mental image of the day: guys wearing gas masks, flinging crap and condoms with lacrosse rackets at trash cans with point values spray-painted on the side, shouting "woo hoo!"

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2003-10-24 03:38am

Fuck that's 69000skr/m

To get some comparison, that's the pay for doctors and other higly educated people here in Sweden

Sign me up I'll scoop condoms all day for that sort of pay!

Penguin · Post by **Penguin** » 2003-10-24 05:40am

The Best thing is you don't have to put your mind into that kind of work...
You could spend the entire day thinking about what to use all your money on...

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2003-10-24 06:01am

I will do that kind of work anyday as the pay is to high to resist. The only problem is if someone asks me what I do for a living.

Companion Cube · Post by **Companion Cube** » 2003-10-24 06:22am

For that kind of money, I would swim around in the sewage and catch them with my teeth.

Zac Naloen · Post by **Zac Naloen** » 2003-10-24 06:24am

imagine how bad it would you feel if you weren't getting any... picking up these condoms everyday knowing that none of them could possibly be yours...

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-10-24 07:06am

3rd Impact wrote:For that kind of money, I would swim around in the sewage and catch them with my teeth.

Haha, enjoy your STDs, friend!

Seriously, that money is bitchin'! I always knew Americans had more money than sense, who needs a damn degree when you can scoop condoms for $115 grand a year.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2003-10-24 07:53am

Darth Wong wrote:Oh come on, if you're scooping up condoms out of a wastewater plant, the condoms themselves are the least disgusting thing in your vicinity. It's a mindless job and undoubtedly very unpleasant (particularly from an olfactory perspective), but the pay is excellent considering the lack of skills. Really, you'd be suited up and sprayed down before and after, so the only real problem is the psychological "ick" factor. More than two grand a week will solve that.

Mind you, it's not exactly a job which looks good on a professional resume, so it's more of a summer student sort of thing.

I've been to one of the waste treatment plants here in town and it's not all that unpleasant as far as the smell. It doesn't smell great, kind of funky, but on most days it's not gag inducing on either. I live near a fat rendering plant and it smells worse (some days like rancid garbage) than the waste treatment plant .

I do want to back up the bit about condoms not being the only thing you might be scooping. Just last month they found a fetus in the local sewage treatment plant. I never heard if it had been determined whether it would have been viable but either way seeing something like that is far nastier than used condoms. Come to think of it, when I toured the waste treatment plant for school we saw a condom floating in one of the tanks.

Jawawithagun · Post by **Jawawithagun** » 2003-10-24 09:22am

Admiral Valdemar wrote:
3rd Impact wrote:For that kind of money, I would swim around in the sewage and catch them with my teeth.
Haha, enjoy your STDs, friend!

Seriously, that money is bitchin'! I always knew Americans had more money than sense, who needs a damn degree when you can scoop condoms for $115 grand a year.

STDs would be the least of your problems. There are some pretty vicious bacteries working at breaking down the wastes that not only make you sick but kill you.
Anyway, it would be a far easier job than working as a diver scraping the sludge off the floor of the tanks.

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2003-10-24 10:31am

this reminds me of the time my roomate/landlord bitched out my other roomate and I when the cesspool truck came and the shit shark lectured him on how you are not supposed to flush condoms down the toilet....damn ,there were hundreds of them as the two of us had steady girlfriends at the time. Hell, the guy even pointed them out when he pulled the lid off the tank... ewwwwww nasty.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-10-24 10:37am

Whew...while not a particular good smelling job...the amount of money per week easily makes up for any bad vibes you might have.

Gotta love the American way of thinking.

Darth Fanboy · Post by **Darth Fanboy** » 2003-10-24 04:34pm

Admiral Valdemar wrote:
3rd Impact wrote:For that kind of money, I would swim around in the sewage and catch them with my teeth.
Haha, enjoy your STDs, friend!

Seriously, that money is bitchin'! I always knew Americans had more money than sense, who needs a damn degree when you can scoop condoms for $115 grand a year.

Its a temporary measure until the new filters are in place, its not like one could actually have that job as a career.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-10-24 04:34pm

Zac Naloen wrote:imagine how bad it would you feel if you weren't getting any... picking up these condoms everyday knowing that none of them could possibly be yours...

If that bothered you, you could play a fun game. At your house, you could put a quarter in a condom, tie it closed, and flush it down the toilet. Then when you're at work, see if you can find the condom with a quarter in it!

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-10-24 04:37pm

RedImperator wrote:
Zac Naloen wrote:imagine how bad it would you feel if you weren't getting any... picking up these condoms everyday knowing that none of them could possibly be yours...
If that bothered you, you could play a fun game. At your house, you could put a quarter in a condom, tie it closed, and flush it down the toilet. Then when you're at work, see if you can find the condom with a quarter in it!

Dayumn, you'd have to be really depressed to do that. I'd hope to get that quarter back, mind.

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2003-10-24 04:41pm

6 figures and all the free condoms you could ever want:twisted:? And you still wouldn't take the job?? What are you fucking crazy?

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