So how bad do your work conditions get physically?

[minendo]

I typically spend 2-3 hours in a -20 degree freezer pushing ~18,000lbs of product at once using just my legs and back. Granted gravity helps, but not as much as it should.

 

[Zim Hosein]

So how bad do your work conditions get physically?

Now and then I have to pick up a full case of paper from outside my office and move it inside 😱

 

[BigJ]

Over the past year, I've had a few different jobs in construction, warehouses, and receiving at a ESW (electrician's supply warehouse).

Hasn't been the best of times, but they've all paid pretty well.

 

[KLin]

I occasionally have to lift the heavy PC or laserjet printer. 😛

 

[Martin]

They don't an espresso machine in the kitchen, so I have to settle for the watered-down american "coffee".

Yes, it is tough, but I manage somehow.

 

[JLGatsby]

I almost got a paper cut once. Almost.

 

[Cawchy87]

I had to carry a chair downstairs one time. But other then that I just ride around in a golf cart. Walking seems like a chore at my work.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: minendo
I typically spend 2-3 hours in a -20 degree freezer pushing ~18,000lbs of product at once using just my legs and back. Granted gravity helps, but not as much as it should.

err...you push 18,000 lbs with your body? i call shens.


my work can get very dirty. i work IT and i frequently have to go out into the factory and everything is covered in black soot like stuff.

also, in the summer, it can get extremely hot in the factory. not sure actual temps, but let me just say just stanind out there causese you to sweat excessively.

 

[imported_malcontent]

From time to time, a cricket will get into the office, and the admin will ask me to chase it down and take it outside (truth).

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Sometimes I accidentally breathe in chlorine or muriatic acid fumes.

 

[IronWing]

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: minendo
I typically spend 2-3 hours in a -20 degree freezer pushing ~18,000lbs of product at once using just my legs and back. Granted gravity helps, but not as much as it should.

err...you push 18,000 lbs with your body? i call shens.

Pallet jack. Getting a load moving is easy, stopping it on the other hand....

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: ironwing

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: minendo
I typically spend 2-3 hours in a -20 degree freezer pushing ~18,000lbs of product at once using just my legs and back. Granted gravity helps, but not as much as it should.

err...you push 18,000 lbs with your body? i call shens.

Pallet jack. Getting a load moving is easy, stopping it on the other hand....

What the hell kinda pallet jacks are you using?

The ones I've used normally don't carry a load above 7000lbs.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: ironwing

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: minendo
I typically spend 2-3 hours in a -20 degree freezer pushing ~18,000lbs of product at once using just my legs and back. Granted gravity helps, but not as much as it should.

err...you push 18,000 lbs with your body? i call shens.

Pallet jack. Getting a load moving is easy, stopping it on the other hand....

dude, thats 9 TONS...
wtf are you moving?
i'm still calling shens on this. there's no way

 

[Willoughbyva]

With the current job I have it isn't bad sorta like office work. I have worked manufacturing jobs in the past and they were pretty physical. I messed up my back at one of them and it is just now 10 years later getting to be ok. I still sleep with a thin piece of plywood under my mattress, but I am used to it by now. I sometimes sleep in another bed with out the plywood and it doesn;'t hurt my back to much so maybe in the future I can do away with the plywood. I still don't want to do very physically demanding work because my back was messed up so bad and I don't want to rehurt it again. It does limit me in the jobs I can do, but I have other physical health concerns to worry about also. So doing a physically demanding job is out of the question for now. I just want to tell you to be careful with your back when you lift and move stuff around. Once you hurt it it can be messed up for the rest of your life. I am just lucky that I am not still in constant physical pain from my back injury. Always be careful.

Perry

 

[DaiShan]

Normally not that bad, if I have to go out to a client site and run cable though, it gets pretty tough crawling around all day, I think I'm gonna start hiring people for that heh.

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: ironwing

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: minendo
I typically spend 2-3 hours in a -20 degree freezer pushing ~18,000lbs of product at once using just my legs and back. Granted gravity helps, but not as much as it should.

err...you push 18,000 lbs with your body? i call shens.

Pallet jack. Getting a load moving is easy, stopping it on the other hand....

dude, thats 9 TONS...
wtf are you moving?
i'm still calling shens on this. there's no way

Anywhere from 3 to 17 pallets at 1800lbs/pallet in our freezer. All of the pallets are in bays on rollers which if the rollers worked properly would be nice. However, all of the rollers froze. It is a system based on gravity which helps, but the seized bearings do not help at all.

 

[acemcmac]

Sometimes I actually have to walk down the hall to get some of the free buffet...