September 15, 2008
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Birds on a wire and enquiring minds… I am stealing everyone elses tag line today.
There are hundreds of birds that hang around this parking lot area in town.
They fly in giant clouds, it looks like a dance.
If I ever have time I might video some of it.
This morning at work it was more dishes, but I also got to slice tomatoes,onions, and roasted peppers…
I am still trying to be optimistic…
I did have to deal with the grossest thing I have ever had to do at a job, today…
Actually now that it’s done and I am home it doesn’t seem that bad.
What’s the grossest thing an employer has asked you to do?
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I like birds, as long as they ain’t pigeons. I can’t stand it when they shit everywhere!
So what was the grossest thing you had to do at work? You didn’t say! LOL. I never had to do gross stuff at work, thank you Lord Jesus. Haha.
When I worked at American Eagle, there was this white sticky stuff on one of the benches in the dressing room, and my boss tried to make me clean it up.
When I couldn’t wear the rubber gloves due to my latex allergy, he made somebody else do it.
Still, ewww….
those look like starlings. I know all the black birds (red wings, grackles, cow birds) group up together for migration. I have seen the waves they form. Pretty cool! So the grossest thing I have ever done at a job. When I worked at the Toledo Metroparks we would have to spray the poo off the walls that the queers would put there. No joke apparently they do it to let other weirdos know that they are there and looking for action. I remember laughing when the head ranger was explaining to us why we would find such things.
Woah that’s a lot of birds there. I’ve seen a barn roof literally made of pigeons before, which was rather unnerving.
Me and my friend had to escort a man out of the shop i was working in once. Some 6 year old boy had seen this guy rubbing his love muscle as it were into the urinals in the men’s toilets. So my mate ( who was male ofcourse) went and got him out of the toilet and we threw him out the shop. It wasn’t gross as such but it was the thought that he had been doing such a thing in the toilet and whether he had bothered to wash his hands lol.
Cleaning bathrooms! I don’t know why people think they can do disgusting things in a public bathroom…an employee eventually has to clean it up! *shudder*
I’m a nurse and you don’t want to know.
isn’t it weird that all the birds sit about 2 inches apart?
I took a photo of a barn door with saws on it-I haven’t posted but you can go to my photos and see them anytime jilly
I would not call it this the grossest thing I have done (since I been quite lucky) just a childish thing it was to ’pull his finger’
Those birds are Starlings, I think; and they leave Michigan and fly South when it starts to get cold. I’ve had them covering my yard and my trees down here in December and January… I’ll try to snap a photo for you this year!
Back when I worked at Taco Bell…..cleaning out the grease trap was the most filthy thing…..!!!!
Ditto the jillcarmel comment – I’m not a nurse but a RVT/RLATG so think animals instead of people. It would be gross to others but I don’t generally think I have to do anything super icky.
EEEEK! They asked me to WORK!
I love the birds and would greedily and repeatedly watch you video! Please please pretty please!
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When I was a floral delivery driver one year we rented out an extra space at a strip mall about a mile away from our store at Valentine’s Day to handle the insane VDay surge of business. The florists would work there all morning then go back to the store and I would drive the arrangements back with them, then I would go back and clean up the extra store for the day and lock it up in the afternoon. I was doing this and there was a large amount of garbage that day. There were 2 half full dumpsters on either side of the store’s backdoor about equidistant. I filled both the rest of the way up with our garbage. As I was tossing the last load into a dumpster, this old surly, nasty woman from the shop next door (I forget what kind of shop it even was but this was a decidely more “low-rent” strip mall than our other store was in) comes out, cigarette in hand, and proceeds to scream her head off at me that this was “not my dumpster, it’s hers, and she is going to fill it up, and I am going to dig my fucking garbage out of there and let her know when I’m done.” And so on. I radioed my boss back at the real store and she basically said “well, dig out the garbage and bring it back here.” So I got in the dumpster and dug out all my garbage and loaded it in the van and drove it back to our dumpster. This was perhaps the most disgusting thing I’ve ever done for work or any other reason. I try to recall such incidents when I’m having a bad day at the office. “At least no one expects me to dumpster dive here.”
I can’t mention it here, but dont worry, I didn’t do it. I walked out. Literally. I resigned my job that same day!
(((HUGS))) Love all those birdies!
I’ve gotten to process and analyze urine, and I’ve also gotten to homogenize rat parts with a dounce homogenizer — the latter resulted in rat juice spraying all over me (three cheers for lab coats and goggles) . . .
Pic is amazing!!!!! Now I want to know what you had to do!!!!!!
do those birds congregate and fly off making a bird ribbon about a zillion miles long? I can’t say an employer has ever asked me to do something gross…..I’m a pretty big girl though and have been known to put a person in their place real quick…..
When the boys were little, we used to always call such a grouping of birds on wires as “bird church.”
@grievous_angel - I love that you say you “got to!” =D
Starlings! We have so many of them around my house it’s a problem.With pheasant pens all around my property they show up for the food that is in the pens.The game farm doesn’t like this so they set off these gas powered cannons to scare the birds away.Imagine hearing that every few min.
You don’t have to park in that lot, do you? Ugh.
oh wow. i have to put up my bird on a wire pic. but i only have like three birds on it. that big cloud of birds would be something to see
Um, I’m afraid the first thing that came to mind wasn’t family friendly… so the second:
When I worked in group homes in college though, I did have a very mentally ill man throw poop at me. Guess who had to clean it off the wall when he missed?
I cleaned the bathrooms once and the GM commented to one of the other managers that whoever cleaned the bathroom did a good job. So I got stuck cleaning them every night. BTW the womens bathroom was always far more disgusting then the mens.
How funny….. I just saw these exact same birds (well, they looked the same) here yesterday but I didn’t have my camera with me.
@craftea - WHAT! NO camera with you! You should never leave the house without it!
@AdviceHunter - Sure you can say that… but I’m not sure I’d believe it! lol
Hi, my second day back at work went fine. Will post another blog this morning perhaps as Amber has me up early again. Love the bird picture, very cute and well taken! The grossest thing I have had to do was when I was at high school and out working in a family restaurant on work experience for a week (it was a very popular restaurant at the time and thankfully it closed down). It was a buffet style restaurant and at the end of the night/day the food remains would go back into the chiller and be put back out the next day if ok. This one dessert I really loved was a banana coffee cream chilled thing. It had mould growing on it (don’t know how old the dessert was for mould to grow, maybe a week????). I was told to scrap it off and top it with freshly whipped cream and put it out for service, hmmmm, yuck! I wonder why the place closed down.
I cleaned the bathroom once, and once only. I get puppy poop on my hands all the time where I currently work, it’s really not that bad. I’ve gotten used to it and I still think the bathroom cleaning was WAY worse.
Guess I’d have to say cleaning restrooms. Different employers, different times, but still the same shitty job. Pun intended. lol
Just passing through…
Hmm… luckily it’s been awhile since I had to do anything gross for work. Yay for sterile office environments. I lifeguarded in high school and was asked to clean out hair traps in the pool. Let’s just say that people lose a lot of hair in the pool. It’s disgusting!
well in our business, my husband has asked me to trash the cut up awful fish. take the van to the dump spot….and figure out how to throw it in. Sometimes you have to dance on it. Lovely , right?
Great picture…They don’t look like pidgeons. Do you know what kind of birds they are?
I used to have to carry out analytical tests on the waste from the Mars chocolate factory…it was disgusting and had all kinds of crap in it. I also had to carry out tests on ground water…that was even worse…the smell…urgh.
I had to gut a fish. I am a bit of a bogan so I was able to smash through it but I was like. “Waitress – O.K. I do plate carrying, maybe the odd garnish. Where on the job description form for waitress does it say. ‘Will be required to GUT FISH’?”.
What did he make you do?
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