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Malkinius -> RE: What was the oddest job you had? (8/8/2010 1:10:39 PM)
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Greetings all....
I will add in a couple of the odder jobs I have done.
The first was a belt buckle buffer. I worked for a company that made belt buckles and buffed a few hundred of the plated or pewter ones every hour. Very repetitive but there were some interesting stock and custom ones we did. It was an old hippie place gone legit and they had an annual pot buckle. 1976 was home grown of course. And one of a derringer was modeled from the one one of the artists kept on him....at work.
The second odd job was opening mail, especially the junk male for the Columbia Record and tape club many years ago. This was all the shit (in one case, the question was dog or human) people sent back in the prepaid envelops thinking they would be costing the company money. I saw some of the daily prepaid mail charges. If the average daily bill was in the six figures, how much damage is one more envelope going to do to them? I found things from beer coasters, Adam & Eve catalogs, Chick Publications comics (lots of those), a few porn photos, people's payments for their utility bills, a neo-nazi newspaper (yes, the whole paper folded up small), but mostly the original mailer stuffed back into the pre-paid envelope. We had to check them because occasionally someone would also include a real application with the junk.
And now for one a deceased friend of mine did.....which had nothing to do with his death. He was a physicist who hit things until they blew up.
He worked for an Army ammunition facility which shipped a lot of explosives and they needed packing that would withstand transit without causing the contents to go boom. He built a device to deliver measured force in increasing amounts until the energetic material ignited.
This has been an amusing thread....so far. <grins>
Be well....
Malkinius
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