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Is there any job you won't do?
« on: May 11, 2009, 07:40:41 AM »
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Liberal_in_LA  (1000+ posts)      Mon May-11-09 03:46 AM
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Poll question: Is there any job you won't do?
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We often hear about the jobs "americans won't do". Heard a radio segment a few days ago, A farmer said that when he posts advertisements he's NEVER had an 'American' respond. That there are types of work that Americans consider to be totally unacceptable, that they don't even consider.

The butchering plants say that Americans don't last through the training period.

day laborers and immigrants are often hired for the 'crawl under the house and clean out the gunk' jobs. I see this often on Renovation shows.

If facing long term unemployment is there any legal job you would refuse to take? (assuming it's located within a reasonable travel distance). And if so, what types of jobs would you refuse?

I'd refuse butchering jobs.
Poll result (34 votes) 
I'd take any job  (3 votes, 9%) Vote
There are jobs I would not take  (30 votes, 88%) Vote
Other  (1 votes, 3%) Vote




 
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    Is there any job you won't do? Liberal_in_LA  May-11-09 03:46 AM   #0 
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Re: Is there any job you won't do?
« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2009, 07:45:26 AM »
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12. I could never be a waitress, airline attendant, retail clerk etc
 any jobs that required me to be polite to customers face to face would be too hard for me to perform
Color me surprised! Which is probably why you don't have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of!  :whatever:
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Re: Is there any job you won't do?
« Reply #2 on: May 11, 2009, 08:03:22 AM »
Oh my; 88% of the primitives say there are "some" jobs they wouldn't take.

Actually they're saying they won't take any job, period.

By the way, which reminds me, there was a younger primitive woman who shacked up with a guy in England until he got tired of her, and she had to leave, coming back to Texas.

She got a whole lot of jobs, but never stuck with one for more than a few hours.

Right now, she's a Texas state employee, at some state agency down there.

Anybody recall her original primitive screen name, and her new one?
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Re: Is there any job you won't do?
« Reply #3 on: May 11, 2009, 08:25:26 AM »
Wasn't that Stella Blue?   Not sure what her name is now though.
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Re: Is there any job you won't do?
« Reply #4 on: May 11, 2009, 09:07:00 AM »
Quote from: Flame on May 11, 2009, 08:25:26 AM
Wasn't that Stella Blue?   Not sure what her name is now though.

Indeed it was, but I don't know her current name, or if she changed it.  There was some sort of DUmmie Donnybrook in one of her threads, she may possibly have gotten the granite slab, I'm not sure.

Now, while I can't imagine passing up legal work for any reason except finding something that paid more if I lost my current job, at the age of 57 with a lot of hard years and miles behind me, there are surely some jobs I just couldn't physically do anymore, and there are jobs for which I have the exact opposite of "Natural aptitude" which could only end badly for all concerned.  But, in my lifetime, I have certainly have had great jobs and crappy jobs, and how good or bad they were or are isn't necessarily related to how well they paid -- from farm work at $2 an hour (or less for day labor baling hay back in the small square bale days) up to six-figure executive legal work, the most fun job I ever had was being a tank commander, at substantially less than a tenth of what I earn now.
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Re: Is there any job you won't do?
« Reply #5 on: May 11, 2009, 10:28:38 AM »
Is there any job you won't do?

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Re: Is there any job you won't do?
« Reply #6 on: May 11, 2009, 10:58:48 AM »
hookin'......just wouldn't make enough money.









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Re: Is there any job you won't do?
« Reply #7 on: May 11, 2009, 11:01:28 AM »
Any type of welfare office where I see the same faces more than twice.

Other than that, not much I wouldn't take, not much I haven't done.  Eat your friggin heart out, Mike Rowe!
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Re: Is there any job you won't do?
« Reply #8 on: May 11, 2009, 11:05:19 AM »
Quote from: debk on May 11, 2009, 10:58:48 AM
hookin'......just wouldn't make enough money.




I dunno Deb.  I think you'd make a great hooker.  And just think: all yer co-workers would get to see ya in a rubber suit, too...

 :lmao: :cheersmate:
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Re: Is there any job you won't do?
« Reply #9 on: May 11, 2009, 11:07:12 AM »
I know that I couldn't work in a butchering plant, not because I think the work is beneath me, but because I'd be sick all the time. I was sent out on a service call to check a motor at Excel Pork, and it was all I could do to be there for 1/2 hour that I had to be there.
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Re: Is there any job you won't do?
« Reply #10 on: May 11, 2009, 11:20:11 AM »
Quote from: DefiantSix on May 11, 2009, 11:05:19 AM


I dunno Deb.  I think you'd make a great hooker.  And just think: all yer co-workers would get to see ya in a rubber suit, too...

 :lmao: :cheersmate:

I can hook 'em....I just won't take them off the hook..... :-)











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Re: Is there any job you won't do?
« Reply #11 on: May 11, 2009, 11:50:30 AM »
Quote from: franksolich on May 11, 2009, 08:03:22 AM
Actually they're saying they won't take any job, period.

True.  The other half of the equation would be those libs who'd rather accept welfare than take the job given the current market value of doing the job.  Primitives value themselve much, much higher than they are worth.

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Re: Is there any job you won't do?
« Reply #12 on: May 11, 2009, 12:24:56 PM »
Quote from: franksolich on May 11, 2009, 08:03:22 AM
Oh my; 88% of the primitives say there are "some" jobs they wouldn't take.

Actually they're saying they won't take any job, period.

By the way, which reminds me, there was a younger primitive woman who shacked up with a guy in England until he got tired of her, and she had to leave, coming back to Texas.

She got a whole lot of jobs, but never stuck with one for more than a few hours.

Right now, she's a Texas state employee, at some state agency down there.

Anybody recall her original primitive screen name, and her new one?

Here you go coach.

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Re: Is there any job you won't do?
« Reply #13 on: May 11, 2009, 12:39:58 PM »
Quote from: debk on May 11, 2009, 10:58:48 AM
hookin'......just wouldn't make enough money.











That statement can only be validated by the inclusion of pictures.  :-)
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Re: Is there any job you won't do?
« Reply #14 on: May 11, 2009, 01:10:24 PM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on May 11, 2009, 09:07:00 AM
Indeed it was, but I don't know her current name, or if she changed it.  There was some sort of DUmmie Donnybrook in one of her threads, she may possibly have gotten the granite slab, I'm not sure.

I think there was some speculation here that Stella Blue has a new screen-name.  Maybe a search would help.....
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Re: Is there any job you won't do?
« Reply #15 on: May 11, 2009, 01:14:20 PM »
Stella Blue was/is posting as "Lucy Parsons".  Haven't noticed any recent posts, but maybe someone else has.

Here's an example thread:

http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,7600.0/highlight,stella+blue.html
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Re: Is there any job you won't do?
« Reply #16 on: May 11, 2009, 02:31:14 PM »

 
     So there are tons of jobs they won't do based on philosophical grounds, or some other narcissistic bullshit. Yet, of course they expect universal free healthcare irrespective of ANYONE'S misgivings or philosophical differences. As if we needed any additional proof that they revel in being utter drains on society.
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Re: Is there any job you won't do?
« Reply #17 on: May 11, 2009, 04:00:13 PM »
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...there are surely some jobs I just couldn't physically do anymore, and there are jobs for which I have the exact opposite of "Natural aptitude" which could only end badly for all concerned.... 

That about sizes it up (construction work and ditch-digging are probably out) and I agree with thundley about butchering. Good God, I can't even look when they draw blood outta my arm and you want me to hang a hog up so he can bleed out? Yikes!

Working in a funeral home preparing remains might be a bit beyond my  :puke:   level too.

Ultimately, though, I'll do whatever it takes to put food on the table.
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Re: Is there any job you won't do?
« Reply #18 on: May 11, 2009, 04:30:50 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on May 11, 2009, 10:28:38 AM
Is there any job you won't do?

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That job would be hilarious.  I'd work in concert with the Secret Service.  It would be great with all the threads popping up about "Where'd so and so go?".   :rotf:
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Re: Is there any job you won't do?
« Reply #19 on: May 11, 2009, 04:33:53 PM »
I doubt there is little out there that I couldn't do if I had to.  There's certainly a lot of work I don't want to do, but if it comes to living in a box or cleaning shit off of some bathroom wall...  well the choice isn't that hard.
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Re: Is there any job you won't do?
« Reply #20 on: May 11, 2009, 04:40:01 PM »
Quote from: Tucker13 on May 11, 2009, 12:24:56 PM
Here you go coach.

http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,10969.msg143415.html#msg143415

Thank you, sir.

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Re: Is there any job you won't do?
« Reply #21 on: May 11, 2009, 05:19:21 PM »
In my lifetime, I have butchered animals; cleaned up vomit, urine, and manure from dogs, cats, horses, cattle and humans; assisted with surgeries, assisted with euthanasia, given shots, clipped hair, tagged or branded most of the above; worked in food service, factories, appliance repair, electronic repair; and done most DIY stuff possible on autos, houses, etc.  There is no job I would not do.  I'd have trouble doing things like harvesting veggies and fruits by hand...but I'd do it as long as I physically could.

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Re: Is there any job you won't do?
« Reply #22 on: May 11, 2009, 05:54:49 PM »
The only job I can think of that I have done and wouldn't do again, is loading frozen food in boxcars!

Back when I was just a youngster and married for about 3 years, I was laid off and needed to support the wife and my newborn son. They had a day laborer program in the city I was living. One of the jobs they needed guys according to the orders they had day to day was loading cases into cars of the train to be shipped east.

It was all hand load. Any idea how many cases of frozen crap it takes to load a boxcar? I damn near froze to death! It's 20 degrees below zero in those wharehouses!

Never again!
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Re: Is there any job you won't do?
« Reply #23 on: May 11, 2009, 07:26:03 PM »
Quote from: AllosaursRus on May 11, 2009, 05:54:49 PM
The only job I can think of that I have done and wouldn't do again, is loading frozen food in boxcars!

Back when I was just a youngster and married for about 3 years, I was laid off and needed to support the wife and my newborn son. They had a day laborer program in the city I was living. One of the jobs they needed guys according to the orders they had day to day was loading cases into cars of the train to be shipped east.

It was all hand load. Any idea how many cases of frozen crap it takes to load a boxcar? I damn near froze to death! It's 20 degrees below zero in those wharehouses!

Never again!

-20?  That's all?  I used to work in the "Ice Cream Hardening Room" of a local ice cream plant that became a convenience store chain.  (They still have some pretty good ice cream.)  -20 was a "shorts-and-shades" day for me.  The coldest I ever was in was -48.  The worst part of it was that you'd sweat through whatever clothing you were wearing underneath the insulated suit that the company provided, and the suit, in about 30 minutes.  In -25, I could stand two hours before having to take a break.  If the temperature got to -40, it was closer to an hour.  A lot closer.  If it was all I could do to support my family, I'd do it again in a heartbeat, even though the cold was killer.
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Re: Is there any job you won't do?
« Reply #24 on: May 11, 2009, 09:05:46 PM »
I can't think of a job I wouldn't take if I needed work.  I've done construction work and had to muck up after people in bathrooms.  I've dressed out my own deer kill.  I actually look forward to when I can grow my own vegetable garden again. 

I look at it like  that old song, I ain't never been on welfare, and that's one place I'll never be, 'cause I'm gonna keep on workin' long as these two hands are fit to use.
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