Temp Jobs
So I was going into Hollywood Video tonight to get my latest installment of Lost (I am a new addict) and I ran into this guy I worked on a temp job with a while ago. The meeting was fairly random, and after we said our goodbyes, 2 things stood out to me.
The first thing, is that I am so happy that now when I run into someone randomly, we can catch up and then just go our separate ways, without that whole fake let's-hang-out-some-time thing. I mean, we've never hung out before, why would we now 7 years after working w/ each other? We wouldn't, and I appreciate that as I get older I'm tending to do this more and more with the run-ins, "Hey, nice to see you, I'm sure we'll run into each other again. Later."
The other thing that stood out was what I remembered about this guy: he had worked the best temp job ever. The temp job we worked together was pretty good, probably my favorite. We sat at a big table, could shoot the shit, and measured shoes for Adidas (specifically, we found out what percentage was synthetic, textile, or leather). But for him, this was small potatoes. One day we were comparing temp jobs, and it came out that he had spent a day testing emergency slides from planes. That's right. His job was to jump out of a plane and ride down one of those inflatable slides.
So readers, can you best that? Or come even close? I'll start the list at 2, but feel free to try to crack the list of BEST TEMP JOBS EVER!!!!
1. Beer Taster
2. Inflatable Plane Slide Tester
3. Bra Salesman (tie)
3. Shoe Measurer (tie)
3. Bong Assmebler (tie)
The first thing, is that I am so happy that now when I run into someone randomly, we can catch up and then just go our separate ways, without that whole fake let's-hang-out-some-time thing. I mean, we've never hung out before, why would we now 7 years after working w/ each other? We wouldn't, and I appreciate that as I get older I'm tending to do this more and more with the run-ins, "Hey, nice to see you, I'm sure we'll run into each other again. Later."
The other thing that stood out was what I remembered about this guy: he had worked the best temp job ever. The temp job we worked together was pretty good, probably my favorite. We sat at a big table, could shoot the shit, and measured shoes for Adidas (specifically, we found out what percentage was synthetic, textile, or leather). But for him, this was small potatoes. One day we were comparing temp jobs, and it came out that he had spent a day testing emergency slides from planes. That's right. His job was to jump out of a plane and ride down one of those inflatable slides.
So readers, can you best that? Or come even close? I'll start the list at 2, but feel free to try to crack the list of BEST TEMP JOBS EVER!!!!
1. Beer Taster
2. Inflatable Plane Slide Tester
3. Bra Salesman (tie)
3. Shoe Measurer (tie)
3. Bong Assmebler (tie)
Labels: Life
posted by chuckdaddy2000 at 9:42 pm
7 Comments:
ChuckDaddy,
You might remember that I spent three weeks as a purchasing clerk in the Meier and Frank bra department?
M5M
I gotta find a new job!
very impressed you were a bra salesmen (salesman?) MichaelMMMMM. And Kadonkadonk, I hope your new job can compare to the wonderful trifecta mentioned here.
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I cannot top that shit. Given the chance, I'd slide down those babies all day.
Right, but leave your pantyhose at home, lest you catch fire.
1. bong assembler
2. beer drinker for focus group
i used to live in eugene and had a friend who worked at a bong factory, back when they were legal. So I say bong assembler should be up there high on the list due to the undoubtedly laid-back work environment. Also I had another friend who had a temp stint for a focus group agency where he got paid to DRINK BEER. he and a group of guys were in a room with 2 way mirrors for an evening while people observed him and took notes on which beers he selected, how fast he drank them, etc. Chuckdaddy, measuring shoes was probably pretty fun, but i know you like to occasionally drink a beer or two and I'm going to say beer drinker for focus group might just top your list!
Beer drinker versus bong assembler versus slide tester. Very hard decision to say which would be the best.
I think bong assmembler would be really funny at first (totally the Eugene version of Laverne and Shirley), but after the bong schtick wore off, it probably would just feel like an assembly job. But beer taster? I don't think it gets much better than that.
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