SCARY JOBS

[WA5KRP]

Check out what these hombres at Florida Power & Light put up with:


NOT ME, MAHN! (http://community-2.webtv.net/karenlprince/AMUSTSEE/index.html)


At times I handle drugs or chemicals that will make a guy grow boobs, lose his nuts, go bald, or grow five pound tumors. #But I wear appropriate protection. #Compared to me, these guys are John Wayne. #I'm staying in my lab - nothing there will bite or swallow me.

Sooooooooo.........wtf is so scary about your job?



WA5KRP
Scaredycat, Texas

[KG6YTZ]

Quote[/b] ]A Florida Power &Light crew putting in lines for an addition to the Orlando International Airport found the following in a culvert they were using...
Quote[/b] ]The rattlesnake roundup totaled 87.
Already filming Snakes On A Plane 2, are they...? #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[W0UZR]

Quote[/b] (WA5KRP @ Sep. 13 2006,00:28)]wtf is so scary about your job
My boss. He will scare anybody.

WAIT-A-MINUTE !!

I'm the boss,,,,,er,,,,OOps !!

[AC0H]

Mmmmm....Eastern Diamond Back....good eats!

[K1OU]

I think the scariest job would be that of a Republican spinmeister, what with having to make lies sound like the truth.

[AC0H]

Quote[/b] ]I think the scariest job would be that of a Republican spinmeister, what with having to make lies sound like the truth.

Or being a democrat having to defend a president who got caught diddeling the help in the white house, then lying about it to a grand jury.

[K1OU]

Quote[/b] (AC0H @ Sep. 13 2006,05:40)]Quote[/b] ]I think the scariest job would be that of a Republican spinmeister, what with having to make lies sound like the truth.

Or being a democrat having to defend a president who got caught diddeling the help in the white house, then lying about it to a grand jury.
Or being a Republican having to defend a president that lied to an ENTIRE NATION about reasons to go to war.

[N6KX]

Real appropriate comparison... not!

Let's see... on the one hand you've got lying to a grand jury about marital infidelity.

On the other hand you've got... lying America into a war that kills thousands of our own young people and tens of thousands of foreigners, antagonizing our allies to the point that we're more vilified and disrespected than at any other time in our history, screwing up strategically to the point that we've emboldened the enemy and provided them with more new recruits than they could otherwise ever have had, helping the enemy align themselves clear across the Mideast in a "Shia Crescent" that was like a gift to the Iranian lunatic Ahmedinejad, ignore Constitutional limits on government authority, simply refuse to honor treaties to which the US is signatory, ignore the FISA requirements for judicial issuance and supervision of warrants, obstructing scientific research based on personal religious preferences, etc., etc., etc.

I guess you're right... no difference.

Howie N6KX #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif

[K8MHZ]

I'm a Journeyman Electrician. #The scary parts about my job are using an 80,000 volt 'high pot' to test iso-phase conductors or working many stories above the ground in man-lifts. #Being inside power plants where 1,100 degree steam at 2,500 PSI is in leaky pipes a few inches from me are a bit unnerving as well as being next to the large hydrogen cooled generators. #Now that I think of it other things come to mind....like having to re-light an aluminum furnace with a Bic lighter before the charge solidifies. #The pilot is a 1" gas line and lights a 6" nozzle. #This is done on top of the furnace about 3 feet above tons of molten aluminum. The furnaces are as large as a small house and shake the entire building when the mains (2 per furnace) light. #Oh, and then there is working on live 440 volt 3 phase panels while standing on a skid to keep me out of the water from a bad roof leak.

While I was working at the BC Cobb generation plant I saw what I thought was the craziest job on the planet. #A guy gets in a heat proof suit and climbs into the smoke stack's precipitators while the plant is operating. #Inside it is almost 400 degrees F. #He is looking for sparking from bad conductors on the 50,000 volt transformer reactors that ionize the smoke particles and make them stick to the collectors on the rams, also while they are running. #I was told he get's 10 grand an hour for doing it. #I wouldn't climb into the smoke stack of an operating 850 MW power plant for any amount of money.

(Linesman are REALLY crazy! #But they have the training to keep them safe....can you imagine 'bonding on' to a 750,000 volt line from a helicopter??)

But I love my trade and would not trade it to stand safely next to a machine all day and do the same thing over and over again. #

To me the worst thing a job can provide is boredom. #I think you will find that is a common thread amongst those that do jobs like mine. #No two days are alike, the time goes fast and I get an incredible amount of satisfaction out of my work.

[N2RJ]

Witness the power of duct tape!!!

[KA9VQF]

Quote[/b] (AB2MH @ Sep. 13 2006,06:30)]Witness the power of duct tape!!!
Duct tape is like the Force, it has a light side and a dark side and it holds the universe together.

also:

Slience is golden but duct tape is silver.

[ve2nsm]

Well, make a search on Snopes.com, I received these pictures a few years ago stating it was from north of Brazil, for the PETROBRAS company, and these were in fact petrol lines going from Venezuela.

Go figure.

I think the guy on the right is not dressed properly to work on a US facility.... shorts? no safety boots?

[ve2nsm]

FOUND IT!
Petrobras (http://eaulive.free.fr/photos/Petrobras.pps)

It's in spanish though.

[KF0RT]

Quote[/b] (K1OU @ Sep. 13 2006,06:21)]I think the scariest job would be that of a Republican spinmeister, what with having to make lies sound like the truth.
Proving once again that no thread is sacred.... http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

73, Rob

[kl7aj]

Try THIS job on for size.

Live power line work (http://tdworld.com/mag/power_helicopter_live_work/)

Eric

[K8MHZ]

You should see the training they do to remove injured workers from half a million volt power lines. #The fire dept. won't go on a live line to remove someone so the electric companies train their workers to do it. #They train on live lines and are so close to structure steel they have to stay on their hands and knees and crawl. #Standing up would kill them. #They also have to grab a guy playing dead and get him back to earth safely.

All construction type jobs aren't for pansies, but the Linesman and the Ironworkers are about the baddest folks there are. #I always say they are crazy but the fact of the matter is that these people know their stuff and trust their lives to their training and their ability. #

Crazy or not they got my respect!

[n2nh]

Quote[/b] (K1OU @ Sep. 13 2006,08:43)]Quote[/b] (AC0H @ Sep. 13 2006,05:40)]Quote[/b] ]I think the scariest job would be that of a Republican spinmeister, what with having to make lies sound like the truth.

Or being a democrat having to defend a president who got caught diddeling the help in the white house, then lying about it to a grand jury.
Or being a Republican having to defend a president that lied to an ENTIRE NATION about reasons to go to war.
Or being a Republican having to defend a president that lied to an ENTIRE WORLD (the UN) about reasons to go to war.

[KI4ITV]

Well there is the "butt holer" in the Tyson chicken processing plant, just a few miles from my house.
Two guesses as to the body part he removes.
http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[nq6v]

Several years ago, I was broke and homeless. I managed to hitch to Seattle, and got enough money to get to Anchorage, Al. for salmon processing work.

I got a job on the M/V Woodbine, a processing ship in Bristol Bay. The company flew us out to King Salmon, Al. and a chopper took us out to the ship, a converted coast guard bouy tender that saw W.W.2 service in the pacific.

The head processor, an ex- con shared my application with his cronies, also cons on subsizied wages. The govt paid half their salery to Woodbine Alaska Fish Co. Knowing I had no way to pay my way back to Anchorage if I were intimidated enough to quit, the games began.

Hell is not hot. Hell is below decks of the M/V Woodbine, and is a very cold place indeed. Never, if you have a job like that, put on an application you owned a security buseness and worked as a guard.PERIOD! Make somthing up.

[G4ZMY]

Wow. some good bedtime reading there then !

[N7RJD]

Quote[/b] (ve2nsm @ Sep. 13 2006,01:09)]I think the guy on the right is not dressed properly to work on a US facility.... shorts? no safety boots?
I think the guy on the right you are referring to is not a guy. Looks more like a skirt than shorts too. Being as she is the only one wearing a vest and as you mentioned not in safety boots the thought that came to my mind was office personel arriving after the prescribed amount of duct tape was applied to the mouth of the gator.

That asisde, it is very possible this is another one where the same pictures float around for years with different captions. I didn't bother with your link as you said it was in spanish only and I am the last person you want translating.

[ve2nsm]

Quote[/b] (KE7DLG @ Sep. 14 2006,19:30)]Quote[/b] (ve2nsm @ Sep. 13 2006,01:09)]I think the guy on the right is not dressed properly to work on a US facility.... shorts? no safety boots?
I think the guy on the right you are referring to is not a guy. Looks more like a skirt than shorts too. Being as she is the only one wearing a vest and as you mentioned not in safety boots the thought that came to my mind was office personel arriving after the prescribed amount of duct tape was applied to the mouth of the gator.

That asisde, it is very possible this is another one where the same pictures float around for years with different captions. I didn't bother with your link as you said it was in spanish only and I am the last person you want translating.
The link in question is a slide show with more pictures, though a little more on the gore side.

It clearly states Petrobras and the law enforcement officers shown are definitely NOT from florida.

But then again, it can be another prank anyways, even if I believe more in the brazil version than in the florida version http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

[w8znx]

Quote[/b] (AC0H @ Sep. 13 2006,05:40)]Quote[/b] ]I think the scariest job would be that of a Republican spinmeister, what with having to make lies sound like the truth.

Or being a democrat having to defend a president who got caught diddeling the help in the white house, then lying about it to a grand jury.
lying about geting a blow job

is not the same as lying to start a war
that has killed 10's of thousands of people

anyway
the head of state should
get a bit of head now and then

i think there would be fewer Moslem terrorists
if young male Moslems got more sex

Mac

[w5klb]

Quote[/b] ]lying about geting a blow job

is not the same as lying to start a war
that has killed 10's of thousands of people

Kinda of reminds of you a bygone era when LBJ was President and killed over 53,000 of our troops, doesn't it?

Of course President Bush's record doesnt' even come close and if he did "lie" why hasn't he been impeached?

[K1OU]

Quote[/b] (w5klb @ Sep. 15 2006,17:57)]Quote[/b] ]lying about geting a blow job

is not the same as lying to start a war
that has killed 10's of thousands of people

Kinda of reminds of you a bygone era when LBJ was President and killed over 53,000 of our troops, doesn't it?

Of course President Bush's record doesnt' even come close and if he did "lie" why hasn't he been impeached?
But if anything is said about God Dubya, it's time to scream bloody murder. #Get over it and grow up, people.

And if Gary would be so kind, he would also remind us that Ike set up the puppet government in Vietnam.