Worst job in the world

[Louis the fly]

Worst job in the world. In India there are men whose job it is to clear blocked cess pits. Naked except for a loin cloth they jump into the cess pits and clear the blockages with their hands and bodies. Wouldn't like to be sitting next to one of them on the bus going home from work.
At one time in the UK residents were paid one penny for leaving a bucket of urine outside their houses. This is where Penny Lane came from.
The urine was used in the hat making and tanning process.


Second worst job in the world. Bedroom steward on one of the floating block of flats. Many of us on site have complained of wrestling with the duvet just making up one bed. Imagine doing that for thousands of passengers. Perhaps John in Oz can tell us how often the bed linen is changed on a cruise.
My sea going career would have ended at the first port of my first ship if that had been part of the job.

[Keith Tindell]

Apart from the odd bilge diving as a deck crew, i enjoyed the job,, in port we always had the weekend free , pretty much after midday Saturday, catering crew never seemed to get this luxury. I talk of general cargo ships, not the floating pigeon coops, .

[Mo Docherty]

Worst job in the world. In India there are men whose job it is to clear blocked cess pits. Naked except for a loin cloth they jump into the cess pits and clear the blockages with their hands and bodies. Wouldn't like to be sitting next to one of them on the bus going home from work.
At one time in the UK residents were paid one penny for leaving a bucket of urine outside their houses. This is where Penny Lane came from.
The urine was used in the hat making and tanning process.


Second worst job in the world. Bedroom steward on one of the floating block of flats. Many of us on site have complained of wrestling with the duvet just making up one bed. Imagine doing that for thousands of passengers. Perhaps John in Oz can tell us how often the bed linen is changed on a cruise.
My sea going career would have ended at the first port of my first ship if that had been part of the job.

Block of flats good one

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chit jobs LOUIS

[Tony Taylor]

Worst job in the world. In India there are men whose job it is to clear blocked cess pits. Naked except for a loin cloth they jump into the cess pits and clear the blockages with their hands and bodies. Wouldn't like to be sitting next to one of them on the bus going home from work.
At one time in the UK residents were paid one penny for leaving a bucket of urine outside their houses. This is where Penny Lane came from.
The urine was used in the hat making and tanning process.


Second worst job in the world. Bedroom steward on one of the floating block of flats. Many of us on site have complained of wrestling with the duvet just making up one bed. Imagine doing that for thousands of passengers. Perhaps John in Oz can tell us how often the bed linen is changed on a cruise.
My sea going career would have ended at the first port of my first ship if that had been part of the job.

Most of the poor sods in India do not have access to cess pits, working in or use of.

[Des Taff Jenkins]

When I worked for the Sydney Water Board we increased the size of a treatment plant in a place called Winmallee in the the Blue Mountains,One job was to suck out a huge pond of effluence, tough job but someone had to do it, good money so I volunteered, I wore a complete rubber suit and had to move the six inch suction pipe around the pond, if I remember correctly it took about a week. When one looks at it not much difference to tank cleaning.
Des

[happy daze john in oz]

The dreaded Duvet which I think Ivan had a problem with.

On cruise ships, as is often the case with many hotels, the duvet is only changed at the end of the voyage.
A sheet is between the Duvet and the person, the way that most 'normal' people here in Oz do.

Unless there is an 'accident' sheets are changed every five days.

[Louis the fly]

#6 Thanks John a case in point where a simple idea is the best solution.