Unsettling Employment

Tell you what -- you write up your most disturbing true job and I'll give the best one(s) a little cyber-prize of some kind. The contest runs till whenever I think I've got something to choose from. You can be anonymous if you want, but why?

Ron Davidson's Oscar Mayer Experience
"There's no way to keep a sweet disposition when you wake up at a coal-black, sub-freezing 5:30 a.m. every day through a Wisconsin winter and take a bus to work at the Oscar Mayer factory...."

Kevin D. at Straw Hat Pizza, 1985
"My colleagues were for the most part as confused and frightened with life as I was. I still lacked the sensitivity to appreciate the sadness of the “lifers” – the ones doing Straw Hat as a regular job, or career even. Their pain was somewhat eased by the free personal pizza, trip to the salad bar and drink that their long hours entitled them to on each shift."

The Legendary "Cut-and-Paste Project,"
(as recalled by Don Frades)
"With the X-Acto knife, we cut out a single English word, measuring about 1/4-inch long or even less. Then, stabbing it with the razor-sharp point of the knife, we touched it to the gummy cement brush lightly and pressed it onto the Japanese text. Then we repeated the process. We repeated the process hundreds of times a day for a couple of weeks. When we completed a page, we put it on a stack and took up a new page...."