Worked for a 'work today paid today' temp agency whose name I will not disclose. But anyone familiar with these places knows that you get paid minimum wage to do the most brutal and/or demeaning of jobs. Well, one of these assignments had me working as a 'cleanup' guy at a construction site on a bridge within the city limits, dead in the middle of the summer
First we were 'up top' and our job was to dig 'sand' from around these huge posts that used to be a part of the former bridge, so that they could move them or something. Somehow they'd drained the water from that part of the const. site yet everything was still soaked, including the so-called 'sand', which turned out to actually be 60/40 wet sand/ground up ROCKS
Thanks to my lifestyle and activities my physical condition allowed me to perseverebut it was BRUTAL..and the crackhead 40 something year old brother they sent with me couldn't shovel more then two scoops without resting, complaining, cramping, bawling
Then they moved us to the bottom, underneath the bridge to remove heavy debris and rubble with gloves on. Everything was cool until I almost pierced my foot with a nail sticking out of a board, bent down to retrieve said board, and saw a baby moccasin sitting there next to it, chilling
Of course I jumped out of my skin. Baby poisonous snakes are more dangerous than adult because they inject all of their venom vs having constraint like adult snakes and only injecting a small amount or even what's known as 'dry biting' when they know their target isn't a possible meal. And as Im calling old-head over to witness this beautiful creature of death I almost met personally, I notice two more in a little puddle about 5 ft away. Just sitting still chilling.
It was crazy. I could only think to myself 'Im down here slaving in tropical-like heat, for minimum wage, for a temp agency, with no workman's comp, near some poisonous snakes..cant be my life right now'. And there were plenty of them too. We stood still and adjusted our eyes and scoured the grounds closely; after about 10 mins of looking we counted a total of 11 baby water moccasin snakes within a 15-20 ft radius of one another, smack dead in the middle of our 'work area'.
Afterwards we just continued to work(however very carefully), mind-blown that this is where they had us, in these conditions. All told I made about 38 dollars that day after gas expenses
Sorry so long with the post, but I see some of these posts up here saying this job was hard and that job was hard etc etc..yall don't know the half. I could tell stories for days about some of the most demeaning and hard work assignments you'll ever hear.. good work experience though.
I am never ever doing construction work...And to think I was about to turn in my paper work this morning
