Today, at my minimum wage job, we received a half-way decomposed dog found in a lake. It was my job to tear open the bag and try to identify the breed and color. It would've been easier if the body wasn't crawling with maggots. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my dog vomited a writhing mass of maggots. It was the most disgusting thing I've ever smelled, and I was baffled as to where she found a maggot infested dead thing to eat. Baffled, until my mom reminded me that my cat has been missing, presumed dead, for over a week. FML
Today, I found maggots in the ketchup on my sausage. Too bad I had already eaten half of it. FML
Today, after 8 years in exceptionally difficult veterinarian classes which put me $200,000 in debt, and 7 months of job searching, I finally got a job. I will be inspecting feces for worms while making minimum wage. FML
Today, I started my community service at the dog pound. I like animals so I thought it would be a good place to do it. As I arrived they were throwing dogs that had been euthanized into a dump truck to be taken to a landfill. That was my job for the day. FML
Today, I saw maggots dropping from beneath my car. I looked under, to see a rotting paw dangling from my engine. That would explain the smell. FML
Today, while making less than minimum wage at McDonalds, I had to dispose of a grown man's soiled underwear that he left on the bathroom floor under a pile of toilet paper. It isn't even the grossest thing I've seen in my six months of employment. FML
Today, after three weeks of holding out, my stingy boss finally called animal control about the birds in the air vent above the register. While I was working, they rummaged through the vents, causing live maggots to fall down right in front of me. FML
Today, it was my first day as an animal control officer. My first dispatch was to collect a dog that had been hit by a car. I had to clean up my dead dog on my first day of a job that barely pays rent. FML
Today, I took mine and my sister's dog for a walk in the park near my house. The dog managed to find a large piece of rotting, frozen meat buried in the snow and tried to eat it. I had to pry it from his mouth and can't get the smell out of my gloves and coat. FML
Today, I had to hunt down and collect a stray dog's feces for my parasitology class. FML
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organizse 28
What kind of job is this??
BlueBaronBitch 22
The job could be cleaning parks/recreational areas, not sure why you need to identify the dog though
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AudiLover21 13
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That's a strangely specific scenario to be in which leads me to believe you chose to be in that profession.Therefore YDI for doing something 99% of people will never have to think about.
lolhailsatan 23
Can someone translate this??? i have no idea what point you are trying to make...
pandaxpress 19
#29 the only rationale to this terrible written "crammed" is that OP deserved this because #12 states he chose the job he is being forced to do. The rest is unsubstantiated rubbish.
Bansheefaerie 9
#29 maybe this will help... #12 is saying that the bag being brought in and having to identify it comes with a specific job. You wouldn't be asked to do that working at McDonald's or a gas station. So #12 is saying the OP chose that job and therefore deserves it.
Konarika 11
All jobs need to be done. Instead of being a petty jerk, you could maybe respect OP for being able to do something like that.
igg125 30
Hope they raise your pay to $11
laurellkawes 31
It's a dead, decomposing animal in NC. Why would you expect it not to be crawling with maggots?
Dilexar 26
Maggots help break down decomposing bodies, so the location isn't very important.
moodyreallyrocks 27
That really tough OP! Sorry..
navarre1991 11
OP here - I work at a non-profit animal shelter. Along with live animals, we also get the county's DOA's frequently and we have to check them for identification, but never anything like that.
jansdrs 19
Did you identify it?
navarre1991 11
Unfortunately no. :( no microchip, didn't match any missing reports.
StarkWolf_fml 23
you find anything belonging to the deceased?
TokioCore 17
Do you work there by need or to help animals? I suppose its the latter but either way its nice that you work helping others :) and sorry that you had to go through that! I say this in reply to #12 who was very rude without even knowing what you do. Greetings!
navarre1991 11
Oh I love working with the animals! It's just some things like this get brought to us and well...it's so bad it makes you rethink your choice in job. But the animals I help keep me staying around, it makes up for every disgusting thing I come across every day.
bapbap_fml 15
Man, **** MY life. I have a very visual imagination and read this while waiting for my dinner to come. Not hungry anymore lol.
jansdrs 19
Oh please, at least you didn't have to stick your hands in it like OP. Quit complaining.
bapbap_fml 15
Sorry, I was under the impression that people on here knew what jokes were.
confused_wandere 26
We DO know you #19.
TAntobella 14
**** that dog's life
epiccrazy 15
Bones
riot_grrrl 13
what the ****?
legendof90 14
Coroners pay minimum wage?
pandemonium307 10
I assist the coroner where I live and I make 18 an hour...