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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allforfun 23
Just wanted to comment towards some of the posts here. Lots of jobs don't pay much above minimum wage yet have some bizarre duties. I'm too ashamed to say what I make part time as a fireman and we deal with things of this nature. However, I absolutely love my job.
PennyLane27 32
Kudos to you!! I can't even begin to thank you enough for your service. You guys, and EMTs are sorely underpaid for what you do. It takes a person with a huge heart, and thick skin to do the things you do. Not many could handle it, even if it was well compensated! I would be quite willing to pay my fair share if it went to properly compensating emergency responders.
Brandi_Faith 34
Firemen, Emt's, & policemen are so underpaid it's ridiculous. These are the people that are literally saving lives and most often at the risk of their own lives; so why are they not the highest paid profession? Why do athletes, who play games for a living, get paid ridiculously more than these guys? In my opinion these guys should be getting the highest paid salaries of any other profession out there. We literally couldn't live without them!
allforfun 23
Thanks guys, I was honestly just trying to point out that OP wasn't the only one dealing with that sort of thing lol. After 20 years I haven't seen what the OP had to deal with but I've still got many more years to go... Ha
hardcorefan16 22
That's disgusting, i dont know how anyone could handle doing that.
lukeDAduke157 11
You chose this job... Im pretty sure there are other, less disgusting jobs in your area.
HylianTwilight 21
I used to work at Walmart. One of my coworkers had to dispose of a dead bunny that was pretty messed up in the parking lot once. I'm sure OP was aware of some of the horrible things that could happen, but this was probably unexpected, like the dead rabbit. In summary: Sometimes there will be disgusting/unexpected things to do at a job, regardless of position and the job itself.
johncage 14
This isn't the 80s. You don't choose so much as you take what you can get. You keep looking, but you take what you can get.
Scorpio01 16
Can't u just write "unidentified" ?
idk_rose 25
I couldn't have dealt with that. Good luck with your job, OP :)
OrganicSistah 17
All that for minimum wage?? Time to find a new job.
banditsnbowties 8
who ever said this person deserved it just wants to watch the world burn.
sadmofo12345 15
So you work in a morgue?
Talis99 26
I guess this sounds insensitive, but who cares? Bury the poor thing. It's unlikely you'd be able to bring closure to some family whose pet ran off.
Fairyjoshy 13
First of all, empathy towards animals is a natural human function. So, lots of people would care because they're human beings. The kinds of people who don't are either sociopathic or have been taught to be sociopathic towards animals. Second of all, even disregarding that, looking at a rotting maggoty corpse and smelling that scent has been known to make people very very very ill. It is an unpleasant experience even if you are sociopathic. In fact it's an unpleasant experience for most animals, too, excepting vultures who actually like rotting corpses and do everyone a favor by disposing of them.
splashhh_fml 7
Well it doesnt look like minimum paid job at all if it u should really quet ,