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[Brandon W]

Well I was speaking to Chili about how my work was yesterday, extremely tiring. Normally there would be 3 people on but yesterday. only me. Which is why I decided to make this thread, my job is not quite mentally tiring but physically.

Most of you won't know what a Shopping Trolley is, but you will know what a Shopping Cart is. My job is to go around the carpark and collect them, then put them in one spot. A tractor, will come by and put it onto a special trailer, made for the "shopping carts". It will then be dropped off out the back and I push them back into the shops. But since it was only me, I had to go really far to get them. Then I had to push them up and down hills or do. Believe me, not very small hills, fairly steep ones.

Here is what I had to push DOWN a hill yesterday!


All the blue ones.

What's your hardest time at work?

EDIT:
I have to add Chili's reaction LOL;

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ames says:
omfg :O
James says:
omg you must be strong :P
Brandon - Doing Homework says:
LOL.
James says:
that is insane. :s
Brandon - Doing Homework says:
Yer, it was hard LOL.
James says:
you gonna get big muscles doing that. :)
Brandon - Doing Homework says:
Been doing it for nearly 2 years.

[WingedPanther]

The hardest time I had at work was when we were busting up some concrete slabs, and I was hauling the concrete uphill in a wheelbarrow about 3 blocks to the dumping spot.

[Brandon W]

I would of dropped. What job was that for?

[WingedPanther]

I was working as a labor hand in construction. I was helping build town homes.

[Brandon W]

Interesting, I never thought of you doing something like that.

[John]

The hardest job I had was similar to Winged's experience. I had to dig a hole for the foundation of a small platform. After the hole was dug, I needed to haul gravel up a pretty long (gravel driveway) to place in the hole. After that was done, I had to carry about 100 cinder blocks.

[Brandon W]

Ouch John. All by yourself? I used a wheelbarrow when we ordered about 400 out the front and took them out the back, but I had my little brother and bigger brother :)

[John]

Yes, all by myself for a mere $10 an hour.

[Brandon W]

Now that's a rip off. I get paid AUD$8.62 an hour and I am only 15, this is good pay for our age. For you, guessing by your age, it should be at least AUD$20 at minimum for something like that.

[WingedPanther]

Manual labor in the US is doing well to get $10 an hour.

[Brandon W]

Yer? I still think it's a rip-off.