Great Job

[Hardcoreruss]

Need to go to the tip tomorrow (waste dump for you yanks). So I went to my local councils website to check opening hours.

Saw the link for jobs in the council and had a look. Check this one out.

http://www.southend.gov.uk/jobs/content.asp?content=813

The group which it falls into makes me laugh "Lesiure and Tourism"

[Capmaster]

Leisure and tourism? There go my plans to tour England

The job conditions don't sound too bad. I'd wonder how long of a shower I'd need, though, at the end of the day, to get the smell out

[Hardcoreruss]

I agree what a morbind job

[Capmaster]

I agree what a morbind job

Yup.

I think another one where they couldn't pay me enough to do it is the job of the decompression chamber operator at the local animal pound. I love animals and there's no friggin way I could do that even once, much less all day long. I'd rather starve.

[Ripper2860]

I'd rather be a cremation technician than an embalmer!

[Capmaster]

I'd rather be a cremation technician than an embalmer!

Absolutely. Maybe that's why embalmers and morticians are usually in a family business. They start training very young to get them used to it.

[Hardcoreruss]

Is that how they put dogs down in the US ?

[Ripper2860]

Cap -- Decompression chamber? Y'all actually explode the puppies innards rather than euthanize them with an injection? Damn! That is cold blooded !!

In Texas we put them to sleep, we don't pop them like firecrackers!!

[Capmaster]

Cap -- Decompression chamber? Y'all actually explode the puppies innards rather than euthanize them with an injection? Damn! That is cold blooded !!

In Texas we put them to sleep, we don't pop them like firecrackers!!

That's how it's done here in Albuquerque. I don't know about other cities.

They put the animals in a big vacuum chamber, about 100 cubic feet or so. Then they turn on the roughing pump and pump the air out. The animals don't explode since the pressure change is gradual. But the animals go to sleep from lack of oxygen, after struggling to breathe that is . The whole process takes less than half an hour.

[Ripper2860]

Oh! Well that's a relief!

[Hardcoreruss]

Less than half an hour!!!, best not let them suffer hey !!!

[Capmaster]

Like I said, I think I'd rather take up dumpster-diving than work at that job. That's incredibly cruel, but no doubt cheaper than an injection.

We had to have two cats put to sleep a year ago and we went to the vet and got the good stuff for them ....peaceful and painless. And that was damned hard for me to get over. Even with animals that aren't mine, I couldn't stand there when 30 or 40 puppies and kittens are gasping for breath for 30 minutes

[thayne]

£11,316 per annum plus consolidated bonus of up to a maximum of 51%

Um, dare I ask how one would get the bonus??

[Ironballs]

I like the fact they operate a no smoking policy