As a junior surveyor I was working on a building site where carpenters were making fire check doors by nailing asbestos panels to internal doors and sanding them down to a smooth finish for painting in a shed The air was so thick with white dust that you could barely see a foot in front of you PPE was top notch tho, a pair of overalls and safety googles with a paper mask as an option, imagine that these days
You still see loads of the corrugated roof panels on warehouses, utility buildings, even one or two football stands. The problems come when the stuff gets removed, if the building doesn’t have an asbestos register and the contractors don’t know what they’re dealing with. The company I worked for back in the day would often get called out to dispose of the stuff when it had already been taken down. Me and an Irish fella went to a warehouse conversion site in South London once, we were bagging up all these cement tiles whilst wearing full protective kit; a couple of labourers in their normal work clothes came up and asked what were we doing? When we told them this stuff was hazardous and had to be disposed of safely, they said “we were ripping that off the roof with jemmy bars yesterday, no masks, no nothing”.
I wonder how many of them are now either dead or dying from Mesothelioma? I lost a friend of mine to it after he’d been exposed regularly 20 years prior.
I worked a forkflift job in a big recycling depot in Wandsworth years ago, when i arrived for my 1st day, the daily "you do this, you do that" talk was given by the supervisor, in polish. Basically out of about 50 workers i was the only one who wasnt eastern European. The guy they put me with had not even basic English, he used to speak into google translate and show me the text. One week i lasted before thinking i was in some parallel fuking universe and walked. I didnt think it was right tbh
Some jobs are just ****. It wouldn’t matter who the gaffer was if you were chiselling away at fatbergs all day with floaters and tampons lapping round yer ankles.
Looks like we are adding to stans dossier answering on this. Think the worse job i had was working a few hours everyday after school as a school cleaner. It was pretty boring, you worked alone, schools are pretty disgusting and i finally understood that you get smelly even if you don't think you touch anything. Fortunately, one of the full time school cleaners took the toilets for me (i wish i could find that woman and give her something) cause they ****ing stunk of piss and no doubt there would be soggy tissues and piss and blocked toilets and ****
That was over 45 yrs ago and most were older than so possibly all dead now but I have no idea how many were due to the dust
Worst job I ever had was picking thousands of broad beans and getting paid in broad beans. About as bad as it gets
