did anyone hear the story about aussie manhole workers?
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That is completely true!!!\nAnd completely hilarious! I bet there still hasnt been a woman down one yet aswell lol
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From what I recall, I was a lot younger then, the men left their families to find work. Any work. Many carried their own tools such as hoes' so that they could get work as migrant day laborers. People looking for laborers could pick them out of the crowd by the tools they carried. They carried their possessions tied to their tools giving us the traditional picture of a hobo with a stick with a bag tied to the end. They traveled any way they could, often by jumping trains. Of course this could all be wrong. Recollections are funny things.
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Yeah it bothers me.I've done a lot of hard labor jobs.\nWhat bothers me more though is if a man (any man,legal or illegal) does a job he deserves fair pay.These people who hire illegals do them a disservice and the rest of us one too.I've seen companies that were doing alright fire all their crew hire Mexicans (for about half the wages)and with in a year they are buying a bunch of equipment and building new shops.\nI think it's crap ,but that's greed.It's not that Americans won't do the work,folks just want to get more profit.
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I do know (a client at work, NOT one of my personal friends!) one person who's been on J.Springer. Eek!\n   It was a man bragging about how he and his wife just keep having more kids, calling it "the best way to live high on the hog on welfare".  I remember thinking "Yeah, and you'd better give those stinky kids a bath one of these days, and put shoes on them this winter, or your income's gonna get cut into!". This because we had already discussed reporting them to Children's Services for neglect several times.  Nasty!\n   This in Ohio too, but a much larger city. I'd like to hope not a high percentage here act like those people, but can't delude myself. There are some serious whack jobs out there.\n    Like the idiots that talked about getting Springer to run for governor?!?! Omg.
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Its happening right now.They are truly being exploited there.I read that right after ppl started going back they had workers cleaning the Superdome without any safety gear,gloves,masks,nothing.
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I don't know how odd this is but almost 20 years ago I worked as the night manager at a convenience store.  \n\nWhile handing a lady her change I glanced outside at the gas pumps, there was maybe 3 people out there pumping gas.  I did a quick once over and noticed one guy next to his truck smoking a cigar while pumping his gas.  Immediately I went over to the mic to yell at him, and in the seconds it took me to move towards the mic, the top of the hose he was using cracked and started spraying gasoline all over him and his truck!  \n\nI screamed, and threw myself at the kill switches and in that eternal moment it dawned on me that I was about to die.\n\nBut I hit the kill switch, nothing caught on fire, there wasn't any explosion, and after removing the diamonds I just created in my a$$, I went outside and enjoyed the world's largest tirade against the now drenched cigar smoker.\n\nSo, how's that for an "odd" moment?
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We have had some problems with it in the Bay area. Something to do with leaking cavity fluids, or the like. Legislation was proposed. I do not remember if there was any outcome, or not. It has been a while and I was not paying strict attention, as I am a living organism sort of guy.
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yes i have at work i went to clean the pool area mens restroom and i heard water running so i thought that some one was in there so i went to the womens room and cleaned it  and went back to the mens room and i heard water again so i said house keeping really loud and no one answered and i walked in and the water shut off and there was no one in the mens room so i went to my cart and got the cleaning supplies and started cleaning the mens room when i heard the door slam and then i looked up and saw nothing or no one so i told my supervisor what happened and she said hey we have a ghost so just do not worry about it
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Im not sure what country you are from...but here in Australia you can go to your local parlimentry member, they have alot of pull here and can get the info you need. The other alternative is to go to the workers face to face and kick up a fuss....you earned it, you deserve it babe
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It is just different culture.  I have heard it said that American men are pussycats next to Australian men.  Those men are tough.
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follow the link : http://www.jobstories.com.au/
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the only one i recognised was ballcock and have heard that in reference to plumbing. go plumbers, we need more of you for all the jobs we don't know how to do.
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I have. Last Oct. Too many strip mines. They ( Coal Companies ) are destroying that part of the world. It was not pretty.
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about 2 years ago then this one sounds right\nhttp://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,11246059-27652,00.html\n\nhope that helps
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i havent heared or read about that in any news site!!\ncheck http://www.elaph.com\n\nHuS
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OK, now let's leave poor Bill Clinton out of this!\nYes, there was a story back in the 80's about a creature over in Monkey Run AR, near where I live.  I haven't heard much else.
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I did a totally layman's search of the Internet and found nothing except articles about videos being shot. Maybe your friend only heard part of the story?\n\nI know, no help. But I tried. :)\n\n~Tia~