No more Rhinos in Vietnam.

[Admiral Yi]

I washed dishes in a pizza joint for about 4 months.  Didn't mind it all that much.

Except the lasagna dishes.

[Ed Anger]

I wanted to run my supervisor through the machine.

[Ideologue]

I sorta liked washing dishes.  It was relaxing.  No customers.  Granted, I didn't do that terribly often.  Busing tables I did for several months and off and on even after I started waiting.  It was actually pretty great, you just had to get over the fact that you're gonna wind up kind of gross, which is easy to deal with when you realize that pretty much all of the garbage generated in a restaurant is less than a few hours old.

The only job in a restaurant I ever did that was unavoidably unpleasant is expedition.  I don't know how people do that.  It's like playing a game of Pac-Man in a hot room with controls that only work half the time for four hours straight.  That's not really physical work as such, though.

[Razgovory]

Expedition?  I worked at a fast food restaurant for about six hours before telling them to go to hell.  I was getting tired of having hot grease splash onto my face.  Then I fell down, then they laughed at me, and then some other stuff happened that I am prohibited by law to mention.

[Admiral Yi]

The expediter is the person who coordinates between the wait staff and the kitchen staff so that the food comes out in the proper sequence.

In a proper French restaurant that's the job the head chef does.  Well, at least it was when Orwell wrote Down and Out.

[Siege]

I cannot do menial work anymore.
For a living, I mean.

[Razgovory]

I cannot do menial work anymore.
For a living, I mean.

Did you know the word "Sergeant" comes from the old French word for "Servant"?

[Malthus]

My first job was working in a pottery studeo - basically, wedging clay, carrying boxes full of clay and finished pottery from here to there, and mopping the floors.

Funny story - eventually I moved on to doing more of the actual sculpting, and we attempted to hire college art school types to work in the studeo - that didn't work out so well. The first student's reaction was typical - after a day of carrying stuff and mopping floors, she threw down her mop in disgust and yelled something like "I'm not a janitor, I'm an artist goddamit!" and stormed out.

I remember thinking "oh boy, she's in for a big dissapointment ... "  Something like 90% of the work in a commercial studeo isn't strictly "art", it's cleaning up, carrying stuff, firing the pottery, accounting, dealing with retailers, customers and suppliers ...

[Ed Anger]

Then she went to a park and squatted while making weird hand gestures.

[Ideologue]

My first job was working in a pottery studeo - basically, wedging clay, carrying boxes full of clay and finished pottery from here to there, and mopping the floors.

Funny story - eventually I moved on to doing more of the actual sculpting, and we attempted to hire college art school types to work in the studeo - that didn't work out so well. The first student's reaction was typical - after a day of carrying stuff and mopping floors, she threw down her mop in disgust and yelled something like "I'm not a janitor, I'm an artist goddamit!" and stormed out.

I remember thinking "oh boy, she's in for a big dissapointment ... "  Something like 90% of the work in a commercial studeo isn't strictly "art", it's cleaning up, carrying stuff, firing the pottery, accounting, dealing with retailers, customers and suppliers ...

Well, that's stupid.  Obviously much if not most of the physical work of an artist is going to be craft related.

[dps]

I cannot do menial work anymore.
For a living, I mean.

Nowdays, Seigy just poisons well and kill babies for his own amusement.

[Josquius]

The thought of washing dishes makes me shudder. Just...touching other people's left overs is a bit of an illogical phobia of mine.

Not that I'd call that physical labour. There's a difference between some crappy low level menial job and actual labour.
I...actually kind of did have a labourious job when I was a teenager, I was a porter (i.e. trolley pusher and heavy box fetcher) at a super market. Doesn't compare to farming of course but...fairly labourious.

[Capetan Mihali]

My first job was working in a pottery studeo - basically, wedging clay, carrying boxes full of clay and finished pottery from here to there, and mopping the floors.

  How on Earth did you manage to become a successful corporate lawyer from such a humble start in the world??

[Ideologue]

He started before the world stopped spinning.

[Ideologue]

The thought of washing dishes makes me shudder. Just...touching other people's left overs is a bit of an illogical phobia of mine.

Indeed.  We're all covered in shit and bugs and poison.

Not that I'd call that physical labour. There's a difference between some crappy low level menial job and actual labour.
I...actually kind of did have a labourious job when I was a teenager, I was a porter (i.e. trolley pusher and heavy box fetcher) at a super market. Doesn't compare to farming of course but...fairly labourious.

Dishwashing and other backroom restaurant work involves a lot of lifting, e.g. 60 gallon garbage cans.  Can't tell you how heavy exactly, and they often varied.  I'd guess, since I was able to lift them into a dumpster, 60-100 pounds?  And of course there's lots of boxes of food, kegs, soda fountain syrup bags, and things like that to be unloaded, moved, and so forth.