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1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jun-2021 23:00:45 EDT lnxw48a1
   I remember one place I worked had a playground. Some kid pooped in one of the tubes. I knew I wouldn't have liked to clean it myself, so I closed the playground instead of making one of the people I supervised do it.
   
   After they were all off work and another shift manager was on duty, I told him about the mess and let him and his crew deal with it.
   1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jun-2021 23:25:59 EDT lnxw48a1

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      But in general, I've cleaned feces, urine, vomit, blood; I've dug trees out of the ground; I've done outbound telemarketing; all for a lot less than I make today. That's why I say there's no such thing as a job Americans won't do. There are jobs that don't pay enough and jobs that haven't improved their working conditions enough to attract Americans ... but that's fixable if management and ownership are willing to change.
      1. GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Jun-2021 09:21:56 EDT GeniusMusing

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         @lnxw48a1
         One thing I learned early on as a supervisor, I would never ask someone to do a job I had not done/would not do. This included some of the nasty jobs that would randomly show up, like clearing a clogged ejector pump (the pump used to take toilet waste to the sewer from a lower level) to cleaning moldy machine coolant from a machine. I'm not sure if it was lead by example or just wanting to get it done right the first time but I never had any push back from anyone under me when told to do a job that was nasty, esp if I had already done it in the past.