In one of my jobs right after college, I worked at a limestone quarry. They made crushed stone products for concrete, asphalt, road construction , etc. I worked in the lab, checking quailty (mostly checking for correct sizing of stone products). Some of my wonderful duties include:
- Setting up a seizmagraph in home owners yards, because they just knew that the mine/quarry explosions were going to tear their houses in half -- "Look at the cracks in the driveway!" (The worst was for one of our company's salemens wives -- they built their house next to the quarry!!@#$!%#$^!#)
- Climbing up piles of stone and sand to measure the side with a tape measure to calculate the volume & therefore the tons of product in inventory (my second boss wouldn't do it because she had "broken her ankle walking up piles like that").
- Driving to little known parts of the property to find 4' (1.2 meter) flat, steel "X"s and re-painting them with white paint every few months. -- They were used for aerial photographs to ... check tons of product inventory...
- (Of course) Reconciling my physical measurements (estimates) of product to the fly-over measurements (estimates)
- Driving a couple of local Tool Rental managers around the property showing them where all the port-a-pottys were (at least I got to drive their Hummer

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- Training a union manager to do the job the company wouldn't hire me to do
- and #1 worst thing... washing my first bosses company car
(Fortunately he was promoted up, up, and away from me)