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Originally Posted by Tshabet
There's an interesting episode of "Dirty Jobs" where the host is working on a septic truck. As mentioned above, they pump out the grease traps... apparently it's worse than actual sewage.
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Yes. Far worse. My first job ever was working as the clean-up kid at the local butcher shop. The most feared job in the place, by myself and countless predecessors, was cleaning out the chicken vat. This was a metal tub about the size of a feeding trough, with a metal grate on top, on which the frozen chickens sat for a few days as they thawed. And dripped greasy fat into the tub below...
We were under very explicit instructions to clean it out outside, after every neighboring business had closed and everyone had gone home. The idea was to have the smell gone by the time they all returned in the morning.
Well, one day I finally broke. I was only asked to clean it out about once a month. I think it must have been my third month; the third time I had to clean the damn thing. When the butchers had cleared out at 5:00, it was the first thing I did. I wanted the "share the wealth", so to speak. So I wheeled it out back and started shoveling dripping fat out of it into the dumpster (we had to do this the night we knew the dump truck was coming, so it would be gone in the morning). Then I got the hose out and started rinsing. Before the Exxon Valdez - esque slick of slimey chicken fat made it halfway down the parking lot to the storm drain, the neighboring businesses were emptying out. Customers had no clue what they were smelling, but the owners sure did. Boy were they pissed. Probably could have yelled louder if they weren't gagging so much. Anyway, in less than ten minutes the fire department was there (still don't know who called them). They couldn't stand it either. Wimps. Anyway, several of the irate business owners got them to help me rinse the parking lot with their fire hoses. It was quite the little to-do. The police even showed up after awhile, probably to see what the firemen were up to. They left pretty fast.
Got fired the next day. Did I say I had lots of predecessors? The chicken vat did 'em all in.