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I lasted less than an hour I think in the hole of an oil tanker ship at dock in Beaumont TX. I ruined pants, boots and a shirt and probably several hundred thousand brain cells.
This was an assignment from an outfit called Manpower, a temporary employment service.
It paid minimum wage which i think was $1.35 hr back in 1972 or 73. I was kind of desperate for money and a job out of Lake Charles LA as a young teenager away from home on my own. I did not get paid since I was issued a hard hat that they took out of my check as I recall.
The job was to go down a ladder and shovel sludge into a bucket that was lowered down to me by a rope and wait for it to come back for a refill.
The fumes of that crude was unbelievable No way could anyone get away with putting somebody to work under those conditions. I don't even know why I went down that hole but I quit and waited on the van to take the rest of the crew home and never went back for another temp job. INSANE!
I soon got a job at a Sambo's Restaurant as a dishwasher with great success at $1.50.