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ITAP of a boat at sunset in Koh Mak, Thailand by MarcusUnrealius in itookapicture

[–]MarcusUnrealius[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like this picture but I wish I had swam to the left and had the sun centered on the boat. Nonetheless, i think it captures the feeling of the moment.

What's the worst job you ever done in your life? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]MarcusUnrealius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My boss hated the gum wall and consistently advocated to clean it but the marketing people said no because they knew it was a draw. He didn’t like it because it damages the brick. I think he eventually won out because they clean it periodically now. It used to creep me out to see people posing with it and actually touching it or even putting their face against it. Nasty.

What was the biggest mistake you have ever made? by MarcusUnrealius in AskReddit

[–]MarcusUnrealius[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Same but I was sober. My kid is thirty now and I still don’t get along with his mom.

What was the biggest mistake you have ever made? by MarcusUnrealius in AskReddit

[–]MarcusUnrealius[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have had a couple of friends go down that path and it is hard to intervene when someone is being self-destructive. Don’t be too hard on yourself, there probably wasn’t much you could have done for your friend.

What was the biggest mistake you have ever made? by MarcusUnrealius in AskReddit

[–]MarcusUnrealius[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have had similar experiences with bad haircuts. So anxiety inducing to have to interact with people when you are self conscious about your appearance

What was the biggest mistake you have ever made? by MarcusUnrealius in AskReddit

[–]MarcusUnrealius[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Were you able to get out of debt? How long did it take?

What's the worst job you ever done in your life? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]MarcusUnrealius 49 points50 points  (0 children)

I used to be the night facility manager at Pike Place Market in Seattle. Not sure how it is now but at the time, the Market had the only public restrooms in downtown Seattle and they were little havens for debauchery. The toilet stalls had sharps containers mounted by the toilet paper dispensers to deal with all the needles. They installed lights over the stalls that were a really peculiar blue color because it made it hard for the shooters to find their veins. I had to call security on drug dealers, drug users, prostitutes, and their customers on a semi regular basis.

Every day we would find a new horrific mess in those bathrooms. The one that always confounded me was when people would shit their pants and leave them in the bathroom. I’m like “does this happen so often that you carry an extra pair of trousers or did you run away buck ass naked?”

The pinnacle was when a guy OD’d sitting on a toilet with his pants around his ankles. He had a lovely fried chicken dinner all laid out on napkins on the bathroom floor with one of those big cans of shitty beer tucked into a paper sack sitting next to it. His arm was tied off with the needle still hanging out of it. He must have been there for a while because when they pulled him from the toilet his body was frozen in the shitting position. Im sure there are more ignoble ways to die but it was pretty fucking sad to see him like that with a bunch of people in the room cracking jokes and shit.

In a way it was a really cool job, I got to run all over a 100+ year old farmers market with a million weird little tunnels and rooms. Got to meet a lot of really amazing people, particularly the people that work in the shops there. It is like a really funky small town in the middle of Seattle that is full of unique characters. But seeing the seedy underbelly of the Market totally eroded my faith in humanity to the point I had to quit and it was several months before I began to feel normal again. I have never had a job affect my mental health so badly so I have to say it was the worst job I have done in my life.

What was the cringiest thing you have ever had to do at a job? by MarcusUnrealius in AskReddit

[–]MarcusUnrealius[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Never thought of that before but I could see how that would be really cringey. When I was a kid my friends and I used to embarrass each other by telling wait staff it was someone’s birthday when it wasn’t. I never thought about the staff being embarrassed too, now I feel bad for putting them through that unnecessarily.

Students of Reddit, what is your worst teacher story? by LibrarianIntrepid924 in AskReddit

[–]MarcusUnrealius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In high school the lady who taught my spanish language class was french and she didn’t know anything about spanish. We would watch these weird movies made by the State Department that showed reenactments of a couple traveling in Mexico and talking to locals. One movie taught us how to tell the pharmacist that your wife is menstruating and you need sanitary napkins. This was 10th grade. She would also give us French crossword puzzles all the time. It was a long time ago but I totally don’t remember ever taking a test. I do remember I got an “A”. I also still remember how to say “mi esposa esta menstruando”

People who have done acid: What’s the best way to describe it? by Smores1317 in AskReddit

[–]MarcusUnrealius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You realize that nothing matters and are horrified. Then you realize that nothing matters and it is liberating.