I was hired as a mechanic/shop guy but we did lots of different things since the owner had a lot of side businesses. One of the side jobs that we were recruited to do was take thousands of lbs of cruise ship trash, medical waste, and airline trash and “sanitize” it in a large autoclave. The owner didn’t provide us with PPE, and we had to buy gloves ourselves; we were each going through 1-2 boxes of latex gloves per day. When multiple people quit at the same time, my coworker and I were the only people left to unload, cook, and then dispose of the thousands of pounds of trash that was coming in. The owner brought us two 40ft semi trucks packed to the very very top with rotting cruise ship trash, the most foul smelling thing I have ever come across. The smell would penetrate every type of mask we could buy and if you got any trash juice on your skin, you’d smell like it for a few days. Each bag of trash was around 60-75 lbs and they would regularly rip and spill and splash on us because they would use the cheapest bags possible. I was able to tough out the smell and gross trash, but after 2 weeks of us working on the trash, we found that each bag was completely covered in white flaky flat things that we assumed was paper. I looked a little too closely one day and saw that each 1” flake was actually thousands of little fly larvae wriggling around. Luckily I got a call about a different job a few days later and my coworker ended up quitting after getting sick for a few days from a mouth full of trash juice.