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[Chipperdini]

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[Towncrier]

It wasn't all that bad (in retrospect), but the years that I spent working as a stockboy at the local grocery store exposed me to some of lifes less pleasant smells. Since it was a small store, I had to help in the produce department. I will never forget the smell of rotten produce (especially potatoes) for as long as I live.

And every Wednesday night, I had to mop the floors of the entire store with hot water and ammonia. I won't forget that smell either.

So I haven't had it too bad.

 

[Lynn CC]

Nurses aides working in nursing homes or hospitals deserve the award of the year.
I remember visiting my grandmother in a nursing home when I was a child and holding my shirt over my nose while walking down the hallways.

 

[Kitty 34]

There is NO way I could work at a job where there was a bad smell.....no way!!!!

 

[Saffron]

I was just going to say that I worked as a nursing assistant in a nursing home for 9 years while putting myself through nursing school. I learned to breathe in and out of my mouth and to think about pleasent things when doing some not so pleasent things. But, the RNs or LPNs got to do some really nasty things that we couldn't do!

I'm sorry the nursing home was an unpleasent experience for you Lynn.

LOL Kitty!! The school I studied in last semester was really old. I swear the cafeteria smelled like spoiled milk and chocolate chip cookies all the time (the cafeteria was also the auditorium and gymnasium, the cafeteria tables and seats folded up into the walls like Murphey beds ). I hated that mix of smells!!! YUCK!! Too sweet and too sour, Eeeewwwwwwww!!! I was happy when the kids got sweaty and smelly during gym class! LOL!!!

 

[Patrick IL.]

I have had to clean out grease traps at the kitchens at school....I delegate that now The smell was terrible but you block it out eventually.