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Mice killing.

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I work at a game bird farm (y'know the type, pheasants, quail, maybe a few killer turkeys and a handful of chickens), so there's not a whole lot that grosses me out. And since we have to have tons of feed to give these feathered creatures, mice are naturally attracted (by the THOUSANDS) to the barns and pens where the birds are housed. This leads to problems, such as disease, large quantities of grain being fouled, and so on, and there isn't a way to poison the little buggers without doing the same to the birds. That leaves us with 1)coke-mice can't belch OR fart, so they pretty much explode, 2)live traps-only hold about four medium-mice before the others figure out what's going on, 3)gassing the holes-gets expensive, and 4)smashing their little heads in. I know it sounds inhumane and stuff, but these mice cause a lot of problems and expense. Plus, we aren't barbarians, we either feed them to the chickens or freeze them for the eagle man. Anyway, one of these times when we were 'hunting' mice, we dragged a hose into the turkey pen with us in order to flood the pests out of their holes. You can't even imagine how messy that gets. My boss and I were poised like cats over a large nest under one of the feeders. Everything was sopping wet as we pulled out the bits of straw, feathers, and feed sacks that make up these nests. Suddenly, there was a flash of damp gray. My boss nabbed the mouse by the tail and proceeded to clobber it against a piece of pipe. I wasn't paying any attention until I heard her mutter "Shit." I looked up and was about to say something when the next thing I know, that grungy, wet, tailless mouse landed upon my open lips, sprung off like a professional high diver, and dashed under one of the other feeders. I don't know who was more surprised, me or the mouse. But what I do know is that my boss soon learned paybacks are a bitch!

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