Comments on: Where Is the Strangest Place You've Ever Worked?

By: Had to quit

Had to quit — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 02:38:56 +0000

The strangest place I ever worked was called RFI . When they trained me they fudged numbers on calibration reports (day 1). The lead tech acted like a 2 year old. If you made a small mistake she wouldn’t speak to you for days. She would mimic and imitate this guy every time he left the room. He worked at RFI 12 years and was treated very poorly. I was looking for a new job immediately and was able to get out of that nut house within 3 months thank God. The lead got away with it and got hired because she was friends with the shops head manager. I feel sorry for the current employees and customers who are expecting quality.

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Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:00:14 +0000

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By: Lasse Rintakumpu

Lasse Rintakumpu — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 14:28:21 +0000

The first thing that comes to mind is working with my laptop in pouring rain under a small canopy of an ATM. Using free WiFi of WTC Helsinki.

By: Barbara Saunders

Barbara Saunders — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 21:57:28 +0000

My history of working anywhere predates the Web! In 1990, I completed the final essay exam for a graduate course in psychological assessment in a hotel room in Southern California the morning after a Dead show. I had to finish the test and drop it in the mailbox before noon so it could be postmarked. It was 6am, soon after sunrise. Two of my friends were sleeping next to me in the king-sized bed. Two crashers were getting it on under a blanket on the floor. Several other people were in various stages of consciousness around the room. I got an A!

By: Jacqueline Zenn

Jacqueline Zenn — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 18:08:03 +0000

I’ve worked in internet cafes in several different countries (Morocco is probably the most exotic), including one in Switzerland where I had to keep feeding actual coins into a device on the computer to keep going (this was only two years ago too). Needless to say, that kept me on task!

By: Ross

Ross — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:24:27 +0000

After a flight home from the client site, I hopped in my cab for the hour drive in grid lock, and whipped out my PC, and cell-phone, via Bluetooth EVDO I was able to catch up on the e-mail that came through during my flight, and worked for the entire drive home.

By: dtj

dtj — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 05:35:18 +0000

I did some pro-bono work for a large medical facility and my first office was in a computer lab, a floor below where they did autopsies. While I never saw them, there were stories of colored liquids running down the walls. From there I was moved literally under the loading dock for the building. It was okay, except for the banging of dumpsters from time to time.

By: etlund

etlund — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 19:51:12 +0000

For 7 years my home office was in the cobbled rock basement of our house that was built in 1887. It was just like working in a dungeon with spiders as cell-mates and dust, dust, dust. In the summertime, it was always a comfy 70-ish degrees while it was 90+ outside! But in the winter it was a pretty steady 50ish degrees and that was a little chilly. My house was older than our state (Montana), but I had high speed DSL!

By: My Work Day on Tuesday

My Work Day on Tuesday — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 19:45:27 +0000

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By: Daman

Daman — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 17:33:24 +0000

I started building my web solutions firm when my wife was in grad school, so my day job at the time was transporting RV’s all over the country from manufacturer to dealer lots. I was using a iBook G4 and a USB cable to dialup via my Samsung Sprint phone. Not super quick, but great for emails and moderate surfing. I’d get a text alert that a client needed help, and then find the nearest place to pull over with a strong digital signal. I think my favorite place I pulled over to work for an hour or so was on the side of mountain road in Utah…definitely very peaceful and serene :-)