well, last night I went to work half an hour early. So I decided to sit in the canteen reading the news paper. 9:30pm comes along and one of the back shift managers walks in asking if anyone wants to goto Perth (40 miles south of here) and work there for the shift. One guy says he'll do it as he had his car with him, the next thing I know I'm being "asked" if I want to do it which was followed up with a very quick "Great all you've got to do is work through all their backstock"
So, it's about 9:40pm when we get out the shop and head for Perth (it took us 5 minutes just to get the damned shops doors open). Perth is 40 miles each way so it shouldn't take long to get there and back but the local road works mean it took us almost an hour and a half to get there.
When we find Perths store (the guy driving had no idea where it was, neither did I and from the directions we were getting no-one in Perth seemed to know either). We eventually find the store and proceed to spend 15 minutes ringing the bell for someone to come let us in
First thing the manager does is show us the warehouse with all the backstock. I've never seen so much shit in my life, there must have been atleast 40 palets of backstock, probably more. So I get put on shelving backstock etc, at first I wasn't too sure what to think of the guys that work there. I've got a fowl mouth but fuck these guys are determined, swearing every other word and calling each other every name under the sun.
That said by the end of the night I'd way rather work with them than the guys I work with at the store I'm at, at least these fowl mouthed Perthshire cunts talk to you, the Arbroath lot avoid me like I'm the plague. Another thing that helped my cause is that they had heard about the guy that is in charge of the nightshift in Arbroath, I think they asked me "Is the guy in charge at Arbroath really as much of a cunt as we've heard?"
Yes my friends, yes he is.
They also shed some light on a few things, the manager there is a really cool guy. He was asking me if I had been told that working Saturday and Sundays is optional, which is news to me. I had been told that if you do Saturday or Sunday you get bonus on top of your pay but no-one had ever mentioned that to us before.
Another thing which I mentioned was my supervisors threatening to give me a weeks notice if my pack rate doesn't go upto 60 cases an hour. The Perth lot just stopped and asked me to repeat that, because according to them the target pack rate is 40 an hour, not 60.
So, as soon as I send off my cv to all the UK based offshore companies (and maybe some abroad) I'm going to tell Safeways/Morrisons to shove their job, I've had enough of their shit and after seeing how the Perth lot is just shows how full of shit the people I work with are.
Anyone else in a similar position as me?
So, it's about 9:40pm when we get out the shop and head for Perth (it took us 5 minutes just to get the damned shops doors open). Perth is 40 miles each way so it shouldn't take long to get there and back but the local road works mean it took us almost an hour and a half to get there.
When we find Perths store (the guy driving had no idea where it was, neither did I and from the directions we were getting no-one in Perth seemed to know either). We eventually find the store and proceed to spend 15 minutes ringing the bell for someone to come let us in
First thing the manager does is show us the warehouse with all the backstock. I've never seen so much shit in my life, there must have been atleast 40 palets of backstock, probably more. So I get put on shelving backstock etc, at first I wasn't too sure what to think of the guys that work there. I've got a fowl mouth but fuck these guys are determined, swearing every other word and calling each other every name under the sun.
That said by the end of the night I'd way rather work with them than the guys I work with at the store I'm at, at least these fowl mouthed Perthshire cunts talk to you, the Arbroath lot avoid me like I'm the plague. Another thing that helped my cause is that they had heard about the guy that is in charge of the nightshift in Arbroath, I think they asked me "Is the guy in charge at Arbroath really as much of a cunt as we've heard?"
Yes my friends, yes he is.
They also shed some light on a few things, the manager there is a really cool guy. He was asking me if I had been told that working Saturday and Sundays is optional, which is news to me. I had been told that if you do Saturday or Sunday you get bonus on top of your pay but no-one had ever mentioned that to us before.
Another thing which I mentioned was my supervisors threatening to give me a weeks notice if my pack rate doesn't go upto 60 cases an hour. The Perth lot just stopped and asked me to repeat that, because according to them the target pack rate is 40 an hour, not 60.
So, as soon as I send off my cv to all the UK based offshore companies (and maybe some abroad) I'm going to tell Safeways/Morrisons to shove their job, I've had enough of their shit and after seeing how the Perth lot is just shows how full of shit the people I work with are.
Anyone else in a similar position as me?
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[Edited on Apr 11, 2005 3:35PM]
[Edited on Apr 11, 2005 3:36PM]
And it only has one now
[Edited on Apr 11, 2005 4:06PM]