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[KDSM]

Craig you started work at the MOST difficult time of the year. It can only get easier. It has been really, really hard where I work, if you think working in a supermarket is bad just try a cheap restaurant (no tips there either!) and listen to people complain like nobodies buisness. It makes me really angry sometimes as they can be so rude, they look at the board which has the prices, go to the till and create a real stink and then turn on me - as if I set the prices! Stupid dorks - can't they do a simply addition sum or didn't they bother to check to see how much it cost?

Sigh, but at least the collegaues there are great. If they wern't it would be unbearable. We are all one big family at work.

New Years,Memorial Day,Easter,July 4th,Labor Day,Thanksgiving and to a lesser extent Halloween are al big holidays for supermarkets.

I worked off and on in supermarkets between 1980 and 1993 with the longest stint being 5 years....low pay boring mind numbing work

[Saitek]

We're in the UK and as far as I know it is generally only Christmas and the New yeat which see big explosions of sales. It increases at Easter a bit and around November 5th, but no comparison to the slightest degree to Christmas.  ::)

[H]

...& there are still plenty of decent people around. It's sometimes difficult finding them that's all.

Coupling this to Ozzy's mention of bludgeoning-with-cow, I'm reminded of working part time in the meat dept. while at school in Boston, Massachusetts (got my shin gouged when attempting to jump up onto the dock with a side of beef on my shoulder). I only worked there until I was due to become a unionized member and was 'released'. My new roommate, a semester behind me, had just been hired the previous week; we quickly found out that the company was cycling through student employees to avoid paying union wages. My roommate immediately lined up another job for the appropriate time, then called the store to let them know he wouldn't be in -- or be available to train the "new" help.
Yes, Craig, there are still decent people -- somewhere out there in a similar, that is to say, adverse, situation.

[TacitBlue]

I've noticed that it's hard tp get all of the good people together in one place. Maybe we should all start our own country.

[Triple_7]

Ah the human race....cant live with it but cant live without it

I guess that why i like working on farms then in public...reasons...

1. Small operations
2. Only a few employees...5 at one 8 at the other
3. Work by myself most of the time.  Rarely more then 2 people there at a time.  Mostly just me and the walking bacon.
4. As long as everything is done by its deadlines it doesnt matter who or when it was done.
5. My personal favorite...A swift kick in the arse can solve just about any isue.  Especialy slacking employees

And at least hams dont talk back

[H]

Ah the human race....cant live with it but cant live without it I guess that why i like working on farms then in public...reasons...
1. Small operations
2. Only a few employees...5 at one 8 at the other
3. Work by myself most of the time.  Rarely more then 2 people there at a time.  Mostly just me and the walking bacon.
4. As long as everything is done by its deadlines it doesnt matter who or when it was done.
5. My personal favorite...A swift kick in the arse can solve just about any isue.  Especialy slacking employees
And at least hams dont talk back

Perhaps it's not so bad on a small pig farm ... but the large ones in the midwest have an added feature for keeping the rest of humanity at a distance -- an aroma that lasts for many-a-mile!  :-X

[Triple_7]

Perhaps it's not so bad on a small pig farm ... but the large ones in the midwest have an added feature for keeping the rest of humanity at a distance -- an aroma that lasts for many-a-mile!  :-X

More mid sized really...2 barns, 16 rooms, the 8 small rooms hold up to 1000 hogs, the 8 larger rooms hold up to 1500 hogs, if running full capacity we could max out at 20,000 hogs...and you just have to get used to the smell...its just part of it...plus side is in the winter its not bad at all, summer time on the other hand  Whats worse is power washing the rooms, scalding hot water on top of the heat in the summer.  Ive seen the temps inside the barns reach as high as 125

[H]

...it's also located out in the middle of fields away from the general population

So are the ones to the west of you -- partly for the olfactory concerns -- but they still manage to make their presence known in the wind..