o/t Eating humble pie update.

JD2ACWD · Oct 16, 2009

well I survived 2 weeks at my new temp job,3 other temps came and went but I'm going to hang in there the work is pretty tough ,never knew I had that many muscles that could ache as much as they do, it's getting a little easier every day. have a good one!!

Anonymous-0 · Oct 16, 2009

Show them what you can do. Don't give up things should get better. What do they have you doing? Stan

JD2ACWD · Oct 16, 2009

loading semi trailers with garage doors,4 foot up to 30 foot doors

kyplowboy · Oct 16, 2009

Last temp job I had was working at a Rayloc factory tearing down ford alternators. The day I started I couldn't figure out why my boss didn't take much time to show me where every thing was, he just took me to a bench with a few tools and 5 barrels of cores and said try not to tear up to much. Two weeks later I was senior man of 8 in the department. Third week there I had 4 people work beside me in 5 days, they every one quit. After a month they hired me on full time and it wasn't too bad of a job as far as factories go. Just glad I didn't like it too much. I quit there to catch chickens in 02, then a year ago the NAPA folks loaded the factory up and road the NAFTA train south. Alot of good folks worked there.

Good luck with it and I guess what I meant to say before I got to rambling is being too hard headed to quit as a temp works out some times.

Dave

Goose · Oct 16, 2009

I did a temp gig once at an automotive finance company. My job was to call people who were 1 to 10 days late with their car payment.

This was the company that bought the paper from the CarHop "buy here-pay here" chain in Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, and Minnesota, so most of the loans were shaky to start with. I won't go into the gory details of the ways we were expected to put pressure on people. Suffice to say I started plotting the Great Escape the second day.

After about two months, an Assistant Manager called my team and I into the conferance room one afternoon and gave a big speech about big things happening in the company, and my team would be on the leading edge, etc. The next morning when I went to work, the same Asst. Mgr called me into his office and told me he'd been notified by Corporate in St. Paul that he had to downsize by four and I was one of the four junior people.

I actually managed to make it out the door before I busted out laughing.

Mike (WA) · Oct 17, 2009

I didn't know anyone ever quit anything so he could catch chickens. Maybe they do it different in KY. . .

kyplowboy · Oct 17, 2009

I was just out of college and was wanting a career with Tyson foods. Every time a job came up I wanted it went to some one who already worked there. They had just gotten the "chickenbines" so I got on one of the crews running one. Got a $1 pay raise, a whole lot more hours a weeks, and was hoping to start my career.
dont know if they still makem but heres the chickenbine site

Mike (WA) · Oct 18, 2009

I didn't even know such a thing existed!

When I was in high school (Class of '66), lots of fryer operations around (including one of my classmates). Chicken catching went from about 10 at night (so chickens would be asleep) till done. Dim light, grab 2 chickens in each hand, carry them out and put them in cages, which a couple guys are stacking on a flatbed truck. Hot, nasty work- you could always tell who was on the crew at school next day. I'm thinking its done the same way now, but less of the bantering and joking is in English these days. . .

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