Do I enjoy the work? Sometimes.
Is it exciting? Not really.
Driving around all day, or night, on fork-carts (as I call them) can be pretty fun. Swerving all over the place, occassionally knocking into things, breaking countless items for inventory...it's all part of a day's work.
Since I started working I have become aware as to how dire the economic situation is on the global scale.
I am one that watches American news on a daily. Can't quite function properly unless I get my Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow fix. In October, when the US economy tanked, I thought to myself, "Damn, look how all these fools gonna go to the poor house. Oh well, too bad for them (Americans)".
Boy was my scope narrow. Within two weeks the company I first worked at laid off ALL students, like myself, that had gotten work there via a tempe agency. So like that I was out of work. Normally it would not have been that bad, but I had just spent 800 euros on my MacBook.
GOODBYE job and "disposable" income, HELLO 18 cent bread....again.
So where work was concerned, I spent the next 2.5 months pretty much just hping and praying for better days.
Then came along the ALDI gig. ALDI, a well known supermarket chain here in Europe known for its low prices. And I think the low prices crossed over into their...everything. Now the work I was to do was the same as at the first, but at the first place we used fancy headsets that gave us the orders, no paper work done. At the ALDI, there was nothing but paper, pallets looked like garbage heaps the way they were done and work was ever so slow, cause unlike the first place they use "walk-fork cart" and you can NOT leave your cart at anytime. The pace is ridiculously slow. Slow doesn't have to be bad, means you got more time just hanging around, but when working in a cooler, tempo is needed, you know...for to generate heat.
I worked there for 2 weeks, 4 shifts in total, I was sick for 3, because these fools wouldn't assign me to the general area where product don't require lower temperatures. I hated it, hated working there and apparently ALDI hated us as well as they, too, let all the students go.
Oh well, was happy with my 18 cent bread anyhow. Reunited and it feels sooo good.
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