Potato Packing near DundeeSome of the kids at my school (Carnoustie) used to work for a local vegetable packing firm.
One memorable job was 'pickin aff'. You would stand for 4 hours shifts and pick off the rotten potatoes as they bounced along a series of rollers, it was hypnotic. Fingers squishing into stinking rotten white pussy potatoes in a freezing cavernous barn in the winter for £1:25 an hour was .....character building
Thing is we all did this for YEARS till college came along (some guys still work there)
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Mon 10 Nov 2003, 21:04,
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One memorable job was 'pickin aff'. You would stand for 4 hours shifts and pick off the rotten potatoes as they bounced along a series of rollers, it was hypnotic. Fingers squishing into stinking rotten white pussy potatoes in a freezing cavernous barn in the winter for £1:25 an hour was .....character building
Thing is we all did this for YEARS till college came along (some guys still work there)
rabbitsUsed to do sommit similar on my mates farm in Shropsire - £2.75 an hour to "grade" potatoes. Since they were coming straight in from the fields we also had to remove rocks and rabbits as well as rotten potatoes ... and a "ploughed rabbit" is not the nicest (or easiest, unless you have a shovel) thing to pick off a conveyer..... mind you watching one of the thick-as-shite tractor drivers getting blown 30 feet across a room trying to "isolate" a 415V 3phase supply with a metal pole more than made up for it :)
(one-way to hell.. economy class you say?)
((one-way to hell.. economy class you say?)
the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side,
Tue 11 Nov 2003, 11:00,
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