The Dirty Secrets of Your TradeSo, Television is a hot bed of lies, deceit and made up competitions. We can't say that we are that surprised... every job is full of this stuff. It's not like the newspapers currently kicking TV whilst it is down are all that innocent.
We'd like you to even things out a bit. Spill the beans on your own trade. Tell us the dirty secrets that the public need to know.
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chthonic, Thu 27 Sep 2007, 10:31)
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Not me, but my brotherWorked for a rather large North-East bakery company (Paddy's doing their new ads) and since vowed never to touch their produce again. He lasted about 6 weeks.
Basically, he would drive a truck around loads of shops first thing in the morning delivering all the baked goods etc in time for opening. The nasty bit was that he would also pick up the previous days rubbish to return to the depot (so Mondays goodies were shaken around the wagon with Fridays mouldy shit). There were no separators or anything, mostly the bags were untied or full of holes and blatantly soaked in rat-piss.
Apparently, they were bastards to work for also. He got back to the depot once, unable to make one of the deliveries because there was nobody at the shop (he'd waited ten minutes, but since they didn't pay overtime and complained if he got back late, he'd left).
His manager gave him a right bollocking and told him he had to go back (over an hour round-trip) and that he wouldn't be paid the overtime either. I was amazed he didn't smack the bloke in the mouth - it's his usual form of instant resignation. Instead, he drove the truck to somewhere within walking distance of home, climbed in the back, pissed all over the baked goods, locked the keys inside the van and went home.
(, Mon 1 Oct 2007, 15:57, Reply)
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