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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Cheating BreadmerchentsI worked for a while in Allied Bakeries, who make a pretty decent proportion of the bread in this country. I won't bore you going on about all the flies in the packing area, buzzing around the unpacked bread on open conveyor belts, because reading many of the answers to this QOTW I reckon you all expect that as par for the course for a food company.
(In fairness to AB, when a pigeon landed in a mixing container, they did chuck the entire batch of about 50,000 loaves, rather than send it out, thankfully.)
Anyway, everyone likes the nice fresh baked-in-store supermarket bread yes? Except it isn't. It comes into the distribution centre slightly smaller and less crusty, and all the supermarket has to do is finish it off, rising the last little bit and going a bit crispy on the outside. For this you will pay considerably more. Hooray.
(, Mon 1 Oct 2007, 20:37, Reply)
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