Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2006 23:30:31 GMT
Just a general question, what's the worst place you've worked?
For me it's a toss between a company called Bluecol Chemicals (now closed) in Basingstoke, where I worked as a temp for 7 days when I was 17. The other is a food distribution centre (of a company I won't name) at Charlton in South London. I visited the latter a few weeks ago. It's not actually run by the supermarket chain anymore, but a contract firm.
It was bad. The floor was held together by big sheets of metal, the lighting was the same sort as orange street lighting, the reach trucks (fork lifts) were over 20 years old and went at walking speed. The walls were crumbling. One section of it was totally horrible, it looked as if it hadn't been altered since the opening in 1963.
The staff weren't too hot either. One reach driver drove the whole length of the warehouse with his forks around 10 - 12 feet in the air and didn't even realise he was doing it. Pickers doing debits on pallets must only pick one at a time, people there were balancing two pallets on at once! One doorway had a very dangerous looking stack of pallet boards wedged underneath it. They were poking out at all sorts of angles. The bloke showing us round said: "People hit that doorway every day with their forks (on the fork lifts) up too high. We're sick of mending it now so we've just left it." I could go on for hours, the place is a death trap.
That's my story, at least someone must have one of their own.
For me it's a toss between a company called Bluecol Chemicals (now closed) in Basingstoke, where I worked as a temp for 7 days when I was 17. The other is a food distribution centre (of a company I won't name) at Charlton in South London. I visited the latter a few weeks ago. It's not actually run by the supermarket chain anymore, but a contract firm.
It was bad. The floor was held together by big sheets of metal, the lighting was the same sort as orange street lighting, the reach trucks (fork lifts) were over 20 years old and went at walking speed. The walls were crumbling. One section of it was totally horrible, it looked as if it hadn't been altered since the opening in 1963.
The staff weren't too hot either. One reach driver drove the whole length of the warehouse with his forks around 10 - 12 feet in the air and didn't even realise he was doing it. Pickers doing debits on pallets must only pick one at a time, people there were balancing two pallets on at once! One doorway had a very dangerous looking stack of pallet boards wedged underneath it. They were poking out at all sorts of angles. The bloke showing us round said: "People hit that doorway every day with their forks (on the fork lifts) up too high. We're sick of mending it now so we've just left it." I could go on for hours, the place is a death trap.
That's my story, at least someone must have one of their own.
