What is the worst job you ever had to do while working in your meat shop or business. I have a tossup for me. When I was a rookie, we had a chicken walkin with no drain in it, so all of the juice collected on the floor under the wooden slats. I had to pull out the slats every Monday and clean them, and then clean up the walkin floor which had about 2 inches of juice. OR We always put all of our bones and meat scraps in 55 gal drums outside for the boneman to pick up every Friday. I had to scrub them out on Sat morn with an old broom and bleach. OR Clean out the grease trap in the meatroom which I have to do once a year.
What is the worst job you ever had to do while working in your meat shop or business. I have a tossup for me. When I was a rookie, we had a chicken walkin with no drain in it, so all of the juice collected on the floor under the wooden slats. I had to pull out the slats every Monday and clean them, and then clean up the walkin floor which had about 2 inches of juice. OR We always put all of our bones and meat scraps in 55 gal drums outside for the boneman to pick up every Friday. I had to scrub them out on Sat morn with an old broom and bleach. OR Clean out the grease trap in the meatroom which I have to do once a year.
With the exception of dealing with certain people (maybe I'm the problem), I'd say grease traps would be a contender for worst job. However, I'm happy I never had to work bare handed with lots of chicken packed in ice, or never had to deal with things like in Sinclair's The Jungle
When I was young starting in the trade, every shop I worked in, there was quite a few as I worked for a large butchers chain,( Dewhurst )was to clean the darn fridge ,walls celings and floors which where usually covered in wooden slats now outlawed by the EU. In those days we could use sawdust on the floors as it picked up the grease, a sod to scrape up once caked with blood.
i have to say definitly the chicken things. We called it a chicken coop. They smell so bad sometimes I would almost puke but really now everything for me is just part of the job. if it needs to be done get it done or i wouldn't feel like i am doing my job, but when i was younger it was the things I just hated to do cleaning the chicken coop was something i would avoid as long as i could.
This may sound stupid but i always hated to clean the high boy pans. it seemed like there were a thousand of the damn things when it was my turn to clean them.
Grease traps and the like never bothered me, but when you deal with bodies and such things like that is cake.
I'd have to say organizing all the trays above our cooler and cutting room, because people tend to be lazy and just throw the stuff up there. Once I got it organized it wasn't bad at all, since I left though I'm sure it is FUBAR.
Worst job in a meat market is obviously Market Manager. No doubt about it. The market manager's gotta listen to everyone complain about doing all of the above!!! LOL!!!!
filling up trays because my co workers run them out then just open the bundles to get what they want and leave the bundles all over the cutting room for me to put up.
and god would strike them dead if they washed a pan
Ice pack fryers. Cleaning a shop with slow drains (or floors where the water flows away from the drains) Working with people who don't give a crap. Listening to people in suits who haven't spent a day in an actual grocery store.
Cleaning the Grease traps Ice Pack Chicken Chicken Cooler Seafood Cooler BEING THE MARKET MANAGER WITH A BUNCH OF CRY BABIES
I completely agree with you Big Beef on the cry baby part. Some people don't know how good they got it till it's gone. THEN they complain about that!!!
my favoriye was cleaning the seafood service case.... i had to do it twice a month. the manger and secong cutter had to do it once a month. the boss never did it he just dumped some lemon juice to make it smell good. nothing like yellow sludge collecting on the bottom of a case.
boning old slimy on the verge of turning pork legs...*shudders*OH! and people who think thier 300+lbs sow is a prize pig (when actual fact its rubbish) then complain that we switched animals thats not thier animal theres was beautiful...ummm rrrrrrright
Cleaning anything - I spent my time doing all that when I first started in the business. I had to clean the meat room by myself every night 5 days a week, each of our three cases had to each be cleaned once a week too. Chicken Case on Monday, Beef Case on Tuesday, Pork Case on Wednesday. Wasn't THAT bad, but I'd take cleaning a grease trap twice a year over all that cleaning any time :)
