Reply #4: I work in citrus [View All]

[gator_in_Ontario]

when I am home in FL, and I once worked at a packing house (now closed) where I once came as close to violence as I have ever come.
When I started there, packing gift fruit, our boss was from Massachusetts and barely knew an orange from a grapefruit. He proceeded to order fruit from the crappiest groves (cheaper, ya know) and expect us to pack nice looking boxes of fruit, very quickly, and only paid minimum wage, for 18 hours a day, 7 days a week. Needless to say, fatigue sets in. Boxes get sloppy (and when you have crappy fruit to begin with....). Well one of our major customers was in, and dissatisfied with his packages, as well he should have been. Well this *head climbs up on the line, 11PM at night (we had been going since 7 am) and says if we can't f-ing pack the fruit right, he will f-ing hire some people who can. We threw thr fruit down and headed, en masse, for the door. He blocked the door and would not let us out. Now it is comical, but then I was ready to kill. Eventually he let us out, but the next day we were back....amazing what some people will do for a buck.
This jerk also once took the fork truck operators out for lunch, got them drunk, then proceeded to fire a guy who ran over someone's foot.
The company went bankrupt, and he ended up working for a pool cleaning service.

Hope this makes you feel better, if not I have more!:-)