work in progress
*Monday, May 29, 2006*
foodtech cheese factory
i hate the 6pm to 3.30am shift.
i come home. cant sleep. waste my time for a few hrs either eating or trying to slp. then i slp and wake up. go to work. and the routine just goes on and on. i prefer the 11pm to 8.30 shift. at least when i reach home im sleepy and when i wake up i still have time to maybe watch tv or go out in the evening before work. its horrible.
last sat, i came home and didnt feel sleepy until about 7plus am. at that time, my bro who was gg to work told me that he had to find 2 friends to subst some people who took leave at the factory he worked at. a first everything was fine and he was gonna meet em but one of them backed out. my bro's gf was tired so didnt wanna go. my bro gave a then-what-am-i-gonna-do-now-i-think-i'll-just-cry look. hahaha.. well not exactly, just that he'd promised them 2 people and now there was only one. so i volunteered. although by that time i had been awake since 5pm the previous day. it was supposed to be a half day but f*ck they kept asking us to stay coz none of the permanent staff wanted to! damn it!
it was a sat and so they were supposed to do washing of the moulds they cooked(?) the cheese in. some 2kg and some 10kg. more of the 2kg one. my bro was more familiar with packing since hes been there a wk but me and my bro's fren baogui were told to wash the damn moulds. it was supposed to be a vv clean and sanitized place coz they packed food there and god damnit they made us very clean too. we wore these funny white jackets with a hood plus white pants. all damn clean. with white boots and a shower cap. we washed our hands first with soap then disinfected it with alcohol or something. then we had to walk into this funny blowing thing i guess many people have seen b4 on tv. the floor was sticky and we were told to go in and turn 2 rounds. it was very funny coz our boots were stuck so hard onto the sticky floor and we look like complete idiots (note: i was turning rounds in a funny machine with my bro's friend. not my friend, ah awkward!) then we proceeded to cleaning.
they used this chemical called topax to disinfect the moulds in a big tub and rinsed in another tub. we had to scrub any remaining cheese on the moulds. its was hard work. imagine doing this for 6.5 hrs none stop. chemicals leh! my hand was rotting. now however it has rotTED. haha after sometime most people disappeared and only me, bg(my BROTHER'S friend not mine), and this weirdo jap salesman who cldnt speak eng was there washing (the jap man was nowhere near the Takuya kind. gosh disappointing). the atmosphere there.... go figure!
but that was not the worse. bloody hell it was 12.30 and we wanted to leave the bloody hell of a place but they asked us to stay and finish washing. but sudd everyone disappeared!!!!! omg! i was alone! washing the damn things alone! so pathetic!!! and it was never ending! they just kept pushing trolleys and trolleys of the moulds in! my hand was soaked in chemicals and water for 6.5hrs! ah!!!! in the end i gave up. sorry everyone but next time u eat some cheese products be careful. they produce for a few brands im not sure what but definitely not kraft that kind. haha i threw the horrible moulds into the sink with topax and gave it a little shake and put them into another sink that was filled with water! wahaha..... i did not scrub them at all! and i didnt rinse properly either. some of them still had soap suds! not much la dun worry. hahahaha....
so i continued with that until the japanese boss came over and kept looking at me. no he was not trying to be funny but he wanted to help me wash. (obviously right. i look so pathetic!!!!) he was nice la but i felt so pressurized that i began scrubbing. lucky consumers! hahaha... then after 'er ren shi jie' the rest had finished and come over to help. thank god really. i earned $39 for 6.5hrs. pathetic right... but better than nothing. we went for lunch, 3 of us and finally went home. by then i hadnt slept for abt 24hrs. haha and i spent the rest of the precious wkend sleeping. yeah damn interesting story ah. or not. but thats how i spent my wkend.
we found out today that we're gonna do the 6pm to 3.30am shift for the next 2 wks. wish me luck. and roadshows starting next wk gotta need to provision everything by 9th june. somehow i hope that they'll ask us to do OT coz we were sorta predicting that our job will end once world cup starts. but then i'll be so tired. bloody hell. haha.. but this also means i'll be outta job soon. i really wanna find a part time job only... hope i can find one. or any short term jobs..
my entries are always so long i cant stand it. but believe me i summarised it alr. hahaha
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