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I’ll just take my vacation now

After working in a meat packing factory for a year, I got fed up working 7 days a week, just to get mentally sick. I was told we “occasionally work Saturdays”. Only to be working 6 to 7 days a week tossing meat into a box. Working only by myself, talking to myself, and listening to the loud banging of machines, for a year. I worked at the raw side of the factory, while there was another side with cooked product. That side got weekends off, while our side, for a whole year while I was working there, a total of 9 weekends off. The reason for the raw side working there for the weekends was due to the reason of, “shortage”. It was complete bs due to me being at the end of the conveyor belt, getting in at 2 in the afternoon, leaving at whatever after 12, packaging…


After working in a meat packing factory for a year, I got fed up working 7 days a week, just to get mentally sick. I was told we “occasionally work Saturdays”. Only to be working 6 to 7 days a week tossing meat into a box. Working only by myself, talking to myself, and listening to the loud banging of machines, for a year. I worked at the raw side of the factory, while there was another side with cooked product. That side got weekends off, while our side, for a whole year while I was working there, a total of 9 weekends off. The reason for the raw side working there for the weekends was due to the reason of, “shortage”. It was complete bs due to me being at the end of the conveyor belt, getting in at 2 in the afternoon, leaving at whatever after 12, packaging over a ton of meat. Decided to quit after I got injured by a motor pallet jack carrying over a ton of meat. I took it as a sign to just have my vacation and leave my letter of resignation.

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