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RE: The Kwiksave Chronicles of Slobberchops - Part Three
Blimey, this brings back memories.
One of my first jobs was as a branch personnel officer with a well-known supermarket chain, also the branch safety officer. I was a pain in the arse insisting that the fresh meat trades assistants wore chainmail gloves when they used the bandsaw, warehouse assistants didn't climb on the racking and the night security chains were taken off the fire doors when there were people in the building.
Amazing that these supermarkets used to have a warehouse (or back shop) large enough to hold a week's worth of stock - imagine how much money was tied up in that all over the country.
I would have made sure that you had freezer gloves 😎.
You must have worked at one of the bigger chains such as Asda. I know they had fresh meat counters and did have some safety checks.
At Kwiksave, 'branch safety officer' was not a position held by anyone. They didn't exist, believe me!
I managed to escape the place eventually without getting frostbite.
Staff and managers alike blithely ignored the safety regulations. It was a recurring nightmare that someone would get caught in a fire in the warehouse and not be able to get out because the security chains had been left on the fire doors. Glad you made your escape!