10.26.03
Fireworks 3 : The Fall of James
I know pain. I know hard work. What I don’t know is how some people can do this work every day of the week and not die. Last Friday I spent the day packing fireworks onto pallets for Morrisons. Never again. I am never fucking doing menial manual labour again. Offices, shops, pubs; yes. Shoving large boxes of fireworks onto a wooden pallet? No.
I knew it was going to be bad when I saw my co-workers. Shaved heads, ragged work clothes, thuggish aura; yes, this was going to be a fun day. It got worse when I got to the base of operations for the day. Jesus; it was a shrine to softcore, a palace of porn and a boutique of bare flesh rolled into one. It was quite disturbing. A bit like the scene in One Hour Photo where we see Robin William’s montage of the family he’s stalking. Enough of that.
When we finally get out to the fireworks I learn that, between the 10 of us, we have to stack and wrap 50 of Morrisons’ Type E pallets. These consist of; 5x Mars, 5x Saturn, 5x Jupiter, 4x Neptune, 2x Mammoth, 2x Apollo, 1x Purple Rain, 2x Star Commander and a few others. Average weight of about 18kg. This means each pallet weighs about 500kg. 46 pallets/10 people = 2 tons per person. Yeah. That must have been about what I lifted. I still ache. This is what we did all day. I also forgot to bring any lunch so I did it without food or drink. I was just a little bit tired by the end of it. I’m lucky it’s half term at least. A nice week of rest. Never again.
Alex said,
October 26, 2003 at 4:53 pm
thats pretty bad
Si said,
October 26, 2003 at 7:27 pm
A box of matches would have moved those a hell of a lot faster.
becky said,
October 27, 2003 at 11:13 am
joe had to do that every day (d’ya see wht he hated 3663 now…)
poor james!
James said,
October 27, 2003 at 11:24 am
*Thinks about what Si said*
*Drools*
*Drools again*
*Drools even more*
Andy said,
October 27, 2003 at 7:22 pm
I worked as a farm laborour over the summer for 5 weeks, i know where your coming from mate, hoeing cabbages is great fun too, especially when they are specialy modified ones, that cost about a grand each, and i keep cuting them in half with badly aimed swipes that were destined for weeds but got hijacked half way, its a tough world, but it makes you realise that exams are worth it if they can make this stage if your life be skipped out
becky said,
October 31, 2003 at 10:28 am
#thinks about what si said#
#finally realises what si MEANS#
oooh….
#drools#
(O_o)
rory said,
December 5, 2003 at 12:51 am
thats bad man, hope you enjoy it from now on