Hearts and livers please...

My first day working at CSF was interesting and very busy!  My tasks switched from stretching the turkeys' throat and chest area and cramming hearts and livers back into the turkeys.

At first it was easy work, but once they saw that I picked up fast, they turned up the speed it was like doing a little more than 200 turkeys for every five minutes.  That became hell at times.  There will be some disappointed people when they find out they turkey did not include a packet of liver and heart.  The person who was packing up the heart and liver did a lousy job because the packets were 33% perfect, while the other 66% either had no organs in them or were not sealed so the liver and hearts fell out.  Eventually they realized that and slowed down so we could have time to make sure the packets were good ones.

The people who work with me are cool, easy going and easy to communicate with.  We worked for eleven hours and that was longer than I expected, however I expect to work twelve hours today and hope to find out if I can get the weekend off to go to the Grape Festival!

Working at CSF cramming up stuff into turkeys made me glad that I am a vegetarian. 

Warning: If you want to continue eating poultry, I recommend you not reading any further.

With the process going so fast, there were times when the liver/heart packets or turkeys fell onto the floor.  The floor is concrete and full of grime, grease and very filthy with old rotten pieces of flesh lying around.  Since we had no time to slow down, we just kept on going and when the conveyor paused, we quickly shoveled the fallen packets and turkeys back into the bins with clean packets and put the turkeys back onto the conveyor without cleaning them all!

Otherwise, Enjoy your turkeys during  Canadian Thanksgiving, and if it is from Maple Farm, there's a high chance it may have passed me at CSF! :)

Hello again...

Since my last post, I have been busy looking for jobs to apply for (not much luck) and at the same time am keeping my eye open for temporary or part time employment to earn money while I look for the perfect job I want. Other than job searching, I have been busy helping my parents with chores around the house. I applied for two temporary jobs - one at Milton as an On-Call EA staff and the other one was for a poultry worker position in Thamesford.

The people hiring for EA position was looking for people who are interested in permanent jobs so I do not think I will get the job unless I tell them I changed my mind and want the permament EA job. I got the job in Thamesford. They needed temporary workers to make sure they met the demand for turkeys for Canada's upcoming Thanksgiving holiday (October 9th).

Tomorrow at noon, I will be beginning my first day of slaughtering the turkeys in the boning department and cutting them into pieces to be packed and delivered to stores. I hope I get to see actual live turkeys being executed, but I have strong feelings they will arrive already dead, but I will be sure to update you once I get started.

I know you are thinking "Gee, aren't you a vegetarian?" or "How ironic, a vegetarian cutting up turkeys!". First of all, I am not one of the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) who worry about how animals are executed (because I support Capital Punishment) and I do not risk my life trying to save animals such as those people who went up north or east to spray baby seals who were going to be executed anyways.

Secondly, my ethics do not focus on how animals are treated or executed therefore it does not affect me.

Lastly, I am a vegetarian because I believe plants have more to offer and better health benefits. Animal corpses only offer a good source of protein, iron, but helluva more cholesterol and fat than you would get from plant based protein sources.

Thus, I just see myself helping a company provide unhealthy food for customers who want to remain unhealthy, so there is no irony with me working as a poultry worker.

Hopefully my next job will be something I like better and relates to my studies at RIT, but I am not going to go back to New York City. (:

Sorry for no posts lately:

Ever since I got to Canada, I have not really given much attention to this blog.  To summarize what I have been up to lately, during the first weekend back in Canada I attended a wedding for one of my friend's brother, then during the long weekend I spent my time with IceKnight at his trailer.  During the recent weekend I went to Oshkwen to watch one of my friends play in a lacrosse tournament and went to the Western Fair in London to watch the demolition derby and monster truck events.

Now to the boring stuff...  during the weekdays I spent my time getting my OW set up again until I find my next job.  Sent out some cover letters and resumes (but am slowly getting back to my job hunting mode), tidying up and trying to find all my stuff at my parents home so I can be organized again.  Literally I feel like I have not unpacked everything from living in New York City and need to complete my co-op requirements from Citigroup (some how RIT still has not received my co-op evaluation from Citigroup so I have to find out why they have not done my evaluation yet).

On the good side, I finally got a chance to start brewing my own beer again and this upcoming weekend my father and I will be going on a 4 or 5 day canoeing trip up north (in the Kilarney Provencal Park).  Then there is a Grape Fest next weekend that I plan on going with a bunch of friends if they are still interested in going.  There is also a beer festival happening in Honeye Falls that a friend wants to go to three weekends later. Hopefully friends will be interested in getting together to go to the beer festival too.

This feels like a sloppy post, but at least you get an idea about what I have been up to lately.