He's of the colour of the nutmeg. And of the heat of the ginger.... he is pure air and fire; and the dull elements of earth and water never appear in him, but only in patient stillness while his rider mounts him; he is indeed a horse, and all other jades you may call beasts. ~William Shakespeare, Henry V

Tuesday, May 10, 2005

MAKE ME GAG

Today at work they were making tortillines and everything was going well until the dough guy started to open up the second pallet of 5 gallon pails. Each 5 gallon pail holds 30 lbs of whole eggs and it takes a pail and a half for one batch of dough. The dough boy popped the top off two pails, made his batch of dough and when he opened up the next two pails the room just filled with this awful stench that literally made you gag. That is the closest I have come to throwing up at the plant since I was pregnant. Over half of the pallet of whole eggs had gone bad. Funny thing is that they weren't past their expiration date yet. The plant couldn't send them back because it is a perishable item so it's a cost that they had to "eat". The Quality Assurance Manager at the plant wanted to get the entire case order filled so she told the dough guy to chip frozen whole egg from the freezer into the batches. Well that doesn't work and they have tried to do it before and when they do that the dough doesn't stick and everything pops open and they just waste everything. The manager of the plant just told the QA to let it be and when the dough guy was done with the batch in the mixer, they would shut down and just leave early. The dough guy figured that since they weren't past expiration, the pails must have been defective. He doesn't think that the pails sealed correctly where the whole eggs were processed from.

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