working in a grocery store

i sell meat daily. worst part of my job. i can't touch the meat even through the plastic. i have to hold it on the edges.. not really caring much if i drop it.
yesterday a man bought two really bloody steaks and i felt like i was going to pass out right there at the check-out stand.

thanksgiving and the day before was sadistic to say the least. selling all though poor turkeys.

it might not be so bad if i had a vegetarian or vegan friend i could vent to in person. I KNOW ZERO VEGHEADS. i know a bunch online... i think one of my customers is veggie.. i'm going to ask her next time she comes in. I NEED A SUPPORT GROUP! "hold my hand, please"

anyone else ever feel.. alone in this? i know too much to ever eat meat. i kinda feel bad for all the people i sell it too. not to forget the poor animal that died so they could have dinner. the only good i see coming out of all this is .. the same type of people will be coming to me years from now wanting nutritional help to be healthy

 

i know how you feel. i work for a wholesale food company....i work in the corporate office though so luckily i dont have to actually see the meat or handle it but i do deal with invoices and other indirect things that involve things like "bacon bits" or "whole ham" or "sirloin"......it upsets me daily. there isnt a day that goes by that i dont feel awful for these animals who are being sold thru our company. unfortunatley around here i cant afford to be picky about where i work and this is a really good company that pays well and has been in business a long time...plus good benefits which i really need. i would much rather work at a health food store or someplace more vegan friendly but i dont have much choice...gotta make a living somehow. i could never actually handle or be around meat though......i think that is where id draw the line. and i dont have a part in selling it either which i couldnt do. i just work in the accounting office handleing finances.

 

i sometimes miss the natural grocery store i worked in. most of the customers were veggie. i maybe sold meat once or twice a day, now it's every other customer

 

I work in a grocery store too, the day before Thanksgiving made me sick. I can't believe how much meat some people eat. Ugh, I hate when it is really bloody, doesn't that make them sick?

 

someones gonna get sick and die from some of the meat they sell where i work..


it's turning funky colors already.. ack

 

Yeah, the store I work at is pathetic, they will sell rotten meat that is turning brown but will put a $3 off coupon on it.

 

Why don't you find another job?

 

Good idea, this job doesn't even pay well now.

 

Well, I mean, you'd lose the ability to be all superior and smug and scowl at people who buy meat and all, but...

 

it's not always about being superior -sometimes it can just be plain gross. It's a repelled look, not a smug one..
at the supermarket where i worked we had it pretty bad too. The worst was when this lady bought half a pig's head wrapped in clear plastic...it's eyesocket bled all over my hand..i nearly threw up on the customer, NOT a good look.

to aviod that sort of thing and my vego friend and I worked out this flip technique with the plastic bags, where you kind of scoop the meat in (though delicately) - that way you don't even have to touch the sides of the meat packet.

but yeah, sympathies.

 

any natural foods stores where you live? usually they are understanding of if you don't want to handle meat.

 

i'm planning on starting college this winter.. and then i won't be forced to take a job where i have to look at dead animals

if there was a natural grocery store around here i would have applied and got a job there but people here eat a standard american diet

sorta weird ringing these people up and knowing that what they're eating is killing them faster than they need to die

 

well, that's their choice to make, really...but you should be able to not have to handle meat at your job should you choose not to. do the authoritarin figures in your job know of your opposition to meat and the handling of it? is there another job in the grocery store you could do (like work the produce department) as opposed to meat?

 

oh, that's bad.TOday we have a celebration of my town.Everybody eats fish/our town is next to the sea/.When I was little, i've always had the feeling that i'll vomit when I smell it.

 

That must really suck :-(

Anyway, IronGoth, it's not just that easy to go get another job, sometimes. And it's not a smug look ...I think it's more of a question of "Why" and "How"

Most of us veggies simply just can't understand how anyone can put an animal corpse into their mouths... It just seems absurd to us.

That's how it is for me anyway. When I go out to eat and I see these people ordering chicken and steak and burgers, etc... I'm just like... HOWWWWW can they do that??

 

well i am the cashier.


my boss is indian.. and him and his family ARE NOT vegetarians.. which i find odd.. i guess i assumed wrong.

they know i'm vegetarian.. damn near vegan. i was telling the other cashiers about it. i felt like running and hiding last night when a lady came up and bought 60 dollars worth of meat.
almost makes me mad.. these asshole come in there complaining about high gas prices and other shit.. and then EAT MEAT.. if they only know how it's all connected..

 

yeah man that sucks...i would like to work at a restaraunt, but i never apply to any because it would be morally wrong for me to cook meat....the only exclusively vegetarian restaraunts are an hour away from me.....

 

my co-worker last night told me i was "unhealthy" because i didn't get enough protien. then she walked outside for her break and smoked a cigarette.


this sorta iritated me. besides the fact that this co-worker is a "big girl". what the hell does she know about being a vegetarian or vegan? NOTHING. i hate how people assume i'm "unhealthy" just because they shovel any and everything that "taste good" into their own mouths, and call that good health.

when i tried to explain it to her.. how and where i got my protien.. she rolled her eyes. i'm no AIR PLANT! i didn't just wake up and decide to be a veggie to annoy people. i've been studying this for years. it's taken me a long time to get here. i know what i'm ingesting. i know what its doing to me.. and what it's not.

i don't get why people have to say something so rude and then when i try to explain it.. they don't wanna know. ignorance is NOT always bliss.

 

some people are just too lazy and apathetic to inquire into alternative and kynder ways of living.....and really i think some people arent even intelligent enough to comprehend it (if you've ever heard the Rick and Bubba show you know what i am talking about) and so naturally their defenses go up and they go into attack mode just to make themselves feel better about their choices.

i get teased alot at work...called a "tree hugger" and today someone made a comment about me eating peanuts...they said i was stealing from the squirrels and so i should feel bad about myself.

 

i think it just pissed me off, cus it was out of the blue.

"you know, you're soo unhealthy, because of what you eat"

what?? yeah i'm unhealthy because NOW i DON'T have a migraine everyday. i'm unhealthy because i'm a normal BMI weight and i've given birth to three humans. i can ride my bike for miles and miles and barely be winded.

RAWR