Happy Employment!
Posted by: u5227470736789439 on 17 March 2010
Today we had a real boost at work, which is based on five of us making some of the finest ice cream in the UK. All the milk from the farm's own milking herd, and only naturally derived ingredients and so on. Small scale and much too expensive for me to actually buy! I take home what I like ... {:¬)+<
Today was the usual Environmental Health inspection. Some places get really much more regular visits than we do.
Usually an audit is a real problem in a food factory, where costs are almost always cut to the bone!
We spent a couple of hours the day before sweeping up outside and doing a bit of titivating, but the place is always tidy because we are given enough time to take a pride in keeping it so.
The audit was shorter than expected. The paperwork was deemed very fine, and it is possible to tell when tick sheets and QA paperwork is faked. This because the writing is the same for each line. If it is real and done in real time rather than later, each line will be filled in a different hand! Impossible to fake that!
So the production area was fine tooth combed and the visit curtailed early.
Five Stars! Only comment was there was nothing to criticise!
That is what working for a great employer is about! A great empoyer allows the chance to take the time and pride to do it right!
I feel very sorry for those, whose work is such that they are not given the chance to take the time, because of bloody bean counters - I mean bloody accountants - who know nothing but the shortest route to the largest profit figure! But it is a false economy, and can break a company if taken to its logical conclusion.
We are so filled with orders that our prices are not forced down by cheaper competition.
Of course not many starting out in ice cream making could have their own dairy heard established for most of the twentieth century, but I can say that after my many years of working for careless employers, it is so grand to work hard for an appreciative and wise one.
ATB from George
Today was the usual Environmental Health inspection. Some places get really much more regular visits than we do.
Usually an audit is a real problem in a food factory, where costs are almost always cut to the bone!
We spent a couple of hours the day before sweeping up outside and doing a bit of titivating, but the place is always tidy because we are given enough time to take a pride in keeping it so.
The audit was shorter than expected. The paperwork was deemed very fine, and it is possible to tell when tick sheets and QA paperwork is faked. This because the writing is the same for each line. If it is real and done in real time rather than later, each line will be filled in a different hand! Impossible to fake that!
So the production area was fine tooth combed and the visit curtailed early.
Five Stars! Only comment was there was nothing to criticise!
That is what working for a great employer is about! A great empoyer allows the chance to take the time and pride to do it right!
I feel very sorry for those, whose work is such that they are not given the chance to take the time, because of bloody bean counters - I mean bloody accountants - who know nothing but the shortest route to the largest profit figure! But it is a false economy, and can break a company if taken to its logical conclusion.
We are so filled with orders that our prices are not forced down by cheaper competition.
Of course not many starting out in ice cream making could have their own dairy heard established for most of the twentieth century, but I can say that after my many years of working for careless employers, it is so grand to work hard for an appreciative and wise one.
ATB from George