Tuesday, April 26, 2016

With great salary, comes great injury

Month 1 Day 14

2 weeks since arriving in New Zealand. worked 3 days for the past 4 days. Finally can pay rent and buy groceries without worrying. Woo!! Wee!!

Recap of what happened for the past... 3 days?? Should be la... cincai la...

So I worked as packer at Eastpack (did I mention this in my last post?) and the job is mainly catch the kiwi's (fruit, not bird or new zealand people) that drop into the box. and when full cover with the plastic and close the cardboard box. Sounds very simple but the speed of kiwis falling into your box and the gap between each box of kiwis is where the difficulty of the job is. Simply put, its like a game where the higher the difficulty, the gaps between each kiwi box drops lessens and you have to react damn fast. Usually it will be too fast till you need someone to back you up so 1 people catch and 1 people pack.

Then it comes to the danger, the injuries. Working with cardboard boxes and to be fast, kena cut is like eating rice. Basically everyday work also will have cut, see bleeding or just pain.

Got cut at pinky and the 4th finger (ring finger??)
Basically scratches around the nails but these are damn CB pain. Worse than a cut

Thats basically what happens everyday at work and the procedure goes like:

Work > Smoko > Work > Smoko > Work > Smoko > Work > End

Every work session last 2.5 hours and the first 2 smoko is 30 min while the last smoko is 15 min.

*Smoko is a term used here which means break but I guess most people use these breaks to smoke so they call it smoko gua.... *






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