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yes the bottom line is safeway wants to make MORE money not that they are losing it...and to do it they are pissing on the employess that brought them to be a world power
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[Azrael]

My aunt works in Bermuda Dunes, not too far from Palm Springs, and my Uncle works in Yucca Valley, which is right near 29 Palms. My uncle's been doing the meatcutting thing for as long as I can remember, and he actually took a voluntary demotion cause as the Head butcher he was venturing into the unhealthy stress range. His supervisors have ried to get him to take the job back three times in the last year, but he won't take it because for him, the pay is not worth the stress that comes with the job. My aunt actually does alot of her work from home, on the side. She can do damn near any decoration you want on a cake, including screen printing, and airbrushing, which is particularly popular with the vatos in So Cal. She did a huge full sheet cake for NBC when they had some guy retire, it was shaped like the NBC Peacock. The funny part is that she makes way more at home than she does at work, but just likes going to work with other people.

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Is there alot of upgrade training at Safeway that you have to attend to keep up with new technology and products?? Are you going to a night school to get certified in your "trade"??

If it takes you 2 years to learn how to cut a decent steak when you do it every damn day, I think its time to try something alittle easier like working in the frozen foods dept. If I had a guy working for me that took 2 years to cut a piece of plywood straight I would have fired him 23 months before that.

I don't know what kinda super duper grocery store your talking about, we don't have safeway out here. The only requirement for my classmate to work in the meat dept. was that he was 18 yrs old so he could use the sharp objects. He went from pushing carts one week to cutting meat the next, maybe he was a genius or something i dunno. I know for sure he didn't have an "in" like you said you need at safeway. Neither did I, and they still hired me.

I guess I'm just confused that if working at the grocery store is so skilled, how in the world did they replace those people so fast out in California?? And if those people are doing a crappy job, because the aren't skilled enough, why are people crossing picket lines to still shop there for worse service and products? Maybe your overblowing it just alittle Keyes.

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[MuLiShA]

I have 5 friends who are not out of a job because of it, and they didn't agree to the strike in the first place. But of course, I am ill informed? It comes down to this, the corporate office increased the payment for health insurance, the workers didn't like it and are striking to lower it. Someone has to budge and it would appear the corporations are suffering. Maybe the union needs to cut its losses and end its strike?
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[Vicoden]

WOW! get the weiney out of your ass its starting to affect your brain. Was I comparing cutting plywood to cutting meat?? um no. I said if it takes you 2 damn years to cut a "decent" (as your buddy put it) steak I would have fired your sorry ass. I don't care if your cutting plywood, steak, or someones chest cavity. If it takes you 2 years of on the job training by seniors with 50 years experience (those are some old butchers, maybe you guys need a better retirement fund) then your a damn slow learner. (do you take the short bus to work??)

Just because I don't work at suckway doesn't mean I don't have the right to voice my opinion, no matter if it gets your panties in a bunch or not!!

In my neck of the woods we don't need a meat dept. that suposedly offers the best meat in biz, we need to feed our families and still make the mortgage payment. If we want to spend frivolously on piece of meat we'll go to a specialty store that just sells meat or go to a fine restaurant and have someother underpaid person cook it and serve it to us.

I'm sorry if leaving High School with the dream of making it big working at the grocery store is your plan. If you were my kid, I would tell ya to aim alittle higher.

Back to what has been said about the owner of Safeway being a millionaire and all he/she cares about is their bottomline. MORE POWER TO EM!!! Your #1 concern at work should be making your boss enough money to swim in. If they're not making money, then guess what? Neither are you! Its their company that they started from the ground up, they deserve to make as much money as they want. This isn't a communist nation, no one is forcing you to cut meat. This is exactly how people get themselves into such predicaments, they learn how to do one thing well and then when someone comes along who can do it cheaper they lose their job. Whose fault is it? your boss? he should keep the higher paid guy around because he has family to feed? Its a rough world kid, learn how to do many things well. Take a night class on spanish, maybe then you could be manager at safeway in a couple years.

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now your post proves it...i never said you had no right to voice your opininon i say you have no right to cut down(no pun intended) a job you a) have no clue what goes on in. b) have never done. This recent post of yours shows how apparrently you have no clue as to what is going on despite my narration of events and their causes. the persons job is not to make their boss richer it is to provide a service for the public. We have a problem when the boss decides that he no onger needs the employees that got him there, this course of action that safeway is taking, will be the downfall of three parties, the "higher ups" of safeway i.e CEO VP's as they use all their money to support the company in this attempt to break the unions, The unions because they will hold to the last and not break until they are completely beaten, the workers of safeway trapped between this political war...and need i remind you that one this union breaks, and it will break, ALL unions will break as other companies follow suit that means ALL union workers will lose, the time for unions is gone and you fellow union worker are also in trouble, i would be looking at this with great interest.

Another thing...aim higher...oh darn maybe i should quit the 75+ a year job im in as it has no skill.....yes...1st cutter at my store made 75+ this year....and he didnt work for a whole month....manager makes more...and our 60yr old road cutter makes even more...so yes...i should find a better paying job.....

and secondly this isnt their company that they started from the ground up...(another example of your ignorace, ignorance that is running rampant through out your arguments and should quickly be quelled)...the original owner of safeway died a few years ago...and his motto was "the employee is the greatest asset of the company" times were good then...this 75+ a year for a meat cutter would be laughable...only person who made more then the meat cutting department was the store owner....after the meat department came the AM then the rest of the store...safeway is now owned by a bunch of investment bankers who feel that employees are the greatest liability and since their ownership...safeway stock has dropped from 60+ a share to the current 16...you try and figure the reasons...ill tell you some...they think they can do better then the original owner who made the company a worldwide power...and now...u havent even heard of it.

Thirdly you say i should learn to do many things...HA! i can do pretty much anything...that is why i am alredy a comprable cutter...after only a few short months...and the list of my abilities is quite vast...so before you a) attack a job; learn what is required in the job...and not base your arguments against the job on a two bit grocery joint that imports regular crap for product b) attack a person and his abilities without ever meeting him/her and/or have substansial evidence of your claim
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Woah. Let's get this straight.

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