more workplace drama

Well, I finally got a hold of one of my coworkers from the sub shop to find out exactly what happened that people are getting food poisoning there. Something was obviously quite wrong, and I'm still trying to figure out how this didn't become a big issue, and no complaints were even filed. Seriously, why was that place allowed to continue serving people, if it was making those people sick?

Anyway... according to this guy, he was putting away some of our deliveries last week, and discovered that our manager (and here I've been cursing out our newbie) has not been rotating the stock back in the cooler. New shipments would come in, and she'd just thrown them on to the shelf, without pulling the older stuff front to be used first. So the deli meat in the back just got older and older. When this guy found it, the meat was marked as being good until December 2005. That's almost a year ago. Unfortunately, by the time he found this, some of it had already been sliced and used in a few sandwiches, including one that was eaten by LG's boss, resulting in food poisoning. Of course, since no one that's gotten sick has called and filed a real complaint about this, no real action will be taken. The old stuff was thrown out, but the manager is not in any sort of trouble. After all, it's not like selling people horribly old deli meat and making them drastically ill is anything to be concerned about! (If you can't tell, I'm being sarcastic). Something like that could actually kill a person.

The whole situation really ticks me off. I've been debating about a job I was offered a few weeks ago. My pastor wants me to help run the youth program at my church, and promised that my current income would remain the same. The position doesn't fully seem practical. It would involve going home every other weekend, if not every single weekend. That's a lot of gas getting used up there. Not to mention the tolls on the turnpike. It would be a total of $5 every trip. That starts to add up after a few weeks. However, this incident is making me look a little more favorably on that idea. I don't want to be associated with a place that doesn't care about it's costumers, and where the service could damn well kill you. Besides, I'd have more fun working with the little people, and I've already got all sorts of ideas for lessons to do with them, field trips to go on, fun nights we could have, ect. Besides... I've got a new prospect for summertime employment as well, baby-sitting two little girls while their parents are at work, it would be full time, and the mother of these kids said she'd also pay me around the same amount as the sub shop did. So over the school year I'd be working with the youth at my church and working here on campus, and over the summer I'd be working with the youth and babysitting.

Now I just need to decide when I'm handing in my two-weeks notice.