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Yipee, my last day of work
Today I finished five weeks of work at Supergros the Herning department – the same place as last year. Great to be moving on. Supergros is a big, danish grosserer that delivers food, drinks and loads of other goods to all of Denmark and various other countries.
What I have been doing there is driving around on a truck and pack these goods from the huge store room on pallets. There’s about fifty others of my kind and we’re basically at the bottom of the hierarchy. But it’s all right. I like that the only worry you have is which order you’re going to pick the next time – is it too big, too small or does it fit. It’s all about timing so you won’t have to work over – even though I haven’t been afraid of doing overtime. Most of the people out there are all right, and when you come home, you can forget all about work and just do nothing – something I’m not used to from school. My mate Morten – who has also been working there, for a year actually – made a video using his cell. I’ll see if I can get that sometime soon and maybe post it to give you an insight to the everyday life at Supergros.
I’d also like to tell something about what kept me alive out there. It is pretty humdrum and usually it is the breaks that keep you alive (a pre-caution: to workers of Supergros, don’t get me wrong here, it’s a great place to work and I’d like to come back next year) but I found something else to boost time a bit.
A couple of years ago I started listening to the pod cast of the Ricky Gervais show and when I finished that, I moved on to the radio show. There’s many episodes since it ran every week some years ago. So I never finished it. But then a few weeks ago when I sat on my truck at Supergros and scrolled down on my ipod, I came across The Ricky Gervais radio show. I started to listen to it again, loved it and didn’t stopped until every episode was heard. I really love this show, it’s just brilliant even though it’s just three blokes talking. It stares Ricky Gervais obviously and Stephen Merchant, the brains behind The Office and Extras (which I also love), and Karl Pilkington, indescribable. Sure, it may work best when you do stupid work that doesn’t require much brain activity, but I’d still recommend you to listen to it or at least try it. I’ve attached a small audio clip here as an appetizer. Enjoy!
Contact me if you want to know where to get all of the shows.
