Rapid City/Black Hills Area Butchers.

[Jammie]

Originally Posted by hubarlow

I quite understand about the fear of men in white coats. When I worked in the pack there in Rapid, I was stabbed 3 times by a man in a white coat! Of course, it WAS by accident. The newbie next to me kept forgetting to put the point of his knife FLAT on the table! I would be cutting away and impale myself on the point of his blade! I guess it made up for the 2 times I did THE SAME THING as a newbie to the poor guy next to me! ;-) I didn't feel too bad though since the guy that got me 3 times eventually skinned his fingerprints off on the skinner machine because he refused to wear the protective gloves. I guess it doesn't pay to come in to work with a hangover and ignore the safety precautions. :-( Needless to say, I was a bit wary around the guys with the bloody white coats!

Hey, I think I like yours sense of humor.

[hubarlow]

The worst part was that the guy was kind of a friend of mine. He had family out on the Rez and didn't have a car, so I would take him out there on weekends and drop him off. When he came back to work on Monday, he was usually wasted. That's when he would get sloppy and hurt himself or someone else. Everybody KNEW that when you worked the skinner you needed your steel and nylon gloves. One Monday he chose not to use them and the skinner grabbed his cotton gloves and took his hands into the blade. It was his own fault. No-one felt sorry for him. You come to work drunk and stupid you are bound to get hurt. The problem comes when you hurt someone ELSE. Yes, my sense of humor is a bit different. It bugs my wife to no end. We now live in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas and a large portion of the population here has a tenuous grasp of English at best. I make comments that are often plays on words and they fly above the heads of people here on a regular basis. My wife often gets them and chides me as the unwitting victim of my humor looks blankly at me without comprehension. The worst part is, my wordplay is never mean or mean-spirited. It is simply beyond the grasp of the average person here in the Valley to follow. Every once in a great while someone will get something I say and we laugh together about it. Usually I end up laughing by myself at the blank look on the face of the other person as they try to figure out what I just said.

[sdgoldpanner]

Rapid City Western Meats is still in business and have job offerings once in a while.

Bob

[Thieroff]

Originally Posted by sdgoldpanner

Rapid City Western Meats is still in business and have job offerings once in a while.

Bob

Hey Bob, thanks for the information.

I've actually traded emails with a fellow from that place by the name of Bruce.

They are actually a buffalo processing outfit now.

CT

[hubarlow]

Let's just hope they are not owned by the same unscrupulous people who owned it WHEN I worked there when it was called The Black Hills Packing Plant. The plant was on a show (I think it was 20/20 or something like that) that exposed all of the unsafe work practices and unhealthy meat handling practices that were going on about a month or 2 after I left. I saw guys I KNEW who knew better use unsafe practices because the company forced them to work too fast. It was a common problem when I worked there. It is one of the reasons I am a Vegetarian today. I do NOT trust the food processed in plants like that. I saw the things that went on there first hand on a daily basis and do NOT trust the FDA or the USDA to keep MY health as it's first priority.

[ireland2]

I am trying to contact some distant relative in Wagner. Descendents of \mrs Ella Conger whose mother was catherine Kelly ( nee Murray ) from Ireland. Whats the name of local paper in Wager. Many thanks if you can help

[egg man]

The newspaper in Wagner is THE WAGNER POST you can reach them at:
http://www.wagnerpost.com

Hope you find who you are looking for.