Food service or dairy products?

Never done dairy, but with foodservice I can tell you it gets better the longer you do it. The first 3 months is a steep learning curve, but it gets much easier as you start remembering the customers and the products. Having to dig for stuff will probably get better and worse in waves, but it gets easier when you recognize what you’re looking for.

I could never do dairy, having once worked in retail and seen firsthand how a pallet of milk falling over will ruin your day.

 

I totally understand your frustration and I would definitely feel the same way if I was in your position, but quitting a new job early is not going to help your prospects for getting hired someplace else - especially someplace better. Stick with it for a year and then you will have a lot more options available to you.

 

What he said. ^

 

A month in, you've pushed through some of the worst of it. You will always deal with stupid crap from the warehouse, but once you learn things better everything starts to fall in place better.

 

Ive worked for US foods for the last 10 years. Before that I worked for Byrne Diary in Syracuse, NY for 7 years. Milk is easier work, but more of a pain. Delivering a lot of grocery stores, which means waiting around for store receivers to check in other vendors. Soda, beer, bread, frito lay, sometimes you pull up to a big chain grocery store, and you’re in line behind 3-4 other trucks waiting. After running food service, where you generally drop and run, this kind of work can be a big change.

 

I’ve been in the milk business before. Good pay for sure. Gonna work for that money though. But if you can do food service, you can move milk.

Did you get the job?

 

If it was my neck of the woods I’d do milk only because they work 4 days on three days off