In urban SoCal we have industrial citrus sorting and industrial bakeries.
I worked at the former. Imagine massive crates of citrus being opened and having to sort through the oranges in 20F wearing stuff that won't keep you warm (because its SoCal you dont own warm clothes for 20F cold and they pay you so little you wouldn't be able to afford it anyways). Out of every 10 oranges, 4 of them are rotten or moldy, so you throw the rotten oranges on the ground until the rotten oranges reach to your mid-thigh. You do the same menial task for 8-10 hours a day tired af, with only 2 breaks (1 15 minutes the other 30 minutes).
On the flipside you have the industrial bakeries, which I didn't work at but was described as an endless furnace where everything will burn you.
Mind you there was an even colder storage next to us where they would keep other fruit not yet ready for transport, and all the people who worked there had their faces wrapped in scarves to keep their faces from being frostbitten.
The other thing I remember is every once in a while we would get a dead tarantula in the boxes of oranges whenever we had shipments from South America
In urban SoCal we have industrial citrus sorting and industrial bakeries.
I worked at the former. Imagine massive crates of citrus being opened and having to sort through the oranges in 20F wearing stuff that won't keep you warm (because its SoCal you dont own warm clothes for 20F cold and they pay you so little you wouldn't be able to afford it anyways). Out of every 10 oranges, 4 of them are rotten or moldy, so you throw the rotten oranges on the ground until the rotten oranges reach to your mid-thigh. You do the same menial task for 8-10 hours a day tired af, with only 2 breaks (1 15 minutes the other 30 minutes).
On the flipside you have the industrial bakeries, which I didn't work at but was described as an endless furnace where everything will burn you.
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Mind you there was an even colder storage next to us where they would keep other fruit not yet ready for transport, and all the people who worked there had their faces wrapped in scarves to keep their faces from being frostbitten.
The other thing I remember is every once in a while we would get a dead tarantula in the boxes of oranges whenever we had shipments from South America
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It doesn't stay there for very long, if you've ever eaten a Cutie orange its come from the facility Im talking about.
The ones in the colder freezer would come in unripened and sprayed with ethylene gas to ripen them from what I was told.
I bought so many nice wool sweaters at thrift stores in socal. Apparantly people move there and just ditch their warm clothing.