Seems I have gotten up the nose of a few people, unfortunately I am not one of those people who act like mushrooms and lie still while having heaps of manure pored over them.
Briefly this is what happened:
Last Wednesday I received a small amount of freight on the Northern Ranger, plus witnessed some antiquated freight handling by the crew. I sent off photos and a description of my complaint to civil servants, politicians and company reps. Received no response on that to date.
On Thursday and Friday I, along with many others, were continually going to the stores looking for a fresh shipment of produce. It was warmish weather, ideal for a salad, cream cheese on your bagel, fresh fruit for desert; you know those rare [for us] little delights that put a little sunshine into the diet.
No such little delights were on the shelves by 2PM yesterday. Weather was fine, planes coming and going all week.
So I take some photos of the shelves in 2 stores and attach them to an e mail and send it off to the same civil servants, Politicians, plus to the media.
Whoa baby, did that get a response post hast. One from a representative of the airline [who received my e mail from an industry colleague] that brings the food by mail.
Seems all the freight issues are some one else’s problems, even indicating it may be people on the receiving end.
A little later I get an e mail from the politically appointed provincial civil servant handling the file. The usual condescending tone along with the usual commitment that “we are all in this together and we are working to solve the issues”. [This has been going on for 3 + years, no discernable changes to date].
I may have ignored this rant but he added that the airline was “doing a great job and the problem must lie somewhere else, we will work together to find the evil doer’s” [paraphrased].
So I have sent off responses to both and cc to all the usual suspects, so to speak.
Do I expect any big changes? Well no, but I have principals and like to sleep well at night.
In the interest of fairness to BigLand, here are some photos taken today at 1.30 PM. The old stock has been removed and replaced with the fresh produce. Unlike assertions by some, the extras are stored in upright coolers in the sales section, quite in the open, no walls hiding things.
Briefly this is what happened:
Last Wednesday I received a small amount of freight on the Northern Ranger, plus witnessed some antiquated freight handling by the crew. I sent off photos and a description of my complaint to civil servants, politicians and company reps. Received no response on that to date.
On Thursday and Friday I, along with many others, were continually going to the stores looking for a fresh shipment of produce. It was warmish weather, ideal for a salad, cream cheese on your bagel, fresh fruit for desert; you know those rare [for us] little delights that put a little sunshine into the diet.
No such little delights were on the shelves by 2PM yesterday. Weather was fine, planes coming and going all week.
So I take some photos of the shelves in 2 stores and attach them to an e mail and send it off to the same civil servants, Politicians, plus to the media.
Whoa baby, did that get a response post hast. One from a representative of the airline [who received my e mail from an industry colleague] that brings the food by mail.
Seems all the freight issues are some one else’s problems, even indicating it may be people on the receiving end.
A little later I get an e mail from the politically appointed provincial civil servant handling the file. The usual condescending tone along with the usual commitment that “we are all in this together and we are working to solve the issues”. [This has been going on for 3 + years, no discernable changes to date].
I may have ignored this rant but he added that the airline was “doing a great job and the problem must lie somewhere else, we will work together to find the evil doer’s” [paraphrased].
So I have sent off responses to both and cc to all the usual suspects, so to speak.
Do I expect any big changes? Well no, but I have principals and like to sleep well at night.
These are just 2 of the 5 pictures I sent. Northern1 shows where the fresh produce would be. There are some freshly arrived spuds, turnip carrot to the fare right shelves.
The Big Land3 shows part of the produce section, shown is old stock, wilted, mildewed, and wrinkled. No salad stuff, fresh fruit, sour cream.
So who has the bigger issue here folks? Who is being done over royally?
The Big Land3 shows part of the produce section, shown is old stock, wilted, mildewed, and wrinkled. No salad stuff, fresh fruit, sour cream.
So who has the bigger issue here folks? Who is being done over royally?
Update:
Just back from the shops on a dreary drizzly day. Not really salad weather for the next number of days according to the weather forecast.
BigLand had all the old stale stuff cleared of their shelves and replaced by fresh produce that arrived at the Nain airstrip at 8.30 in the PM of yesterday evening.
Majority of the items in good to reasonable shape, we purchased some corn on the cob, green onions, cucumber.
Strawberries were the exception; they were on sale for .99 cents a punnet. Mildew over many of the berries and strawberry juice was evident in the large container. While we were there we witnessed one lady buy one, juice was dripping all over the place.
Down at Northern things were a bit slower; the produce was still being unpacked in their produce ready area. We purchased some tomatoes and a broccoli, both in good shape, bananas were in good shape, rest of stuff not unpacked.
Again the problem was the strawberries; these did not need to be unpacked to see the problem. The box containing them was leaking red juice on the floor. The Northern staffer who handles the produce had to go home to change his cloths; they had strawberries juice all over them.
BigLand had all the old stale stuff cleared of their shelves and replaced by fresh produce that arrived at the Nain airstrip at 8.30 in the PM of yesterday evening.
Majority of the items in good to reasonable shape, we purchased some corn on the cob, green onions, cucumber.
Strawberries were the exception; they were on sale for .99 cents a punnet. Mildew over many of the berries and strawberry juice was evident in the large container. While we were there we witnessed one lady buy one, juice was dripping all over the place.
Down at Northern things were a bit slower; the produce was still being unpacked in their produce ready area. We purchased some tomatoes and a broccoli, both in good shape, bananas were in good shape, rest of stuff not unpacked.
Again the problem was the strawberries; these did not need to be unpacked to see the problem. The box containing them was leaking red juice on the floor. The Northern staffer who handles the produce had to go home to change his cloths; they had strawberries juice all over them.
In the interest of fairness to BigLand, here are some photos taken today at 1.30 PM. The old stock has been removed and replaced with the fresh produce. Unlike assertions by some, the extras are stored in upright coolers in the sales section, quite in the open, no walls hiding things.
I did not take pictures at Northrn again, not all that much produce there now. No strawberries are out on the shelves, will follow up on those.
2 comments:
looks like CBC news picked up on your plight brian.
Hi TM,
CBC Goose Bay played it this morning, anything on the ISLAND portion?
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