I'm back

Well... The training went as I assumed it would. Everybody bowing at the administrations feet. All the big wigs were gloating about how much they do and how smart they are. It was almost nausiating. The biggest shame was the other people that were in the training doing a lot of ass kissing too. YUCK! I kept my mouth shut and observed mostly. I couldn't believe how STUPID the other cooks are. They asked the dumbest questions. All in all it was nice to get away for 2 and a half days. The first part of the training was interesting. The food production center is huge. They prepare all the "Cook/chill" food for all the prisons across the entire state. For those of you who don't know what cook chill is,,,
2 gal, boil-in bags of ready to heat and serve meals. We get appoximately 300 to 400 bags in a week. We have 1200 inmates in our prison. One meal alone will use about 33 2 gal. bags of chili and 33 bags of soup for example. It's a big undertaking to control all of it AND coordinate all the other frozen meals too. "Cook/chill" takes up about 40% of our menu and the food production handles all of that for the 70,000 people incarcerated in our state prisons. Now THAT is a huge undertaking! That doesn't include county, city or local jail systems. Yup! We got a lot o' bad folk in our state.
They took us out for dinner on tues and wed. Nice family style food but boring company. I did go to the casino that night. I walked in with 50$ and walked out with 120$. I noticed there was a show that night too and just happened to catch "Bare Naked Ladies" just as they went onstage. It was a good show, fun.
The next day yeilded another story though. I lost the 120 and dipped into my card for more than that! EWWwwwww! I NEVER do that but,, what the hell... I had fun people watching and drinking sodas all night.
Anyway,, It was an intersesting 3 days and the day back at work made me appreciate pampering myself once in a while.
I just hope they never send me to another area again that has a casino close by.