Last resort for Joe turns into a Godsend
JOE HUPP loves his job but for a long time he was concerned he wasn’t go to find employment in Dubbo.
He got his start at Fletcher International Exports almost 11 years ago and hasn’t looked back.
“I was just needing work at the time and Breakthrough People Solutions got me out here,” Joe said.
Eleven years ago he had no idea the job would turn into his career.
“No, not at all, I was looking at something else and that didn’t turn out to be, so this was the last resort,” Joe said.
“I now know this wasn’t the last resort, I’m glad the other thing didn’t work out, and I’ve realised that Fletchers was a great career choice. I’ve been able to do a lot of things with my life now, and all the training I’ve received has been so helpful.
“I’ve done loadout, slaughter floor, cold boning room, hot boning room and the silos and other things, at the moment I’m doing wool classing, machine operations and also help out wherever I’m needed,” he said.
Joe’s a huge fan of the vast array of in-house training options and believes many Fletchers workers have benefitted enormously from the help so close at hand, across so many fields of endeavour.
“It’s phenomenal. It’s been a Godsend and it’s taught me how to be more resilient as well,” Joe said.
“I’ve made a lot of friends, people from different departments, not just my own, and people from across the world – the multiculturalism here is beyond belief, the two guys working with me here are from South Korea, we’ve got Germans, we had people from all different countries.
“It’s opened my eyes to a lot of different countries that I could travel to and I’ve been invited to England and New Zealand just to name two,” he said.
Joe said most people consider Fletcher International Exports as an abattoir on the outskirts of the city and have no idea of the company’s importance to Dubbo across the board.
“It is vitally important, if it wasn’t for Fletchers there would be a lot of people without work,” Joe said.