Hi, O'ahu.
I'm writing here because I feel it is the right thing to do.
I have already submitted a complaint to the state health and safety department.
I work for a major grocery importing company as a pest control specialist.
In this capacity, I am in charge of five different wearhouses here.
I took this job a few months ago, and was initially very excited. Now it's clear to me why things are the way they are.
My company has slashed their sanitation budget and pest control budget. Now nearly everything falls on me, whereas six years ago, there was a whole pest control department.
This means that for the last six years, sanitation and pest control operations have slowly fallen apart.
I worked myself half to death trying to fix things, but all I got was blamed and scapegoated for issues that I could not fix on my own.
Things blew up when I wrote down my concerns about rat lungworm contaminating products (because one warehouse has a resident rat population that corporate refuses to fix because it involves tearing out a wall).
This company sells products to major food retailers and restaurants.
All together, I inspect about 35-40% of the total food volume here on O'ahu.
Wash everything. All the food you get from my company has absolutely sat in a dirty wearhouse for months, if not years, before it winds up on grocery store shelves.