Most men leave after eight months, or less.
The average meatpacker has a work-life expectancy of a year and a half. I saw this in a spiral notebook in the foreman's office. On the glossy cover it had a picture of a fat pig slapping hands with a white guy wearing an apron. I thought it was strange, the gleam in the pig's eye and the worker so friendly with his victim. But white guys are strange, and I don't even pretend to explain them.