Resigned Acceptance.....

[Department stores *sigh*]

So i started my new job about a mo nth back and I have now left the the Canadian version of Wal-Mart. So far everything is going great, I love my new workplace and my managers seem to want to keep me for fulltime

Now the story about my first night on the "SKUD". This is a drivable fork that we use to transport up to 6 pallets at once around the store. Not to hard to menuever once you get used to it. Just drive smart.

On the first night someone was in my way and I decided to mosey past him with a fancy tiny swerve move I had been using all night. Only beforehand I had been using it on normal speed. This time I did it at "Rabbit" speed.

Long story short on the way out of my fancy swerve I managed to send my first pallet flying off my skud. This was a pallet of about $600.00 worth of chocolate in tins. This pallet managed to go flying into a pallet of bananas......which fell onto a pallet of apples.....which fell into a pallet of lemons and potatoes.....which knicked a pallet of pears.

My manager came running over laughing his head off and told me "Dont worry, thats first of many spills, just be more careful!!!!"

Another manager came up and said "We should go and see what his expression was on the camera when he realised he lost a pallet!!!!" My only response?

"All you would see is resigned acceptance..."

[Knightmare]

It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye.
Or a leg, or gets run over, or something even worse.

Not to be mean.. but what the hell were you thinking? I'm sure you had to watch safety videos? They are there for a reason.

If you haven't seen it before, here is an excellent video on forklift safety. It's in German, but subtitled.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdjt6Bl5qdY

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I'm with Knightmare. Not cool. Showboating on forklifts generally isn't a good idea.

[Geek King]

Ditto on the forklift safety admonisions. It is much more effective to holler something fairly offensive at the slow poke.

[digilight]

Ok, now that we've had the admonishments of forklift safety (I've never used one so I can't talk on that). I've gotta say that you have some pretty fuggen cool managers. I would imagine that most would be shitting purple chia pets at that point. And yours just find it funny.

[Department stores *sigh*]

haha yah iof course it was a 100% completely retarded move but hearing some other stories about forklift screw ups mine sure came off as pretty minor. our most experienced guy, about 15 yrs on forks, dropped a pallet of refridgerators from about 40 ft two years back. o well everyone makes mistakes i guess

[Acolyte]

All businesses account for losses in shipping and storage, it's just a fact of life. Shit happens.

[Department stores *sigh*]

heh just an update out there for those who pointed out what a retarded move it was. I now got the full training on the equipment, something i lacked on the first day, and have been using it everyday since with no more repeated incidents. We went over the scenario again during my actual training and it helped a whole bunch. Now not only do i know what the machine is capable of but now I have a thorough understanding of what it is NOT capable of. Gunna have to peg my first day on it as one of those 'wtf was I thinking' moments. Unfortunatly the moment was while I was on something dangerouse which should never happen :/ Hopefully smooth sailing from here on out


(btw the same situation happened today, except this time i layed on the horn until the dumbarse moved his butt)