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Ah, Last night was just so fun. As background, i work for ExFed now. The one with the planes. Haven't posted in quite a bit because i left the food industry, and where i work now i like working there. Not much suck besides people shipping the worst boxes.
Why?
So last night, we had a few calloffs. It's normal to be 2-3 people undermanned. We're all used to it. What we aren't used to is having 2 more people taken from us and sent to others. So we were 4 people undermanned minimum. We are not used to that. Normally we have 6-8 people, not counting team leaders, on the line putting packages in containers. We had 6 people, counting 2 team leaders, on the line. That sucks, but alright, i'll go with it. We can still do it. Annoyance Level: 2.
That's expensive
My slide indicates that it is full. WHICH IS A LIE, because i'm looking at an empty slide. So that means a box is stuck up top. Joy upon joy. Coworker A climbs up and frees the box. But as he is coming down, i hear laughter. Don't usually hear that, so i say "Hey, what's up? What are you laughing for?" In answer to my question, i see a network hub* slide down. Yes, no box. Then i see the wires in the bags following it. He then appears, and shows me the box they used to ship it. Looked like Jaws got a hold of the box. There were 3 tears, RIPS, in the box. I have NOT seen a box with those rips before. Mostly, boxes get crushed. Not JAWD. Alright then, spending quite a bit of money to overnight a crap box. Oh wait, what's this in the box? What are they using to protect the box? Someone took 20 of these (http://aphnetworks.com/review/func_s...custom/001.JPG) tore them in half, and used it as padding. For an electronic piece. I've only seen one other box that was in crappier condition than this one, and it was carrying smaller boxes of carparts. I just had to shake my head. No annoyance level gained, but i laughed at whoever spent the money to overnight, and didnt spend it to protect the shipment. Which leads me to....
Does Florida have a Shortage?
I'm manning a slide that normally requires 2 people, for the amount of volume it produces. Annoyance Level: 3. So i'm picking up packages, and i notice the bottom is wet on a few. Wincing, I look at the slide underneath the packages. It's a lake. Groaning, I call the team lead, and start to investigate. I take off 15 boxes before i realize whatever it is, it's further up the slide. So I start climbing the slide. At this point, i realize I'm still pretty hungry, and I'm smelling Dr. Pepper. I shrug it off as my imagination, and give up the search as I'm halfway up the slide, and i still see nothing. I get back down, and get to work. 5 minutes later, as I'm clearing the other slide (yes, i had 2 slides to do) the Haz people comes around to take a look. They start clearing and cleaning, then boxes get stuck up the slide. I go BACK up to clear it, and the first box blocking it is our culprit. How do i know? Because its a box of Dr. Pepper. But how do i know it's Dr. Pepper? Because whoever shipped this box looked like be bought it from a store, and slapped a label on it. No box, nothing. All the cans ruptured. So whoever shipped it just spent 5.99 at the store, then at LEAST 30 bucks to overnight the Dr. Pepper, and did NOT spend ANYTHING AT ALL to ensure it gets to the destination intact. Smart. Now the boxes are going to stick to the slide, requiring me to get on the slide multiple times to unstick the boxes. Annoyance Level: 7
Who's supposed to do this?
So, also had to go out to the flight to help. Mmkay, that's cool. Extra hour. Got that done. Then our lead tells me, "Alright Kriv, we're going to the flight in the next gate. They need help." "me: Oh? What do they need help with?" "TL: Oh, they need it loaded."
So we start on it. Not to go into great details, but naturally, one tug is crap, they shuffled the load order, and by the end, we had 1 manager, 8 Team Leads, and 3 regular employees, myself included, out there. Needless to say, after seeing how many chiefs there were, coworker and i bailed. We were outnumbered, discretion is the better part of valor at this point. (besides, they were nearly done. And the manager was standing around, looking. Didn't want to attract attention) Annoyance Level: 7 (Unchanged)
So, get back, and my team lead again comes up and goes, "Hey buddy, how's it going?". I'm wary immediately. He goes, "Can you help the other guys in the line next to us move all those dollies in the back?". Since i do like having hours, i say yes. I get back there, and he is the ONLY ONE of his 50+ members of his line doing this. Annoyance Level: 9 This has happened to me before, so i just start putting stuff together, then making room at the destination. We get it done faster than he would have alone.
Left work an hour later than i should have, with a grand Annoyance Level of 9. That's pretty hard to obtain, seeing as how i like to work where i am. It's a vast improvement over fast food, though i dont get as many hours. I really didn't want to help, because of the previous stories and how annoyed i was. When coming back from the other flight, all i was thinking about was going home, but since i've been on the receiving end of no help, I stayed a little. Besides, Now he owes me.
* http://img.directindustry.com/images...73-2359919.jpg That's nearly what it was, but double the ports.
Why?
So last night, we had a few calloffs. It's normal to be 2-3 people undermanned. We're all used to it. What we aren't used to is having 2 more people taken from us and sent to others. So we were 4 people undermanned minimum. We are not used to that. Normally we have 6-8 people, not counting team leaders, on the line putting packages in containers. We had 6 people, counting 2 team leaders, on the line. That sucks, but alright, i'll go with it. We can still do it. Annoyance Level: 2.
That's expensive
My slide indicates that it is full. WHICH IS A LIE, because i'm looking at an empty slide. So that means a box is stuck up top. Joy upon joy. Coworker A climbs up and frees the box. But as he is coming down, i hear laughter. Don't usually hear that, so i say "Hey, what's up? What are you laughing for?" In answer to my question, i see a network hub* slide down. Yes, no box. Then i see the wires in the bags following it. He then appears, and shows me the box they used to ship it. Looked like Jaws got a hold of the box. There were 3 tears, RIPS, in the box. I have NOT seen a box with those rips before. Mostly, boxes get crushed. Not JAWD. Alright then, spending quite a bit of money to overnight a crap box. Oh wait, what's this in the box? What are they using to protect the box? Someone took 20 of these (http://aphnetworks.com/review/func_s...custom/001.JPG) tore them in half, and used it as padding. For an electronic piece. I've only seen one other box that was in crappier condition than this one, and it was carrying smaller boxes of carparts. I just had to shake my head. No annoyance level gained, but i laughed at whoever spent the money to overnight, and didnt spend it to protect the shipment. Which leads me to....
Does Florida have a Shortage?
I'm manning a slide that normally requires 2 people, for the amount of volume it produces. Annoyance Level: 3. So i'm picking up packages, and i notice the bottom is wet on a few. Wincing, I look at the slide underneath the packages. It's a lake. Groaning, I call the team lead, and start to investigate. I take off 15 boxes before i realize whatever it is, it's further up the slide. So I start climbing the slide. At this point, i realize I'm still pretty hungry, and I'm smelling Dr. Pepper. I shrug it off as my imagination, and give up the search as I'm halfway up the slide, and i still see nothing. I get back down, and get to work. 5 minutes later, as I'm clearing the other slide (yes, i had 2 slides to do) the Haz people comes around to take a look. They start clearing and cleaning, then boxes get stuck up the slide. I go BACK up to clear it, and the first box blocking it is our culprit. How do i know? Because its a box of Dr. Pepper. But how do i know it's Dr. Pepper? Because whoever shipped this box looked like be bought it from a store, and slapped a label on it. No box, nothing. All the cans ruptured. So whoever shipped it just spent 5.99 at the store, then at LEAST 30 bucks to overnight the Dr. Pepper, and did NOT spend ANYTHING AT ALL to ensure it gets to the destination intact. Smart. Now the boxes are going to stick to the slide, requiring me to get on the slide multiple times to unstick the boxes. Annoyance Level: 7
Who's supposed to do this?
So, also had to go out to the flight to help. Mmkay, that's cool. Extra hour. Got that done. Then our lead tells me, "Alright Kriv, we're going to the flight in the next gate. They need help." "me: Oh? What do they need help with?" "TL: Oh, they need it loaded."
So we start on it. Not to go into great details, but naturally, one tug is crap, they shuffled the load order, and by the end, we had 1 manager, 8 Team Leads, and 3 regular employees, myself included, out there. Needless to say, after seeing how many chiefs there were, coworker and i bailed. We were outnumbered, discretion is the better part of valor at this point. (besides, they were nearly done. And the manager was standing around, looking. Didn't want to attract attention) Annoyance Level: 7 (Unchanged)
So, get back, and my team lead again comes up and goes, "Hey buddy, how's it going?". I'm wary immediately. He goes, "Can you help the other guys in the line next to us move all those dollies in the back?". Since i do like having hours, i say yes. I get back there, and he is the ONLY ONE of his 50+ members of his line doing this. Annoyance Level: 9 This has happened to me before, so i just start putting stuff together, then making room at the destination. We get it done faster than he would have alone.
Left work an hour later than i should have, with a grand Annoyance Level of 9. That's pretty hard to obtain, seeing as how i like to work where i am. It's a vast improvement over fast food, though i dont get as many hours. I really didn't want to help, because of the previous stories and how annoyed i was. When coming back from the other flight, all i was thinking about was going home, but since i've been on the receiving end of no help, I stayed a little. Besides, Now he owes me.
* http://img.directindustry.com/images...73-2359919.jpg That's nearly what it was, but double the ports.
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