We're doing an office move and I'm at the shipping end loading the truck. It's typical for our moves where the customers failed to observe the instructions of "Do not load bins overly heavy, there is a 40 lb maximum on all bins that we will move". Now, while I'm certainly not qualifying for any "world's strongest man" competitions, considering that I can lift a full box of photocopy paper with one arm, I'd say that I've got adequate strength if this instruction is followed. But since our bins hold about a box and a half worth of paper, they can get pretty chunky.
So that's what we're dealing with and suffice to say, I'm not very happy about it. Then we come across some boxes. I don't know what was inside of them but they were ridiculously heavy; I couldn't even lift them. It took me and my (bigger and stronger) helper just to move them. We went to the next box and it was even heavier. It was all we could do to get them stacked up. I made a comment to my buddy that I've got to check on the labour laws to see if there are limits on what we can be forced to lift. Just as a I said this, some asshole was climbing over our ramp and going through the off limits door so he overheard me. He could have easily kept it to himself, but he's got to make a comment to me:
DA: Oh, you got a problem with heavy things?
Me: Excuse me?!? Not that my private conversation with my friend here is any of your business but yeah, I don't like wrecking my body lifting ridiculously overloaded boxes.
DA: Well it's your job isn't it? You don't like doing your job?
Me: My job is to move things within the 40 lb limit listed in your instructions that apparently nobody bothered to read. To say nothing of common sense telling you that human beings have to move these things so maybe they shouldn't be packed at 100 pounds and more.
DA: You guys are movers, you should be able to do this.
Me: Yeah, and we are. Now if you don't mind please observe the safety protocols that were in your move instructions and stay the hell away from my truck.
With a final stare that told me that he'd be complaining about me, he finally moved on. I mean, just mind your fucking business asshole. "Wow, a worker griping about shitty working conditions in the privacy of a truck where nobody should hear him except for someone stupid enough to walk through the blocked off door. I should say something to him".
So that's what we're dealing with and suffice to say, I'm not very happy about it. Then we come across some boxes. I don't know what was inside of them but they were ridiculously heavy; I couldn't even lift them. It took me and my (bigger and stronger) helper just to move them. We went to the next box and it was even heavier. It was all we could do to get them stacked up. I made a comment to my buddy that I've got to check on the labour laws to see if there are limits on what we can be forced to lift. Just as a I said this, some asshole was climbing over our ramp and going through the off limits door so he overheard me. He could have easily kept it to himself, but he's got to make a comment to me:
DA: Oh, you got a problem with heavy things?
Me: Excuse me?!? Not that my private conversation with my friend here is any of your business but yeah, I don't like wrecking my body lifting ridiculously overloaded boxes.
DA: Well it's your job isn't it? You don't like doing your job?
Me: My job is to move things within the 40 lb limit listed in your instructions that apparently nobody bothered to read. To say nothing of common sense telling you that human beings have to move these things so maybe they shouldn't be packed at 100 pounds and more.
DA: You guys are movers, you should be able to do this.
Me: Yeah, and we are. Now if you don't mind please observe the safety protocols that were in your move instructions and stay the hell away from my truck.
With a final stare that told me that he'd be complaining about me, he finally moved on. I mean, just mind your fucking business asshole. "Wow, a worker griping about shitty working conditions in the privacy of a truck where nobody should hear him except for someone stupid enough to walk through the blocked off door. I should say something to him".
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