After the depressing three day weekend, I had an excruciating five days at work. Right after the remodel was finally done, the store got a new store manager, and some changes are being made, most of them for the worse. If we have two trucks, they can no longer start unloading the first truck before 4:00, when the unloaders (of which I'm one) come in. No matter how much is on the truck, the truck is expected to be completely unloaded by 6:00. This includes having the palletized freight off the truck, and having the breakpacks (reusable boxes that have assorted stuff) sorted. If we have a second truck, it is to be completed by 8:00. If we have an average size truck (somewhere from 1200 to 1800 pieces) then we might be able to get all the loose freight unloaded by 6:00, but the breakpacks probably won't be finished. But there's no way we can finish a truck larger than 2000 pieces in two hours. That many pieces is enough to fill up the usable portion of our small-ass room, and gods help us if we have a second truck because there will be no place to put the freight from it. So basically, in most cases there's no way we can finish two trucks in four hours, especially since we have to take a break after the first truck or we'll be likely to keel over from exhaustion before Lunch. But if we don't get these done on time, they'll start writing us up.
On Saturday, we had two trucks, one had about 2400 pieces, and the other had about 2200 pieces, adding up to a whopping 4600! It took us two and a half hours to do the first (and supposedly larger) truck, and it took us about three and a half hours to do the second truck! I stayed over for about an hour and ten minutes.
Dragon Lady had been on vacation, and she wasn't missed while she was gone. She returned on Wednesday, which was the first of the two two-truck nights that I worked this week. We only had one 1100 piece truck on Friday. We got all the loose freight done just after 6:00, but the palletized freight was still on there, and the breakpacks weren't finished. It should be noted that we had three new hires come in and work for the first time, so they weren't going to be too quick, and one of our guys was pulled off during the unloading to do something different. Dragon Lady stopped us on our way to the breakroom, and couldn't believe that we didn't quite have everything done, and spouted off a bunch of bullshit. Towards the end of her rant, she said to our acting lead, "These other guys are looking at me like I'm an idiot." You don't know how hard I had to repress the urge to say, "That's because you are!" Granted, she's just taking orders from higher up, but that doesn't mean I can't despise her way of dealing with it. Thankfully, we didn't have to deal with her on Saturday.
I can't help but feel that this is a shitty time to be living in the U.S., and I'm not even worried about the stock market! The stock market, especially the Dow Jones, never really seemed to reflect how me or the average American was doing financially. Or to quote Morrissey, "It speaks nothing to me about my life." I was just thinking that when Morrissey says "Hang the blessed D.J.", you can use D.J. to mean Dow Jones. :)
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