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The Lord Bude posted:I was gonna say people don’t normally poo poo themselves, but I’ve worked in retail long enough to know that isn’t the case nearly as often as I’d like it to be. Yeah. I take great solace in that no matter how bad the future may be, may get, if I somehow reach an advanced old age, and grocery stores are still around, I will never, ever be at risk of dying of constipation. 
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For gently caress's sakes, didn't even start my second week here and I already got called in for a "we need you here now" call in
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LOL, new security guy today. I work in one of the Amazon centers that has security on the way out because we handle poo poo that people keep thinking they can steal. I used to think this was normal until I got promoted/transferred to transportation where I can be sent to entirely separate facilities to cover driver shortages. Anyways, most of the security crew know about us transportation people. Especially the ones that do shifts New guy sees two phones in my bag when it goes through the X-Ray machine. "Sir! Do you have two phones?" "Yes. I'm TOM Team." Normally this would be the end of it: security notices my orange vest (denoting I've been promoted and can have all sorts of odd tasks such as being a good home for an adopted phone) and asks a few questions mainly out of curiosity. This guy was obviously thinking he made it big: he just started and he already caught a thief! One who's using his vaunted position to get away with stealing stuff. "Sir! I'm going to have ask you to unlock these phones to prove that they are yours!" At which point the other guard working the other X-ray machine tuns around, looks at who he's talking to and rolls her eyes. Normally I wouldn't get too worked up about it but the way he was getting all rabid guard dog got to me. As was the disappointed sad face he made when I casually unlocked both and walked away. Dude really thought he had a thief.
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Apr 17, 2024 12:08
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Wonder how many times that guy has applied to be a cop
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Apr 17, 2024 12:28
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That's basically how I felt.
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Apr 17, 2024 12:35
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This is why you always leave goatse up when you lock your phones.
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Leal posted:For gently caress's sakes, didn't even start my second week here and I already got called in for a "we need you here now" call in Got another call today. Said no because I need to get things done that I was going to do yesterday before I work the next few days I was actually scheduled for
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Apr 18, 2024 00:59
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Was stranded at work for 2 hours tonight because the cops shut down my only walking route home and no-one working the rest of the overnight drove. Feels great walking past a large bloodstain where the road was shut down and having to keep thinking about the next day’s work.
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Apr 21, 2024 04:34
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On the bright side; the large bloodstain was not inside the store. Those are a pain in the rear end to clean.
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Now that I'm a yard dog I no longer get to deal with the bullshit of being labor shared between departments because some corporate jackasses think it's best to scramble people around and piss them off. Instead I get labor shared between buildings! Which is honestly way better and pays mileage. I have building and yard access to three sites. My home Amazon FC site (yard is small and busy), an AMXL site (yard is loving ginormous and there's barely enough work to keep 2 drivers from falling asleep but policy demands those two drivers) and a Sort Center. Despite doing my training at the latter I really haven't driven there much beyond some initial familiarization with the hostlers. I have to say that I dislike this yard. It's tiny and cramped and has hills which just complicates everything. Love trying to park a trailer only you have to get your wheels right up to a 10 foot drop to get the angle you need to back it in. Also fun was disconnecting from a trailer and hearing it wanting to slide sideways because the entire parking spot is tilted. I quickly learned all the absolutely cursed spots in the yard and used my override to move any parking location I didn't like. Which was a lot of them because the system really wanted to put trailers in spots 401 and 402 (the aforementioned "get right up to that drop if you want to have a hope of parking here" spots) or 801/802 (Hey you just came down a hill and the rear end of your trailer is up in the air and really wants to keep going down as you try to maneuver). Though going by lean of some of these trees in the yard, they have some SWIFT winds coming through: 
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Apr 21, 2024 20:22
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 I thought my warehouse was really bad about stacking and wrapping their pallets until I saw this monstrosity for someone else.
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Apr 25, 2024 20:26
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Leal posted:For gently caress's sakes, didn't even start my second week here and I already got called in for a "we need you here now" call in "sorry I've been drinking"
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Apr 25, 2024 21:01
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I would like to pretend I have not had the "gently caress it I'm just throwing more wrap at this until it stops wobbling" approach to stock pallets but ehhhh.
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Apr 25, 2024 21:31
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Admiral Joeslop posted:
I would not want to be the poor sap that has to finally cut this open, much less take it apart
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Apr 25, 2024 21:46
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It's fine you just have to painstakingly cut out and remove one item at a time out of those top two rows, which will take a good 20 minutes to do while the assman is all  WHY THE HELL ARE YOU TAKING SO LONG IT'S JUST ONE PALLET
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Apr 25, 2024 21:48
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Do cans/bottles typically survive stuff like that or do you have to write things off?
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Apr 25, 2024 22:11
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Well today has been a day: started at 3 AM to get to the training yard at 4 AM. Why? Because I'm going for take 2 of my CDL test, and to get our retakes the training company couldn't get any slots local so we gotta dravel 2.5 hours to Houston and ideally be there when they open because someone has a testing time then. Long story: I passed! Wooo! Got my CDL! Also holy poo poo bad drivers become even more infuriating when you're driving a big truck. No, I will not pull out in front of you: you're the maniac who came to a full and complete stop on a Houston highway access road to let a truck in. You have the right of way: MOVE! It's now 7 PM and I'm home and I'm absolutely dead tired.
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Admiral Joeslop posted:
They were playing Jenga at the warehouse, and somehow you lost.
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Alkydere posted:Well today has been a day: started at 3 AM to get to the training yard at 4 AM. Why? Because I'm going for take 2 of my CDL test, and to get our retakes the training company couldn't get any slots local so we gotta dravel 2.5 hours to Houston and ideally be there when they open because someone has a testing time then. congrats sir! did you name your rig Optimus Prime? because you should. my van camera is named Soundwave.
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Apr 26, 2024 01:29
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Pekinduck posted:Do cans/bottles typically survive stuff like that or do you have to write things off? Bottles and cans are very strong, when stacked up and down and wrapped tightly. They do not survive a lot of mild contact to the sides from the skids being tossed around the warehouse; doesn't stop my warehouse from still sending the slop. It would be a pain in the rear end because that thing was over 6' and you have to slowly go layer by layer without cutting the plastic until it can balance itself. Volmarias posted:They were playing Jenga at the warehouse, and somehow you lost. Hey pal that ain't my skid, that's a local distributor who gets to deal with it.
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LOL, I don't have my own truck yet. Honestly probably gonna be just driving for Amazon for a few years to get experience before jumping elsewhere. Also holy poo poo are parking maneuver tests maddening when the test field is basically a grid of cones. I had to use both of my get outs during my parallel parking to figure out where the gently caress I was and which cones I should use as a reference:  So yeah, day's over at 6-7 PM and I'm absolutely tired and so glad I have the next two days off. Oh and on the way back, one of the trainers was driving the truck back to the yard and got in a wreck. Apparently some lady pulled over to the edge of the 2-lane highway, let a couple of other vehicles pass her then tried to pull a U-turn in front of the truck. Everyone was alive (if not entirely okay), and apparently there were multiple witnesses including an EMT who was on the way to work that it was entirely the lady's fault. Still it was utterly shocking when we're driving back with our trainer and she accepts a call from her husband (they were/are a very close and loving husband/wife couple) and he calls clearly shaken up about how he was in a bad wreck. Her phone was connected to the SUV's bluetooth so we all got to hear both sides as he's all shook up, in full adrenaline high and going "Oh god, there was a kid in the car!" (Again, kid was okay other than a gash across his forehead). He called a few more times and we got updates about how the truck and car were beyond hosed but everyone was okay.
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Apr 26, 2024 01:45
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Admiral Joeslop posted:
Every time I get a pallet like this somehow an over enthusiastic newbie who's just been given their first box cutter will fly in out of nowhere and just slice this thing top to bottom and send it everywhere.
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Apr 26, 2024 02:10
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To be fair all of us have walked around a store looking for things to cut the first time we get a knife to call our own.
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njsykora posted:To be fair all of us have walked around a store looking for things to cut the first time we get a knife to call our own. I once worked on a Wal-Mart store opening, and they had a Murphy USA gas station on the corner of the lot that was open for business way before the actual Wal-Mart was open. The construction contractor had put a chain-link fence around the perimeter of the Wal-Mart and its parking lot, but the fence of course didn't enclose the open gas station. All of the chain link sections were like modular stand-alone pieces bound by zip ties or string. I always felt a tremendous sense of satisfaction on my daily trek to the gas station during my break to buy snacks when I used my box cutter to slice away whatever bullshit the construction people had put up that morning to try and maintain the integrity of the fence sections and block us from illicit exiting through unauthorized parts of the fence.
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Admiral Joeslop posted:
Someone got really high and decided they would just spend their time at work that day making sculptures of Trump’s penis out of whatever they had on hand.
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I swear I was stopped by every customer I was anywhere near today and they weren't just asking where is x, they wanted technical stuff and recommendations. One person pulled up a youtube video and asked if I knew the size of a piece of wood in the video. The gently caress? No, I can't tell the dimensions of a piece of a wood on a video on a phone screen!
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Leal posted:I swear I was stopped by every customer I was anywhere near today and they weren't just asking where is x, they wanted technical stuff and recommendations. One person pulled up a youtube video and asked if I knew the size of a piece of wood in the video. The gently caress? No, I can't tell the dimensions of a piece of a wood on a video on a phone screen! what do they even paying you for, you slacker??? that reminds me: The other night, I knocked over a single glass bottle of BBQ sauce. very minor! I call the front desk, and they are sending maintenence. so, I wait there, directing people around, as per company protocol, watching so nobody hurts themselves on the sauce/glass mixture, or spreads it. there were one of two reactions from the customers: "thank you." and "HISS!!!! HOW DARE HE! HE'S JUST *STANDING THERE* USING what looks to be..... A PERSONAL CELLULAR DEVICE!!???!?? HISSSSS!!! HISSSS!!!!!!!" trembling and shaking rage, just people absolutely losing their freaking minds lol wtf
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A while back I posted about the gondola almost-collapse during my store remodel. Well, it had picked up a pretty good lean over the month or so since it was fuckered, I had 20 minutes left so I grabbed the levelling wrench and went to straighten it out. I fixed 3 sections, then jabbed the wrench under the next leg and "That's weird, it's not hitting the foot..." I popped off the kick plate to have a look, fully expecting they had not even bothered to screw down the foot to touch the floor. What I found was even weirder.  Huh. That's definately not supposed to be under there anymore. It turns out when they 'fixed' the gondola, they just left 2 train skates in. I sent a picture to the SM, who sent it to the DM, and poo poo is Going Down. DM is coming next Tuesday along with Regional, I've already volunteered to tell them all the sketchy poo poo I saw during the remodel. We heard down the grapevine that the remodel lead blamed all of her fuckups on her two assistants, and got one of them fired. I'm looking forward to telling the RM the truth behind that one, I'm part time I don't give a gently caress. I don't even know how you would get a gondola skate back out from there, since the train kit got shipped on to the next location so we don't have the Big loving Crowbar at our location anymore.
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Does the remodel team work for your company too or were they another company?
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Enos Shenk posted:A while back I posted about the gondola almost-collapse during my store remodel. Well, it had picked up a pretty good lean over the month or so since it was fuckered, I had 20 minutes left so I grabbed the levelling wrench and went to straighten it out. Oh man I didn't know Boeing had a store remodel subsidiary!
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lol just fielded the first angry customer observation about the lack of American Flag on my storefront. I have an OPEN banner hanging from the flagpole now. You can see four other 3x5+ American flags from the doorway fuckin burgerbrains.
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2 and a half months since my last interview I finally got an email back from them saying I was declined for the job. Yeah no poo poo, I figured as much when I didn't hear back for 2 months. This place I applied and was hired in 3 days.
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Enos Shenk posted:A while back I posted about the gondola almost-collapse during my store remodel. Well, it had picked up a pretty good lean over the month or so since it was fuckered, I had 20 minutes left so I grabbed the levelling wrench and went to straighten it out. I yearn to know the fallout from this 
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Admiral Joeslop posted:Does the remodel team work for your company too or were they another company? A company travelling team that gets touted as the Elite. The remodel boss would regularly brag about being able to merchandise an entire department herself, then struggle to do one aisle a night. SM sent along the pictures of the wheels under the gondola. They made the remodel boss drive 12 hours to get them and fix a table which takes laid down flat rugs where they left out a brace and it almost collapsed. She got the wheels out, levelled the one gondola run, claimed she levelled the others (She did not), moved some rugs and probably got tired and said "Here's the part, it's an easy fix. You guys can do it." Apparently the SM went nuclear on the DM who claimed she couldn't pass it along because "You signed off on it, you should have caught these issues." The remodel boss was hanging around bragging about getting BOTH of her assistants fired because of our build. Then was telling our cashier "They paired me up with two new guys, I got rid of them too because they didn't know anything." Gleeful about it, she's a loving snake and pretty representative of the upper management at my company from what I've seen. Yes, I have applications in elsehwere, why do you ask.
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got my employee review last week, and we went through the entire loving 15 minute deal until the very end, when my manager realized he had gone over another employee's review instead of mine. Whoops.
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Cowslips Warren posted:got my employee review last week, and we went through the entire loving 15 minute deal until the very end, when my manager realized he had gone over another employee's review instead of mine. Whoops. That is, all else aside, perhaps the most incredible power move I have ever heard.
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Discendo Vox posted:That is, all else aside, perhaps the most incredible power move I have ever heard.  Unrelated to that: https://i.imgur.com/BXndBR5.mp4 Not mine.
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"How are you gonna open the store without a restroom?" Pretty easily, random customer, considering it's not a legal requirement that we have a restroom for you wire-cutting shitpigs. (I asked one of our ASMs if we could put up a sign out front saying our restroom is out of order [because a customer cut the wire to the lockbox again.] and he said no because "someone could see it and take a picture and we would get in trouble". ???
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So originally at Amazon yards, the transportation team handled check in/out. Then someone had the brilliant idea to outsource all that work to call centers in India and make the guard posts "automated". This involved kicking the people who know the building/yard and what's going on out of the position to fix poo poo before some angry driver stops us in the yard. It also meant, at least with our building, the contract with our security contractors had to be expanded so that they sat in the box and made sure no one did anything especially stupid. The whole plan was that security's presence kept anyone from doing anything particularly stupid. Mainly we don't want people getting into the guardhouse and all of the expensive computer equipment running the cameras and visual recognition software that reads license plates and trailer numbers because the doors don't lock. Except they DO lock, the locks on the doors work just fine and you can just lock the windows and doors. Only Amazon wants the doors to have electronic locks that people have to scan their badges on. Because keys are so obsolete. So security's expanded contract is up and we're back to having transportation people doze off in the guard shack.
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