That would be the amount of pieces on 'the truck'.
At work we get our shipments 3X a week. Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. All of them are an early morning job. 6:00a.m. or 6:30a.m. Usually a guy puts all the stuff away. The idea is to cut off the cardboard flaps and place them on the shelves in the right place so that they are easily accessible to people who may need something in a hurry. Also, you have to rotate the stock so that everything stays fresh.
We are so short staffed at the moment, that Tiffany had been doing the job. Well, Tiffany quit. Since they were desperate, I decided I would help them on Saturday morning, but with the agreement that I would leave by a certain time becuase Saturdays are a permanent request of mine. I know as soon as I give a little, they will try to take a mile, and they are not having my weekends off. I do enough for the store.
Well, I don't half ass things. I put the truck away, reorganized mass quantities of disheveled items, cleaned the walk in, freezer, and the back stock room. It looked great. And, I finished in good time too. Everyone was raving over how easy it was to find things, and how clean everything was, etc etc. I just kinda felt weird because... it should be that way all the time.
So, now I am truck bitch. Which is cool by me because it's 3 less days a week that I'm doing lettuce. If they are assigning this to me, that's fine, but I have also demanded ten minutes in the mornings, and ten minutes in the afternoons to maintain this delicate balance.
Today, I went to work at 6:30 a.m. because it is truck day, and therefor, I have a lot of work to do. 165 pieces of various sizes, shapes, and weights had me grunting and huffing and heaving. It's kinda funny to listen to....
The freezer is the hardest because of all the heavy stuff. Each one of the fry boxes weighs 36lbs.... which doesn't seem like a whole lot, but mulitply that by 45 boxes, and the fact that they get stacked 6 feet high, it's quite enough.
Also, you may have noticed, I said Tiffany quit. I am disappointed, but part of me understands. She's been seeing this guy named Johnny and he's just rocked her world. Well, he was sent to St Louis to do his construction work there. He's very job motivated and not very reachable/personable during this phase, and she thought that he had all but dumped her. Well, (I am speculating) I believe that he has finally got in touch with her and that she is in St Louis with him at the moment. That is the only reason I can think of for such a quick departure. She told me that she knew if he called, she'd run right back to him. I hope it is him...
Posted by hawkie at June 15, 2004 06:51 PM