First week in review
After 4 consecutive days of work I have been reduced to walking like an old man. I fall asleep about an hour after I get home and wake up in time to go to bed for the next day. My muscles are sore and I have several big bruises to show for my work.
Thursday was the first day that they actually started tracking our picking numbers. I picked 74 boxes per hour. Ideally they want you pickin at a rate of 200 per hour. I have a long way to go. Part of my below average score could be attributed to the fact that I have been quite lazy for so long and I have to reaclimate my body to physical activity. These 2 days off have done my body good. I still hurt in places but I will have enough energy to get through the next 2 days.
I sweat so much that I drink at least 2 gallons of water over my 10 hr shift. I was close to 12hrs on Thursday. I still have not master the pallet jack and have tried to pull some stupid shit in the warehouse and have not succeeded. I also managed to rip a bag of dog food out of the bottom of a 6 ft stack on a skid. To remedy this instead of restacking everything, I held it in place and plastic wrapped it back on. Saved me a lot of time. I also found out you can not make a U turn in one of the aisle with 2 full pallets on your jack. I got into the situation that Austin Powers did when he tried to turn around in the small hallway in the first movie.
My parents are happy I have a job but they have elluded to totally understanding if I decided to quit as soon as I found something else.
I have to wake up at 6am in order to be at work by 7am or earlier. Then do 10hrs of picking and packing boxes in a hot warehouse. It's not fun but it gives me money to spend.
Thursday was the first day that they actually started tracking our picking numbers. I picked 74 boxes per hour. Ideally they want you pickin at a rate of 200 per hour. I have a long way to go. Part of my below average score could be attributed to the fact that I have been quite lazy for so long and I have to reaclimate my body to physical activity. These 2 days off have done my body good. I still hurt in places but I will have enough energy to get through the next 2 days.
I sweat so much that I drink at least 2 gallons of water over my 10 hr shift. I was close to 12hrs on Thursday. I still have not master the pallet jack and have tried to pull some stupid shit in the warehouse and have not succeeded. I also managed to rip a bag of dog food out of the bottom of a 6 ft stack on a skid. To remedy this instead of restacking everything, I held it in place and plastic wrapped it back on. Saved me a lot of time. I also found out you can not make a U turn in one of the aisle with 2 full pallets on your jack. I got into the situation that Austin Powers did when he tried to turn around in the small hallway in the first movie.
My parents are happy I have a job but they have elluded to totally understanding if I decided to quit as soon as I found something else.
I have to wake up at 6am in order to be at work by 7am or earlier. Then do 10hrs of picking and packing boxes in a hot warehouse. It's not fun but it gives me money to spend.
posted by K-Dawg at 5:16 PM
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