#package handler

[delivery-diaries]

My day normally starts around 6am, I get up and get ready for the day ahead. I get to work at 7:30am and load my truck for my route.

I don’t have a set route to drive. I normally get swapped around a lot to help out my coworkers. We can dispatch sometimes around 8:15-9:30am, it really depends on how much we have for the day.

Today my route consists of 4 different little villages and a lot of ranches. Though Tuesdays are slightly easier than some other days. It takes me close to two hours to get to my first stop.

Here’s a picture of my day so far!

[soibaremyskinandicountmysins]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh91LBOYWos)

To make it clear. I love my job, and I am  in no way complaining about it. I just thought that they'd be some fun stories to share. (Along with my sass.)

Also, if anyone knows the answer to my question, please tell me, because I would really like to know it. :)

[delivery-diaries]

At one of the ranches I deliver to, there’s this really cool old building. There’s only a wall and a half left of it, but it still looks really neat!

[the-one-and-only-overlass]

istg no one who packages things to be shipped understands what shipping stuff actually entails. to them they put it on their porch or in the truck or whatever and it goes off, magic happens, and it shows up at the destination, maybe a little worse for wear.

meanwhile they're putting fucking disc brakes and weight sets in flimsyass cardboard boxes that can barely support the weight of the stuff inside em. and so the cardboard starts breaking down and becomes unable to stably support anything on top of it. and then when i have to put it in a wall there's nothing i can really do with it. can't put it on top, it'll crush everything under it. can't put it on the bottom, it won't be able to support anything.

and then there's the weird shaped boxes. L shapes, triangles, trapezoids, etc. just. put it in a fucking square box. it's not that much extra cardboard and it means i don't have to spend a whole bunch of extra time planning how to integrate it.

and then there's the downright nonsensical instructions and labels some of these boxes have on them. i have seen boxes with This Way Up instructions going two different directions. i have seen boxes labeled Do Not Stack(the fuck do you think we do here, huh?) i have seen boxes containing fucking sofas labeled Fragile Handle With Care.

honestly it seems like every other goddamn box is labeled with that.

and also every hundred or so boxes you'll run into one that just falls the fuck apart to some degree. with some of em, it's so bad that as soon as you go to pick it up it just kinda flops open and rips apart in your hands. so the best you can do is put it in a bin and send it down to QA to be fixed up.

[the-one-and-only-overlass]

worst brand/product names i have run into at work:

YaheeTech (why?)

Nordic Pure air filters (no possible fascist interpretations here no sir)

LoveSac (sounds like an extremely uncomfortable euphemism for scrotum)

honorable mention: Chewy (online pet food and toy store). It sounds like it could be bad, but I honestly can't tell how bad it is because I'm so desensitized to it.

[the-one-and-only-overlass]

so APPARENTLY my job, during the summer, can get legitimately hazardous. like. kill you temperatures. because little metal box + poor ventilation + no air conditioning leads to the trailers we work in becoming fucking heat sinks. to the point that apparently temps in the trailers on particularly hot days can climb up to 130 degrees fahrenheit, or about 54 celsius . and we don't even get hazard pay. like. my coworker told me 'oh just drink back the water you're sweating out and you'll be fine'

bITCH

first off there's a limit to how much sweating can actually cool you off, regardless of how much water you're drinking.

second, dRINKING WATER WILL NOT SAVE YOU FROM HEATSTROKE. BECAUSE YOU START BLACKING OUT AND VOMITING. BOTH OF WHICH PREVENT YOU FROM DRINKING WATER.

and it really doesn't fucking help that my comfortable temperature band is lower than most people's. most people have a comfy temperature band around 70 degrees f (21 c). mine is around 55 (13 c).

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