I got my biggest paycheck to date today. That’s because I had 25.22 hours of overtime for the past two weeks. When Berck saw the total, he said, “Well, I’m glad you didn’t go with me to my interview. I didn’t know it would be THAT big!”
Yesterday, the assistant manager told my team we could come in extra early today if we wanted. We all said yes, of course. Masochists that we are. So I clocked in at 6:55 a.m. this morning. I always clock in 5 minutes early because that’s as early as we’re allowed to clock in. And I’m always at work 5 minutes early because I leave with enough time to deal with any unforeseen events. And rather than sit around waiting to work, I clock in. Since we were working so long today, we got THREE breaks and lunch. That helped. I…
Berck is spending the weekend filling out job applications and printing out resumes. Last summer I was doing this; now he gets to. I guess I’ll have to do so again soon as well. I took last Friday and Monday off so we could drive down to Mobile for the weekend. As it was, we were so busy at work that I had an hour an a half of overtime week-before-last…even with only working four days! We were so busy again this week that I got a full forty-hour week…again with only working four days. On Thursday I was walking…
It’s getting hot here. And working in a warehouse get miserable. We rejoice whenever the huge blowers kick in, bringing in fresh, sun-soaked air from off the paved loading dock. But at least I’m not being timed pulling. Hell is actually being forced to perform Sisyphustic tasks in intense heat. My team leader went on vacation a couple of weeks ago, leaving Mark (my shift’s forklift driver) and me in charge of the dozen or so college kids working for us this summer. We had instructions to finish building two valleys, though our team leader didn’t think we’d get as…
We’re trying to figure out what to do for my three-day weekend. Berck announced last night that we were going somewhere, and I had to figure out where. I was exhausted last night, so I told him we’d go to Colorado…where, specifically, I’d figure out when I got home from work. I was so exhausted because I’d just worked an eleven-plus hour day starting at 6 that morning. See, when Barry told us all to go home on Wednesday because of the fire, he instructed us to plan on everyone coming in at 7 a.m. and pulling orders like crazy.…