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Alright, for those of you who are lazy, I've made a condensed version of the rant. Just cause I know I've just wasted time writing something maybe 2 people will actually read. At least, that's the case most of the time. Condensed version is at the end...

So, I'm at work loading my first trailer of the night. I usually finish of the 2nd half of a trailer, then start the first half of another each night. The first trailer leaves around my break, whether or not it's full. This is usually around 9pm.

So anyways, I'm loading the trailor, doing pretty well, when I notice some lady standing at the end of the trailer. I can tell by her face that she's gonna yell at me for something. I've never seen her around before, and I really don't want to see her again.

Anyways, first thing she asks if how long I've been working there. I said a few weeks, about a month. She then asks the question I knew she would ask. "Do you think your wall is good?". Well obviously you wouldn't be asking me this if you didn't think it was... Oh, and you know, it's so funny how people happen to come by when my current wall isn't all that good because of the packages I'm getting. Honest to God, The 5 or so walls behind this one were perfect, then she shows up on the one that isn't so good. Figures... Same thing when I get backed up. People will show up right when I get a s**t load of packages at once. Or, even worse. They'll come when I just finished off some, and no packages are around. They'll ask me to dump this cart back into the system. By the time I get back, my trailer is jammed with packages, and the people who asked me to dump the cart are freaking out. Yea, well if they didn't pull me out near the end of a trailer, it wouldn't be so bad. Geez...

So yea, back to the story. When she first mentioned it, I thought she may be talking about how there are some gaps. Something that is unavoidable. I mean, I'm actually supposed to build it that way to keep the wall straight, really. Then when I get smaller packages I stick them into these gaps. The lady then tells me to look at some packages at the top. I look, they were crooked. Right then I knew what she was gonna say...

"You threw those packages up there. Blah blah... That is unacceptable, not good load quality." Yada yada. Ok, you wanna know something, but I never told her, just because she seemed like the type who thinks she's so smart that she won't listen to actual fact. Those packages, I never threw them. Some of them, I slid up there, pushed them up, never threw. Some of them, I put them up there when I was on that wall [these packages were on the wall behind the current one], but hey, what a surprise! Some of the bigger packages I was loading on the current wall caused the small ones to shift a tiny bit.

Just because something isn't straight, doesn't mean it was thrown, FFS!

Oh, and another thing I should point out. This lady, some exec or something... By the looks of her, her size and stuff... The only things she's ever loaded in her life was on a computer! I don't see how she would know anything about how packages react, by simply being told how things should be. People who work with me have seen my walls just like how she saw it and never said there was anything wrong. Infact, when I start my shift, the person before left their wall in the same state.

You know how bad it is though... I often nudge packages foward on the rollers so that I don't have to bend down to. It makes perfect sense, right? Well, if she saw me do that, I swear she'd say I was kicking the package. That's how out of touch she seems to be.

Oh, and the best thing she said. "Do you need training?" Wow... Ok, let's recap... At the start, she asked how long I've worked there. I said about a month. The first month... Hell, maybe even 3 months... All of that IS training! Idiot... stare

Anyways, I just kept on nodding, hoping she would leave, because her incessive bitching was backing up my trailer. She left, and whatever.

Now, you know, there is one thing I mentioned earlier. About how you need to have actually loaded a trailer to know how things work. Well, I'm sure that everyone there have created their own ways to load trailers. Refined a way to set up the wall so that you leave space for odd packages. That is, afterall what they tell you to do. My trainer told me that I should make some space for when I get a long package. Best is it is at top, to lock it a lot of walls together. My wall, or "lack of a wall" as that lady said... had a nice space at top so that I can put any odd packages up there. Not just long ones. Flat ones, light ones... Hell, even bags that contain many small packages. It's what you should do! These packages aren't so good at the base of a wall!

One thing I had thought in the past, which I think I will start doing. For any of those spaces that are part of an old wall. When I get the chance, I'll cover it up with the current wall. Use light packages to make the current wall look perfect, but still have that open space behind it so that when I do get an odd package. I just move the cover and throw it inside. No one would be the wiser. Hell, I bet most people do that anyways... Just because some bonehead who sits in an office decides to play God.

The greatest part is that, I treat the packages well. Better than what they go through on the conveyor belt. Hell, other people throw their packages all the time, and they still put them through less trauma than they go through on the belts...

So, for all you preppy, office dwellers. Leave the work to those who actually do the work. Go play Solitaire or something. No, play Tetris, maybe then you'll have a feel of what I have to do to build these walls. It has to be 3D Tetris though.

I think that about covers it all. Condense time...

I'm loading a trailer, building walls so that the packages don't go flying around.

Some suit lady shows up, all pissy looking.

She asks how long I've worked there for, I say about a month.

She hates on my wall, y0.

I think she's ******** crazy, but I just nod away, knowing she'll go away soon.

She knows nothing of loading a trailer. A computer program? Sure. A trailer? Never in a billion years.

She needs to go watch some up to date video on how to load a trailer. Not one of those ones we had to watch in orientation. Those were older than me...

Long explaination on how I'm right, and she should go play Solitaire or 3D Tetris.

Thank You, lady. I don't know you, I don't want to know you. GTFO of my way, I got a trailer to load.

Hehehe...... mrgreen

Good rant *claps*

I love morons like that.

I sometimes wonder who they slept with to make it up higher in the company.

I don't tend to get too many people up in the company having a go... since the people above me earned it with their brains...

But I get my fair share of morons as customers.

"Excuse me, but do you have any fresh sandwiches..."
Me - "Yes we do, they're in the fridge there"
"Can't you make me one"

At this point I need to point out that the shop in which I work is tiny and a sandwich bar would take up 95% of the entire shop

Me - "No, I'm afraid we don't have a sandwich bar, our shop is too small to hold one."
"[[insert pissy comment about how rude this is, or how unacceptable it is]]"

God, I just wish they'd realise that the only thing you can be yelling at is the shop for being too small, and that I don't magically control what the area manager puts into our shop.


Ooh... and here's a list of other idiotic things we get asked regularly.

"Could I have a vegetarian pasty?"
(Since when did we turn into cannibals...)

Me - "Would you like a small, medium or large pasty"
Them - "Yes"

Them - "What do you have freshly cooked?"
Me - "We've got small, medium and large steaks, chicken, vegetable, chesse and vegetable, sausage rolls, meat patties, bacon bites and sausage tasties."
Them - "Have you got a mince pasty?"
Me - "No, we don't sell any mince pasties"
Them - "How about a small mince?"
Me - "No, we don't sell any mince pasties"
Them - "Okay... so what do you have?"
At this point I try my best to refrain from strangling the customers.

Air-What do you do?

Seth-Arbys is evil! But they have good food.

Duo-What the hell?! I feel so bad for you man.

These are some classic examples of why I do not want to join the workforce. I will sooner or later but dam, some people are just stupid. Then it makes you wonder, is this person reproducing? Oh god I hope not.

Liz - I load trailers for UPS

fry - You didn't really need to point that out. I mean, I did add that condensed version afterall.

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Oh, I love this. So, all of thise was on Monday, on Tuesday, I saw the b***h talking to my trainer while they watched me load. Last night at the start of my shift, my trainer brought me to show me an example of a good wall. It wasn't perfect, but you know it was just to show me some pointers.

This is what I loved best about it. After he showed me, I mentioned to him about how the lady was accusing me of throwing the packages based on how they looked like. I told him I never threw them, I had pushed them/they shifted because of other packages. He totally understood. BooYaa!

However, here's the greatest part. When he heard that, he replied something along the lines of, "You know, I would have rather her to have at least shown you what you did wrong". That is exactly what I was thinking when I first saw her! This is another reason why I don't think she should be going around yelling at people, because quite frankly, she knows squat! Had she done something to make me believe she was trying to be helpful, I would have respected her. She didn't even need to touch a package, I would have understand since she was wearing fancy s**t. However, she was at no shortage of words at the time. She could have easily done something to improve my work. I hope my trainer gives her an earful. twisted

Oo, another great thing. After showing me that trailer, I went to work on mine. My trainer came in after about 5 minutes and started pointing out what was wrong with the wall. I noted that everything he had a problem with, was already there when I got there. See, there's people who've worked there much longer than me, and are making horrible walls. I'm glad he saw it too, cause he now better understands why my walls weren't so good. I mean, I have a shitty wall builder before me, so when I see it, I think it's perfectly fine to build a wall that way. Also, the way they leave the wall makes it harder for me to start a new wall. My trainer fixed that other guy's wall for me, and you know what happened. I had ******** perfect walls after that. They wanted a picture of the first one. xd

We never actually took any pics. It was just that good. mrgreen

Besides, I don't need to prove anything to her. I mean, she isn't greater than me, so doing so would suggest I think she is better than me.