Nothing too exciting. Fair amount of volume for a Thursday.
I think I took to needling this mushmouthed little pr*$% who was working exit yard marshall with the megaphone a bit too far.
(Over the two-way radio): “Hey, Chuck! How much time do we have left!” “Hey Chuck, when will it be 11h30?” etc.
I like him well enough, we’re FB “friends” and all that, and we joke around quite a bit on the job, but he just plain sucks at working the megaphone.
Oh, and I have permission from Carrie to beat the stuffing out of this would-be macho FNG with my fists. I wouldn’t, you know, not on company property, nor off, probably, but there’s only enough room for one Chunk Hardstuff on our team, and you’re looking at him.
Yeah, right! I agree with you. That’s way way down on AMZN’s priorities. WAY below doing Milk Runs between stations, which is a daily event looked forward to with much anticipation. I doubt it’s even on their radar, really. I don’t know whose responsibility that would be, really, within AMZN, but I think you should just throw it all away.
Start a bonfire, or raffle packages off or something.
Post a notice in the classifieds that you’ll be disposing of excess freight in, like, 30 days, or whatever the legal time is. Why can’t you guys charge AMZN for storage? That would get some traction.
I can tell with near certainty that AMZN will not be wrapping palletized freight on the loading dock, and with the contracted delivery drivers, the only way the freight gets into a step van is through one of those companies. AMZN would have to beg them to do it, and, of course, pay them.
They might send an XL truck to do it, which Amzon owns, and is operated by an Amazon employee, not a contractor, but the only other option is a tractor-trailer rig, which, as you know, has to be loaded in a very specific way. And the driver of the rig is definitely not wrapping pallets or loading jack ess.