So I worked til 11 pm yesterday in the produce department. Trucks usually don't arrive til 3 or 4 in the morning and 3rd shift grocery unloads them for us. Well, at 10:30, they came over the speaker and said "Produce: Delivery at the back dock." Walked back with the other person working with me and they had 16 pallets for us! We got it all back to the backroom, and it looked like complete ****. We called the produce manager and he said just do your best and he'll deal with it in the morning. At least the floor looked decent I guess...
So I worked til 11 pm yesterday in the produce department. Trucks usually don't arrive til 3 or 4 in the morning and 3rd shift grocery unloads them for us. Well, at 10:30, they came over the speaker and said "Produce: Delivery at the back dock." Walked back with the other person working with me and they had 16 pallets for us! We got it all back to the backroom, and it looked like complete ****. We called the produce manager and he said just do your best and he'll deal with it in the morning. At least the floor looked decent I guess...
lol, You are embellishing?
Tell me 10 of those pallets were not pumpkin bins.
Yes, I used to unload the produce overnight for about 4 years. Produce was the furthest area from the dock. Produce cooler was occasionally a mess.
I hated when a pallet of strawberries fell over!! Or, when the door snagged on to a tray of cherry tomatoes.
Now, that the trucking schedule has changed, produce unloads their own products during the daytime.
We've had blueberries, boysenberries and any kind of other "messy"berries topple over onto themselves, mix that with other pallets of product being smooshed against them to make room for more product and you get damaged produce, damaged product, and one big ooey, gooey, gloppy, sloppy, mess. We use to just clean out own product (I work produce lately), and leave other depts to clean off their product. Well after bitching occurred we clean off ours AND theirs. We just don't have to put it out for them.
When will they learn that if something does not fit, you canNOT always force it in. also if something toppled over when putting a pallet in place, how about NOT pretending that you don't hear it... CHECK IT OUT!!!
-- Edited by mega-kitteh on Tuesday 23rd of September 2014 11:00:55 AM
We've had blueberries, boysenberries and any kind of other "messy"berries topple over onto themselves, mix that with other pallets of product being smooshed against them to make room for more product and you get damaged produce, damaged product, and one big ooey, gooey, gloppy, sloppy, mess. We use to just clean out own product (I work produce lately), and leave other depts to clean off their product. Well after bitching occurred we clean off ours AND theirs. We just don't have to put it out for them.
When will they learn that if something does not fit, you canNOT always force it in. also if something toppled over when putting a pallet in place, how about NOT pretending that you don't hear it... CHECK IT OUT!!!
-- Edited by mega-kitteh on Tuesday 23rd of September 2014 11:00:55 AM
Out of sight, out of mind. Once they close the door at the warehouse, it isn't their problem anymore is their thought on the matter.
Once, I had two pallets of water crammed into the trailer sideways next to each other. The warehouse had the luxury of a forklift to drop it into place. The only way I could get the pallets out was to restack the entire pallet of 24s on another pallet. I find it humorous that now the other departments have to deal with their unloading now. All these years trying to put pallets in a cooler and having to clear out enough room to make everything fit. I don't have to hear anymore bitching about putting their pallets in the wrong spot in the cooler.
All our perishable trucks (meat, dairy, frozen, produce) come in the morning usually between 5:00 AM and 7:00 AM. Dairy is usually the last one to arrive. Sometimes it doesn't arrive until after 8:00 AM.
I just finished a midnight to 1pm shift, yes 13 hours, because the manager wanted us to key retail EVERYTHING after a huge load with only 3 overnight grocery stockers and no conditioner. And I still have to get up and work again at midnight.
At least your produce manager didn't make you clean up the whole mess, stock everything, then condition or some other bull****.
-- Edited by Delbertf on Tuesday 23rd of September 2014 06:48:35 PM
-- Edited by Delbertf on Tuesday 23rd of September 2014 06:49:08 PM
A faint voice speaks over the intercom, "Produce, delivery at the back dock." But produce trucks usually come in the morning... A lone produce clerk marches to the dock and a sketchy truck driver awaits him. "We've got 16 pallets for you all I need you to do is sign this invoice from hell." The clerk hypnotically follows along. When the trailer door is opened, a pair of round, red spots can be seen towards the back. It turns out that a couple of tomatoes went airborne on the trip. Or did they...? The produce clerk tries to turn on the electric pallet jack, but it doesn't start. Instead, he must unload every single pallet using a manual pallet jack. When all is done, he discovers that he had in fact moved 17 pallets into the cooler instead of 16. He apologizes to the truck driver, who replies, "Your store was the last on my route. There was no 17th pallet on the trailer..."
