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[SpleenBeGone]

That if pallet racks are bowing, they have too much weight on them.

I don't know why no one understands this.

[SpleenBeGone]

Aaaand the floor's cracked because no one bothered to check the weight of these things. 

[Affray]

Never underestimate the stupidity of humans, especially in groups.

[SpleenBeGone]

"Those are old cracks"

"If they were old cracks they'd have dirt in them."

"Well..uh..it probably won't get any worse."

[Photography Raptor]

I've seen it before as well. People are just stupid around forklifts in general. Worst thing I encountered people being stupid over: sheetrock. If you don't know how to approach a load of sheetrock or stack it, especially stacking it...just get the fuck off.

 

If you whip around a corner like a bat out of hell and tip your load... I don't care that you honk your horn and check corner mirrors, there is no fucking rush. NO RUSH AT ALL. These machines already cut your time and effort by 99%, why do you feel the need to squeeze another one out? I've seen too many people tip shit over or break something because they mistaken a forklift driving for Nascar. Everything doesn't need to be done in 2 minutes so you can just idle the thing and chill for 10 minutes.

[SpleenBeGone]

We're storing cubicles on pallets for someone. Everyone keeps saying "Oh, it's just furniture, it can't be that heavy." without realizing that it's really a bunch of 5x5 boards of MDF stacked up, and MDF is heavy as fuck. 

[Krankykoala]

This is the one we were talking about previously where they were trying to fit more in the room than square footage allowed, right?

[SpleenBeGone]

Yep, that's the one.

[Calvary]

Please tell my labourers that stacking five pallets of plasterboard on top of each other is not an acceptable method of making more space. Eastern Europeans literally have no sense of self preservation in these matters.

[Silver_rose]

"Those are old cracks"

"If they were old cracks they'd have dirt in them."

"Well..uh..it probably won't get any worse."

 

Just shoot them all, problem solved.

[The Robstar]

Easy. Take the pallet jack, move the pallets over the cracks.

 

Cutting costs and saving money > Human Safety.

[Benihime]

You are approaching this with sound logic & reasoning.

Wrong.

To get any results, you must first create hysteria.

Blame global warming.

[Bowsette]

You are approaching this with sound logic & reasoning.

Wrong.

To get any results, you must first create hysteria.

Blame global warming.

The gays did it

 

They love cracks

[Affray]

I am starting to have mini strokes at work because of how insanely lax everyone is about doing the most simple things properly.

Same sort of shit that you are dealing with Spleen.

Simple people making simple problems in to complex problems by simply being simple.

 

The maintenance guys are the worst.

They are tasked to fix some small problem that I am not supposed to touch, and they slapdash some bullshit together that falls apart within a day.

Then they say I must be handling it improperly because their fix should have held.

They don't ever actually fix anything, they just sort of throw a bandaide at it and walk away.

At this point I have remedied five or six of my own problems because I refuse to allow my job to be harder because I am not supposed to fix something myself.

 

My favourite so far is when my steel banding holder fell off the wall.

I use steel banding to strap kits of lumber together to go on the truck and there is a pvc tube tied to the stairwall that I work near where I keep all the banding I cut.

One day it fell off the stairs at the end of a shift and I told my supervisor, who then informed maintenance.

The next day it was back up, being held there by two over the counter zip ties.

It obviously fell off again because who the fuck thought two zip ties would hold a giant tube of steel banding?

I told my supervisor again, he told maintenence.

The next day it was back up, only this time held by rubber bungies.

So it bounced when it was touched and the more banding I put in it the lower is sank on to my work bench, blocking all of my other tools with super sharp banding.

So I took it down, cursed the families of the maintenance crew, and put it back up using the very same metal banding that it is meant to hold.

You know, the shit that I use to strap hundreds of pounds of lumber together every day and is obviously designed to hold some weight.

It has been in the same place for the last four months with no issue.

[Benihime]

I am starting to have mini strokes at work because of how insanely lax everyone is about doing the most simple things properly.
Same sort of shit that you are dealing with Spleen.
Simple people making simple problems in to complex problems by simply being simple.
 
The maintenance guys are the worst.
They are tasked to fix some small problem that I am not supposed to touch, and they slapdash some bullshit together that falls apart within a day.
Then they say I must be handling it improperly because their fix should have held.
They don't ever actually fix anything, they just sort of throw a bandaide at it and walk away.
At this point I have remedied five or six of my own problems because I refuse to allow my job to be harder because I am not supposed to fix something myself.
 
My favourite so far is when my steel banding holder fell off the wall.
I use steel banding to strap kits of lumber together to go on the truck and there is a pvc tube tied to the stairwall that I work near where I keep all the banding I cut.
One day it fell off the stairs at the end of a shift and I told my supervisor, who then informed maintenance.
The next day it was back up, being held there by two over the counter zip ties.
It obviously fell off again because who the fuck thought two zip ties would hold a giant tube of steel banding?
I told my supervisor again, he told maintenence.
The next day it was back up, only this time held by rubber bungies.
So it bounced when it was touched and the more banding I put in it the lower is sank on to my work bench, blocking all of my other tools with super sharp banding.
So I took it down, cursed the families of the maintenance crew, and put it back up using the very same metal banding that it is meant to hold.
You know, the shit that I use to strap hundreds of pounds of lumber together every day and is obviously designed to hold some weight.
It has been in the same place for the last four months with no issue.

Apply this mentality to diesel mechanics and you now know why I refuse to take my truck to the terminal for maintenance.

It's worse than bad.

[SpleenBeGone]

1100 pounds, for the record. They finally weighed one.

 

Just under the load limit of the floor, 200 pounds over the load limit of the racks. 

[Wolf]

Sounds like our stock guy who put ~100 lbs of vegetables on top of a case of grapes

 

Grape juice ALL OVER the cooler floor.

[Mister Sympa]

Ooooh. Perfect opportunity to use the phrase "Sticky situation."

[SpleenBeGone]

I forgot to mention, I later found out that it was 1180, and the guy was trying to downplay it as much as possible.