@TenaciousBe
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Post by @TenaciousBe on Dec 24, 2010 11:32:45 GMT -5
A skid is what your car does when it hits a patch of ice. That, pictured above, is a pallet.
As someone who works on a palletizing machine (a ginormous piece of equipment, about the size of a playground, that brings cases in on rollers, stacks them, and such), I f***ing despise wooden pallets. CHEPs are okay, as mentioned earlier, they're more solidly constructed and don't lose boards or break apart nearly as often. But the real winners are plastic pallets. We use those for just a couple of items so far, but man, are they sweet. No nails or broken wood to contend with. Sure they don't work nearly as well for the bonfires, but we still bring in things on wooden pallets (and use the aforementioned pallet flipper), so they're always around.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2010 11:42:48 GMT -5
I loved plastic pallets, especially around this time of year where people are thinking of resolving to "get in shape". The people at the warehouse who stack home gyms and treadmills on wooden pallets are morons to those of us who can only unload trucks with a pallet jack or by hand. Takes like 3 or 4 of us to get them stacked just right on a plastic pallet to send out onto the floor.
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Post by ScornDefeat on Dec 24, 2010 11:46:25 GMT -5
Working pallet jacks and forklifts are your best friends when they're around. Fixed. Almost all the pallet jacks at my job are in bad repair. It makes pulling 2500lbs+ pallets around quite a workout, to put it nicely.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2010 11:52:37 GMT -5
Working pallet jacks and forklifts are your best friends when they're around. Fixed. Almost all the pallet jacks at my job are in bad repair. It makes pulling 2500lbs+ pallets around quite a workout, to put it nicely. Everybody had that one pallet jack that they claimed as their own. You'd initial it, draw on it, mark it as yours. If somebody else messed with your pallet jack, you were ready to plow over them with the piece of crap "Cadillac" jack left for you that was fabricated in 1941 and hasn't worked right since the Ford Administration. Or you'd hide it in the back.
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Post by ScornDefeat on Dec 24, 2010 12:01:04 GMT -5
Fixed. Almost all the pallet jacks at my job are in bad repair. It makes pulling 2500lbs+ pallets around quite a workout, to put it nicely. Everybody had that one pallet jack that they claimed as their own. You'd initial it, draw on it, mark it as yours. If somebody else messed with your pallet jack, you were ready to plow over them with the piece of crap "Cadillac" jack left for you that was fabricated in 1941 and hasn't worked right since the Ford Administration. Or you'd hide it in the back. Yep, pretty much. There's not a single jack in the store that doesn't have some sort of handle (if you'll excuse the horrible pun); the ones in good shape being "zombie fairy", "pappy", and "Dr. Pepper", and the notoriously bad ones being "bad turkey" (which no one will touch because our support manager took it into the bathroom with him), "dead duck", and "POS". Fortunately for me, I work in Dairy (Walmart), so stashing a good jack isn't too difficult.
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Post by Glitch on Dec 24, 2010 22:53:15 GMT -5
Fixed. Almost all the pallet jacks at my job are in bad repair. It makes pulling 2500lbs+ pallets around quite a workout, to put it nicely. Everybody had that one pallet jack that they claimed as their own. You'd initial it, draw on it, mark it as yours. If somebody else messed with your pallet jack, you were ready to plow over them with the piece of crap "Cadillac" jack left for you that was fabricated in 1941 and hasn't worked right since the Ford Administration. Or you'd hide it in the back. I hate it when there's not enough pallet jacks to go around. Any one of them left alone for even a split second gets swiped. If somebody says "let me borrow that for a second" that answer is usually "get the hell out of my way!"
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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2010 11:39:37 GMT -5
We kind of had little "cliques" at our store. The floor workers, the truck unloaders, the old bats working "softlines". (Store-room workers usually sided with the floor even though they worked alone.) Nothing ticks off a truck unloader than a floor worker wandering into our storage area and swiping a jack. "I just need to move this one pallet." "I'll do it for you, just gimme that thing!" "You don't own it. Anybody can use it." "There's 4 unloaders and 3 working jacks and you have one of them!" Don't mean to sound like an utter tool, but sometimes if you're stacking a pallet for someone else to take away (mainly because you're short-handed), you'd do a crappy job just to see it fall over at the first turn, and now they have to re-stack the thing. One rule we had was: whoever unloads the truck gets control of what we listen to on the radio. I'd play country, classical opera or jazz. Not for my own enjoyment (I was a geek for this new stuff called "alternative" music - Alice In Chains, Bush, pretty much anything ECW wrestlers used as themes), I just like hearing the guys complain about "what is this crap we're listening to?!? Put on some 2-Pac!" Ah, the things we do to entertain ourselves.
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