Ontopic The Shooting Thread

Lucky for me I work in an environment where I'm actually encouraged to have my phone on me.
I just need to learn not to instantly return text messages. Replying within 2 seconds is probably a dead giveaway that I already had my phone in hand fucking around here or watching youtube vids.
 
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Dude. Not all of them. You are Mister Negative lately.

I mostly agree with you but they’re not all thieves.
Wage theft absolutely dwarfs all other forms of theft in $. That's only what little theft is deemed illegal, without even getting into Profit is Theft.

I know management is just trying to do their job; but they can get fucked, respectfully, for accepting the job of "extract the most value for least pay". It's nothing personal, just business.
 
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Wage theft absolutely dwarfs all other forms of theft in $. That's without even getting into Profit is Theft.

I know management is just trying to do their job; but they can get fucked, respectfully, for accepting the job of "extract the most value for least pay". It's nothing personal, just business.

I actually find your attitude refreshing.

If you were more serious about the feelings you have, perhaps you’d rally the troops and start Union discussion. Unions are dying everywhere and it takes a fired-up smarty pants like yourself to keep them going.
 
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I actually find your attitude refreshing.

If you were more serious about the feelings you have, perhaps you’d rally the troops and start Union discussion. Unions are dying everywhere and it takes a fired-up smarty pants like yourself to keep them going.
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I'm painfully aware of how weak unions can be.
 
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The chances of getting wrapped up in a shooting in a place like that, while technically is a "chance", fall somewhere between getting struck by lightening and suffering a shark attack in Kansas.
Since we're talking odds, I wonder how many fires they've had in the same place that necessitated pulling the fire alarm.

And if it's zero, or "shark attack in Kansas" territory, by the same stupid logic why bother having fire alarms / fire suppression anyway?
 
Believe it. Phones are in the offices a football field or two away through a maze of belts, catwalks, machinery, and equipment. It is not easy to get from place to place inside one of those buildings. The workers' job is moving packages: any screen or communication device they have is to communicate what package is where or tell them where to put the package in their hands and nothing more.

Can't speak to FedEx specifically, but the incredible volume that gets moved through logistics companies is accomplished by strict single-task-focused division of labor. FedEx is even more anti-worker than my experience. You can't just guess at what it's like in one of those hellholes.
I'm believing. Thinking back on it, none of us at Pennys could dial out - needed a code. So basically it was an intercom "floor manager needed for price change in Women's Shoes!" I would expect a place like that would have screens/displays as they use at every fast food place. Dumb terminals feeding you shit.
 
I'm believing. Thinking back on it, none of us at Pennys could dial out - needed a code. So basically it was an intercom "floor manager needed for price change in Women's Shoes!" I would expect a place like that would have screens/displays as they use at every fast food place. Dumb terminals feeding you shit.
Package comes out of the trailer, gets scanned so the worker scanning can slap a sticker on it detailing how it's getting routed through the building. Gets moved around. Then gets a scan as it's getting put on the truck (which isn't always a guarantee that it's actually on the truck lol). There's a computer that runs the first scanning/printing, but if it does anything more than that the workers wouldn't have a clue. There's a handheld computer for putting it on the truck, but mostly the workers just know the button sequences to get them running and get scanning the next package if something goes wrong, not even necessarily what went wrong or what the button sequences are doing. Training is essentially nonexistent.
 
Package comes out of the trailer, gets scanned so the worker scanning can slap a sticker on it detailing how it's getting routed through the building. Gets moved around. Then gets a scan as it's getting put on the truck (which isn't always a guarantee that it's actually on the truck lol). There's a computer that runs the first scanning/printing, but if it does anything more than that the workers wouldn't have a clue. There's a handheld computer for putting it on the truck, but mostly the workers just know the button sequences to get them running and get scanning the next package if something goes wrong, not even necessarily what went wrong or what the button sequences are doing. Training is essentially nonexistent.
In smaller places you're grabbing a 2 copy picklist but yeah, same general worker bees shit. No rest, no thinking.
 
Shipping company buildings are NOT warehouses. It's in and out.
Every warehouse is not the same as the ones either you or I remember - I'm only suggesting the mindless flow is similar. Some pass-through shippers probably feel like a warehouse. Amazon & Walmart warehouse where they hold the seller's product and then ship it when it sells - is that a warehouse or a shipper? Scanning has been around for decades. Warehouses forever. Remain calm - you're not there anymore. The inhumane machine can't grind you up.
 
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Every warehouse is not the same as the ones either you or I remember - I'm only suggesting the mindless flow is similar. Some pass-through shippers probably feel like a warehouse. Amazon & Walmart warehouse where they hold the seller's product and then ship it when it sells - is that a warehouse or a shipper? Scanning has been around for decades. Warehouses forever. Remain calm - you're not there anymore. The inhumane machine can't grind you up.
Amazon is a monopoly that needs broken up.

What I'm saying is that all the "in my experience" posts mean nothing if you haven't worked specifically at a package delivery company building in like the last decade.
 
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BOT. I get why some people go postal at work. Although, most of the ones I thought that about brought a lot of the pain upon themselves, imo. They didn't understand the rules, constant attendance problems, etc. But work was the problem, not them. Take a special kind of asshole to randomly shoot people.
 
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Amazon is a monopoly that needs broken up.

What I'm saying is that all the "in my experience" posts mean nothing if you haven't worked specifically at a package delivery company building in like the last decade.
Idk, seems you're assuming nobody looks at what goes on at the places they go into - your experience post may be just as flawed as mine. You don't think Amazon is a package delivery company? I had to go conduct business at a number of those places in my last position as Operations manager and webmaster. 8 months ago?
 
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Since we're talking odds, I wonder how many fires they've had in the same place that necessitated pulling the fire alarm.

And if it's zero, or "shark attack in Kansas" territory, by the same stupid logic why bother having fire alarms / fire suppression anyway?

My brother is a fireman. He says if all they did was put out fires they'd all be out of a job, there just ain't that many fires.

Believe it or not, people used to function, and live quite well, before everyone had a handheld computer that can also make phone calls in their pocket, and they still can. Or at least should be able to.

Ok maybe some of them can't. That would be a personal problem not an issue with some business policy.
Let's face it, some so-called adults just aren't very good at adulting. They need to be babysat and told what to do and not do and "managed" because they won't do it for themselves. If they lack the initiative to be working instead of fartbooking you don't accommodate mediocrity, you take the phone away.