What did you do today at work? /blog on

[Narrock]

Normally I work graveyard shift 12-14 hours, starting at about 11pm. This week they needed me to help hostle the yard because of new store openings for Applebee's and Panda Express restaurants, and volume right now is painfully high, so the hours this week are 8am to 6pm.

After hostling the yard for a couple hours, I had to drop a trailer off at the Heinz ketchup plant in Stockton (that was kind of cool because in the warehouse they had hundreds of palletized ketchup cases with a sign on each load that said "FOR U.S. Troops in Middle East", then go back to the Sysco-Sygma yard and take a rental car to East Oakland to swap the rental car for a delivery truck who's driver who ran out of commercial vehicle hours. Then I had to take that truck to South San Francisco to pick up 9 tons of potstickers from a frozen food distribution plant for Panda Express and backhaul them to Stockton. It took forever because our California tractors are governed at 58 mph. When I got back to Stockton I had to hostle the yard for a couple more hours. Then when I got off duty, I had a 70 minute commute home due to road construction. Today kind of sucked. I'm tired.

/blog off

[Tuggan]

hostle? would that be usin the switcher/trailer jockey? i've had to do that crap while filling in for a fueler, it sucks.

[Narrock]

Yeah, the trucking industry uses that term just like the railroad industry. You have to move trailers from the freezer warehouse, to the refrigerator warehouse, to the dry goods warehouse, and then out to the "ready for delivery" line. I think I backed and/or moved about 70 trailers today.

[Tuggan]

yeah, at sysco detroit we call em switchers. they do it during the evening though. it sucks.

[Narrock]

You work for Sysco too? I work for the Sygma division of Sysco.


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[10sun]

I finished compiling a waste production report on our cardboard & plastic. Started working on compiling standards for all sorts of work throughout our DC(ie. expected products moved a day per person, etc) to begin building an incentive program based upon productivity.

Two options. Flat % bonus based upon performance or the option to work more overtime with a lesser bonus. I'm leaning towards the overtime option myself, as it will increase my operation's pushthrough, however I can see how a worker would prefer to just get a flat bonus.

[Martrae]

I slept late....surfed the internet...had a neat discussion with the kids about Ancient Egypt and how plants grow (after we did math, reading, grammar and handwriting)....scrubbed my kitchen down...and fixed my EQ2 ui so it'll work with the new expansion.

I had a busy day.

[Tossica]

I put a packet sniffer on a customers network, checked over the configs on 5 POE switches and a firewall, setup perfmon on a server, ran a bunch of file transfers back and forth to network shares, scoured event logs and eventually pointed the finger at someone else when our stuff was all working as intended and was not the cause of their network issues.

[Tikker]

I spent most of the day trying to break the TV network in fun and exciting ways in the hopes of pro-actively finding issues with our implementation

mostly, i watched tv to see i I could see pixelization

[The Kizzy]

Hmmm I got up at 6, got my son on the bus, went back to sleep until 9, talked to Michelle, went back to sleep until 1030, made Tuna, brother came home for lunch at 1115, took him back to work at noon, went to my friends house and picker her up for gorcery shopping for the halloween party Saturday, came home, got my son off the bus, drove 2 hours to pick up my neice in Ennis, TX, missed the 287 exit going back home, so had to drive all the way up 45 to 20 in Dallas after work traffic, came hiome, made food and now Im posting abo tit on the internet, It was a very non relaxing day off. Back to tiles and lineoleum I go tomorrow though

[Tuggan]

You work for Sysco too? I work for the Sygma division of Sysco.


http://www.sygmanetwork.com/About/Overview.aspx

Yeah, I work in the garage. Grease monkey in training.

[Narrock]

I predict Ginzburgh to say:

Got to the office 15 minutes late, and came in through the back door so my boss didn't see me. Then I got a cup of coffee and BS'd with a coworker for 10 minutes in the employee lounge. Then I sat at my desk and turned on my computer, checked my email, logged onto the NT and browsed through the threads, made some smartass comments, then I checked my secret email that my girlfriend doesn't know about to see what my ho's had to say, then I did some personal banking, then I got up to refill my coffee and stopped to flirt with one of the skirts in the cubicles, then went back to my office and sat on my ass again, played some tetris, heard some footsteps coming towards my office so I got nervous and pulled up the company's emails and memos to make it look like I was working, then I stared out of my office window for a couple minutes and then realized it was break time, so I went back to the employee lounge to see if that skirt might be in there but she wasn't, so I bought a banana nut muffin from the vending machine, refilled my coffee again, and sat down at the plastic table and chairs and ate my muffin, then I went back to my office to check sales volumes and performance for a couple minutes, called my boss on the phone to let him know that Joe Schmoe was doing very well and that he should be commended on his sales volume (to make it look like I was working), then I went to lunch for about an hour and had a tuna sandwich from the deli right down the street, and then called my girlfriend to BS with her for a few minutes, then I went back to the office and checked out the NT again to see what people had said about my smartass comments, played a little more tetris, faxed a congratulations letter to Joe, went out and flirted with the skirt again, went to the water cooler to fill up my travel mug with cold water, went to the bathroom to take a leak, went back to my office, called the boss again and asked his advice on an incentive program I had for my sales team (just to make it look like I was working), then I took my afternoon break and watched Jerry Springer for 10 minutes, then I went back to my office, checked Nasdaq to see what my stocks were doing at the end of the day, turned off my computer and went home.

That was fun. I wish I had Ginzi's job sometimes.

[Narrock]

You work for Sysco too? I work for the Sygma division of Sysco.


http://www.sygmanetwork.com/About/Overview.aspx

Yeah, I work in the garage. Grease monkey in training.

[mappatazee]

sat in a $1000 chair and talked to a bunch of Debbies, Lindas, Barbaras, and Karens. i also read more of a book

[vonkaar]

Watched cartoons... sat around and talked about why I thought Silver Surfer and Thor were the greatest comic characters ever, at least back when I was 12... got bored, played some Unreal Tournament with the web team... lost... went down to the trailer room and watched one of the audio guys play this clip of some dude saying, "Tokyo's really let herself go... corruption, greed... everyone's got their price, even me," over and over... went home.

[Gargamellow]

I took my oldest to get a physical because, for some odd reason, he wants to be on the wrestling team. I hate wrestling, but I figure that he can do what he wants as far as sports go.

Afterward, I dropped him off only to return later to get him from his first dance of the year and also to pick up Madison from drama club.

Then Virra and I went over to my friend's house to try and fix her computer. Her hard drive was toast. So we came home and yoinked an old hard drive out of an old dead pc I have here. It was also fried.

So we informed my friend that she needed a hard drive and watched the movie,"Just Like Heaven"...and opmg..that movie was GREAT! I laughed, I cried, I updated all the prices on my Avon stock.

The movie just ended and now there is something gay on tv behind me. I am not sure about it. Apparantly Virra isn't either because he just sat down behind me at his desk and is opening his video game of the month.

I think that about covers the important happenings of my day.

Oh yeah, my phone was mysteriously off for about an hour today. I think Mediacom wants me to kill someone.

[Jay]

Had a meeting about creative finance with our production crews. Drove around dropping off promo material in San Francisco. Ate a burrito. Drove to Modesto to sign next month's posters selection. Wrote my weekly report. Was pretty busy today.

[Jazendar]

Shoulda stopped by for a round~

[Harrison]

I measured and cut stock masts down to specific sizes and put the spreader and spreader bars in. (I allso cut the slots they go in..)

Bent the lower spreaders to an 8 degree sweep and a 12 degree dihedral.

It's a very fucking annoying process depending on the metal. I can't be off by a half degree or the engineer for one of the America's Cup yachts will bitch like you just fucked his mom in his bed.

[Adivina]

1) Work on the website
2) Sign people up for memberships
3) Sell shit - apparel for our football team etc.
4) Clean up leaks in the gym
5) Train people on wellness/nautilus equipment
6) Work front desk
7) Answer phones

[Gaazy]

Friday I got caught up all morning on a stack of purchase orders that we got behind on (fuck paperwork), then received a bunch of inventory into the system, blah blah. Then spent the last 3 hours of the day crawling around in a coal mine trying to figure out why one of our belt lines broke down.

Tomorrow I get to go back underground to a different mine and change the wet brake on a coal hauler we built, then to a different mine to change a couple more motors on a scoop I built a couple weeks ago. Yay for what will turn into a 16 hour day prolly.

[The Kizzy]

Today I argues with my boss about what kind of cleaning product to use on Pergo flooring. He said to use the pergo cleaner. I said to use the Bruce Harwood floor cleaner. We argued, I told him he was the boss. I tried explaining to him that Pergo = cardboard coated in Aluminum Oxide, and what happens when you get cardboard wet? It goes bad and warps, etc. Pergo floor cleaner is made mostly of water, the Bruce Hardwood Floor cleaner is not...............whatever. That was the best part of my day.

[Jay]

Maybe I'm wrong but there's a reason it's a Pergo floor and the stuff is called Pergo Floor Cleaner. Makes the most sense to me.

[The Kizzy]

You would think, but common sense would tell you otherwise.

[Tossica]

Today I argues with my boss about what kind of cleaning product to use on Pergo flooring. He said to use the pergo cleaner. I said to use the Bruce Harwood floor cleaner. We argued, I told him he was the boss. I tried explaining to him that Pergo = cardboard coated in Aluminum Oxide, and what happens when you get cardboard wet? It goes bad and warps, etc. Pergo floor cleaner is made mostly of water, the Bruce Hardwood Floor cleaner is not...............whatever. That was the best part of my day.

When my kitched flooded a few weeks ago, it ruined the entire pergo floor. The fuck if I am going to put pergo back down. That stuff sucks.