Friday, 19 June 2009

• I lost the happy!

  today there were a lot of storm clouds in the area, as there have been for the last few weeks. unfortunately it didn't rain much. I love the smell of rain, it's probably my favorite smell ever. anyways, down to the ranting.

  today, I officially "lost the happy." this is a term my friends came up with a few years ago for those times you become so infuriated that there is literally no happiness in the world for you at that moment. here's what happened.

  I've been having a lot of small tiffs with the dude I carpool to work with because he doesn't like to work more hours. these usually go something like...

  "let's get another trailer so we can hit a few more hours."

  "I'm a big vagina and I don't want to."

  "come on, I could use the money and they're letting us work the hours."

  "my pussy hurts."

  something like that. anywho, I drove myself today so I could work a 12 hour shift, which is what I've been trying to do every day this week. so far I have one 10, and two just over 8 hour shifts. not bad, but I wanted to break 50, so I've gotta pull another 12 tomorrow now. anyways, I drove myself up to work today, and he was there before me. this is the first time in months his lazy ass could be talked into going in early. I'm not ranting about this, it just sets the mood.

  when we're there early it's only us veterans of the job. needless to say things go smoothely. Jason and I grabbed these two trailers that only go to a couple of routes but have a lot of freight. so we built these loads for every door they go to. by the end of the hour and a half I had broken that trailer, one another, and built a full kansas city load, half a south holland load, and half a harrisburg load(I'm the designated dallas loader. none of these are my job, but it's common courtesy not to blow out the dock. this means not staging it all in front of the doors so the designated loaders don't have too much on their plate.). meanwhile, all of the new guys showed up.

  none of the new guys know how to load. this isn't just because they are new, I refer to new guys as everyone who doesn't know how to load, some of whom include people that have been there a year or more. EPIC FAIL to my supervisor. his staff can't do the job after a fucking year! have you ever worked a job more than a year and still been a fucking tool at it? I didn't think so. he's got this stupid mentality that if he puts one loader at each door they can handle all of the freight for the route. hello? are you retarded?

  kansas sent out 7 or 8 trailers. you think one guy can handle that by himself? I sent out 4 dallas trailers and I wanted to bitch slap someone. well, I guess you add the other trailer and two halfs to that it's quite a day for me. meanwhile, the new guys loaded NOTHING! what the fuck? so only us designated loaders have to know how to do our job?

  back to the story. my dock got blown out. and when we say blown out we usually mean one full dock pad of freight. I had 3 or more staring me in the face. I just grabbed pallets like a wild man, drove around wrecklessly to the point that everyone else was staying away from my area. then every time a new guy came up they didn't even have the courage to tell me they were bringing more frieght so they would sit there for 5 minutes at a time with a pallet on their forks just staring at me. eventually I'd blow up and yell, "just dock it! that's what they trained you to do right. I'll fuckin' load it!"

  then it happened. I picked up a pallet and it slid off the skid. it was several thousand newspaper inserts from wal-mart. F... M... W(whole)... L...

  so now I'm really irate. then I realize that all of the bills I was loading and clipping the paperwork on top of the manifest was also fucked. people were putting freight on the dock(not in the trailer) and clipping the bills on top of my manifest. now there are like 60 bills of varied freight on my dock pads and I have no fucking clue whats in the trailer. I told my friend quite loudly, "I swear to god, I'm waiting for one more person to do something stupid so I can punch them in the face."

  the timid new guys avoided bringing dallas frieght for the rest of the night and tried sliding it in under cover from the other side and ran up and hung the bills on my load stand when I was in the trailer or not looking. which is just as fine, because I was so far behind I was the last guy on the shift loading. that's right, everyone of my now 20 something(ridiculously overstaffed) shift just went home and left it all for me to do. gives you a real team feeling doesn't it.

  fuck. it's over now, calming down. calming down.

  fack.

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