Life just got interesting...

For the first time in months, I finally knew the meaning of 'busy'. Saturday was the first of (possibly) many days in the future of 'worked off your feet' day. I was literally just sitting there for a good 4-5 hours entering data in the computer. Truly, I have became a data-entry operator? It seems my job became shifted, once again. Before I was just the duty warehouse guy. Doing warehouse stuff. Then I became a warehouse mover, just moving stuff. Then I became a order picker, just picking stuff. Then I helped out with sticker/label sticking. Now, I have been given the privilage of making the labels. Its bloody hard work, just sitting there and entering data into the database. And the printing labels, when all the computer wants to do is pop up a message saying 'installing office...'. Office (microcrap) has nothing to do with the labelling software! WHY is it activating? *kicks computer*. The other computer had the same issue, I just went and uninstalled the 'office update sp1' and it doesn't ask for this crap, but with this computer, I just didn't dare to. Plus they will hopefully get a new computer soon just for database and printing purposes. Since we are one computer short, the other casual can't do the RMA right now. And the scary thing about saturdays is, we did all this stuff, we had one wrong label, and it took about 10 mins just trying to rectify the problem. 10 minutes! If we had 2 labels wrong... grrr it may take 40 mins due to the size of the orders being so bloody big... in fact, it may take a few containers in the future just to get stuff out... *sigh*. The paperwork, once finished, will be approximately 2cm thick. Now thats a regular small book size. And if that goes missing... well I guess its not my problem, is it. I've entered all into the database, and I hope I don't get any wrong. If they get any wrong, its them who put the labels on, and thankfully its got nothing to do with me :D

Monday will be fun, because we'll have practically no room to move. Yay. And I'll be processing more orders! What will I be doing next? Maybe cleaning rubbish. Oh wait, I DID THAT BEFORE TOO! I should be paid $40 an hour or something since I can do so much crap for this company, yet get paid so little. Oh well. I am severely considering changing to a different company, one that doesn't care for its profits, but for its people. If they just want some forklift guy, they got one quick smart, they overlooked one guy who was here for a year. So what does that say? It says the company is pretty slack.

Oh what fun...

Tomorrow it'll be a saturday. What does that mean? It means that I will be working, but this time, it means I'll start work AT 7am. At the rate we're going, in 2 weekends time, I'll be skipping sleep and working at 5am. Woo.

On an interesting note... Bleach ep 20... They enter the gate of Soul Society on my birthday! How cool's that :P

P.S. I wanna msg people like that... throw and explode... cool :P

P.P.S work is crazy... We've got literally mountains in the warehouse now... sux to be me... :P

P.P.P.S I'm going nuts... and need to sleep early too :P

And you thought I was bitchy...

Today, it being a nice and humid/hot Saturday, I didn't sleep in. In fact, I got up early again just so I can get to work at 8am. Except that there was somebody already there, listening to arabic radio/music. Who he was, I didn't know. All I know was he was pretty important. 'Gary?' he asked. Nope, not me. Gary'll be around shortly. The only problem is, the automatic gate is on a slant, looks like... oh no... don't tell me... we've been broken into. Yep, we did. Oh f*ck. Who else knows about it? The warehouse supervisor of course. Not my supervisor anymore, he has to obey the warehouse supervisor also. Gary came around at 8am. He took one look and had exactly the same reaction. Oh f*ck. Our security doors and locks were pretty shite. They managed to take a lot of stuff. Some of them are old, others were new. All in all, it was disruptive. We were meant to do some picking and preparing for delivery, but all we got to do was to wait for the police and clean up stuff. But 'lucky' for me, I got sent to the old warehouse to do the final cleanup. That was funnnnn. (sarcasm). But then I got praised as 'forklift driver #1.'. So all I had to do was get there and put pallets (wrapped) on the trucks. And then these racking which were wider than the doors. Had to do some 'jigging'. That means turning the racks left, then straight, then right, and then left, so that they go through the door. Lucky this forklift is a bit more manageable, so I managed to get it through, no dramas. Then its back to the new place, and putting that on the shelves. Amongst other stuff that we might not need for 124312915 years. We went to Flemington to get lunch, at a viet restraunt, $7.20 for fried pork steak with rice and noodles plus soup. Its not too bad. We bought a beef noodle thingy for the warehouse super, cos he was still busy with the break-in stuff. Afterall, when the thieves broke in at 2am, he had to go there and talk with the police. He got home at 3am (same as my colleague when he went out last nite, thats why he rocked up late). And so he couldn't wake up at the 8am morning call Gary gave him. Needless to say, when my colleague came in, it was 'oh f*ck'. Yep... it was just the start. After all the crap was put away, heaven decided to play a game with us. It started raining. Now, the warehouse super had been to this particular warehouse when it rains and IT DIDN'T LEAK. SO NOW IT DOES. We (5 people + 1 security person) were running around finding rubbish bins to catch the water. In the end, I think we had over 10 places leaking. Oh dear god, when will the nightmare end?

On the fun side, my colleague told me (jokingly) that maybe he can step on two boats. *wink*. hahaha woooooo go mate :D

Bitch bitch bitch...

Somebody complained about my bitching. Woop-de-doo. It's so much fun when you get called in to do 3 saturdays in a row. Thats right, one day of break per week. Guess that somebody doesn't really know what 'work till you break your back' means. It means that you get to stand and use the forklift for 7 hours a day (including saturday) and take maybe 5 mins break per 2 hours. That 5 mins break means walking around so that you can actually circulate your blood through your legs, cos you've just been moving approximately 40 pallets. True, its not that they force me to do this job, but if I don't do this job, I don't get $$. They might be luckier to have a good cushy job sitting in an office all day just yakking on the phone, or having a break every 10 minutes yakking with other people. Well, I'm so sorry, nobody is forcing you to read my blog or to make you post crappy comments. I think I shouldn't post nice comments on your blog, since it takes you about a month to update anyways.

Anyways, ranting aside, something funny happened... I log this in the chronological order because its better to start at the beginning.

Everybody in the warehouse... that means me, my supervisor, other casual casuals, and my colleague... well my colleague is the one who's the main character... knows that the colleague and this girl from upstairs have a thing for each other... the girl comes down the stairs at the old place and always yells out his name... and he will go help her no matter how busy the situation is. Anyways, after we'ved moved to the new place, we've been busier than usual... yet he will happily drop whatever he is doing whenever she comes and finds him. Thats called... :D

Anyways, it was the end of the day. The girl was to attend a show somewhere on the NSW coast the next day (today). She had to get some stuff ready. So she got the colleague to prepare it before we finished. Then, about 5 mins before we were going home, she calls the warehouse phone, and the warehouse manager picks it up, talks a few sentences, and says in a loud voice, 'XXX, its your girlfriend'. I just laughed out loud... bwahahaha that was the funniest thing, since they weren't really... but its really funny how the warehouse super thought the same. Anyways, she drove her car up about 10 mins late... made us wait, all because of our colleague agreeing.

The warehouse super didn't know anything, he even asked me 'isn't xxxxx yyy's girlfriend?'. Of course I said no, since my colleague didn't have that relationship with that girl yet. But from just looking at those two together... you'd think so. So, today, saturday I arrived at work at 8am and started the work... and the colleague also came. The warehouse super started to shitstir. He winked at me first, without my colleague looking, and then said to another colleague from upstairs

Warehouse super (WS): Hey you know xxx is dating a girl upstairs?
Colleague from upstairs (CU): No... really?
WS: yeah... its yyyyy.
CU: Really?
WS: Ken, isn't that true?
Me: Yep!
Colleague (C): No!
Our original supervisor (S):
C: Why do you guys think so?
Me:
WS: Because you look like you two are dating.
Me: Yeah I think they should be. Lets start a rumour.
CU: Don't worry, we'll let everybody know. Just tell zzzzz and everybody'll know for sure.
C: Oh shit.

Hahaha I wish the guy would get a new gf, because he was playing a depressing song on the way to KFC for lunch (He put it on repeat, I think I got sick of it after 1 song, but I heard it about 6 times...). Get his mind off things, its better that way. Plus, they do look like they should be together.

And I got a 'Free Chips' cap from my softdrink for the next KFC. W00t :P

What am I?

I think my life sux... my back is sore from standing up all day. Real sore. If I lift my leg up backwards, it cramps. Why me... why oh why did I get the forklift license? This isn't work, its torture. And the other thing is, we're meant to be doing this, or are we meant to be doing other things (i.e for service)? I have no idea, but I wish they would tell me. Fire me or hire me, I don't care, just put me out of my misery.

First day...

First 'official' day in the new warehouse. Got there just 5 mins to 9, all the undercover parking were taken. Bastards. Worked my ass off all morning, there was a full on 2 hours where I didn't leave the forklift once. New shipment came in, 20 pallets. And to clean up the mess left behind on sat. Had lunch at 1:30pm, and at nearly 2pm there was a presentation on the new phone system. Of course, I didn't know that, but lucky I alway wolf down my lunch. We left the presentation when the presentation was nearly ending. Just so I can hop on the forklift and do more cleaning up. At 5:30 the place was fairly presentable. Got home in the hot car. Bastards. Tomorrow I get to take a casual (I'm a 'permenant casual') and go back to the old place and do some cleaning up there. WTF, why me? It seems like because I have a forklift license... oh well... more work no extra pay. Sucks, right? That seems to be what happened to me. The other 'permenant casual' doesn't have a forklift license, so he doesn't get to do all the fun things I do. *Sigh*. Hopefully I have energy. :P

What a fun day... woo...

Its the second day... 8am start... 5:30pm finish. What is going on. Good thing that more people turn up... bad thing is that I crashed into somebody's side mirrors.... with the forklift. It wasn't my fault, cos they saw me but I didn't see them. I was doing a turn, and they drove up behind me, then beside me, and then I was too late (or shall I say, the bloody forklift wasn't responsive enough. It takes a full 2 seconds for it to change from reverse to forward, and vice versa.) I wasn't to blame, honestly. I think its also stupid that vehicles were allowed in the warehouse. But we'll see how it goes. Best scenario = both have insurance, it'll get sorted out. Worst = I pay all damages. Lets hope it doesn't get to the worse scenario.

Since today was such a fun day, lets make the weekend funner! How? BY STARTING WORK AT 7:30am! woo what fun! Lets see if I will get more than 1.5x pay. If not, this company can see me bitch. I ain't paid enough for this kind of work actually. People who do my kind of work get heaps of $$ per hour. But not me. Oh well. Apparently Aus is in a time where there's plenty of jobs on offer. Maybe one of them is better for me. If they make me permenant after the move, I won't bitch... or would I... :P

8am

I will be working at 8am. Fun. on a Friday too. What have I done to deserve this??? :P Needless to say, I did a 9am-6:30pmer today. And most of it was just unloading the truck's pallets of stuff. Fun fun fun. Geez I have a headache and I don't know why. Anyways... it means more $$, whatever it may be.

Disconnected...

I think I'm so reliant on some net services that when they conk out, I am without entertainment, or friends. Today it happens that my yahoo mail stopped working, msn refuses to connect, and hinet has connection time out. Plus tomorrow I'll be by myself in the new place, since today I didn't go there because there was no forklift. And my answer to your quiz, is '148'. Ahhhhh got a hailstorm today and I got soaked loading stuff onto a truck. What a tiring day.