We all need to have some time to laugh. If we don't, work gets too serious and its stressful. Being in this enviroment is good, since we have time to find things to laugh out loudly about. Take yesterday for example. One of the 'broken' items came in was a camera. The fault description was "Battery will not charge". My collegue gave me the camera with the battery inside. I didn't know what was funny till I opened the battery compartment... and took the battery out... can you believe it, the nong had kept the original protective plastic ON the battery. You're meant to take that OFF before you insert battery into camera. Ahaha I had a great laugh there :D. Today was a little different, but funny nevertheless (to me and collegue). The courier driver usually comes to us directly after 5pm to pick up the goods. Today, he stopped outside us, and then did something weird... asked the next door warehouse. Why? We don't know. About 5 mins later he reverses the van back to our gate, and we loaded it up (20 items today... quite a lot, considering the last couple of days we only did about 10 each day...) And we asked what was he looking for... he showed us his pager, and it said to pick up a parcel from a place which wasn't normally on his route, but it was on the same street as us. The item said 'medicine technologies'. The number was one away from us. He checked the right side, they don't know any medicine technologies... then we go (ding! light bulb goes off) the left hand side is called... Drumroll please... 'Madison Technologies'. ROFL... hahaha u can imagine how pissed off the guy was at his own company's call center... Thats the problem, sometimes we get missplete manes nad adrdesese... and that means we have to use the net to find the correct addys :P But it does keep you on your toes... :P Today I was feeling like a escaping refugee (like the movie "Transporter"). Except there were no other humans, just stands in a huge 40 foot container (12 meters). It was hot in there, no air came through, and we moved many many pallets off... again we've run out of space in the warehouse... -_-. Hopefully they will be relocated tomorrow, but I doubt it. Thus, I'm tired again and will be going soon :P
4 comments:
That battery story was pretty funny! I hope I never do anything dumbarse like that ~
Hehe nah I'm sure u'll not do something like that... you're not technically challenged :P
oh, the 'missplete manes nad adrdesese' part is real troublesome... :P so you had such experiences about using the net to find out the real names and addresses. I bet those who asked for your help must be grateful. :D
They don't ask me, they try it themselves, and if they can't decipher the scribbles (some of them can be really flowy and artistic... looped 's' and 'a' and 'o' looks almost similar) then I guess I have to check the whitepages online :P Also the surburbs can be troublesome too, since they can mispell it easily (the call center people can really make honest mistakes... its up to us to ship it out properly... since it does cost $$ to ship to wrong addy and get it shipped back...)
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