BuzzKillington
07-10-2009, 10:33 AM
I've been working graveyard the past few nights working on the store's remodel. I'm writing this to 1) share my story and 2) in case I hear about it later and need to recall the story again. (I want it to be accurate).
My boss and 3 or 4 employees were upstairs in the warehouse and he asked for two of us to follow him... then he said, actually, all of you. As we were leaving he yelled to another employee that was walking back to where we were with a palletjack to grab a pallet of pegboard for the project down stairs. I fell back to help him because I know how he is. He would have taken his SWEEEET time doing it if he knew he was the only one up there.
We were tearing down wall panels and replacing them with pegboard. The pallet had 3 different sized pegboard, obviously stacked from largest to smallest. The pallet the board was on was oversized, probably 5' instead of 4' and the bottom pegboard still hung over a little so maneuvering it through the isles was going to be a pain. My coworker already had the palletjack so surprisingly he attempted to pull it out. He was running into everything so I was trying to make him plenty of room. Eventually after he fought with it for 10 minutes or so we ran into a spot between a shelf and an AC unit where it would be impossible to get through.
Instead of watching him fight with it all the way back I told him I'd go grab a 4' pallet and we could transfer the medium and small pegboard onto the pallet, then when we came back, I'd tip the large pegboard onto it's side and walk with the pallet as he pulled.
He didn't want to help me lift it so I asked him to just try and slide it towards him while I lifted and pushed. He gave a half-assed attempt like someone who was exhausted would do just as he/she was about to lift a heavy object. I told him I'd go get someone to help with it. I went down stairs and found some help. He followed me up and him and I did it as the original guy just observed.
The helper took the pallet with the medium and small pegboard to the elevator and he followed for no reason... Meanwhile, I tipped the largest pegboard stack up on it's side myself and fought with it until it was in the middle of the pallet standing on its side. The original guy came back and I told him just to pull the pallet with me standing on it with the pegboard leaning on me. We got to the elevator and he says to me... "the other pegboard is still in the elevator down there.....do we get someone to pull it out? And I said ya... go down there and pull it out. He did and never came back up. I laid the pegboard back down and shifted it to the center of the pallet again and sent it down myself.
............Later.............
The boss comes over and asks that employee to do something and he said he couldn't because he hurt his back lifting the pegboard... I ended up having to stop what I was doing to do his job yet again.
Today the manager came to our group and asked who witnessed when the employee hurt himself. He asked me to fill out a witness report. I told the boss "he was bsing you, he wouldn't even help... I had to get another employee to help me." Turns out he called in today because of his "accident" as well. I'm not a liar and I'll be damned if I lie for someone else, especially when he just didn't want to work. (then turns around and plays it off for a day off.)
I hate lazy people.
My boss and 3 or 4 employees were upstairs in the warehouse and he asked for two of us to follow him... then he said, actually, all of you. As we were leaving he yelled to another employee that was walking back to where we were with a palletjack to grab a pallet of pegboard for the project down stairs. I fell back to help him because I know how he is. He would have taken his SWEEEET time doing it if he knew he was the only one up there.
We were tearing down wall panels and replacing them with pegboard. The pallet had 3 different sized pegboard, obviously stacked from largest to smallest. The pallet the board was on was oversized, probably 5' instead of 4' and the bottom pegboard still hung over a little so maneuvering it through the isles was going to be a pain. My coworker already had the palletjack so surprisingly he attempted to pull it out. He was running into everything so I was trying to make him plenty of room. Eventually after he fought with it for 10 minutes or so we ran into a spot between a shelf and an AC unit where it would be impossible to get through.
Instead of watching him fight with it all the way back I told him I'd go grab a 4' pallet and we could transfer the medium and small pegboard onto the pallet, then when we came back, I'd tip the large pegboard onto it's side and walk with the pallet as he pulled.
He didn't want to help me lift it so I asked him to just try and slide it towards him while I lifted and pushed. He gave a half-assed attempt like someone who was exhausted would do just as he/she was about to lift a heavy object. I told him I'd go get someone to help with it. I went down stairs and found some help. He followed me up and him and I did it as the original guy just observed.
The helper took the pallet with the medium and small pegboard to the elevator and he followed for no reason... Meanwhile, I tipped the largest pegboard stack up on it's side myself and fought with it until it was in the middle of the pallet standing on its side. The original guy came back and I told him just to pull the pallet with me standing on it with the pegboard leaning on me. We got to the elevator and he says to me... "the other pegboard is still in the elevator down there.....do we get someone to pull it out? And I said ya... go down there and pull it out. He did and never came back up. I laid the pegboard back down and shifted it to the center of the pallet again and sent it down myself.
............Later.............
The boss comes over and asks that employee to do something and he said he couldn't because he hurt his back lifting the pegboard... I ended up having to stop what I was doing to do his job yet again.
Today the manager came to our group and asked who witnessed when the employee hurt himself. He asked me to fill out a witness report. I told the boss "he was bsing you, he wouldn't even help... I had to get another employee to help me." Turns out he called in today because of his "accident" as well. I'm not a liar and I'll be damned if I lie for someone else, especially when he just didn't want to work. (then turns around and plays it off for a day off.)
I hate lazy people.