What Annoyed You Today? (3 Viewers)

[at6]

Sorry about your loss Dave. He was a good looking cat. Hope your eye heals soon.

 

[vikingBerserker]

That stinks Dave, my condolences.

 

[Tieleader]

As a fellow cat lover I feel your pain. It's commonly said that pets become part of the family and that their loss is just as damaging. All too true.
If it's any consultation I believe that all cats end up chasing slow,fat mice afterwards. Hope it's true here as well.

 

[Tieleader]

Its now been two full months since the bastards at corporate HQ have dangled the "we promise to reduce the overtime" carrot in front of us. No fixing the problem at the source(California DC), no new hires. It is so bad now that our ALL our warehouses now have had to add "voluntary"Saturday and Sunday shifts just to keep from falling even further behind the almost weeks delay in shipping. This is in addition to the 10.5 hours every weekday. I know of at least two long term workers that have walked because of this BS.
To add injury to insult that damned pain in my chest is back...

 

[michael rauls]

Its now been two full months since the bastards at corporate HQ have dangled the "we promise to reduce the overtime" carrot in front of us. No fixing the problem at the source(California DC), no new hires. It is so bad now that our ALL our warehouses now have had to add "voluntary"Saturday and Sunday shifts just to keep from falling even further behind the almost weeks delay in shipping. This is in addition to the 10.5 hours every weekday. I know of at least two long term workers that have walked because of this BS.
To add injury to insult that damned pain in my chest is back...

I feel your pain. We've been short handed big time for about 3 years. They keep saying there in the process of getting more truck divers but they never seem to materialize.
It's cheaper to just work the guys you have to death because of the cost of the aditional trucks, insurance, workers comp, etc that accompany additional guys.
The problem is it impacts the quality of service we can give. So much so that we just lost a major account about 2 weeks ago.
Penny wise and pound foolish if you ask me.

 

[Tieleader]

I feel your pain. We've been short handed big time for about 3 years. They keep saying there in the process of getting more truck divers but they never seem to materialize.
It's cheaper to just work the guys you have to death because of the cost of the aditional trucks, insurance, workers comp, etc that accompany additional guys.
The problem is it impacts the quality of service we can give. So much so that we just lost a major account about 2 weeks ago.
Penny wise and pound foolish if you ask me.

It's cheaper to just work the guys you have to death

I fear it may come to that if this keeps up. How do these pricks keep their jobs?

 

[michael rauls]

I fear it may come to that if this keeps up. How do these pricks keep their jobs?

Weve got an unusual dynamic at my place of employment. The supervisors at our facility are all former drivers, worked there way up and treat us real good and thats how it was for 15 years but then we got acquired by a big corporation and too many things are micro managed from afar.
For example the shop only gets a certain set budget per month to keep everything running, always the same, no flexibility.
The result is that in months were we have more than the usual major breakdowns there's no money to fix several of the trucks until next month so they just sit there depreciating.
This of course also results in several guys standing around with no trucks to drive.
..........and of course means accounts don't get serviced, or at least not on time or anything close to it.
Everything is about bean counting and set in stone rules to the corperate guys and I'm here to tell you it just doesn't work.

 

[at6]

Bean counting has never worked and it never will. We had snot nosed college kids who were supposed to be efficiency experts always looking for ways to make everyone work harder and faster with ever increasing demands for loading trucks by hand and for picking items for shipment. Less time between tralers and loading faster to the point that after I left, the expectation was 700 cases per hour with no regard as to weight of temperature conditions inside of the trailer. I told my ex supervisor that the little b@stards should spend 6 weeks doing what they wanted us to do. I have absolutely no respect for the little snots and am glad to be retired since I was always wanting to turn them into parking lot speed bumps.

 

[michael rauls]

Bean counting has never worked and it never will. We had snot nosed college kids who were supposed to be efficiency experts always looking for ways to make everyone work harder and faster with ever increasing demands for loading trucks by hand and for picking items for shipment. Less time between tralers and loading faster to the point that after I left, the expectation was 700 cases per hour with no regard as to weight of temperature conditions inside of the trailer. I told my ex supervisor that the little b@stards should spend 6 weeks doing what they wanted us to do. I have absolutely no respect for the little snots and am glad to be retired since I was always wanting to turn them into parking lot speed bumps.

Ah.......... Retirement. I'm counting the days.
7 years left to go.

 

[Tieleader]

Bean counting has never worked and it never will. We had snot nosed college kids who were supposed to be efficiency experts always looking for ways to make everyone work harder and faster with ever increasing demands for loading trucks by hand and for picking items for shipment. Less time between tralers and loading faster to the point that after I left, the expectation was 700 cases per hour with no regard as to weight of temperature conditions inside of the trailer. I told my ex supervisor that the little b@stards should spend 6 weeks doing what they wanted us to do. I have absolutely no respect for the little snots and am glad to be retired since I was always wanting to turn them into parking lot speed bumps.

Don't forget to back up a few times as well to crumple their shiny, gold leaf Ivy League business degrees as well !
I read somewhere that successful companies will move their help around for a few days in different positions just so everyone understands what is required of each job to improve their outlook on others responsibilities.

 

[Tieleader]

Weve got an unusual dynamic at my place of employment. The supervisors at our facility are all former drivers, worked there way up and treat us real good and thats how it was for 15 years but then we got acquired by a big corporation and too many things are micro managed from afar.
For example the shop only gets a certain set budget per month to keep everything running, always the same, no flexibility.
The result is that in months were we have more than the usual major breakdowns there's no money to fix several of the trucks until next month so they just sit there depreciating.
This of course also results in several guys standing around with no trucks to drive.
..........and of course means accounts don't get serviced, or at least not on time or anything close to it.
Everything is about bean counting and set in stone rules to the corperate guys and I'm here to tell you it just doesn't work.

Sounds like a great place to work in the old days.

 

[at6]

Don't forget to back up a few times as well to crumple their shiny, gold leaf Ivy League business degrees as well !
I read somewhere that successful companies will move their help around for a few days in different positions just so everyone understands what is required of each job to improve their outlook on others responsibilities.

We were cross trained in different departments but the college boys never had to try what they came up with. Bunch of snot face Millennials who never actually performed physical labor at anytime in their useless lives.

 

[Marcel]

What annoys me is the hype around the Corona virus in China. At the moment, the death rate seems to be lower than the common flu that hits people around the world and kills around half a million each year. Sure the virus is potentially dangerous, but not worth the fuzz about that they are making now in my opinion.

 

[michael rauls]

Agreed. It's just this years yearly flu for all practical purposes. The only difference being as you said it's actually less serious.

 

[vikingBerserker]

Don't forget to back up a few times as well to crumple their shiny, gold leaf Ivy League business degrees as well !
I read somewhere that successful companies will move their help around for a few days in different positions just so everyone understands what is required of each job to improve their outlook on others responsibilities.

The one thing I've always done is spend time on the production line to better understand what's gonig on in the "real world". I'm one of those corporate bean counters, but I realize my job is to help the people on the front lines do their job, not be a hindrance. If I found out one of my folks was preventing needed maitenance or something safety related because the budget was about to be exceeded, they would be looking for a new job.

 

[Tieleader]

The one thing I've always done is spend time on the production line to better understand what's gonig on in the "real world". I'm one of those corporate bean counters, but I realize my job is to help the people on the front lines do their job, not be a hindrance. If I found out one of my folks was preventing needed maitenance or something safety related because the budget was about to be exceeded, they would be looking for a new job.

Sounds like you're one of the exceptions that gives a rat's ass!

 

[at6]

What annoys me is the hype around the Corona virus in China. At the moment, the death rate seems to be lower than the common flu that hits people around the world and kills around half a million each year. Sure the virus is potentially dangerous, but not worth the fuzz about that they are making now in my opinion.

The death rate is only 2 percent. The flu kills more people.

 

[rochie]

just heard my neighbor has died, he's been ill for a month or so, he and his wife are in their 70's

we only moved into the house next door about 7 months ago but he and his wife have been very friendly, going home from work soon so will go and see his wife , very sad

 

[Snautzer01]

The death rate is only 2 percent. The flu kills more people.

Indeed and how about snakes? And that is every year and rising. Epidemiology of snakebites - Wikipedia

 

[vikingBerserker]

Sorry to hear about the neighbor