Who in the fuck takes one glove? (and other warehouse stories) (702 hits)
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Submitted by PWNstar (View user info) at 2004-06-27 19:25:45 EDT
Inventory. Perhaps one of the greatest summer jobs I've ever had. I don't have to deal with people and I get to work with my best friend.
Most of the items are in small single-digit quantities. But every once in a while, we get stuck counting through hundreds of small pieces of metal or pairs of safety equipment (gloves, boots, etc.)
In this instance, the subject at hand is obviously the gloves. Having just went through a box containing about 70 pairs, I come across a frusterating fact: the box was missing just one. By this time I was not strange to having things have just one less than they were supposed to, that happens plenty. But no, this was different, this was just missing one glove.
I turn to my friend, "Who in the fuck takes one glove?"
Then I see him, the man that I had forgotton about while I was saying it. The assistant supervisor of the warehouse. He's missing his fucking right arm and has a prosthetic one (w/ claw) in it's stead.
My friend turns to me as I start laughing in my realizationn, "You're a real asshole Mike"
Yeah, I guess I am, I'll raise my right arm to that claim.
Story #2 Nuts and not growing up
We finished the first location's items and were moved to a bigger storeroom downtown (which has a security guard ALSO missing a right arm....wierd). The worst aisle in any location of course is the nut and bolt aisle. Finally I get to the worst piece of shit container I've ever seen for "1 nuts in my life, a small metal trashcan. I can already tell I'm going to be trudging through counting it so I make it interesting.
What does any immature guy decide to do with hundreds of 1" nuts? You guessed it, build a castle.
As my friend slept on a shelf, I painstakingly made my walls, staggering between 4 and 5 nuts per column (as to provide protection for the archers of course) and make a gate protrude from the front with a gate 2 nuts in height. My clipboard makes an obvious choice for the courtyard and I surround that with buildings varying in the number of stories. Next, I begin work on my pride and joy of any city, the castle. But, alas, by the time the final tower is done, it is missing something.
A flag. tearing off a piece of paper and placing it in the cap of my pen I begin to slowly drop it into the highest tower. Just as it is going in I look up and my eyes are met by a random person coming into the aisle for parts. We both stop in our tracks in mutual suprise.
"Don't mind me, I'm just building a castle trying to have a little fun counting this stuff."
"Alright man, whatever"
"(shit)"
If we didn't work ahead of schedule so much, we'd so be fired.
User Reviews
Submitted by Avals (user info) at 2004-07-25 14:05:21 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
+2 for building a motherfucking castle!
Submitted by LedHead (user info) at 2004-07-25 13:41:39 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
hehehehe...he had one arm...hehehe...archers....hehehe
Submitted by Laurel <purplemonkeys1124.at.sbcglobal.ne> at 2004-06-30 01:01:14 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Wow Michael. Wow. Let's just say, +2 no comment.
Submitted by im_evelyn (user info) at 2004-06-28 03:12:50 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
As my friend slept on a shelf, I painstakingly made my walls, staggering between 4 and 5 nuts per column (as to provide protection for the archers of course) and make a gate protrude from the front with a gate 2 nuts in height. My clipboard makes an obvious choice for the courtyard and I surround that with buildings varying in the number of stories. Next, I begin work on my pride and joy of any city, the castle. But, alas, by the time the final tower is done, it is missing something.
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Sounds fun. I never got to build a castle... someone always ended up destroying it.
Submitted by creep_firebombing (user info) at 2004-06-27 21:53:10 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by dakingisdead (user info) at 2004-06-27 20:15:55 (#)
Ranking: 1
And if they are welding gloves I only want lefties anyway because that is the glove that gets burned. The right glove never even gets close to the flame.
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What's scary is that I was thinking exactly that.
Submitted by dakingisdead (user info) at 2004-06-27 20:15:55 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
And if they are welding gloves I only want lefties anyway because that is the glove that gets burned. The right glove never even gets close to the flame.
Submitted by Spooner (user info) at 2004-06-27 19:51:35 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Hahaha, nice.
Submitted by PWNstar (user info) at 2004-06-27 19:35:15 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Forgot to say, as it is a somewhat important fact, the one armed guy didn't hear me say it but was certainly within range to if he was listening.
Submitted by munkeypants (user info) at 2004-06-27 19:28:11 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
I turn to my friend, "Who in the fuck takes one glove?"
Then I see him, the man that I had forgotton about while I was saying it. The assistant supervisor of the warehouse. He's missing his fucking right arm and has a prosthetic one (w/ claw) in it's stead.
HAHAHAHAHA