Stupid Guest Tricks

Last night I drove through some of the worst whether I've ever seen on the way to work. Parked on the edge of the street and had to wade through ankle deep water in the driveway to get to the truck. Get to work and start pulling pallets on the food side of the store where the roof always leaks every time it rains(putting in service requests doesn't seem to do any good.)

And then it really gets exciting... The loading dock is fixing to flood into the building and into the trailer load of merchandise. Crap! Start making phone calls and make my receiver hurriedly unload the truck. Then one of my guys comes to me and says his wife is having labor pains and needs to go. Double crap! I didn't have enough people in the first place. I did luck out though and get someone to come pump some of the water off the loading dock and I begged someone to come in and work few hours. The guy who's wife had the labor pains came back after a few hours. Glad this night is over.

Attached picture is the loading dock when I left after they pumped at least a foot of water out.

Jet ski time!!

hobie16 wrote:Jet ski time!!

I don't think you want to do that. The trash compactor sits on the other side of the semi trailer. We throw out old rotisserie chickens, expired seafood, rotten meat. Not to mention assorted rodent droppings from outside. First thing I bought when I started, a pair of rubber boots just for changing the pin lock on the trailer when the dock flooded.

Wet suit time!

Trash pump time.
(of course,jet-skiing in a wet suit would be more funner)

Wet suit time!

More like Hazmat suit time.

DonutGoddess wrote:Last night I drove through some of the worst whether I've ever seen on the way to work. Parked on the edge of the street and had to wade through ankle deep water in the driveway to get to the truck. Get to work and start pulling pallets on the food side of the store where the roof always leaks every time it rains(putting in service requests doesn't seem to do any good.)

Start writing off entire pallets of merchandise, and attach copies of all the unfulfilled service requests to the paperwork when it is sent to head office.Basically, let them know what it is costing them to have a leaky roof. You shouldn't need to take heroic measures just because they cant be bothered to repair the roof.

delsdad wrote:Start writing off entire pallets of merchandise, and attach copies of all the unfulfilled service requests to the paperwork when it is sent to head office.Basically, let them know what it is costing them to have a leaky roof. You shouldn't need to take heroic measures just because they cant be bothered to repair the roof.

But that's not me. If I can get the boxes dried off quick enough then they don't stick together. We are running short on garbage bins but I may strap and shrink wrap another and boom it up over the leak area. I did that in my juice aisle and it's helped a lot. Of course once in a while some idiot booms merchandise in the C tier over the garbage bin and then it doesn't work. The prospect of damaging an entire semi worth of merchandise and having water breach the back of the building, unthinkable.

I am told that the pump they installed to drain the area is small and drains into the drain that is blocked or back flowing. This building is a plumbing nightmare.