FUBAR

[gridlore]

Ever have on of those days? Today it was my turn.

Pulled into work to find all our trucks still out in the yard where we left them yesterday... unloaded not a good sign. Go to find that I have a pretty full route, but get told there's an emergency OMGWTFBBQ! delivery that absolutely has to be in Palo Alto before 0730. I can take the F350, but go! go! go!

Except that the last person to bring back the F350 brought it back on fumes. Borrow Eddie's gas card (ours are diesel-only), and pump 32 gallons into a 30 gallon tank. On the road! Make the delivery - and for once it was an actual "we need this stuff first thing" moment - and head back to the warehouse.

Where I find that we are down to two functioning forklifts, one of which is the Beast, which I hate. But I use it, get loaded, and finally roll out on my actual run at 0800, two and a half hours after I got to work. But things got better!

One of my early stop was at a massive site in Fremont (locals, it's the Solyndra building just off 880 between Dixon Landing Road and Mission) I had four stops at this site alone, the last one being a company I didn't recognize. Called them, got a really nice guy who said he'd be right out. A few minutes later he walks up, looks at the 500' of ten-foot P1000PG Unistrut I have for him, turns to be and says:

"We ordered fifty feet."

He needs it ASAP, so we break the bundle, pull five sticks, and I take a now-collapsing pile of 450' of strut back to the warehouse. Then head out again. Things got marginally better from there on out.

For example, I got in a snowball fight.

Comments

[taeraresh.livejournal.com]

Been there, done that, and it makes me wonder what's going on at our warehouse. We ordered 10 of a slow-selling conduit fitting, they sent us ten boxes of a hundred. We've also gotten cases of (very corrosive) paint stripper that look like they'd been run over with a forklift, which is a whole separate issue.

[dalen-talas.livejournal.com]

Wait. Exactly HOW did you get into a snowball fight in the middle of Californian summer?

[pauldrye.livejournal.com]

First, you need two cats named "Snowball"....

[dalen-talas.livejournal.com]

*headdesk*

[hellloooonurse.livejournal.com]

*groan*

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

We used to use a computer program called CAPS at work. It's expensive: $25,000 per seat license. I have a cartoon Lisa drew of me with a befuddled expression holding a baseball hat with cases and cases of the same behind me. Caption: "No, I ordered one copy of CAPS, not a thousand caps!"

[claidheamhmor]

Annoying that some people don't think of anyone who may have to use the vehicle after them.

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Well, part of the problem is the gas card issue. We use cards for a particular commercial fueling chain. Each full-sized truck has an assigned gas card that can only be used for #2 Diesel. The F-350 takes unleaded. So to refuel you need to borrow a gas card from a manager. The vehicle is also notorious for being a gas guzzler with a bad fuel indicator.

Just part of the life of a truck driver.

[jarlsberg71.livejournal.com]

Ok I too want to hear about the snowball fight, unless it was a pig and a cat.

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Know what you get when a big industrial air compressor has a faulty seal? Condensation at very low temps. Not snow, but close enough so that when I arrived at one of my regular stops I was nailed by four slush balls, along with two or three that sailed wide.