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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.
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.
