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gridloreDid ride to work today, but couldn't find the bike computer. so no stats for today.
Today was weird. No, today was freaking weird. And annoying. Very, very annoying.
I got in and before I was even off my bike Tim the Boss was telling me there was nothing on my route today. Nothing. Not one order going to pretty much the eastern half of the Bay Area. No pick ups either. Luckily (for some values of luck) Gene, our West Bay driver, had at least two truckloads of material to deliver. Thus I became a West Bay driver for the day.
For Lord&Sons, "West Bay" is the Peninsula from about San Mateo north to San Francisco and the occasional foray into Marin. I rode along with Gene one day during training. What made this interesting was that I had to load several thousand feet of strut and all-thread. When I was done, there almost no place you could stand on my deck. I was very happy there are no truck scales between San Jose and San Francisco.
We used to make jokes about "Cupertino, a wholly owned subsidiary of Apple Computers." This was because of the unending number of buildings and developments owned by the House that Woz Built in the city. An update might be "Oyster Point, a wholly owned subsidiary of Genentech." Fully half my deliveries had Genentech Building n on the slip. I spent a lot of time threading around the construction ofDr. Evil's new lair their new campus vainly searching for contractors. Or building numbers. Or a bathroom.
One done in Genentown, err, South City, I had two stops in San Francisco itself. These were the two big loads.. one had close to 2,000 feet of material, the other 1,100. At the first site, I encountered quite possibly the worst Gradall driver ever.
This is a Gradall, by the way
I was on the back of my truck, closely watching to make sure that the operator got his forks under his material, and not the other customer's. I told him he had gone too far, and to pull back a few inches. Instead, he lifts, catching part of a bundle of 300 feet of unistrut. Which broke, spilling 30 10-foot sections of strut all over my deck. The moron then managed to drop his own order on the ground.
Once it is off the truck, it ceases to be my problem.
Finally get to my last stop. Classic San Francisco office. Italian wife running the front desk while Italian owner runs everything else. Of course, everyone was gone, and they didn't have a forklift.
Done. Pull out the phone, 'cause da Boss told me to call about a possible pick up in the City... and my phone is off. No idea how that happened. Call the boss, and get told that I'm needed at the warehouse "ASAFP." I'm in SF. He's in San Jose. At 65, it takes a while.
The amazing thing? With all my fumbling, and all the delays, I was the first person back to the warehouse.
Long day.
Today was weird. No, today was freaking weird. And annoying. Very, very annoying.
I got in and before I was even off my bike Tim the Boss was telling me there was nothing on my route today. Nothing. Not one order going to pretty much the eastern half of the Bay Area. No pick ups either. Luckily (for some values of luck) Gene, our West Bay driver, had at least two truckloads of material to deliver. Thus I became a West Bay driver for the day.
For Lord&Sons, "West Bay" is the Peninsula from about San Mateo north to San Francisco and the occasional foray into Marin. I rode along with Gene one day during training. What made this interesting was that I had to load several thousand feet of strut and all-thread. When I was done, there almost no place you could stand on my deck. I was very happy there are no truck scales between San Jose and San Francisco.
We used to make jokes about "Cupertino, a wholly owned subsidiary of Apple Computers." This was because of the unending number of buildings and developments owned by the House that Woz Built in the city. An update might be "Oyster Point, a wholly owned subsidiary of Genentech." Fully half my deliveries had Genentech Building n on the slip. I spent a lot of time threading around the construction of
One done in Genentown, err, South City, I had two stops in San Francisco itself. These were the two big loads.. one had close to 2,000 feet of material, the other 1,100. At the first site, I encountered quite possibly the worst Gradall driver ever.
This is a Gradall, by the way
I was on the back of my truck, closely watching to make sure that the operator got his forks under his material, and not the other customer's. I told him he had gone too far, and to pull back a few inches. Instead, he lifts, catching part of a bundle of 300 feet of unistrut. Which broke, spilling 30 10-foot sections of strut all over my deck. The moron then managed to drop his own order on the ground.
Once it is off the truck, it ceases to be my problem.
Finally get to my last stop. Classic San Francisco office. Italian wife running the front desk while Italian owner runs everything else. Of course, everyone was gone, and they didn't have a forklift.
Done. Pull out the phone, 'cause da Boss told me to call about a possible pick up in the City... and my phone is off. No idea how that happened. Call the boss, and get told that I'm needed at the warehouse "ASAFP." I'm in SF. He's in San Jose. At 65, it takes a while.
The amazing thing? With all my fumbling, and all the delays, I was the first person back to the warehouse.
Long day.
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Date: 17 Aug 2006 02:16 (UTC)Why did the boss want you back so fast???
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Date: 17 Aug 2006 03:03 (UTC)no subject
Date: 17 Aug 2006 02:51 (UTC)I clearly see why you'd be in an environment that would have the other kind. Was just not what I was thinking (which is why your link with the pic helped)
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Date: 17 Aug 2006 11:24 (UTC)no subject
Date: 17 Aug 2006 19:26 (UTC)1. Steal Bike computers.
2. ??????
3. Profit!