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Post by Blastgirl on Mar 2, 2009 20:36:55 GMT -5
Suppose Mahnarch and Phil were sent to take care of something. What I'm not sure they had to get an item at a warehouse with a truck. The warehouse workers were dumb and unproductive. They had no clue how to go about letting our Lewasite Members in or how to assist them. One person kind of knew but it was almost his lunch time and there was no chance he was going to offer any assistance at all before he finished his lunch.
How would our dynamic duo deal with the situation? Both are interested in getting things done in a timely way. Neither has much tolerance for laziness or stupidity and they're both surrounded by it in this poll! ;D
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Post by Mahnarch on Mar 4, 2009 23:55:07 GMT -5
*what do you mean by 'tame'? **and, are Phil and I competitors, or in the same truck? ***who's driving? I have no time or patients for incompetence. Those who know me, know that I can't stand around and mope or daydream. I'm a busy body and I'll keep myself busy, somehow. Yesterday I swept the entire dock area at Haworth while they all took their break (only because I didn't have access to a hi-lo or pallet jack) which lasted a half hour. .
I also had to step in and translate Russian to a shipper that was trying to send the aforementioned Russian driver to a separate building when he did, in fact, have what the shipper wanted.
Shipper: "You speak Russian?"
Me: "No. I'm just good with languages....and I can read paperwork." (plus, I've been delivering to MD-Alto longer than he's worked there.)
I've broken skids down, tote by tote/box by box to off/on load them if no one was willing to help.
I've forged signatures at places where the shipper had gone home for the day, already.
I've ninja'd my way into businesses that closed early (forgetting about me/not caring about me/etc) and off loaded myself....and then forged their signatures. (It could also be seen as B&E but, technically, I'm leaving things that belong to them that they need, so I've never had any complaints.)
I've saved several butts by remembering/knowing/putting in effort/pretending to be a worker/ninja-ing....
I don't know about Phil but, someone owes me a plate of cookies.  |
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Post by Blastgirl on Mar 5, 2009 0:08:46 GMT -5
You would be in the same truck because both you guys are goal oriented and neither suffers the fool very well. I would think you're both good drivers why not switch on and off. ;D
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Post by Mahnarch on Mar 5, 2009 0:24:00 GMT -5
Well, legally, a driver is only allowed to drive for 11 hours a day - with a minimum 10 hours off before coming back on duty (which explains the semis you frequently see alongside the interstate with a sleeper cab).
With a team, you switch out drivers every 11 hours to keep rolling.
If Phil and I were to team across country, we'd make a killing ($3000+ a run, atleast [1.5-2 runs a week]).
None of that '3 day wait at Chrysler - Illinois for 1 skid' bull crap.
Phil and Mahnarch: "Break that crap down! We'll load it ourselves."
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Post by Phil on Mar 5, 2009 13:52:10 GMT -5
Mercy sakes alive looks like we got us a convoy. On the 6th of June in the dark of the moon in a Kenworth hauling logs, a cabover Pete with a reefer on and a Jimmy hauling Hogs. Pig Pen this is the Rubber duck and I'm about to put the hammer down.
I've always wanted to say that.
I think that plate of cookies is pretty good right now. I'm with Mahnarch on most things that most people who spend their time talking about why something can't happen would do well if they would place that same effort into finding solutions.
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Post by Jersey on Mar 5, 2009 16:27:38 GMT -5
Personally I feel that Phil and Mahnarch would get along great.  |
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Post by Blastgirl on Mar 5, 2009 23:54:09 GMT -5
Personally I feel that Phil and Mahnarch would get along great. I think so too. I think that more people would be more productive with those guys because neither likes slackers very much. ;D |
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Post by Mahnarch on Mar 6, 2009 3:01:07 GMT -5
Personally I feel that Phil and Mahnarch would get along great. I don't know about that. There would be a lot of racial tension between us - being that he's Polish and I'm German....and that whole 1938-1945 thing....heh. Seriously, though, I think that if Phil and I hadn't met on the internets and we'd met in a bar; we'd hang. And bowl. "Breaker One Nine, Southbound." "This is Southbound, driver. What's on your mind?" "I just got on at forty nine. Just wondering if you had any Bear stories to keep me entertained?" "Hammer down and God will frown, Driver. You've got to keep your eyes peeled in the neighborhood of 64. Bubblegum isn't always a celebration." Decipher that and you win an ice cream sandwich. |
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Post by Kimm on Mar 6, 2009 21:52:26 GMT -5
I can see the cultural tension with the Schner and Szcski thing here.
I think that both of these men are a good sample of put the effort into doing things right instead of trying to get the most out of doing the least.
I think together they would over run the dumbass force impeding their progress.
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Post by Mahnarch on Mar 6, 2009 22:17:42 GMT -5
Thank you, Kimmie.
It's nice to have folks recognize our extra effort once in a while.
As long as they don't govern our truck to 60mph, we'll be a force to be reckoned with.
...also, no ice cream sammich for you!
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Post by Kimm on Mar 8, 2009 7:30:07 GMT -5
Yay ice cream. ;D
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Post by Mahnarch on Mar 8, 2009 21:49:21 GMT -5
Hey! *pulls ice cream sammich from Kimm*
I said "NO"[/i] ice cream sammich for you! You didn't decipher the CB lingo.
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