Hump Day, Week 3

Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013

Today was HUMP day in our five day week.  It was GRUELING!  Rick got assigned to Green transship, and I to Blue transship.  Transship is slow going to start with, then compounded with crowded bins it becomes an exercise in frustration.

I am so tired tonight.  I feel like I’ve run a marathon.  I tried to boost my “numbers” today and busted ass the first half of the day.  Yeah, that got me a miserable 65% productivity.  After lunch, the “water spider” (person who loads the carts) told me to take a cart that has a lot of books on it to boost my numbers.  Well, after doing that, I got my numbers up to 68% -- whoo!

Rick got stuck this morning with carts full of large items and no place to put them.  If someone had mentioned numbers to him I think he would told them to do unspeakable things to themself.   (Don’t blame him.)

The one “joy” I had today was finding an area in Gray (adjacent to Blue) that actually had space, thus reducing my frustrations.  But alas, after lunch break, some person who has more rank than I informed me that I couldn’t stow there anymore and go to Blue (where there is very limited space). There went the day.  By 4:30 pm I was limping around, lamely looking for a large space for a HUGE book.  Nightmare.

All this being said, it makes one appreciate a good meal (which I cooked) and being able to SIT DOWN, and finally, SLEEP.  It never ceases to amaze me how the body regenerates itself.