And what offends me as a female is guys who think all girls are like that. When I was at Target, there were male coworkers who would come running over to me if they saw me lifting something heavy. They said they didn't want me to hurt myself but unless it was an item that needed a team lift, I could lift it myself. I just wish guys would wait until I ask for the help. I was one girl who wasn't afraid of a little heavy lifting. Granted, I never threw the truck, but I did just about everything else.
There were even times when I had to lift furniture that was a team lift without help. Well, I didn't lift it. I picked up one end and dragged it on the floor and found a way to get it on the shelf.
I get what you’re saying, but at the same time, you should be grateful they were willing to help.
I was working overnight stock at a grocery store, all guys and with the exception of me and the stock manager, all just out of high school.
Every other night we’d get a perishable truck.
Someone from the stock crew would unload the truck and put the freight in the coolers.
About 4 AM one person from each department would come in to work their part of the perishable truck.
The woman who worked dairy was young, probably weighed about 110 soaking wet and was a single mother just trying to survive.
She was a cashier who transferred to grocery because it paid more.
I’m six feet tall, I weigh about 230, I’ve mowed yards, I’ve worked construction, I've worked security and I can throw some freight but even I had trouble moving some of the dairy carts because the wheels on them didn’t work right.
The rest of the guys on the stock crew not only wouldn’t do anything to help her, but they would intentionally wedge the dairy carts in the cooler so she wouldn’t be able to get them out.
One morning, it was all I could do to get the carts out of the cooler and that was WITH her helping me.
I then went and found the jackass clown who had wedged them in there like that in the first place and had a little “chat.”
