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Payday weekend is a real b****. This weekend is no different.
Lots of call offs and a small team with a not-so-big truck should mean a smooth unload.
Wrong.
First, nobody set up the truck to be unloaded as the gate door was still down. Secondly, the line had to be changed because the automatic line we had broke again. Lastly, the few team members we had to unload the truck all had that "Saturday" energy which essentially is no energy at all.
I get stationed in the front of the line and when you do the front you usually have to handle the repacks, the bulk and push the line and handle the pallets behind you. When the team gets slow, I try to be fair and let people get the boxes off when they can. The problem is the people who unload the truck, and some of the more aggressive team members who don't get along with the rest of the team think otherwise. This leads to the entire team basically refusing to acknowledge my presence aside from asking for a day off or wanting food for me.
Last night however, a lady on the line came very close to wanting to have a fight with me. I didn't pay it no mind, but someone who did the front line previously told me people used to complain about her in the office and threaten her as well. I understand that there is no fighting on the line, but most of the team comes from an area of the city I live in where that is the norm for dealing with difficult situations. For one reason or another, my approach, which is really just to do the job, pisses them off because it appears I am "company man".
I'm not. I just do the job I'm assigned.
What is it about the truck unload that causes such tension and random threats of violence? I know this isn't the case in stores that don't take a truck everyday, but are there heavy volume stores that engage in such drama when the trucks are unloading?
Lots of call offs and a small team with a not-so-big truck should mean a smooth unload.
Wrong.
First, nobody set up the truck to be unloaded as the gate door was still down. Secondly, the line had to be changed because the automatic line we had broke again. Lastly, the few team members we had to unload the truck all had that "Saturday" energy which essentially is no energy at all.
I get stationed in the front of the line and when you do the front you usually have to handle the repacks, the bulk and push the line and handle the pallets behind you. When the team gets slow, I try to be fair and let people get the boxes off when they can. The problem is the people who unload the truck, and some of the more aggressive team members who don't get along with the rest of the team think otherwise. This leads to the entire team basically refusing to acknowledge my presence aside from asking for a day off or wanting food for me.
Last night however, a lady on the line came very close to wanting to have a fight with me. I didn't pay it no mind, but someone who did the front line previously told me people used to complain about her in the office and threaten her as well. I understand that there is no fighting on the line, but most of the team comes from an area of the city I live in where that is the norm for dealing with difficult situations. For one reason or another, my approach, which is really just to do the job, pisses them off because it appears I am "company man".
I'm not. I just do the job I'm assigned.
What is it about the truck unload that causes such tension and random threats of violence? I know this isn't the case in stores that don't take a truck everyday, but are there heavy volume stores that engage in such drama when the trucks are unloading?