Posted on 02/10/2010 4:30:10 PM PST by Charles Henrickson
Did a DUmmy really say that??? My Beeber has been mega-stuned! It's a new stune record!.
CLASSIC!!!
It’s been a while since I checked in on the DUmmies... sheesh, they’re farther off the deep end than I remember.
Be careful with your back. Wear the harness.
And the totally clueless check in. You don't lift 2400 lb. pallets using your hands, arms or back. You use a fork lift. And when moving them into a truck, you don't use the hand push/pull type of lift, you use a motorized lift that you ride. Huh. I guess 25 years in the printing industry taught me something.
I didn't take this as newspaper delivery. I took it as loading trucks at a paper warehouse for delivery to printers. And I doubt he's doing the driving.
You may be right but the hours that he works indicate newspapers to me although his use of paper rather than newspapers is odd. Printers are not going to get their paper delivered at 5 or 6 am. On the other hand newspapers aren’t going to be on pallets. It says he delivers them so why wouldn’t he be driving.
Hattend is correct.
Environmental, Health and Safety
Oops, you’re right, he does say he delivers them. Sorry, I missed that. Still, the newspaper angle doesn’t compute for me. Unless he’s delivering to newspaper printing plants; that could be. Whoever he’s delivering to, they’d have their own forklift.
The most common size sheet for newsprint is 24x36”. Not sure of the basis weight for newsprint, but it would seem to me to be around the 20# range (i.e. a ream of newsprint, 24x36” would weigh 20#). At 2400 lbs, that pallet would have 120 reams.
A 4x6 pallet would have 4 reams per layer. That would be 80# of 20# stock. So 30 stacks of 4 reams each would equal the 2400 lbs. That seems pretty high.
[Bummer, dude! Your mom wanted some rent for your room in the basement?]
Probably got a job delivering census forms to the post office which will end when in a few weeks after the forms are mailed out to citizens.
[So in other words, the government didn't get you a job; good old-fashioned private initiative did. Thanx for this inadvertent testimony to capitalism!]
This DUmmie had to go to a workshop to learn how to work?????
[Boo! Down with working harder!]
That is more like it DUmmie, stay on the government tit as long as possible and suck tax dollars from the real Americans.
That is a typical DUmmie attitude. Stealing and drugs are prevalent in holly weird.
[You mean shoplift?]
LOL on the shoplift.
Wait until the employer finds out his new employee is "lifting" products or comes in late day after day.
The poster is really rahm emanuel trying to viral the rumor that people are getting jobs thanks to the obamesia.
[Your “Temporary Assistance for Needy Families” is paid for by “Taxes Assessed on Nose-paying-through Freepers”. . . . You’re welcome.]
OK, that is by far your BEST LINE EVER!
Where did you wind up eating before you left Cali, Charles?
I give him a month before the other employees see his looniness and start to disassociate themselves with him, then he becomes the “company weirdo” that everyone avoids. Soon after that a mysterious “injury” will ocur that puts him on worker’s comp and calling those daytime commercials for personal injury lawyers.
The “injury” will cause a doctor to prescribe narcotic painkillerrs (which opens up a whole nuther DUmmie profile) that he gladly takes everyday and has yet one more thing to blame his laziness on.
The disability check is in the mail!
Then he can wake up at noon everyday and go to DUmmieland and complain about how capitalism and Bush made him a pill-poppin bum.
Want to take bets on when? I say "after he gets his first paycheck and realizes how much the gov't yanks out off the top".
Also, I've loaded pallets of paper on to trucks. It's not what I'd call fun, but, with a pallet jack and/or a forklift, neither would I call it "incredibly backbreaking work".
I suppose, though, if you've never done "incredibly backbreaking work" (like this DUmmie) ... it looks pretty tough.
At the large office supplier that I worked at, we used pallet jacks. The forklift when we could.
Motorized lifts would have been nice. Maybe they hadn't been invented yet, I was doing this 20-odd years ago. :-)
By motorized lifts, I meant forklifts as opposed to pallet jacks. We had forklifts to handle finished goods, and clamp trucks to handle our paper rolls (same as a forklift except it had a large clamp on the front). The clamps would be moved to vertical to engage the large (30” to 50” dia) rolls of paper. Then carried from the truck to the paper warehouse, or from the warehouse to be staged behind the proper press. In the warehouse, most would be stacked on their sides as we could inventory far more that way.
Pallet jacks were also used, but in a limited way. Mostly, they were used in our bindery, for moving skids or pallets behind our various bindery machines. They were never used to move raw paper since it was all in roll form.
My business wasn’t news printing but business forms. A quite different environment. Our paper came, mostly, directly from the mills, though we did buy some paper from local paper merchants, who maintained some inventory of roll product for short time delivery situations. These weren’t office suppliers per se.
I still think it’s newspapers given his hours and that it’s part time. The pallets may get unwrapped or broken down during the delivery process. He may have said paper instead of newspapers so the other dummies wouldn’t know exactly where he was working. Amd I am pretty sure newsprint comes on rolls to feed the presses.
I was in the business forms industry, so am fairly unfamiliar with the news industry. I agree, most major newspapers print from roll stock (as we did). You could well be right about this being newspapers, It’s just that a 2400# pallet seems a pretty heavy item to me. That’s my biggest wonder about this.
I think most newspaper comes in large rolls and is cut after printing.
2400lbs. sounds heavy for a pallet to me too.
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