Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

We Now Know Truckers and Stock Boys Are Vital, Hollywood Is Not
Breitbart ^ | March 21,2020 | JOHN NOLTE

Posted on 03/21/2020 5:32:03 PM PDT by Hojczyk

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-77 next last
To: SamAdams76
More stores should use the Aldi shelving method during this crises. It cuts down greatly on the amount of handling product gets from the shelver and is much faster. Instead of taking every can out of a box and individually placing it on a shelf, Aldi’s just cuts off the front and top of a shipping box and lets customer take the individual cans out of the shipping box.

It is similar to using the technology of a container ship vs that of the 1950’s longshoremen who put each small box into the hold of a ship individually.

41 posted on 03/21/2020 6:50:07 PM PDT by Freee-dame
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: NFHale

where in north philly


42 posted on 03/21/2020 6:52:00 PM PDT by Undecided 2012
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 40 | View Replies]

To: Hojczyk

We need Hollywood celebrities less than we need pretty much any occupation.


43 posted on 03/21/2020 6:56:06 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (A socalist is someone that wants everything you have except your job.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: newzjunkey

Couldn’t agree more. Don’t forget the warehouse workers. Their job is tough in slow times.


44 posted on 03/21/2020 6:59:01 PM PDT by dgbrown
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: SteveH

I have an exemption letter for Ohio.
Does it mean I’m essential or expendable?


45 posted on 03/21/2020 6:59:42 PM PDT by hoosierham (Freedom isn't free)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

To: TheWriterTX

Give my thanks to your family for their important work. Mine look like they will all remain employed.

One is a nanny for a doctor. Another is an editorial assistant for a Christian publisher. She’s already set up to work from home. The next one is an engineer. He works at NASA flight ops for satellites. He can only go in when necessary, but again, essential. Then the trucker


46 posted on 03/21/2020 7:00:51 PM PDT by cyclotic (A vote for Democrats is a vote for lower traffic volumes)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies]

To: Hojczyk

I knew that!


47 posted on 03/21/2020 7:03:25 PM PDT by TigersEye (MAGA - 16 more years! - KAG)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

Comment #48 Removed by Moderator

To: Hojczyk

All of Hollywood is crying now as they have discovered it is no longer the center of the universe.


49 posted on 03/21/2020 7:09:41 PM PDT by Rebelbase ("The people anxiously hope for just two things: bread and circuses" and now the circuses are gone.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Hojczyk

I’m a grocery trucker. Can’t tell you all what a great job everyone is doing, because I’m too tired right now. What I’ve seen behind the scenes is about enough to have me dabbing my friggin eyes.

We’ve got warehousemen and mechanics voluntarily grinding out 16-hour shifts so the drivers can hook preloaded, preinspected trailers, knock the tires, check the lights, and burn rubber for the stores. Most of our drivers have volunteered to work seven days a week until this cat is stuffed back in the bag. The store stock boys are replenishing the shelves on fast forward, laughing and cracking jokes as they go. Store personnel are deep cleaning and sanitizing the stores in batshit crazy overdrive mode after hours. Everyone is primed and jazzed.

The feds lifted hours of service caps for truckers hauling emergency supplies, which includes grocery haulers. Our governor set aside the combined gross vehicle and axle weight limits on our highways statewide. They want every possible pound of food and supplies crammed into every trailer.

I got dispatched into a spring blizzard two mornings ago. Howling wind driving the snow parallel to the ground and drifting it over miles of thick sheet ice. I crept along in the small hours with my hazard blinkers on for a solid hour at one point on a skinny road with no place to pull off. They normally would have rescheduled the load, but we had two outlying small town stores to provision. Nobody has to tell us what would happen if our shelves went bare. People would panic, drive 30 minutes to the next store, double its demand, clean it out, get exposed to sickness in bigger crowds, and bring it back home to share. Nobody wants that.

Our shelves and meat cases are chock full, though everyone’s having to man the pumps to keep them that way. The people are encouraged and reassured when they see that. They can relax, smile, get two days (vs two weeks) worth of stuff, keep their proper distance, joke about the TP, and hustle back home where they belong.

The drivers and workers are owning this shit individually—and they’re killing it. Loads of well-earned “damn we’re good” pride. Nothing like this has happened in anyone’s memory. It looks like a real Love Your Neighbor situation to me.

This is the way Americans operate when there are problems to be solved. America needs to have a big party when this is over.


50 posted on 03/21/2020 7:16:19 PM PDT by Iowa Slim
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Undecided 2012

Check your mail.


51 posted on 03/21/2020 7:17:44 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 42 | View Replies]

To: RightField

I hope that, in the aftermath of this crisis, we have some Mike Rowe (Dirty Jobs TV series) style reporting on the farm/raw material-to-the-retail-shelf supply chain to emphasize how well organized and flawlessly it usually works. And, flawlessly or not, it works 24/7/365 year in and year out because the work is never really finished.

Yet, because it is behind the scenes (and it is meant to be that way), we don’t appreciate the thought, experience, inventiveness, plain hard work, and dedication required to put product on the shelves. The focus is now on food and household consumables, but the same behind-the-scenes effort and dedication applies to every field of activity in modern society.

It is a real marvel of continuous human cooperation to achieve universally recognized worthwhile goals that we can see all around us if we will just open our eyes a little wider.

Cooperation, not conflict, is the real genius of humanity.


52 posted on 03/21/2020 7:30:31 PM PDT by Captain Rhino (Determined effort today forges tomorrow.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: southernindymom

“ Having been a stock boy in my younger days I know how hard they work. Hollywood is a total waste of my time. I only wish more people thought that way. Movies..... 3 hours of my life I’ll never get back.... waste of time. Most of those people could walk up to my door and I would have no idea who they were.”

My sentiments exactly.


53 posted on 03/21/2020 7:30:53 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (Chuck Schumer--giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: hoosierham

> I have an exemption letter for Ohio.
> Does it mean I’m essential or expendable?

maybe neither, if you actually are in the hoosier state :-)


54 posted on 03/21/2020 7:41:23 PM PDT by SteveH (intentionally blank)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 45 | View Replies]

To: Fiddlstix

I must remember that one, and say it to my son-in-law who works in HVAC


55 posted on 03/21/2020 7:41:52 PM PDT by miserare ( Respect for life--life of all kinds-- is the first principle of civilization.~~A. Schweitzer.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: Hojczyk

Indeed they are


56 posted on 03/21/2020 7:48:17 PM PDT by foreverfree
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: TheWriterTX

Great post—great family!

This thread gives a great snapshot of Real America. It is a slice-of-life depiction of who makes America great.

Thanks to every man and woman who do their darndest to keep our land the best country on earth!


57 posted on 03/21/2020 7:48:36 PM PDT by miserare ( Respect for life--life of all kinds-- is the first principle of civilization.~~A. Schweitzer.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies]

To: Hojczyk

Thank your stock boys if you can.
I believe I ran into a deranged one early this AM, he was slamming paper towel cases onto the floor before cutting them open, perhaps he just wanted a better workout but I got angry vibes.
I’m sure they are all stressed.


58 posted on 03/21/2020 7:54:48 PM PDT by GnuThere
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Captain Rhino

Yes!


59 posted on 03/21/2020 7:56:26 PM PDT by miserare ( Respect for life--life of all kinds-- is the first principle of civilization.~~A. Schweitzer.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 52 | View Replies]

To: Iowa Slim

This is a great post.

More people need to see it.


60 posted on 03/21/2020 7:58:19 PM PDT by miserare ( Respect for life--life of all kinds-- is the first principle of civilization.~~A. Schweitzer.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 50 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-77 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson