Two hours overtime were scheduled for tonight and i worked three. i also have to go in an hour early monday, but i had to go in two and a half hours early for orientation anyways since they're hiring me away from the temp agency. i have to go in at 11:00am tomorrow (saturday) as well. i think they scheduled 12 hours tomorrow, but they dont expect to need all of it. so i basically have 15 hours of overtime cutting into my weekend now. bastards are taking it every which way, cutting it out of monday morning, friday evening, and even a big chunk right out of saturday!
*grumbles and gripes*
So yeah, i hurt the fuck out of my back today. I work in the bulk area of a computer warehouse, so i go up and down two aisles driving my double walkie, which isthis except mine doesnt have that nifty guard between the motor and the lift arms. Each aisle is approximately 66 pallets long (im measuring by pallets because its the easiest form of measurement available). A pallet, for those of you who do not know (i was amazed to find out there are such people), it is this. Along each side of these aisles are the products that i pick, and take to the bulk packer (yes i have my very own packer
two actually).
In bulk i deal with mostly monitors, printers, and various power backups for computers. Well i was picking a battery backup which weighs around 50-60 pounds, but in that locaton, they were stacked two pallets high, so i would have to go get a forklift and lower the pallet so i could pick it, but im lazy so instead i drove my walkie up to the stack, stood on the motor, reached up (they were stacked so that the bottom was at right about head height on me standing on my walkie like that) and pulled one off, set it on the monitors in the adjacent location, got down and put it on my skids. I did this two times throughout the morning, and as i was doing this the third time, my back spasmed, and fire shot throughmy lower back.
well being the tough nut that i am i finished getting the battery down and put it on my skid, finished my stack of tickets, and went out to my dad's truck (which im borrowing until i get a new car in case you didnt read that before) to take a break, lay down and let it unwind some (this was like half an hour after my lunchbreak). For the remaining four hours of my shift it was unrelentingly painful, and persisted to spasm whenever i bent over or lifted something without being EXTREMELY careful. I then worked 3 hours of mandatory overtime which involved mucho bending over(wasnt working in my area for the last two hours of my shift or the overtime). 
the beauty of it is i dont even get the weekend to let it get better, i have to work tomorrow! damned overtime. i hate overtime, and i hate overtime on my day off even more. and i hate overtime they tack on to the beginning of my shift just about as much. who needs year-end inventory anyways?!
*grumbles and gripes*
So yeah, i hurt the fuck out of my back today. I work in the bulk area of a computer warehouse, so i go up and down two aisles driving my double walkie, which isthis except mine doesnt have that nifty guard between the motor and the lift arms. Each aisle is approximately 66 pallets long (im measuring by pallets because its the easiest form of measurement available). A pallet, for those of you who do not know (i was amazed to find out there are such people), it is this. Along each side of these aisles are the products that i pick, and take to the bulk packer (yes i have my very own packer
two actually).
In bulk i deal with mostly monitors, printers, and various power backups for computers. Well i was picking a battery backup which weighs around 50-60 pounds, but in that locaton, they were stacked two pallets high, so i would have to go get a forklift and lower the pallet so i could pick it, but im lazy so instead i drove my walkie up to the stack, stood on the motor, reached up (they were stacked so that the bottom was at right about head height on me standing on my walkie like that) and pulled one off, set it on the monitors in the adjacent location, got down and put it on my skids. I did this two times throughout the morning, and as i was doing this the third time, my back spasmed, and fire shot throughmy lower back.
well being the tough nut that i am
i finished getting the battery down and put it on my skid, finished my stack of tickets, and went out to my dad's truck (which im borrowing until i get a new car in case you didnt read that before) to take a break, lay down and let it unwind some (this was like half an hour after my lunchbreak). For the remaining four hours of my shift it was unrelentingly painful, and persisted to spasm whenever i bent over or lifted something without being EXTREMELY careful. I then worked 3 hours of mandatory overtime which involved mucho bending over(wasnt working in my area for the last two hours of my shift or the overtime).
the beauty of it is i dont even get the weekend to let it get better, i have to work tomorrow! damned overtime. i hate overtime, and i hate overtime on my day off even more. and i hate overtime they tack on to the beginning of my shift just about as much. who needs year-end inventory anyways?!
[Edited on Jan 23, 2004 10:25PM]