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30 Jul 11
02:18
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Just had a quick question
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JackCole for sure. But he's a monstah so proceed cautiously.
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OK Just wondered what the job actualy involved, it sounds
complicated tbh, |
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in my earlier days .. Ron
it may complicate you still though ... tbh |
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I have no doubt it would be compliacted for you tbh.
Good luck in your quest for uncomplicated employment. |
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I was an operative and then a manager, Voice Picking seems to be the thing nowadays, headset on... walk 20 paces pick something up, put in box
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Any Warehouse is dead
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depends what u do. Not that complicated. I work in a warehouse and find it very easy tbh.
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Ron, I'm bored this morning, so here we go..
 There are different types of warehouses. The work will be repetetive whichever one you work in. It may sound daft but this work suits Virgoans [smiley:crazy] who enjoy doing the same thing over and over again, until they achieve the fastest possible time in the safest possible way, for perfection. However: picking and packing - in warehouses where you pick the customers order. Avoid it all costs if you are over 5 feet 4 inches tall as it will involve a lot of bending down. Okay when you're young and fit, not so good when you get older. Its odds-on it will be close to minimum wage, and you get a pay rise once a year if you're lucky. Easy enough to take on a supervisory role, but a supervisor is only as good as the shift he runs. In large companies you will have no say in who gets hired, and you may not even be able to fire the worst ones without a long drawn out disciplinary procedure. Apart from that, these warehouses generally have fack all worth nicking.  |
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Groupage warehouses - the dream job for the astute warehouse supervisor.
 Taking in trailer loads, generally from abroad, for a wide mix of customers, giving you a wide mix of goods. Every cubic foot on the trailer will be packed tightly, this makes the company larger profits than a trailer with some empty space in it. Customers pay by the cubic foot, not by the pallet. Hardest ones are where the trailer has a D.O.W. (delivery on wheels/wagon) which means part of the load will go straight to the customer, probably 24 pallets. Over the top of these pallets will be the stuff you want for your warehouse. While your best minions (usually a mate or two) are offloading and climbing all over the pallets, if some of the D.O.W. stuff gets unloaded in 'error', when the time comes, deny it. They can never prove otherwise. Greece and Italy are notorious for employing low paid pakistani workers, so they don't give a fack when loading, nobody counts. They may be holding 250,000 boxes of one item in their warehouse, and are told to 'fill the trailer'. If they have one or two clever blokes on the team, they will turn boxes to get a better fit, and they will 'fill the trailer' but nobody will count how many are actually on there. The manifest may read 1,080 boxes, but due to the good stacking you could have 1,150 on there. You sign for 1,080 and get the excess put where only you and your mates know where they are. These warehouses are not generally involved in union rules. You can hire of fire anybody when you feel like it. First job as a new supervisor is to cut down the thieving, which goes on in every groupage warehouse in the world. Almost everybody is quielty nicking their litte bit, and not telling anybody else. Result - too much is going missing. Find out who your worst workers are, and sack a couple. You will then tell them they will stil get their 'perks; but from now on it wil be controlled. As unions are not involved, wages are negotiable, if you're crap, you get crap pay, if you're good, you get a lot more. Once you prove you can run the place more efficiently than your predecesssor, you should get total control. Never accept a staff position, stay on the clock and get paid for your overtime. Make sure the Saturday shift work their bollocks off for the right perks (a day off in the week with full pay when the boss is absent) and get all Mondays deliveries loaded ready to go. Then you can go in with your mate and read the papers on double time on Sunday while you wait for the pub to open. It helps if the warehouse manager is as dodgy as you are and you have a 'mutual understanding'. 120 incoming trailers a week contain a lot of mistakes. Mrs Cole had more shoes than Imelda Marcos, and the Colettes went to school in shoes at £200 a pair. |
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Storage warehouses for large companies.
Like Currys for example. Clean, organised, probably a nice easyish a steady job, but unless you know the routines inside out, no perks or extras, like paid days off, unless you get discount on goods. AS as the work is fairly simple and all computerised, you'll work mostly with idiots who can't think for themsleves. On the other hand the transport manager, the security bloke, a driver and one warehouseman thought for themselves, and got away with a lot of stuff immediately after a weekly stock check at the branch in Beckton. Only one got away with it as he was working his notice at time, and he vanished. I heard that they have since moved to daily stock checks. |
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jackcole do you work at the currys branch in beckton?
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Dyslexic junkie tribute thread!
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I actually sat there for a minute then wondering what an Amy Winehouse Operative was? Thought it was some conspiracy theory
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almagro -- you are not alone
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Used to work in a timber mill, we had a lot of 'wastage'. Oak staircases, walnut flooring etc. Some nice looking houses about
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The Curry's ( Now named KNOWHOW ) IN Newark...
65% Eastern European ( 400 staff est ).. You are monitored for your entire shift through a computer system which picks up on every action on your scanning gun which, which you are logged onto. This computer system gives your task leaders an in - running percentage peformance chart of eg: How many items you have picked. How much down time their is. What time you log in/out. How long your toilet break was. etc etc.. You are constantly being scrutinised and the projected percentage of your performance is being increased as the company struggles much more in this economic period. |
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Almagro @ scissors i thought the same...
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Footiefan111 30 Jul 11 12:22
jackcole do you work at the currys branch in beckton? My nephew did. |
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Anyway Ron,
get yourself a fork lift licence and a reach truck licence. Let the others do the hard graft. |
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he was on the rogan josh
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Dont do it , i done it a few weeks ago for about 6 shfts on min wage
Its soul destroying and full of people who dont speak my language which is Scottish i suppose , an Arentenian was speaking to me and he said he learned English but when he moved here its like learning a new language. And like one said if your above 5 foot be prepared to bend a lot The boots weigh about 4 stone also The foreigner are not as thick as the UK people i them also but thats like 1 in 5 if that |
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I respect the way Taxi just bumps these threads back up there again after 3 years!
 By the way Jack, does a security guy/gal randomly frisk people, well not technically frisk but swipe around them with a wotsit metal detector to see if they are on the rob? |
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I don't think jack posts on here any more
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I never noticed the 3 year gap
I thought JC's posts made for an interesting read. I thoroughly concur as to what the poster said as i delivered and collected goods from a certain huge warehouse operation on a daily basis. Bust yer balls for minimum wage in a warehouse or simply sit behind a counter in the local bookies? No wonder so many clueless women are taking bets (i mean serving the customer) |
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I would have thought that clueless women would be ideal for the job of taking bets from clueless fellas.
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By the way Jack, does a security guy/gal randomly frisk people, well not technically frisk but swipe around them with a wotsit metal detector to see if they are on the rob?
We had a few guard at one place I worked at, they were all useless. One was an african who heard me bollocking somebody in the yard. He came up some time later when we were all on a tea break and outside smoking. He said 'God does not like people swearing, it is a sin.' I grabbed him in a bear hug and said 'If there's bastard god, let him strike me facking dead now.' You've never seen somebody struggle so much to get away in all your life. |
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Did you have a boner on at the time?
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call me a taxi sounds a right (unt... no wonder he never got beyond factory work.
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Didn't 1?
If you say so, dear. |