Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

Well, despite being laid off on Friday, I do have some good news to share. All of last year I've been fighting tooth an nail to get a pallet jack for the runs that need them. There were just not enough to go around and bringing back 1/2 to 2/3 of a trailer a few hours into my shift where not uncommon.

Well, come Friday the same day I got laid off, I managed to change all of this by getting my very own jack. It didn't cost me a dime. Instead, I went to the back of the lot where everyone kept theirs chained to the fence and over the course of a week I rummaged through all the busted ones that were abandoned over the years.

I scavenged 3 bad jacks and cannibalized them enough to build up one working pallet jack. I have zero mechanical background outside of putting together some shelves for the garage or changing a lawnmower blade. So I was kinda impressed with myself of putting this together.

My Frankenjack as I called it is not the prettiest. But it gets the job done. Happy weekend guys.

 

Been on here for the better part of 8 years. The more I think about the rules the more I appreciate them.

If you ever want to take something and utterly destroy it, wether it's a friendship, a group chatroom, an online forum, or Thanksgiving dinner, all you have to do is inject politics into it. It absolutely works every time.

This forum is the only apolitical medium that I have to discuss things and draw in information that I would normally not be able to get anywhere else. Just good conversations about things that are so esoteric to our industry that everyone else would never understand.

If God forbid this thread/forum implodes because someone inserted politics, I would be unbelievably moody to say the least.

 

I got this coworker and we both started one week apart. In the past I mentioned him as #54 and I am #53 one spot above him.

Being stuck on the dock during layoff, we've grown close together as friends. It's to a point where we are always within 15 paces of each other constantly looking out for each other. We probably spend more time talking to each other from one forklift to another than we are moving freight. We must have 1000 things in common.

Over the months we've overheard each other making some remarks to other coworkers that pretty much gave away where we sat politically. We never really said it, but usually a quick glance is enough of a signal that we are about to disagree. So even though we never said it, we absolutely will not under any circumstances talk about politics. And as you said, there is a lot of bitterness and hatred going on right now and there is absolutely no way I am going to ruin a friendship like ours over this.

The whole thing with the shutdown can be turned political and some people do it. I think everyone in power is doing the best they can (or make the best choices they think are right). Cause ultimately, we are all in this together. You think this is bad now? Just wait until next fiscal year. The states are so shut down that many of them aren't collecting any tax revenue. I don't even want to know how many programs will lose funding or how they are going to make this all up.