^Jesus christ. Life as a Chinese worker is pretty ####ing wild.
What? The wild part is the making of a reenactment video of real accidents for a workplace safety video. You could make the same video with just as many if not more crazy, terrible, unsafe accidents in the US.
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i can only imagine what it would be like to work at a greyhound in china!
I once worked the Christmas depot with Greyhound and we had a lot of temp workers working for us.
The biggest problem with the temp workers...was that most of them were immigrants.
Which in and of itself isn't really the problem, they were good workers, but the overall issue is that the key part of the job was sorting freight.
And they had no understanding of Canadian Geography. They didn't know where places were so...they were under-qualified at the most important aspect of their job.
If you have to ask me for every box...I may as well do it myself.
That being said, the most disgusting comment I ever heard was from the head of the temp agency on our first day with them.
He said, and I quote: "If you run over one of them with a forklift? Get them into the dumpster and I'll have a new one here in 15 minutes."
I. Was. Floored.
I was disgusted at such a callous statement.
But...it was just...'So typical Greyhound.'
"Yeah, its the busiest time of year with stuff going everywhere, lets hire a bunch of people who essentially can't help."
Brilliant stuff.
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What? The wild part is the making of a reenactment video of real accidents for a workplace safety video. You could make the same video with just as many if not more crazy, terrible, unsafe accidents in the US.
This.
Or here.
I've seen a man get his leg run over by a forklift. I watched it happen live. 'Courtside' essentially.
That was unpleasant.
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I once worked the Christmas depot with Greyhound and we had a lot of temp workers working for us.
The biggest problem with the temp workers...was that most of them were immigrants.
Which in and of itself isn't really the problem, they were good workers, but the overall issue is that the key part of the job was sorting freight.
And they had no understanding of Canadian Geography. They didn't know where places were so...they were under-qualified at the most important aspect of their job.
If you have to ask me for every box...I may as well do it myself.
That being said, the most disgusting comment I ever heard was from the head of the temp agency on our first day with them.
He said, and I quote: "If you run over one of them with a forklift? Get them into the dumpster and I'll have a new one here in 15 minutes."
I. Was. Floored.
I was disgusted at such a callous statement.
But...it was just...'So typical Greyhound.'
"Yeah, its the busiest time of year with stuff going everywhere, lets hire a bunch of people who essentially can't help."
Brilliant stuff.
Dude...when are you going to write a book about this? It would instantly be a NYT best seller.
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Oh....the stories of that place.
Day 1 of the 'Christmas Depot?'
So...the Christmas Depot was the old building across from Eau Claire, its Condos now.
My first Christmas working there? Oh my God.
So...when Buses need maintenance they drive over a bay. But this place has been closed and, dare I say it, I think actually condemned.
But our job was to sort freight and load it onto trucks. So we sort freight into cages and bins and pallets and then use the forklifts to get them into the trucks.
Remember that bit where I said there were maintenance bays? Yeah. Those are pits. Kind of like if you go to a Mr. Lube or whatever and you drive in and the tech is below you.
But this place is condemned. So...guess what those pits are covered with?
If you guessed 'Plywood' then you win the prize!
Wanna know how Plywood stands up against the weight of a forklift? I think you can guess.
And those pits are like 6 feet deep.
God....what a job....
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Dude...when are you going to write a book about this? It would instantly be a NYT best seller.
Oh! And the best part? They weren't our forklifts. We rented them.
From who? I have no idea. That was none of my business.
But we had about 10 'Houndies' to about 50 temps. I did that 2 years in a row and they must have wrecked at least 3 forklifts.
I had enough Union seniority to get a 'Christmas Depot' shift but not enough to get a 'Forkie shift' despite technically being the most qualified forklift driver.
You wanted a 'Christmas Depot' shift so that you werent dealing with the teeming masses at the main Depot trying to travel the Dirty Dawg at Christmas.
Boxes don't talk back. Or attack you.
And I'd already been physically assaulted a couple of times by then so I took the easiest shift I could.
The temps largely were great! There was a group of Africans who were hard workers but they just didn't know where things had to go.
We had a gigantic Map taped to the wall but...if you're reading a shipping label and then taking 10 minutes to stare at the map then we're falling behind! Trucks have to leave on a schedule! The drivers only have so many available driving hours.
Not to mention, some of these packages are going to very small towns that aren't on the map. You have to know where they are.
And don't even get me started on Sydney BC and Sydney NS. I'm certain there were unhappy people in both places.
Oh God...Greyhound. That was a helluva job. Good God...
My first year? I had to work the main depot at Christmas, if you can get out of that you take it! People traveling at Christmas aren't the most...sane.
I think that was the first time I was attacked.
I did get into some Police trouble once at the Christmas Depot, but I'll tell that story another time. I was nearly arrested but thats a funnier story. And it was innocuous...no one was hurt and it worked out hilariously.
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I once worked the Christmas depot with Greyhound and we had a lot of temp workers working for us.
The biggest problem with the temp workers...was that most of them were immigrants.
Which in and of itself isn't really the problem, they were good workers, but the overall issue is that the key part of the job was sorting freight.
And they had no understanding of Canadian Geography. They didn't know where places were so...they were under-qualified at the most important aspect of their job.
If you have to ask me for every box...I may as well do it myself.
That being said, the most disgusting comment I ever heard was from the head of the temp agency on our first day with them.
He said, and I quote: "If you run over one of them with a forklift? Get them into the dumpster and I'll have a new one here in 15 minutes."
I. Was. Floored.
I was disgusted at such a callous statement.
But...it was just...'So typical Greyhound.'
"Yeah, its the busiest time of year with stuff going everywhere, lets hire a bunch of people who essentially can't help."
Brilliant stuff.
Many, many years ago, I worked for DHL, which wasn't DHL at the time, but rather, was Loomis Courier, and also experienced the same as you with new hires struggling with where small Canadian towns were, but it wasn't isolated to immigrants only, as the average Canadian will know where Calgary, Victoria and Toronto are, but would struggle with where 100 Mile House, Halfmoon Bay and The Pas is. So, I'd definitely disagree that them being immigrants wasn't "really" the problem, and in fact wasn't the problem.
