TGI FRIDAY.
I have gotten a little strange this week.
OK... Maybe I should explain that.
I have changed schedules for one week from A-3 (8 PM to 6 AM) to A 2 (4PM to 2 AM) due to some staffing issues on the A 2 sched. Long version is "you can't deny someone's vacation request because the dept is short staffed due to injury." You can deny due to conflicting vacations, but not because the only other guy on shift is on light duty. So A2 needs an extra bod to cover a vacation and I have been HAPPY to fill in the role for a week. It is nice. A 2... the work comes to me... A 3... I gotta go find the work. A 2. Lots of peeps to talk to. A 3. Nobodys around so I wind up singing while I do my work and the 5-6 other peeps in the building think my cheese has slipped off my cracker because I am singing sea chanties at 4 AM.
SO...
Tonight the warehouse closed up early... I never get to go home early on A 3. On my way out of the building I saw one of the operations managers and expressed glee at the rare treat of getting out early. I asked if it would be innapropriate for me to start skipping in joy on my way out to the car. He said, Go ahead, and I did.
Fruit of the looms in a wad update. I got to thinking about a wal mart term for an act of violence commited on the property. We call it "code brown". Wal-mart's policy is basicly "nobody can have a weapon on the property, ever." Which is cool for when the 22 year old kid gets a write up for (whatever) and blows his stack and the only thing he can grab is a nearby iron bar cause he can't bring his gun to work. It is alot less cool when the 22 year old goes home after getting fired, gets a gun comes back to work and the only thing we can do is hope that he runs out of bullets b4 he gets to the managers that we like. We will be a building with 754 helpless sheeplike victems because we obeyed the rules and left our weapons in the car (or at home) and now we die like swine. In my opinion, having a policy that recognizes that acts of violence occour but making it impossible to defend against them is irresponsible. I basicly wrote that down. I was going to polish it up and make a proposal to EAR (echelons above reality) management that "texas says you can carry, by gawd, thats good enough for wal-mart". But someone found my rough draft, printed a copy and handed it over to managment. I think Mgmt's first reaction was "OMFG we got a lunatic on the loose." and everyone is suddenly being very nice to me. Which is kinda cool. But now that they realize I am just trying to pitch an idea to someone REALLY HIGH UP THE FOOD chain, I think I am getting less intrest. LOL. I gotta pitch it to EAR cause they are the ones that set the policy. Even if 100% of the hourly and mgmt people in my warehouse love my idea, it don't mean squat cause nobody here gets to set the policy. If I talk with someone who doesn't set the policy, I am just flappin my gums.
Anyway, I am off work early... I am gonna Grind Lineage two for while b4 bed.
Jack
OK... Maybe I should explain that.
I have changed schedules for one week from A-3 (8 PM to 6 AM) to A 2 (4PM to 2 AM) due to some staffing issues on the A 2 sched. Long version is "you can't deny someone's vacation request because the dept is short staffed due to injury." You can deny due to conflicting vacations, but not because the only other guy on shift is on light duty. So A2 needs an extra bod to cover a vacation and I have been HAPPY to fill in the role for a week. It is nice. A 2... the work comes to me... A 3... I gotta go find the work. A 2. Lots of peeps to talk to. A 3. Nobodys around so I wind up singing while I do my work and the 5-6 other peeps in the building think my cheese has slipped off my cracker because I am singing sea chanties at 4 AM.
SO...
Tonight the warehouse closed up early... I never get to go home early on A 3. On my way out of the building I saw one of the operations managers and expressed glee at the rare treat of getting out early. I asked if it would be innapropriate for me to start skipping in joy on my way out to the car. He said, Go ahead, and I did.
Fruit of the looms in a wad update. I got to thinking about a wal mart term for an act of violence commited on the property. We call it "code brown". Wal-mart's policy is basicly "nobody can have a weapon on the property, ever." Which is cool for when the 22 year old kid gets a write up for (whatever) and blows his stack and the only thing he can grab is a nearby iron bar cause he can't bring his gun to work. It is alot less cool when the 22 year old goes home after getting fired, gets a gun comes back to work and the only thing we can do is hope that he runs out of bullets b4 he gets to the managers that we like. We will be a building with 754 helpless sheeplike victems because we obeyed the rules and left our weapons in the car (or at home) and now we die like swine. In my opinion, having a policy that recognizes that acts of violence occour but making it impossible to defend against them is irresponsible. I basicly wrote that down. I was going to polish it up and make a proposal to EAR (echelons above reality) management that "texas says you can carry, by gawd, thats good enough for wal-mart". But someone found my rough draft, printed a copy and handed it over to managment. I think Mgmt's first reaction was "OMFG we got a lunatic on the loose." and everyone is suddenly being very nice to me. Which is kinda cool. But now that they realize I am just trying to pitch an idea to someone REALLY HIGH UP THE FOOD chain, I think I am getting less intrest. LOL. I gotta pitch it to EAR cause they are the ones that set the policy. Even if 100% of the hourly and mgmt people in my warehouse love my idea, it don't mean squat cause nobody here gets to set the policy. If I talk with someone who doesn't set the policy, I am just flappin my gums.
Anyway, I am off work early... I am gonna Grind Lineage two for while b4 bed.
Jack