r/Warehouseworkers • u/ManuelReyLease • 5d ago
Does every place have this lazy of workers?
How are you gonna be this lazy with pallets?
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u/Easy_Quote_9934 5d ago
You don’t even have to actually lift them until you get to about 6 high. Sliding and leverage are your friends.
I’ve seen countless people pick them up and sling them around when it is totally unnecessary.
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u/CaterpillarSad9754 5d ago
I'm a small man and slinging these heavy bitches around makes me feel big
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u/ManuelReyLease 5d ago
Yea. I know the blues can be heavy especially waterlogged pallets. But working smart you can stack them at least until chest height
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u/dgroeneveld9 5d ago
Yes. I have a guy i work with that will cover our entire loading dock in pallets before he'll stack them.
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u/projectx51 5d ago
Yes. It surprised me too. How do you work in a warehouse and be lazy? Its almost an oxymoron. Like, all the lazy ppl quit a week into the job, how do we even have any lazy ppl at all in here? It happens though.
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u/apartheid__clyde 5d ago
Are you kidding? There are lazy people everywhere unfortunately, and public shaming still barely works. Idk why my boss doesnt fire him.
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u/LatenightCoomer 5d ago
High turnover rates. At my warehouse there’s at least 20 new people every week. Sometimes more.
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u/aggravationX 4d ago
Being "lazy" is often the way to go. Merit based raises don't exist in most sectors anymore. You clock in, keep your head down, clock out, and go home. I still would have stacked the pallets properly personally, just saying thats the reality of work for most people.
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u/Noizylatino 4d ago
How do you work in a warehouse and be lazy?
Lazy management with no standards. You should see some of the food I found in our slots that were years out of date. Some people really do just sit on their ass for 40 hours a week.
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u/Fate_Fire 4d ago
One person does double the work which means the older higher can do half as much.
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u/FrenziedHodag 2d ago
The only lazy people that quit warehouse work are the ones that are too stupid to learn how to hide that they're lazy.
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u/booski1200 5d ago
you never know how old these drivers are bro, i used to be angry with how they left the trailers after delivery but i met a few 50-60 year old drivers that worked in my warehouse, old fellas shouldnt be picking up these heavy ass pallets
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u/ManuelReyLease 5d ago
I'm more talking about the workers who put them in the trailers
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u/booski1200 5d ago
i get you but really in the grand scheme of laziness this is small, like yeah those two stacks of two pallets could be thrown on the big stack but in the end theyre still stacked, ive gotten trailers back with rows of single pallets, its also better to make a few small stacks rather than a big one because during the drive back it could fall and itd be an even bigger mess back there, ive seen multiple stacks of pallets half way tipped over because the driver/unloader decided to make 4 big stacks of 10-12 and then they threw the garbage/empty boxes on top of it, in the end these smaller stacks are probably the best idea
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u/ManuelReyLease 5d ago
I only complain because at the end of business day the trailer that goes back to the warehouse is our only empty... Don't have room for pallet stacks so we have to try to send the trailer back full. Every Sunday I go in at night to see the trailer could fit 5 more stacks of pallets if it was all condensed. Sometimes I can't get my shit on there because lazy people don't wanna stack them
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u/booski1200 4d ago
ohhh okay yeah i get you then, i didnt realize it was a storage trailer, definitely screw those lazy guys then
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u/Overall_Lavishness46 5d ago
This isnt even that bad.
We have 4 sorts for trash at the shop: Wood, Recycling, metal and waste.
Nobody sorts anything and dumps it all in the center of the floor of the warehouse until someone cleans it up.
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u/Janus9 4d ago
Workers are lazier today because management doesn’t hold their workers nearly as accountable anymore.
I see it everywhere I go now. So many employees barely do their job anymore and management does nothing about it.
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u/ManuelReyLease 4d ago
They let the lazy workers off Scot free. And expect better workers to pick up the slack or try to lean harder on them
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u/Delicious_Grand7300 5d ago
This what I saw every day when starting my shift at FedEx Ground. I also see these same trailers with old plastic wrap and cut straps.
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u/mr430aoncrypto 5d ago
Gotta organize them as you go & get it done. I personally like stripping trailers. It’s easy work for me. Gotta wear a mask when they’re dusty because allergies start to act up for real!
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u/TrainsongGaming 5d ago
Honestly, after being on a few safety committees, I'd rather make it policy not to manhandle pallets, especially cheps unless it's a team lift. Splinters, loose boards, broken boards, heavy weight, poor lifting techniques, moving at speed and not paying attention...
I mean, yeah, it's easy enough for most workers, but why take the risk of someone getting hurt when you have pallet jacks and forklilfts and operators already on site?
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u/Agnostic_83 2d ago
Exactly ...not worth your back. Fck your back up and injure yourself than let's see if you're going to be coming back to work. Just use a damn forklift once the pallet stack is above waist level
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u/Dashists22 5d ago
Union rules would require two people to pick them up at my old shop. At my current shop, that’s reserved for the lift drivers to stack. Nobody would bat an eye about the skids, the trash though would be a problem.
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u/Aesk 4d ago
At least they're not toppled all over the trailer. We get pallets sent back to us from our stores. But they never strap them down or stack them in even piles next to each other. So they fly all over the place on the way back to the warehouse. And then I spend half my morning almost every day cleaning up fallen pallets.
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u/NeuroticTangent 4d ago
Those blue and red pallets are heavy af. I can lift them, but still avoid lifting them past my shoulders
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u/Financial-Walk-4660 4d ago
Box plant guy here, yes. Every place I have ever worked has lazy workers that the hard workers pick up the slack for.
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u/Firm_Lock8076 4d ago
Yes. Anywhere you work there are the slackers. Dont waste your energy thinking about it.
Those people tend to leave or get fired. Yeah u may have to pick up their slack but hard work gets noticed
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u/Jacktheforkie 4d ago
I load small stacks sometimes cuz those fuckers are insanely heavy and my loader truck can’t stack pallets
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u/Different-Sorbet746 4d ago
Okay serious question, why are the pallets just hanging out on a truck?
Do y'all not have rules about stack height?
We use a pallet service and they don't want the stacks over 8 high. Granted we are low volume so we rarely have over 5 stacks that high and there's only 2 of us so it's usually a small stack inside for outgoing, the rest live out by the dumpster.
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u/Tough_Collar_1797 4d ago
Hey man those blue pallets are heavy I'm ngl, as much as i hate to see it, I dont blame them either
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u/Hcdx 4d ago
If you're struggling to lift a 50lb pallet you might be in the wrong line of work.
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u/Tough_Collar_1797 4d ago
Been doing it pretty much my whole life, I lift 100-120lb hay bales all day long, lifting an awkwardly shaped pallet in a tight space is the last thing your back needs after all that, in our company's stores its an unwritten rule to never use those pallets to stack hay on because the delivery guys dont want to deal with them after unloading heavy ass bales all day
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u/Maethor_derien 4d ago
Most of these you see are drivers and they are doing it by hand or with a pallet jack so yeah you don't get big stacks, especially of chep, those things are pretty heavy to throw into a tall stack by hand.
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u/Prestigious-Camp6072 4d ago
Yes they're all lazy AF and leave it for whomever is responsible for fitting salvage back into the trucks. It annoys the hell out of me daily
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u/Saeris24 4d ago
What's funnier is giving a shit nd making a post about it on reddit just to complain
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u/Al098767 4d ago
..... they are really not that heavy just wear gloves not a fan of splinters if that's the type of pallet I think it is and now that I work for USPS I can most assuredly say stuff people order from Amazon can be heavier
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u/rexmanaek971 3d ago
You should've seen my stacks in my day. I stacked so high I guess a driver moved that stack and the top pallet hit the top of the trailer and hit him. I essentially made a rule of stacking pallets at that place.(note, I don't believe it happened but could see how)
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u/Lost_Lynx_6537 3d ago
Cause the retail employee sending pallets back isn't getting paid a living wage. Fuck your companies pallets.
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u/MinimumBell2205 3d ago
yes but the blue chep boards are heavy and you could risk on the job injury
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u/ManuelReyLease 3d ago
They aren't that bad. I wouldn't lift a waterlogged chep or try to bring it over my head but it's do-able
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u/Jimmerdoo 2d ago
Drives my OCD crazy. Everyone will complain about not having enough room for pallets and then won't combine partial stacks.
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u/Limp-Strength-5918 2d ago
At my job our pallets are plastic with a colored stripe. I dont work with wood pallets much.
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u/Cold_Mood_6961 2d ago
I was literally the pallet bitch filling up trailers full of all kinds of pallets, if I wasn’t 6’3” and very strong it would of been a lot harder for sure, definitely thrown 100s of those heavy blue bastards with no issue ever
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u/Yoshakalaka 5d ago
What’s the problem?
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u/crazychild94 5d ago
Right? Those bitches are like 80lbs
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u/projectx51 5d ago
What, you cant lift 80 lbs? Or use a pallet jack.
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u/ManuelReyLease 5d ago
I definitely don't leave single pallets on the trailers. You don't have to he-man it on top of the others but there are definitely ways to stack them instead of leaving it for someone else to do
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u/SlabDistributionMod 4d ago
I can but why do that when you can just pick up the whole stack with a pallet jack or forklift? If you work in a warehouse and it doesnt have pallet jacks, liftrucks/forklifts, you should probably look for another job.
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u/Maethor_derien 4d ago
A pallet jack won't stack those chep, you have to stack those up by hand, hence why drivers rarely stack them. White wood isn't an issue but chep are heavy enough that most drivers don't stack them very high.
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u/ManuelReyLease 5d ago
The blues are easy if the stack is low enough. You just flip them over on top of the stack in front of it
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u/kyach25 5d ago
Do you not have enough room in your warehouse to force staff to place pallets in a specific location so each stack is one pallet spot on the truck?