RejectReality
Errant Smut Slinger
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Want another one? A tornado blew a large chunk of the warehouse roof off, and dumped it on the electric, computerized sortation system, destroying a large chunk of it. We were in there the next morning trying to send out what we could while they furiously worked on getting parts for the sortation system. More 20 hours per day weeks. As soon as they got that up and running a week or so later, they started running the system, still with nothing but tarps covering the cavernous hole in the roof.
Thunderstorms were rolling through on a daily basis.
We would have waterfalls pouring off the upper deck. They drilled holes through the upper deck to drain parts of it and made trash bag gutters to keep it from ( mostly ) pouring onto our heads. Most of the time, there was 2-3 inches of running water on the floor as it rushed out dock doors. Probably around 60 people from Servepro running scrubbers to pick up water or squeegees to push it out the dock doors faster. Sandbags futilely try to contain to deluge.
Then a battery on a forklift caught fire and torched an isolated part of the warehouse in the middle of the night, setting off the sprinklers.
Have you ever smelled long-term wet cardboard? I can tell you without a doubt it smells exactly like vomit, which is what pretty much the whole warehouse smelled like for months. That's on top of the nasty water that was purged out of the sprinkler systems when they went off, which smelled like sewage. That's on top of the mold and mildew.
Pizza every couple of days and... can you guess? A $50 gift card once the roof was finally back on and things got somewhat back to normal.
They would literally have someone step over your corpse to load your truck while they waited for the meatwagon to haul you off. I've got a photo I took that tickles me to no end. They periodically replace all the propaganda signs in the breakroom and hallways every so often. A few weeks ago, I finally managed to snap a picture I've been trying to get for years.
The "Beliefs and Values" sign in a trash bin. Highly illustrative.
Thunderstorms were rolling through on a daily basis.
We would have waterfalls pouring off the upper deck. They drilled holes through the upper deck to drain parts of it and made trash bag gutters to keep it from ( mostly ) pouring onto our heads. Most of the time, there was 2-3 inches of running water on the floor as it rushed out dock doors. Probably around 60 people from Servepro running scrubbers to pick up water or squeegees to push it out the dock doors faster. Sandbags futilely try to contain to deluge.
Then a battery on a forklift caught fire and torched an isolated part of the warehouse in the middle of the night, setting off the sprinklers.
Have you ever smelled long-term wet cardboard? I can tell you without a doubt it smells exactly like vomit, which is what pretty much the whole warehouse smelled like for months. That's on top of the nasty water that was purged out of the sprinkler systems when they went off, which smelled like sewage. That's on top of the mold and mildew.
Pizza every couple of days and... can you guess? A $50 gift card once the roof was finally back on and things got somewhat back to normal.
They would literally have someone step over your corpse to load your truck while they waited for the meatwagon to haul you off. I've got a photo I took that tickles me to no end. They periodically replace all the propaganda signs in the breakroom and hallways every so often. A few weeks ago, I finally managed to snap a picture I've been trying to get for years.
The "Beliefs and Values" sign in a trash bin. Highly illustrative.
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