Watched the soda guy unload today, and you can imagine it’s not much at a Lowe’s. Kinda like what I do, tossing heavy weights around without benefit of a machine or tool. Not that we don’t have forklifts and a myriad of lifting options, but often all you can do is He Man that shit around.
Those are actually coveted jobs, much less manual lifting and much higher pay because of the license requirement.
Merchandisers go into Walmarts, big grocery chains and the like and fill all the shelves, move out pallets that have already been dropped in the backroom by the truck hours or days before. The trucks have electric jacks, that part is pretty easy. What’s not easy is being one person during the summer time, hauling a dozen pallets out of staged trailer with a manual pallet jack with one wheel stuck (bc grocery managers are power tripping usually) and then move that all out across an entire Walmart to build out a 10 pallet display and then fill all the shelves. And the slower you move, the more soda you have to move later as people buy more at the other stops further along your route… I have worked 28 hour weekends. Pay was good for not being skilled and I was in the best shape of my life, but it would have took my back out so quickly. So many situations where you are forced to lift over things or lift weigh too much, or literally move a ton of soda on equipment that isn’t entirely functional.
Watched the soda guy unload today, and you can imagine it’s not much at a Lowe’s. Kinda like what I do, tossing heavy weights around without benefit of a machine or tool. Not that we don’t have forklifts and a myriad of lifting options, but often all you can do is He Man that shit around.
Those are actually coveted jobs, much less manual lifting and much higher pay because of the license requirement.
Merchandisers go into Walmarts, big grocery chains and the like and fill all the shelves, move out pallets that have already been dropped in the backroom by the truck hours or days before. The trucks have electric jacks, that part is pretty easy. What’s not easy is being one person during the summer time, hauling a dozen pallets out of staged trailer with a manual pallet jack with one wheel stuck (bc grocery managers are power tripping usually) and then move that all out across an entire Walmart to build out a 10 pallet display and then fill all the shelves. And the slower you move, the more soda you have to move later as people buy more at the other stops further along your route… I have worked 28 hour weekends. Pay was good for not being skilled and I was in the best shape of my life, but it would have took my back out so quickly. So many situations where you are forced to lift over things or lift weigh too much, or literally move a ton of soda on equipment that isn’t entirely functional.