Bawanna
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Boeing is very much like that. Industrial supply place I worked for delivered two 55 gal drums of the wrong cutting oil. Big hot rush, they had me take my personal little Toyota pickup and drive the 45 minutes or so to a Boeing plant to exchange it for the correct. They were afraid they would use the wrong stuff and wanted it gone.
Took forever to find the right door where the oil was to be delivered and nobody even the guards knew where it was. I finally found it.
Got the guy in charge and he called for transportation to bring a forklift. I told him there's one going by right there, I'll grab him.
He said he was an inside forklift driver and they can't go outside. I told him I'll back the truck inside, he said unless it runs on propane we couldn't do that.
After a couple hours seriously, I found a plank and tipped the drums over, no room on a Toyota and got the two drums on the ground, sign here I'm gone. He refused said he wanted the wrong stuff taken away to avoid using it.
No way I could get those back on the truck.
I actually went through a shift change at 3 after several calls were made to transportation. Finally a woman on a forklift that was big enough to pickup a pickup truck shows up, says she couldn't find me.
She takes one look and says she can't unload because the oil is not on a pallet. I told her it's a Toyota, no room for a pallet.
She refused. I told her, looky here I been here since before 9 this morning, I went through a shift change, right over here is nice break room, why don't you just go take a break, visit the ladies room, just leave the forklift here running and I'll watch it for you.
She relented and pulled the forks up where I could slide the drums on and lifted them where I could push them in the truck. She of course couldn't help, fork lift operators aren't allowed to do that.
It was 6 before I got back to the warehouse and had to unload. I was the primary forklift driver there so didn't have no trouble at all on that end.
Boeing what a place.
Took forever to find the right door where the oil was to be delivered and nobody even the guards knew where it was. I finally found it.
Got the guy in charge and he called for transportation to bring a forklift. I told him there's one going by right there, I'll grab him.
He said he was an inside forklift driver and they can't go outside. I told him I'll back the truck inside, he said unless it runs on propane we couldn't do that.
After a couple hours seriously, I found a plank and tipped the drums over, no room on a Toyota and got the two drums on the ground, sign here I'm gone. He refused said he wanted the wrong stuff taken away to avoid using it.
No way I could get those back on the truck.
I actually went through a shift change at 3 after several calls were made to transportation. Finally a woman on a forklift that was big enough to pickup a pickup truck shows up, says she couldn't find me.
She takes one look and says she can't unload because the oil is not on a pallet. I told her it's a Toyota, no room for a pallet.
She refused. I told her, looky here I been here since before 9 this morning, I went through a shift change, right over here is nice break room, why don't you just go take a break, visit the ladies room, just leave the forklift here running and I'll watch it for you.
She relented and pulled the forks up where I could slide the drums on and lifted them where I could push them in the truck. She of course couldn't help, fork lift operators aren't allowed to do that.
It was 6 before I got back to the warehouse and had to unload. I was the primary forklift driver there so didn't have no trouble at all on that end.
Boeing what a place.
