/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1883773
I'm having trouble getting around some of the tight isles when I come to work still drunk from the night before. Does anybody have any tips? Sometimes I take a Xanax and it helps. I don't hit less stuff but I stop caring when I knock shit over

>>1883773
20 operator here, round here we just call em hi-los, but that’s more of a regional thing. Listen, most of us journeymen, or “made men” as we call it in the biz won’t mind if you wear the shirt, or gear, as long as you do it in a respectful manner. If you have a passion for the life, the smell of propane exhaust, the long nights, the kidney stones, you’re welcome with us. If you’ve ever dreamed of telling your supervisor to fuck off, ripping those bastard green safety lights off a rig, and hitting the open parking lot, you can ride with us any day. With just One. Small. Exception. That’s right, I’m talking about the 2%ers. That’s right, the outlaw hi-lo operators are a different breed. They’ll stab a fork right through a crate of microwaves and just keep rolling like it never happened, just because someone looked at em funny. I seen em push an entire pallet of Ragu off the loading dock and just LAUGH man, LAUGH! You would have thought it was an empty the way they acted. No, brother, you avoid them 2%er warehouses, and you can roll with us anytime. Just keep your forks low and the packages moving my man.

>>1883782

Thank you for your service.

>>1883782

I wouldn't have the balls to disrespect the warehouse gods like that. Apex predators of the trade world along with secretaries and janitors

>>1883782

>i'm you, but better

>>1884448
Please.

I don't even use the camera anymore, even at level 7.
I jump on a counterbalance to unload 4 x 40' palletised shipping containers off the dock in the morning, enter products, quantities etc; into the system, then onto the reach to scan every pallet into the racks. Then the rest of the day is fulfilling orders. I am a one man army, the warehouse commando.

>>1883773
I thought those forklift operator t-shirts were purely meant as a meme?
I thought the joke was that operating a forklift is a dead end (near to) no skill job

>>1884498
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the one hour safety certification training session, and I’ve been involved in numerous third shift emergency road salt unloadings with 300 confirmed on time deliveries.

I am trained in pallet jacks and I’m the top operator in the entire US teamsters union. You are nothing to me but just another crate. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before even in an Amazon fulfillment center, mark my fucking words.

You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of Skytrak operators across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can lift you yo safely in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my electric Hyster.

Not only am I extensively trained in manual hand jacks, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the Teamsters and I will use it to its full extent to move all your belongings into a shipping container, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue.

But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will safely and quickly stack boxes all over you and you will drown in it.

You’re fucking dead, kiddo.

>>1884503

Not gonna let this thread die without a (You). Thank you for your service.

>>1884503
nice, saved

>>1884503
Based

>>1884498

There are equivalent t-shirts being sold for about any imaginable job. Many reuse the same text and design, simply varying the job name, and they probably all come from a handful of Chinese factories via Aliba... oops, I mean Amazon. A Customer Service Rep shirt like pic related would probably be purchased by someone's manager as a depressing "reward" for achieving some Orwellian call metric. Whereas the blue-collar job shirts, I suspect, are mostly Father's Day gifts.

>>1884503

wtf page 11?

>>1883773

I operate forklifts but I'm not a forklift operator. am I still gonna make it brahs

>>1887700

I'm literally retarded where do I sign up to get my forklift operator's lic? Heard you guys get the big bucks like entire $15/hr + breaks.

>>1883782
audibly laughed at this post

>>1884503
made my day, have a (You)

>>1883782
holy based

>>1884498
It is.

>>1883778
Hair of the dog works for me.

Well boys just got done with the third shift so I’m headed into my weekend, boss got us working 10s cuz we’re so busy. Weird week i tell ya, gonna go grab a few cold ones down at Sally’s here in a minute but I gotta take a big shit here so figured I’d tell ya bout it. We were running behind this week so they called in some boys from local 457 up in Toledo to come help out, don’t get me wrong we can turn em and burn em with the best here but we just got so much work, plus Larry is home on medical cuz he had a reaction to his new tattoo and one eyed Bill can only work 40 hours cuz he’s still on work release after burning down his exes trailer. So anyway we’d butted heads with them big city boys before, don’t get me wrong a Union brother is a brother but they come in here with fancy diesel duallies I’m taking mall crawler parking lot princesses, they think they’re hot shit just cuz they’re from the big city.

Anyways I came out to meet em, this big dude probably 6’5”, built like a brick shit house comes up and says his name is mad dog. I wanted to see what he was about so I offered him some grizzly and a swig of my Jim beam, well this fella, he takes a plug of chaw, chugs half the pint, lights up a smoke right in the warehouse, and pulls out a cassette tape, asks where the boom box is. Well shit he’s got Boston, right there I knew it would be a good night. His buddy started handing out Vicodin’s, we cranked up the tunes, and all night we were flying, cool breeze in my mullet, Boston playing loud as fuck. Foreman came out to bitch about the radio and mad dog shot him a look, that Pussy ran back in his office. We knocked out 50 cans, a new record, and this city boy showed us how to tip over the coke machine and get free pop. One of the best nights of my life, now we’re going to go trade war stories with them Toledo boys. Anyway have a good weekend dudes, keep on keeping on.

>>1892343
I want this life

>>1884503
> I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the one hour safety certification training session

Thank you for your service!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChOHnSL7ZCg&has_verified=1

>>1892343

Pottery.

>>1892343
I appreciate this post, it takes me back

>>1884498
>operating a forklift is a dead end (near to) no skill job
You'd cry if you knew how much a teamsters journeyman forklift operator gets paid each hour. It's not a joke.

>>1892853
I drove a forklift in a warehouse for 3 months till I quit, I was making $10 an hour, only 2 over minimum.

>>1892857
Lol, that happens, too. Should've gone union. Really, though, I see people making a lot more than that even when they're not union. I drove an order picker for Amazon for $13.25/hr, and that's just Amazon. Somebody paying you $10/hr is an asshole who probably is preying on the fact that a lot of people don't know what a forklift operator should be getting paid.

>>1892343
Dude, I genuinely hope you're not bullshitting.

>>1892343

>>1892885

>>1892343
what in the fuck

>>1883773
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Just wanted to pop my head in here gents and say thanks for your service. God bless.

I didn't know there was a Forklift Driver General, good to see we are getting the respect and recognition we deserve.

Semper fork my brothers.