My day is so-so. I think I'm getting sick, but I do feel better than I did last night. I went and did the Friday Folder's for DD's classroom this morning. I am meeting my mom to do a little shopping for Baby A in a bit. So it should be good. I will confess, I have a little bit of the green eyed monster going on with my sisters birthday being today. Or maybe it's just resentment. I need to get my attitude in check.
That is an excellent question! Acourding to my twit of a shipping manager, "it never existed". Well, your guy weighed it and gave me a ticket on it, which I then marked for a load. And now they can't find it.
I should know better. I was thinking this morning that I had a handle on the day. I was so close to being all caught up. Then the day went to hell.
I'm off to find a 4,000 lb rock my shipping department has apparently lost. A rock that I have ALREADY SOLD!
who's having a good day to share?
Are your people moving things like this all the time? Maybe it got into the wrong truck?
What is this worth? Could someone have stolen it? At what point do you call the police?
It's worth about $3-4/lb. it would be next to impossible to have been stolen. And none of my earlier trucks have been over weight when leaving. The shipping manager thinks a pallet got mis-labeled. But now it's tracking down where it got put And getting it on it's truck
I get jealous all the time NAOW, it's definitely a big character flaw of mine, don't feel too bad.
DG-a rock? What do you do again?
My day is terrible, I was going to break it off with bf tonight but now some guys at work are saying I'm a douche because I'm breaking up with him but still expecting him to let me stay there a couple more weeks so I have time to get my stuff out. They say I should blindside him and move it all out while he's at work one day and just be gone. But that seems wrong to me, I don't want to do it like that.
What do you guys think?
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Doesn't he already know what's coming? I mean, I know he might be in denial, but you told him your intentions. I say somewhere between the two. Don't tell him yet, but if you don't forsee him making a scene, no need to go under the cover of darkness.
DG, a rock that big is called a monster rock. Wow. What will it be used for? I'm really curious!
Vette, don't know what to tell you on this one. Wish I did. Sending a hug your way though.
Ed, was it still in the shipping department?
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I am curious about the rock too!
Feel better soon NAOW/ I get jealous too. It's human nature.
Fed ex guy use the drugs Ed?
Blindside him Vette. Otherwise the next few weeks will be hell.
Technically, they are slabs of metal, but we refer to them as rocks in general because that's kinda what they look like. The closest thing to describe where I work is a steel mill - but we don't make steel. We just use similar methods and equipment. We actually sell our products to steel mills, it's an "ingredient" in high strength steel. And the product my shipping manager lost today, is part of the process of making stainless steel.
He ended up finding the missing pallet (that contained 2 slabs with a combined weight of almost 4000lbs) . . .kinda. More specifically we have a good idea of where the pallet went. It got picked up with another load that shipped out a couple weeks ago. And the pallet that should have been on that truck is still on the dock. So I just switched them on my load sheets. Far from perfect, but the best I can do.
However, in looking for this pallet, we discovered 3 others that are missing. Seriously, how does that happen? It's not like someone can just forget they have it in their pocket and take it off site. It's a 2000lb piece of metal!!
Technically, they are slabs of metal, but we refer to them as rocks in general because that's kinda what they look like. The closest thing to describe where I work is a steel mill - but we don't make steel. We just use similar methods and equipment. We actually sell our products to steel mills, it's an "ingredient" in high strength steel. And the product my shipping manager lost today, is part of the process of making stainless steel.
He ended up finding the missing pallet (that contained 2 slabs with a combined weight of almost 4000lbs) . . .kinda. More specifically we have a good idea of where the pallet went. It got picked up with another load that shipped out a couple weeks ago. And the pallet that should have been on that truck is still on the dock. So I just switched them on my load sheets. Far from perfect, but the best I can do.
However, in looking for this pallet, we discovered 3 others that are missing. Seriously, how does that happen? It's not like someone can just forget they have it in their pocket and take it off site. It's a 2000lb piece of metal!!
As with the morphine, these will probably show up. How much are they worth? Are they worth stealing?
I was introduced once to a man who stole trains. Not Jesse James style armed robberies, but literally, a small group of railroad employees would divert some cars from a switch- yard into an empty warehouse somewhere.
He wanted me and my friend to buy color tv's at about half retail, and ...
he was trying to figure out how to sell 4 General Electric jet aircraft engines. They had to unload the rail cars pretty quickly and put the cars back in the switch yard.
Sometimes it's fun being in New York.
By the way, this guy looked homeless (but clean), in raggedy clothes, with a big safety pin holding his pocket closed.
In that pocket was a roll of $100 bill about the size of a softball.
So, how much is a 2000 pound rock worth? Could a dodgy customer pay off someone to add it into their shipment with no records?
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One of the 2000 lb rocks is worth around $6,000. Getting it off site without someone noticing would be very hard to do. There would be too many people involved. With your suggestion: the shipping manager would have to alter the paperwork. The guy pulling the load would have to pull an extra pallet. The guys (more then 1) would need to load more pallets then on the sheet. The scale master would need to not notice the over weight truck. The driver would have to sign off on an over weight load. Oh, and they'd have to find a place to put it. A truck can hold 12 pallets. All my loads have 12 pallets. There really isn't a place for an extra pallet.
In my switched pallet case, the guy pulling the load made a mistake. The weights of the two pallets only differed by about 200lbs, so it was attributed to allowable scale variance.
My theory? Shipping manager is lazy and didn't look hard enough. They probably got moved to another area of the plant because we've got some extra inventory. I'm pretty sure when I ask his boss on Monday where my pallets are, I'll have an answer in a matter of hours.
