Toss and spin

[molicious]

My movie is like Dodgeball based on people who work simple jobs in pizza shops but are constantly going to pizza conventions to enter competitions for best tossing and spinning dough and box folding and stretching. The main charaters are not very good doing these things but yet they save all their money and still go to the conventions. They know all the other regulars who go to compete as well

[tynie]

Sounds good

[garcia5]

After working in the warehouse and transport I was thinking of making a film along the same feel. Just a recap of all the very stupid things we've done in the warehouse. I remember there was this one guy that we could dare to do anything. He was on an order picker (basically a forklift type machine that rises about two stories with a cage or pallet attached to it) and we dared him to take a full bottle of water (like the kind that goes on the water dispenser in most offices) and throw it off to see if it would blow up. It hit the ground and bounced several times and then when it stopped the top popped off and spilled the water everywhere. Another time we dared him to test the safety belt on the order picker (think about the belts you sue when mountain climbing but shorter). He jumped off and all we heard was "OOOOF" and there he was dangling from the safety belt out of breath. We all took off and left him there. Twenty minutes later and someone came by and helped him down. Man those were the days of just being so friggin bored with your job you'd do anything.

[redbomber0]

After working in the warehouse and transport I was thinking of making a film along the same feel. Just a recap of all the very stupid things we've done in the warehouse. I remember there was this one guy that we could dare to do anything. He was on an order picker (basically a forklift type machine that rises about two stories with a cage or pallet attached to it) and we dared him to take a full bottle of water (like the kind that goes on the water dispenser in most offices) and throw it off to see if it would blow up. It hit the ground and bounced several times and then when it stopped the top popped off and spilled the water everywhere. Another time we dared him to test the safety belt on the order picker (think about the belts you sue when mountain climbing but shorter). He jumped off and all we heard was "OOOOF" and there he was dangling from the safety belt out of breath. We all took off and left him there. Twenty minutes later and someone came by and helped him down. Man those were the days of just being so friggin bored with your job you'd do anything.

i used to work in a hardware store...me and the only other guy my age there did some pretty stupid stuff. when bees were out, we'd play baseball with them as the balls or get those foams and shoot the nests...that really pisses them off, by the way.
but i always hated having to go back in the dumpster when you left your keys in there, cause it'd be so slippery with squashed pumpkin/paint/glass/cardboard, you could never get out. fun times.

[garcia5]

LOL. Dumpster? Did you guys have a baler?

There was this moron we all used to egg on. First day on the job we were learning how to drive the Crown Forklifts and they had us manuvering around bales of cardboard and cones. Well, our supervisor took off and left us with some guy that worked there that new how to drive the forklifts and we started to race them around the bales and cones as fast as we kid to see who could get around them the fastest. The guy, anytime after that, would race anyone who dared him.

One day he was transporting one of those pellets of religious candles. The thing was loaded, and we had a guy run up along side him and challenge him to a race, his forklift against his legs. The guy takes off and forgets he has the load and makes this really sharp turn and all you hear is this loud crack as the pallet buckles under the candles and they all go sliding off. Man it was a mess but so friggin funny.

Our days usually consisted of challenging each other to try and break pallet boards with our fists and sleeping at the very back of the truck. We'd build walls for each other so that it looked like the truck was half full and then whoever it was would sleep behind the wall on a chair made out of boxes. Other times we would get rolls of tape and make footballs out of them. Just unravel them and then bunch them together to make a ball and take turns throwing it over the mezzanine from the recieving dock to the depal sections. Christ those were the good days. We of course always got our jobs done and most of the time went over productivity so who could complain. Then one day some asshole comes in as C.E.O. and just screws the place to hell. After that we all just started lounging and stopped putting in past 100%.

[redbomber0]

baler? we had a forklift...

we did the fake wall thing too. we had this little covered shed area where cement, sand, and unbuilt furniture was kept. when it was wet and cold, we would slide all the boxes on the top shelf out a bit, and sleep behind them. no one ever knew we were there! there was also a big trailer full of pine straw, but we would never sleep in there; just by going in to get bales of straw, we'd come out with waaay too many bugs and spiders in our hair and clothes. lol, one weekend in winter we took turns locking each other in....it was warm in there.

[garcia5]

A baler is a giant machine you can throw your trash or cardboards in and it boxes it and ties twine around it. You usually put them on pallets and move them with forklifts. There is usually a contractor company that works at the back of a warehouse or outside depening on what tyupe of warehouse you work in and they handle taking care of pallets and bale loads unless your company recycles them for cash.

The biggest concern we had at our work was with Springs trucks, the lovely company that owns Fort Mill. Their boxes are coated with formaldahyde (sp*) which would eventually become dusted and fly through the cabins and land on peoples lips and making them go numb lol. Then of course there was the very huge sign that said working here will give you cancer. No lie. I wouldn't be surprised to find out I have it.

[redbomber0]

wow...
thats why i kinda liked working in a hardware store; the only problem i ever had with chemicals was when bleaching/cleaning chairs and having the chemicals splash and stain my shorts. one time, doing my weekly bathroom cleaning, i decided to get creative, so i mixed all 9 cleaning liquids/powders available to me into the toilet. lol, i felt like crap after that...

[garcia5]

The way that our job worked we worked four days on and three days off working ten hour scheduals, sometimes if we wanted or if it became mandatory we worked fifteen. I'm telling you, a bunch of tired guys working a 15 hour shift on the graveyard shift, man there are some things that even I get scared thinking about lol.

If you've ever seen, and I'm sure you have, a pallet jack then you'll get a kick out of this. A guy we knew decided he was going to get on one and ride it kind of like a scooter. Another guy saw this and decided he was going to do the same thing and then they both ended up racing each other. Long story short, one guy does a front end flip over his pallet jacket and slams his hands between the handle and the floor and then the thing runs into him. They were pretty old so it didn't come at him in prime condition at top speed but it was enough to give him a welt on the back of his head.

One of the sickest things we ever saw though was this kid who was messing around with the conveyor. In recieving there were two dedicated flow doors (basically means they do not get unloaded and sent to depal to be thrown, they just get labeled on the truck and tossed straight onto the mezzanine from recieving). There is a long silver extender that connects to a smaller conveyor that also extends. They both meet an inclined conveyor. Between the two there is a gap just big enough for papers to fall through. This kid decided he was going to see how fast he was at sticking his hand between the two and plucking out papers from the gap. he did it several times and wowed the idiots standing by for entertainment. He goes again and his hand gets lodged in the conveyors and the straps are just grinding away at his hand and ripping the flesh off. It was nasty. The guy had to get a bone replaced in his hand with a titanium rod, he also got busted by Big Brother because he was part of the Reserves and he damaged governement propery or some such rumor.

A couple of days later a maintenance guy did the same thing only at the top of the mezzanine. He went to the hopsital and came nack to a pink slip. That sucks.

The only time I ever got semi-injured on the job was when we had three or four pallets lined up and we were throwing boxes to one another to stack in order of DCPI. This old man we were working with decided to come in with the forklift and push them all together while I was standing inbetween them. I got pinched but nothing serious. A couple of days later the guy forgot to put up the ramp between the dock and the trailer and he ran a forklift into the gap. Man it was loud but so funny to see his face. He back up and the forklift bounced against the gap and then pulled out. The guy was promising to give everyone who witnessed it money and lunch and whatever. The guy got fired anyway for coming tow ork drunk to many times.

[redbomber0]

that is just plain scary. i too rode our pallet jack like a scooter!!

[garcia5]

L L L After a few hours and no supervision you just to see things for what they are hehehe. The slides for the pallets in depal where like one really long roller blade. I use to push the pallets to the back of the lane and then glide across the tops of those rollers to my depal aisle. After awhile I just did it all of the time. When it got late I would even take a running start at the pallets while they were in the slide and jump on them and ride them to the rear. Sometimes the forklift driver would take them while I was still sitting or laying on them. Sleep deprivation can make a person do very odd things.