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All warehouses have time standards. If they didn't, you'd have workers standing around in the aisles all day bullshitting with each other instead of working.
The standards at Safeway when I worked there were measured in hundredths of a minute and it wasn't easy. When I first started out there, I couldn't 'make my minutes' for the first 4 months I worked there to save my life - I'd run my orders at 91, 92% all day long but I just couldn't hit that 100% mark. I came t-h-a-t close to getting fired because of it, then one day, it just clicked and I was making my time.
It was a rough standard. There's no way in hell I could make it now if I had such a hard time in my 30s.
Will there be a quota limit on how much taxpayer money they waste?
ReplyDeleteBack in the 90's worked the dock at night for yellow. 3 of us used to get about 120% on our bill count . One night the supervisor caught us bullshitting ,told us to get back to work . Bill count went to about 50% . He didn't Bitch after that .
ReplyDeleteWill this also end the quotas given to democrat election volunteers on how many ballots they have to fill every hour?
ReplyDeleteNo the DNC printer will run faster than the Fed. Reserve printer though.
DeleteI had just started as an intern at a company with an attached warehouse and assembly center when the warehouse/assembly workers went on strike, so all the engineers were suddenly shifted to do the warehouse jobs. Pulling stock, we constantly found decks of cards, magazines, and all kinds of other stuff hidden throughout the stacks. In the end, it was some 10 hour days but the smaller untrained group still managed to keep up with production. So it's a tough balancing act to figure out I'd think.
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ReplyDeleteNever worked a warehouse job but did lots of construction and oilfield work. All those employers expected me to complete the assigned tasks for the day.
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Califruitopia, where the .gov never ceases its quest to drive businesses to other states.
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California, which passed a $15 an hour minimum wage, which will take full effect 2 years after McDonalds increased their starting wage for new hires to $16 an hour.
DeleteThe only thing dumber that California Politicians are the people, dead and alive, that voted for them.
No body voted for them
DeleteMore robots to work in the warehouse that don't need breaks.
ReplyDeleteThis is a forked topic for me.
ReplyDeleteOn one hand, this has been needed for a long time. Capitalism unrestrained will destroy everything in its path in the pursuit of profit. Capitalism with its furthest extremes reined in, is one of the most productive systems ever devised.
Restricting mega-corps from working their employees to death and forcing them to piss in bottles is right up there with providing functional PPE and not locking the fire escape doors.
If they move overseas, tariff anything coming in until the price is on-par with our made in the USA products.
On the other hand, even if this speeds up automation, corporations are going to automate anyway; big and small. We are in the fourth industrial revolution and like it or not, it's here to stay. Even as a sole proprietor, I'm thinking about how I'm going to automate from the start and avoid hiring people. I'm not going to sift through the human rubbish to find a few good gems that will work with a passion.
Automation will put the means of high-quality mass-production into the hands of more people; however, it will only be those who are both smart enough and financially able to make use of it. Automation technology is not exclusive to big business.
Business has a ravenous appetite for cheap labor; some can be filled with robots, some with illegals, and the rest can be filled by the endless stream of willing slaves that fill high turnover positions until they burnout.
Long term, we will ultimately need far fewer people than are around today. This is when culling all the useless eaters and breeders rears its ugly mug. Even after that, we will not live in a post-scarcity, pie-in-the-sky utopia; the machines and automation always have owners and there is no free lunch. Those that have, and those that have not.
We will have fewer people doing more.
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A lot of countries are already at the point of having "excess workers". And governments, for all of their idiocy and inefficiency, are very, very good at reducing headcount.
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DeleteThat rosy prediction presumes a return to the old normal of a couple-three years ago... cheap fuel with unfettered transportation.
Neither are assured.
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To return to the older olden days of twelve-hundred years ago requires a few sleepers releasing metallic balloons into the electric grid... instantly halting all production in all manufacturers and all warehouses.
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Irregardless of electricity, robots, NewWorldOrder, or anything else, slum-trash increasingly devolve further into valuelessness as voters while they are easily replaced by border-jumper voters.
That might be part of the BOLCHEVICS plan.
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If I was me, I would avoid cities and slum-trash.
And I think I might get closer to my food sources, farmers and ranchers.
I go into the Safeway you worked at weekly!
ReplyDeleteI always yell into the warehouse "Where is Ken?"!!!
Used to drive a forklift and cherry picker many moons ago. We never had any quotas, just a list of trucks that had to get loaded or unloaded each shift. I suppose the difference is pretty much academic, though.
ReplyDeleteAll in all, it wasn't a bad gig, once you got used to everyone intentionally getting the damn fork lifts to backfire. The first few times would always make the new guys jump.