Hello Riverfall Folks!
I just wanted to post a bit of an update. Many of you don't know but I am in charge of the outside of a very big retail distribution center in the Pacific Northwest. This time of year is absolutely brutal for us because we are dealing with the holidays and in more recent years that monster called Black Friday. My normal workload is somewhere in the neighborhood of processing 100-300 trailers a day, both inbound and outbound... moving/loading/unloading and a lot of other things. We've had a slightly hellish year with a major company overseas (Hanjin) declaring bankruptcy and ports up and down the west coast refusing to dock their ships (that held all sorts of our holiday stuff - not just ours... walmarts, kmarts, etc). We had to pay the ports cash upfront to offload the freight and then we had to store the containers since no one was claiming the hanjin stuff here in the US. Long story short we had to rent a crane, rent out an unused gravel pit, just to have room for several thousand unwanted containers and chassies we had no room for. That made my workload skyrocket plus with all the holiday freight you can add a zero on to the end of what we were doing. Eight hour days turned ugly and honestly the last month and a half - two months is something of a work blurr.
Yesterday I left work and there was only 4 trailers in the yard. I can't tell you what a relief that is. I'm still working 6 days a week since we have incompetent and newly trained people covering for others that have been off work for months due to injury. But that relief means that I'm not crawling home anymore and grabbing food quickly and then sleeping four hours here, two there, etc. I honestly look like death warmed over, and if any of you have seen pics of me thats not a far stretch since my normal looks aren't pretty. Anyhow, I'll be doing some posting for your threads in the next couple of days. I hope to have them all caught up very shortly.
I'm also doing some NaNo posting for my PC. Selfish, I know, but I give year round to this site and NaNo is something I enjoy giving for myself. IF anyone needs anything, now is a good time to hit me up for it. IF you have a PM in to me looking for a job etc... most of that will get taken care of today!
Goss
