'We were told we weren't using enough twine': Distribution center employees spend 7 hours wrapping an order for their constantly complaining coworkers

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Dec 11, 2023 5:00 PM EST

It's shocking that this person was able to spend seven hours working on just one order. It must have been one of the greatest days on the job for u/Kolandromir, an employee at a distribution center. 

Package distribution centers can be absolutely massive. The friends I knew who worked at these places described how large they were and how disorganized things were. I never met anyone who stayed at one of these places long term---most people only seem to last a month or three. The turnover rate is quite high, and these places are constantly fielding more employees. 

This person got to experience that drama and disorganization firsthand. They shared their story of what happened when a different branch of the organization started bugging them about the way they were packing products. Somehow, the OP had the time to sneak away for seven full hours in order to get back at their coworkers. That's stunning, and admirable! If you can somehow get away with barely working for that long, you are the hero of every working-class person. 

Up next, these people suddenly realized that their friends secretly hated them, like one person who wrote, "She stole my jeans and then helped me look for it." 

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  • 01
    Spider-Man worked in a furniture/appliance warehouse for a while. M Shower thoughts for the day. I was thinking back to one of my old jobs and I remembered this one time my coworkers and I decided to do some overkill to resolve an internal complaint. Our distribution centre was complaining that we were "not properly securing" merchandise
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    returned for warranty work. When we asked what that meant, we were told we weren't using enough twine to tie stuff down. This coming from the guys who liked to hide glass tabletops on top of mattresses.
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    So we stepped up our game. We used more twine, For almost a month, we kept adding more twine to the tie-down every time we got a complaint from the distribution. My manager was getting annoyed with filling out the IRRRS (Incident Response and Resolution Report) every other day. Then one day I snapped.
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    I came in early on a day I knew we had an extra guy on. I gathered the six items we had to send back. There was a fridge, an oven, two dryers, a barbecue and a reclining chair that had been recalled for structural issues.
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    I grabbed two large bails of twine from the supply closet. I locked myself in the trailer. I started by weaving kind of a hammock with the twine using the anchor points on the inside of the trailer. One of my coworkers helped me hoist a dryer up onto the hammock so it
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    sat suspended about a foot off the ground. I then constricted the dryer with my twine against the side wall. I did the same with the other five items setting them at various angles. The fridge was the trickiest, but I made a point of having the doors open.
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    The whole process took about seven hours. I made one final web across the back of the trailer and attached a note to the middle of it. It said:
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    "Take pictures before unpacking. If everything is still off the ground, please stop sending complaints. • Your friendly neighborhood Spider-man."
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    Well we didn't get any complaints per se, but our district VP was not amused. He demanded that our store manager issue some kind of a reprimand for the person responsible. He pulled all the warehouse staff into his office. He said "I don't know who did it, and frankly I don't care. That stunt you pulled was amazing. Wreckless, but well executed. I've been asked to prepare this pink slip for
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    disciplinary action. But in the name field for employee being disciplined, I will put the name Peter Parker." We all smiled. It was nice to know our boss had our back. I don't think our VP ever read a comic book in his life because we never heard anything else about it after that.
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    WordWizard NC Blessed is he whose manager has his back, for he shall have his covered.
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    Catacombs3 You were just stringing them along. 63 Reply Share Kolandromir OP. Ah, nice. You should have seen the knots. Really... threw them for a loop.
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    PsycloneRanger This thread is bound to be good. 17 Reply Share Kolandromir OP. Nice.
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    CaffeineFueledLife I was deeply ensnared in this story.
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    PsycloneRanger Did the District VP ever find out who did this? No, I'm a frayed knot.
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    Markelgamez I'm glad that your store manager was good about it. 4 Reply Share Kolandromir OP. He was just happy he didn't have to fill out those stupid incident reports anymore.
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