Factory worker shares infuriating work stories from the assembly line: 'Always make sure the truck is hitched'

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    WORK STORIES FACTORY EDITION
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    Story time!! I did one of these a while back when I drove a cab. Well, 2 years later, I'm now working in Shipping/Receiving for an auto parts factory. Been here a little while now, and have had a few memorable things happen that I felt like sharing. Actually, I'm just bored as over. waiting for my shift to be
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    ALWAYS MAKE SURE THE TRUCK IS HITCHED ALWAYS!!!!
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    BEFORE YOU EVER GO ONTO A TRUCK, MAKE SURE THE THING IS like HITCHED TO THE DOCK!! Simply so this doesn't happen.
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    田 HYSTER STAY BACK 2 FEET
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    RYSTER 60
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    This was a couple months before I transferred into shipping from production. For whatever reason, the truck hadn't been hitched to the dock, and someone gave the driver his paperwork before the truck was fully loaded. So, the driver not thinking to, you know, make sure there isn't a
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    forklift going in and out of his trailer, pulled away as a guy was going to drive on. Because of this we now have an annoying alarm that screeches any time the dock plate is extended without the hitch locked onto a trailer.
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    ONLY MOVE THESE STACKED 3 HIGH MEANS ONLY MOVE WHILE STACKED 3 HIG
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    Typo, but I'm too lazy to redo the image. Basically, when moving a stack of containers, out rule is that the bottom half of the top container has to be below the top of the forklift. Mainly, so that if you are reversing, and have to stop suddenly, they have a backstop and don't tip over on top of you and cause an unholy rain of metal death.
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    Well, about 3 weeks ago, my coworker decided to say the rules. Not sure why, we weren't busy or in a rush, my best guess is that he just wanted to hurry up and wait. Well he picked up a stack of these high, double the amount we're allowed to carry. He backed up all of about a foot and stopped, and oh boy, those top containers kept going. Luckily they were bigger parts, 6
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    so none of them fell through the cage on top of the forklift, but Jesus it was not fun , cleaning up and sorting those parts for damage. The main thing was that the two of us that had nothing to do with it got stuck cleaning up the mess because he immediately got taken to the clinic for a drug test, (standard procedure when there's any sort of incident with forklifts or cranes.)
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    otempura As a forklift driver I am both amused and horrified by that first story lol
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    icantevenrightnowplz The forklift on the loading dock: YES> Every warehouse I've EVER worked at has had this happen.
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    UtherCLX If forklifts are called forklifts why are diggers not called spoonlifts??
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