'Our district VP was not amused': Employee spends 7 hours wrapping package in twine

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Apr 20, 2025 11:00 AM EDT

When you order a package and then receive it totally shattered, it's definitely frustrating. The more fragile and expensive your item is, the more anxious you get about the item's journey to you. You might track the item as it goes from state to state. You have no way of knowing if someone is tossing your new camera or laptop into a delivery truck. What if the person delivering your expensive new package just tosses it onto your porch, leaving it broken beyond repair? 

These workers kept getting written up because they weren't wrapping their packages well enough, apparently. This person and their coworkers thought they were doing everything correctly, but they just kept getting write-ups. That's frustrating for employees: they're trying to do their best, but if they aren't given the proper directions, they will make some mistakes. 

Next, read about a destination wedding to Hawaii that went totally off the rails: "Invited to destination wedding, but not the ceremony."

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    Cooling Cooling 'We were told we weren't using enough twine'
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    "Spider-Man worked in a furniture/appliance warehouse for a while"

    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 returned for warranty work. When we asked what that meant, we were told we weren't using enough twine to tie stuff down.
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    This coming from the guys who liked to hide glass tabletops on top of mattresses. 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.
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    Then one day I snapped. 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 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
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    the trickiest, but I made a point of having the doors open. 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: "Take pictures before unpacking. If everything is still off the ground, please stop sending complaints.
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    • Your friendly neighborhood Spider-man." 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.
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    That stunt you pulled was amazing. Wreckless, but well executed. I've been asked to prepare this pink slip for 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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    People in the comments were roping each other into jokes

    Catacombs3 You were just stringing them along.
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    The image does not depict the actual subjects of the story. Subjects are models.

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    This person should be grateful they still have a job after pulling a 7-hour long stunt like that!

    WordWizardNC Blessed is he whose manager has his back, for he shall have his a covered.
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    Psyclone Ranger Did the District VP ever find out who did this? No, I'm a frayed knot.
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    DynkoFromThe No... Wow! Wholesome! Thanks, Spidey!
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