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EXCELED Canada. Nov 24 2008 17:59. Posts 401

I started working where I work right now in September. I work at a Loblaws Distrubution centre and I am what they call a "picker" A picker drives around a "Jigger" which is pretty much an electric pump truck that you drive around on. We get orders through our headset and we drive around picking the items and putting them on skids, the wrapping them and shipping them away. Its not really a great job and the hours are just shit. They have such a bad turnover at this place and I really can see why.

You could call in sick once every wee and they wouldnt give a shit as long as you showed up for some of your shifts. New guys are hired and trained every week and I bet not even half of them end up working there for more than a month. The part that makes this job shitty is the fact that you are timed on everything you do. You target goal is to pick at 95% for the week which is not that easy. Ive been there for 2 months and just last wee I fianlly started to hit that number. If you pick over 95% then you get a bonus on your paycheck every week. To get over 100% you have to bust your ass all day everyday. Its not like you get a shit load of extra paying by doing this so right now Im fine with hitting the standard they put out for you.

Lifting things all day can get pretty strainning on the back. My back started to get a bit sore after working there for 2 weeks. I stretch before every shift but that only does so much. What makes this worse is about a month ago I hurt my side in hockey which was not fun. I thought things were getting better but on the weekend I managed to fuck my side up again the same way. I was pretty happy because my back/side was starting to feel really good and I was planning on getting back to the gym this week but my back is just to sore and lifting weights + work definitly will not help it get better. I think Im going to start going back to the chiropractor again and get a massage or too. Hopefully this helps a bit.

The good thing is this job is only a temporary thing for me since Im moving to London soon. Im only going to be working there for about one more month. This reminds me, gotta hand in my two weeks notice soon. Its actually more like 3 wees because Im going Snowboarding at Mt. Tremblant in December for a week. Im pretty excited for this trip because the biggest place to snowboard around here is Blue Mountain which is alright but Ive head Tremblant is way bigger. I just got all new equipment so Im pumped that I get to try it out soon. Its been snowing alot here too lately so hopefully they are getting a lot of snow out at Tremblant so the conditions are good when I end up going there.

My hockey team played 2 games this weekend and we went 1-1 when we should have gone 2-0. The first game we played was vs Wellsley. There coach is our old coach so its a pretty big rivalry. We ended up beating them 6-2 but the end of the game gott pretty ugly and there was a few fights. What bugs me is Im never on the ice when any of this shit goes down. Havent gotten in a single tilt this year

The league just isnt the same as it used to be. Full of a bunch of younger guys now who think they are going somewhere in hockey but havent gotten there reality check yet. Its hilarious because they think they are so good but there is no extrordinary talent in our league anymore. The second game we played was for sure one we should have won. We were up 3-1 and ended up blowing it and losing 5-4. We even got a penalty shot in the final minute to send it into OT but buddy missed so we lost

Shouldnt have even came down to that moment though. Apparently now we are going to get bag skated at practice on Tuesday which fucking sucks because I hate skating all practice.

Big weekend coming up. We play the team who is in 1st (were in 2nd) in a home and home series. We also have the ROOKIE party Saturday night

This year we decided to get our rookies to wear diapers only at the party and tape 40ozs of shit beer to there hands so they have to drink them all before they can take them off and go to the bathroom or they can go in there diaper haha. Shold be a lot of fun drunk times. Ill put up pictures if I remember to take some lol.

I didnt play much poker at all this weekend because I was so busy with hockey/work. I dont have to work again until Friday so I should be able to get in some serious hours too. I only need to make 35 more BB until its time to move up in limits. I should be able to grind that out tonight, if not for sure tomorrow. Today Im aready up 65BB so I dont really feel like pressing my luck to much tonight unless there are some huge fish sitting and the tables are exceptionally good. Heres the graph for today:

I recently put my stats up on 2+2 looking to get some feed back. They basically said that right now my stats are good for the limit I am playing and I wont need to make much of an adjustment when I move up. The only thing they said I have to improve on was something that I kinda knew on my own. They said I have to increase my WTSD% a bit,raise a few more hands in late position and defend my BB a bit less. All easily fixable imo.

A few hours ago I watched the most recent episode of ENTOURAGE. Just when you thought Vince and crew hit rock bottom things managed to turn themselves around. Love this show and cant wait to see whats going to happen next. The season has to be over soon though doesnt it? They are already 12 episodes in and they just put Vince in a new movie? Maybe they are going to do make the movie this season and then priemier it in the next one. Sorta like last season. Actually... is has HBO even confirmed a 6th season yet? I really hope they do. If anyone knows the answer to this let me know.

I started up the 2nd season of DEXTER too. I really like this show and at the end of every episode I always want to start watching the next episode asap. The shitty thing is that the site I watch it on has had a pretty laggy feed lately so hopefully they fix this soon so I can start watching again.

Not sure what I am going to get up to tonight. Might go for some beers at Boston Pizza and watch the Monday nighter. Maybe just smoke a joint and chill out because tomorrow I have to head down to London to give my lasts months rent to the Land lord. Hopefully we can get into the place sooner then Januaray so I can start painting the place.

Anways... hope alls good with everyone.

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k2o4 United States. Nov 24 2008 18:08. Posts 4803

sounds like a shitty job

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EXCELED Canada. Nov 24 2008 18:11. Posts 401

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