• Signtist@lemm.eeEnglish
      22·
      5 hours ago

      Having worked at FedEx, everything has fragile stickers and “this way up” arrows. If I payed attention to every notice on every package, I’d run out of room on the truck before I was even halfway through my shift. Plus I’d be spending way too much time in the truck, and I’d constantly be running down the conveyor to collect packages I missed while I was in there. The only special instructions we have the time to address are the hazmat signs. But yeah, some people literally punt packages onto their trucks, so there’s a middle ground to be found.

      • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
        112·
        4 hours ago

        Gonna fedex a big plastic box of diarrhoea with a cardboard lid and “this way up” painted correctly. You’ll never turn my packages upside-down again.

        • Signtist@lemm.eeEnglish
          7·
          2 hours ago

          It would’ve spilled long before it got to me and the local delivery trucks I’d be loading. We’d be unpacking large cross-country semis that were packed so haphazardly that unofficial protocol was to open them and run; one time I almost had a car jack land on my head that someone decided to shove in on top of a stack of boxes.

        • Signtist@lemm.eeEnglish
          4·
          2 hours ago

          I never delivered packages, I only loaded them on the trucks. I’d usually be assigned 3-4 trucks depending on package load and how many people decided to show up that day.

          • NeatoBuildsEnglish
            2·
            55 minutes ago

            Ah gotcha, my cousin worked for ups and loaded trucks also, making the drivers mad all the time haha

            • Signtist@lemm.eeEnglish
              3·
              43 minutes ago

              Yeah, they’re always mad about something. They’ll look at their trucks packed to the brim with boxes and wonder why we didn’t put each and every package in the exact correct location. We’d do our best, but by the end of the day we’d just be putting them wherever they’d fit.

        • toynbee@lemmy.world
          9·
          4 hours ago

          Can’t speak with authority, but presumably FedEx employs packers and drivers; this person was probably speaking as a packer and referring to the truck they’re packing as “the truck.”