A Tongue Twister Job
Thursday, March 2nd, 2006 -- J. DoeI work in the office of a large warehouse. There are many different types of workers in the warehouse, from order pickers, to labelers, to receivers, to packers, to…. well, I could go on. I take the orders off the printer and separate them for other workers to pick.
Today at work an employee who works as an order picker said to me,
“You give all the orders to the packers to pick, and if the packers pick all the orders then there is nothing left for the pickers to pick. ”
Huh?
“Can you say that again please?” I nicely replied
“We are pickers, not packers. We pick. If you give orders to the packers to pick then we have nothing to do, so let the pickers pick and the packers pack, and don’t let the packers pick at all!”
OK, I understand. The pickers are peeved at the packers because the packers are picking.
Clear? As mud!
So what did I do? What everybody in every office in the world does. I blamed someone else. HEE HEE HEE (In this case it was the truth)
I informed the picker that it was a management decision to let the packers pick and any problems with this decision should be discussed with them. I have to do what the supervisors says, and to be honest they have a point. They want to orders picked, no matter who does it, a picker, a packer… it doesn’t matter. As long as the job gets done. although the pickers also have a point… picking is their job.
The moral of this story is, however, that the pickers are pissed because the packers are picking.
Trying saying that ten times fast!
“You give all the orders to the packers to pick, and if the packers pick all the orders then there is nothing left for the pickers to pick. ”
Hilarious!
That’s even better than Peter Piper picked a peck of peppers (or however the tongue twister goes! It’s been a long time since I was on the playground saying such things, *sigh.*) How about “How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?” Hmmmmm.
HAHAHAHAHA!!! Great post, dear girl.
Hello J. Doe.
Where in NJ do you work? Sounds like you work at one of my company’s warehouses. Really funny.
Sometimes real life situations are funnier than anything you can make up.
Franca, I work in Central NJ., but I bet all warehouses all over are the same.
Hello J. Doe.
It’s still so funny to read this because it sounds like the daily-workings of my company’s warehouse over in Edison.
Oh and I forgot…Somerset. Sorry.
HAHA! Great read! Nice tongue-twister!
Too funny. It’s a good thing you’re not working for a pickling packing plant.
Just checking in to see how life is going for you on the “other side”. Hope all is well.
Now for the pickers and packers, I thought the packers were a football team from Green Bay! Very funny post!
Ciao for now!
Cyn