Now, when I was training, I did a week in the warehouse and it wasn't bad. We checked some boxes in, shipped some boxes out and stocked some extra parts. So when they asked me to cover, I thought it would be more of the same and readily accepted the task.
Then, I walked into the warehouse.
Where there wasn't all of the neat organization there had been weeks before.
No, this time there was much chaos.
I ended up being a very busy girl, so much so that I had to shirk my actual job.
So, Wednesday afternoon, I was eagerly awaiting five o'clock. I was ready to say goodbye to shipping and say hello to purchasing (which is my job now).
I had busted my ass for two straight days and I was sweaty and tired and not for the reasons I usually like being all sweaty and tired.
So, when the UPS guy pulled up at 4:30, I thought thank goodness, that means I am almost out of here. As he was gathering the packages he was leaving with us, I looked down saw a "nut" on the ground.
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It was smallish and silver and I knew immediately that there was no way in hell I was going to jump five feet down there and pick it up. Then, about three feet away from it, there was another one and I thought that was strange.
Two of them, just laying out there for no apparent reason.
They hadn't been there before.
I blew it off and turned my attention to the packages that the UPS guy was unloading. I'm not sure why, but even though I know that they aren't for me, I still get excited about them. It's like Christmas... only with aquaculture parts.
I had to open one of them to make sure that the stuff inside wasn't damaged because the box was all fuckered up and while I did, the UPS guy had to wait so I could sign his brown tablet.
Once satisfied that the parts in the box were fine, I tirned to sign his tablet and he handed me the two nuts he found on the ground and said, and I shit you not, "Here ya go... betcha been looking for these all week."
If only he knew...
