cgscott:
Went to a job today. One of my worn slings broke when trying to lift a pallett off. Phoned yatd to explain was told to handball pallett of instead. Beimg the young fit year old guy i am i said no problem gaffer.
Took an extra half hour but its money in the bank.
Went back to yard and had new slings replaced.
Went on my merry journey again. Of yous want forklifts for every job there is the option of carrying one on the back end of truck. But yous are probably too thick or lazy to drive one.
cgscott:
Went to a job today. One of my worn slings broke when trying to lift a pallett off. Phoned yatd to explain was told to handball pallett of instead. Beimg the young fit year old guy i am i said no problem gaffer.
Took an extra half hour but its money in the bank.
Went back to yard and had new slings replaced.
Went on my merry journey again. Of yous want forklifts for every job there is the option of carrying one on the back end of truck. But yous are probably too thick or lazy to drive one.
Congratulations you’re a hero, very well done have a cracker. I used to be one too but I can no longer do it after having the second spinal op for my third knackered disc in my spine which had bulged so much due to the wall of it collapsing after years of dragging stupidly heavy pallets around and handballing it stopped my left leg from working. 3 days before my birthday in August 2019 I was laid in an operating theatre with my back opened up as they ground away the bulge in my disc and ground out the spinal chord canal in the vertibrae both where that happened and the two discs below it which had been operated on years earlier due to doing the same stupid stuff. After the operation I have no use or feeling in my big toe, the top of my foot, half my shin and my thigh, I have to wear a brace to walk to hold my foot up if walking any distance otherwise I trip over it because I can’t life it up above horizontal and I can’t run because I’ve little function in the large muscle on the back of my leg. And that’s me like that for however many decades I have left to live.
All because I was a stupid prick like you thinking I was a hero getting the job done for people who quite frankly didn’t give a toss about the people working for them just as long as the job got done.
But at least you got to be a hero for all of 30 minutes to people you were delivering to who actually thought you were a bit of a bell end for turning up with a knackered strap. What a ■■■■.
Conor:
Congratulations you’re a hero, very well done have a cracker. I used to be one too but I can no longer do it after having the second spinal op for my third knackered disc in my spine which had bulged so much due to the wall of it collapsing after years of dragging stupidly heavy pallets around and handballing it stopped my left leg from working. 3 days before my birthday in August 2019 I was laid in an operating theatre with my back opened up as they ground away the bulge in my disc and ground out the spinal chord canal in the vertibrae both where that happened and the two discs below it which had been operated on years earlier due to doing the same stupid stuff. After the operation I have no use or feeling in my big toe, the top of my foot, half my shin and my thigh, I have to wear a brace to walk to hold my foot up if walking any distance otherwise I trip over it because I can’t life it up above horizontal and I can’t run because I’ve little function in the large muscle on the back of my leg. And that’s me like that for however many decades I have left to live.
All because I was a stupid prick like you thinking I was a hero getting the job done for people who quite frankly didn’t give a toss about the people working for them just as long as the job got done.
Notice all the big campaign against smoking but using people’s spines as forklifts is ok nothing said by the NHS when it suits the government.Have to save the cash for the bosses’ new Merc.
I was actually advised even worse risks associated with surgery on mine so I refused it.
Good call ( so far ) but it’s a time bomb waiting to ■■■■■■■ me at any time I’ve got left.
While ironically I was anything but a hero I was threatened with disciplinary hand ball artic loads or else with the union backing the firm.
cgscott:
Went to a job today. One of my worn slings broke when trying to lift a pallett off. Phoned yatd to explain was told to handball pallett of instead. Beimg the young fit year old guy i am i said no problem gaffer.
Took an extra half hour but its money in the bank.
Went back to yard and had new slings replaced.
Went on my merry journey again. Of yous want forklifts for every job there is the option of carrying one on the back end of truck. But yous are probably too thick or lazy to drive one.
Can you type that again in capitals, I can’t hear you down there in that van…
Oh and take your time, try not to look too lazy to punctuate or too thick to spell…
Carryfast:
The OP is a muppet for handballing the stuff.
Just like all the handball fans zbing up the job at the expense of someone else’s health
Says the man that was so much a yes man that he broke his own back complying with orders. Wonder who’s health YOU destroyed because of your willing compliance ?
Grumpy_old_trucker:
Epitomising everything that is wrong in this industry today!
Did you pin your gold star to your chest when you finished work?
Obviously taken switchlogic’s ‘can do attitude’ advice.
While switchlogic stands back shouting encouragement either while waiting for his truck to be recovered from a ditch, or waiting to recover himself from his latest crash.
Says the yes man who crippled himself listening to the bosses orders. My ‘can do’ has never led to my own health imploding, that was my driving
Carryfast:
I was actually advised even worse risks associated with surgery on mine so I refused it.
Both times I had mine operated on I was facing being paraplegic with the last time coming with the addition of colostomy bag and catheter due to where it was in my spine, just one disc higher than the last two but where it doesn’t just affect your legs. So I either came out the surgery cured or with what was going to happen in the very near future if I didn’t but either way I was getting rid of the pain.
When I had my last op everyone else in my ward was having the same operation, one guy was having it on a disc in his neck. He was a joiner and after the op he said it was the first time he’d had feeling in his hands for months. He was on his feet and going around like nothing had happened not even an hour after coming back on the ward and went home the following day like I did.
No idea when you last saw them about an operation but the difference there was between my last one 20 months ago and my first one 26 years ago was massive. There’s been a lot of progress over the years.
Seems a common thing.
I had a spinal fusion and discectomy with a bone graft from my hip in 2011 at the ripe age of 26.
It didn’t work and has pretty much ruined my life. Constant pain, no feeling or pins and needles in legs, arms, and hands. Frequent muscle spasms and paralysis.
But, I still work and don’t moan too much… ■■■■ happens, usually to me, but crack on with a smile.
Carryfast:
I was actually advised even worse risks associated with surgery on mine so I refused it.
Both times I had mine operated on I was facing being paraplegic with the last time coming with the addition of colostomy bag and catheter due to where it was in my spine, just one disc higher than the last two but where it doesn’t just affect your legs. So I either came out the surgery cured or with what was going to happen in the very near future if I didn’t but either way I was getting rid of the pain.
When I had my last op everyone else in my ward was having the same operation, one guy was having it on a disc in his neck. He was a joiner and after the op he said it was the first time he’d had feeling in his hands for months. He was on his feet and going around like nothing had happened not even an hour after coming back on the ward and went home the following day like I did.
No idea when you last saw them about an operation but the difference there was between my last one 20 months ago and my first one 26 years ago was massive. There’s been a lot of progress over the years.
It was around 1997-8 from memory from investigation to diagnosis and given the choice.
Calcification of the material adds the complication that instead of soft disc material interfering/potentially interfering with the cord and nerve roots its turned into nasty hard stuff like having teeth in there waiting to take a bite at it.I guess it’s a bit like some of the old shrapnel injuries where the risks of messing with it to remove it were as bad or too close to as bad as leaving well alone and taking your chances.
From the tone of it I think they were saying that if it does decide to go really pear shaped either naturally or by surgery it will do it in a big way and there’s not much if any difference in the respective risks either way.
But as time went on it’s rarely been anything like the level of pain or frequency of it that it was during the earlier years when it first became noticeable.That’s obviously relative.
Pancreatitis is the only thing I’ve had since which could match it and a bit more.
I think we’re doing a great service to others by pointing out the absolute stupidity of volunteering to manually handle truck loads.People way over estimate the strength of the materials that make up the spine and way underestimate the implications of the resulting potential injuries caused by single or ■■■■■■■■■■■ compressive loads on it.
With the insult of rarely if ever any way of proving causation for any claim against the employer’s insurance added to the injury.
Carryfast:
The OP is a muppet for handballing the stuff.
Just like all the handball fans zbing up the job at the expense of someone else’s health
Says the man that was so much a yes man that he broke his own back complying with orders. Wonder who’s health YOU destroyed because of your willing compliance ?
You seem to have missed refused to comply with the order.Suspended on disciplinary.‘Ordered’ back to work by the Union.You know the Union with full and exclusive responsibility and rights for bargaining with the employer on my behalf and with them on the employers’ side no possible claim for unfair dismissal and no benefits having made myself unemployed under disciplinary and a reference to match.
It’s obvious that with your privileged background in the industry you couldn’t understand that situation which I’ve described applied to anyone else.
Oh and the second time I again refused it this time to the end.Obviously resulting in a compromised union reaction because of the obvious conflict of interest in them having put me in that position.
To which your advice as usual is telling naive new drivers to volunteer to carry out such zb from the privileged position that it obviously won’t be you doing it.
As normal over the W/end a full set of ratchet straps had gone walkabouts , so I was told to take 12 straps / ratchets out of a bin , so being ■■■■■■ off I just chucked them in the side locker , so tues I’ve a load to strap up , chucks the straps over & fetches ratchets , tries first one , no chance seized , 2 nd one as bad , 3 rd , ZB me is this a ■■■■ take , no problem I’ll give them a spray with wd40 , opens locker , the wd40 is gone
Oh what I’d give for my own lorry , I’ve enough to take home without ratchets / wd40 etc
It’s my fault for not checking ratchets , but if they didn’t pinch anything that’s not bolted down at weekend I wouldn’t need to !!
Op has no excuse , just ■■■■ poor work ethic
dozy:
As normal over the W/end a full set of ratchet straps had gone walkabouts , so I was told to take 12 straps / ratchets out of a bin , so being ■■■■■■ off I just chucked them in the side locker , so tues I’ve a load to strap up , chucks the straps over & fetches ratchets , tries first one , no chance seized , 2 nd one as bad , 3 rd , ZB me is this a ■■■■ take , no problem I’ll give them a spray with wd40 , opens locker , the wd40 is gone
Oh what I’d give for my own lorry , I’ve enough to take home without ratchets / wd40 etc
It’s my fault for not checking ratchets , but if they didn’t pinch anything that’s not bolted down at weekend I wouldn’t need to !!
Op has no excuse , just ■■■■ poor work ethic
It’s not the OP’s ‘work ethic’ that provides and maintains the equipment he’s provided with it’s the boss.
While the OP’s ‘work ethic’ was obviously over enthusiastic enough to not tell the ‘boss’ in question I’m bringing it all back to collect some new lifting kit.No kit then it doesn’t get delivered.
Carryfast:
The OP is a muppet for handballing the stuff.
Just like all the handball fans zbing up the job at the expense of someone else’s health
Says the man that was so much a yes man that he broke his own back complying with orders. Wonder who’s health YOU destroyed because of your willing compliance ?
You seem to have missed refused to comply with the order.Suspended on disciplinary.‘Ordered’ back to work by the Union.You know the Union with full and exclusive responsibility and rights for bargaining with the employer on my behalf and with them on the employers’ side no possible claim for unfair dismissal and no benefits having made myself unemployed under disciplinary and a reference to match.
It’s obvious that with your privileged background in the industry you couldn’t understand that situation which I’ve described applied to anyone else.
Oh and the second time I again refused it this time to the end.Obviously resulting in a compromised union reaction because of the obvious conflict of interest in them having put me in that position.
To which your advice as usual is telling naive new drivers to volunteer to carry out such zb from the privileged position that it obviously won’t be you doing it.
Spin it how you want. You were a yes man who destroyed his own health in the process. That’s the long and short of it no matter how much you type
Carryfast:
It’s obvious that with your privileged background in the industry you couldn’t understand that situation which I’ve described applied to anyone else.
Yup, so privileged that unlike you I have been sacked.
switchlogic:
Yup, so privileged that unlike you I have been sacked.
If I’d have put a truck in a ditch working for UPS I would have been sacked with extreme prejudice.To the point of forget all about signing on and the question reason for leaving previous employment and provide contact details would have been a bit difficult.A bit like telling both the guvnor and the union to do one their legally binding collective work place agreement on my behalf doesn’t apply to me.
That’s privileged.
Carryfast:
The OP is a muppet for handballing the stuff.
Just like all the handball fans zbing up the job at the expense of someone else’s health
Says the man that was so much a yes man that he broke his own back complying with orders. Wonder who’s health YOU destroyed because of your willing compliance ?
You seem to have missed refused to comply with the order.Suspended on disciplinary.‘Ordered’ back to work by the Union.You know the Union with full and exclusive responsibility and rights for bargaining with the employer on my behalf and with them on the employers’ side no possible claim for unfair dismissal and no benefits having made myself unemployed under disciplinary and a reference to match.
It’s obvious that with your privileged background in the industry you couldn’t understand that situation which I’ve described applied to anyone else.
Oh and the second time I again refused it this time to the end.Obviously resulting in a compromised union reaction because of the obvious conflict of interest in them having put me in that position.
To which your advice as usual is telling naive new drivers to volunteer to carry out such zb from the privileged position that it obviously won’t be you doing it.
Obviously you ■■■■■■ off the union to the same extent that you ■■■■■■ off your employer and colleagues.
Why are you posting on a professional drivers’ forum, surely that’s misrepresentation.
switchlogic:
Yup, so privileged that unlike you I have been sacked.
If I’d have put a truck in a ditch working for UPS I would have been sacked with extreme prejudice.To the point of forget all about signing on and the question reason for leaving previous employment and provide contact details would have been a bit difficult.A bit like telling both the guvnor and the union to do one their legally binding collective work place agreement on my behalf doesn’t apply to me.
That’s privileged.
It’s so very clear that your experience of looking and applying for jobs is so minuscule it’s a bit hilarious.
I had a similar experience when doing tail lift pallet deliveries.
I was sent to collect two pallets of floor tiles being returned by a customer. When i arrived there was no one around to help push the pallets on to the tail lift, and i wasn’t about to do myself in trying by myself. A phonecall to the office and I was told to handball them. 2 1/2 hrs later the office called, “where are you for your second run?” handballing the 1st pallet was the answer. That’s one instruction that never got repeated.
That’s the way, beat the buggers at their own game. I’ve always had the attitude that if some berk gives you what you know is a stupid instruction, just do it (within reason, we don’t want to break our backs do we) and let them sort out the mess they’ve created.
