Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Went to work the new job last night. I got as dirty as home-made sin, but still enjoyed myself. It's a warehouse that holds stuff for new stores, fixtures, displays, shopping carts. I got to drive a pallet rider and will eventually get to drive a reach truck. We finished work in the first half of the night and then pretty much goofed off the second half. I guess that's why this job doesn't pay as well.
Of course, I'm getting skills. I could do this for six months and then go get a job that's willing to pay me better for those skills.
I'm still kind of sore this morning though. There was some manual labor. Of course, I haven't really done any manual labor in six months.
The craziest thing was stacking shopping carts. When we ran out of trucks to load, our boss said that me and another guy were to stack shopping carts. We take six CVS carts and then stand them up on end. Two stacks per pallet. We band them. (Banding is new to me as well.) We shrink wrap them. It took a couple of hours to do ten pallets.
The guy that I was working with asked me how Wal-mart did it. I said that we just pushed them on the truck, put a board on top of those, and then pushed a second layer onto the truck. He said that while a Wal-Mart will use that many carts, A CVS is more likely to have 12. I guess he has a point there. Of course, compared to the Wal-Mart carts, CVS carts are just so darned cute.
If you are at CVS and need a cart something is wrong. I will allow a basket. Unless you are one of those people that need something to lean on when they go around. Of course, in that case you should probably quit being so cheap and get a walker. If you need it at CVS, then you probably need it at other places as well.
I learned something new today. It's called "Rule 2520." It states that if you are going to day trade in stocks then you need to have $25,000 in your account. I tried day trading for a couple of days, and today I was notified of "Rule 2520." If I can not meet the minimum requirements of $25,000 then I will lose my margin privileges and may even not be allowed to make any trades at all. Oh well, I'll have to see what happens. Until then, I think that I might buy Dell.
Of course, I'm getting skills. I could do this for six months and then go get a job that's willing to pay me better for those skills.
I'm still kind of sore this morning though. There was some manual labor. Of course, I haven't really done any manual labor in six months.
The craziest thing was stacking shopping carts. When we ran out of trucks to load, our boss said that me and another guy were to stack shopping carts. We take six CVS carts and then stand them up on end. Two stacks per pallet. We band them. (Banding is new to me as well.) We shrink wrap them. It took a couple of hours to do ten pallets.
The guy that I was working with asked me how Wal-mart did it. I said that we just pushed them on the truck, put a board on top of those, and then pushed a second layer onto the truck. He said that while a Wal-Mart will use that many carts, A CVS is more likely to have 12. I guess he has a point there. Of course, compared to the Wal-Mart carts, CVS carts are just so darned cute.
If you are at CVS and need a cart something is wrong. I will allow a basket. Unless you are one of those people that need something to lean on when they go around. Of course, in that case you should probably quit being so cheap and get a walker. If you need it at CVS, then you probably need it at other places as well.
I learned something new today. It's called "Rule 2520." It states that if you are going to day trade in stocks then you need to have $25,000 in your account. I tried day trading for a couple of days, and today I was notified of "Rule 2520." If I can not meet the minimum requirements of $25,000 then I will lose my margin privileges and may even not be allowed to make any trades at all. Oh well, I'll have to see what happens. Until then, I think that I might buy Dell.
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