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The forklift guy at my warehouse in Reno quit, and his replacement cut our loading time in half
The old guy drove like he was in slow motion, two pallets an hour, and everyone just accepted it. New kid Marcus came in, watched the dock layout for a day, then started staging loads on the far side so he never had to back up twice. Nobody expected it, but our 4pm trucks started leaving 30 minutes early. Has anyone else seen a job that looks like just driving around turn into the most important slot on the floor?
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uma_lopez6d ago
Oh man this is so real. I used to work at a place where the guy who ran the box baler was treated like a nobody, and then he retired and stuff just piled up everywhere because nobody knew which cardboard could get recycled and which couldn't. Took them three months and two new hires to figure out that his "standing around" was actually him sorting and flattening so the truck could take it all in one go. The quiet jobs are always the ones holding everything together and nobody sees it until it breaks. Marcus sounds like a smart kid for watching the layout first instead of just copying what the old guy did. Half the time the "lazy" person is just doing a job that got stale years ago and nobody bothered to ask why.
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