My boss asked me to help in the warehouse tomorrow and I said "no way", was I right?

Moses99p said:
I'd've agreed to do it - 10kg boxes aren't heavy, it'd get me out of the office and win me brownie points with the boss.
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yea anyone can lift 10kg....

even if you have almost no muscles you would be able to lift a 10kg dumbell so lifting a 10kg box with both hands?

i bet it doesnt take anywhere near aslong as you reckon either surely everything is on pallets? and those trolley jack pallete things are dead easy to use
 
dmpoole said:
As much as I disliked the Italians for ruining Creda/Hotpoint, I'll never forget the day when the boss was actually on an assembly line helping to build the cookers himself.
A few months later at dinnertime, he would march around 20 suits out of the offices down to packing where they would pack cookers for 30 minutes.
It was quite funny to see around 200 workers watching them for entertainment value.
After a year it was normal to see a suit come out of the office and asked to work on the assembly lines.
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We had this at my last place with an operations manager, everyone used to praise him, when in reality he just wasn't managing his staff well enough, they were understaffed.
 
Today lifting boxes tomorrow something else & before you know it.....

Maybe just me but I have noticed over the last say 5 years is employers wanting more & more from employee's, things I have had to deal with & witnessed happening to others just for the sake of trying to keep your job and it rarely ends good.

I not so long ago left a job after basically working years of 70+ hour weeks of what allot of people would class as a hard manual job & it affected my health in a big way yet it only started becoming to much after people started doing that bit more & more, over time it became to be expected & forced on you.

Luckily I managed to find another job but it still annoys me that they treated me & others so badly and seem get away with it.

he's sitting doing nothing and getting paid
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Why should you do anything other than what you are being paid to do?
the only time you should feel like you have to say yes if its something your not comfortable doing is for brownie points if your wanting to move up as you dont want to do what you do, but not be made to feel that your job maybe on the line despite you accually doing your job.

If they think your paid for doing nothing then why dont they tell you your role needs to change or make you redundant.

Believe it or not some people myself included just want to do a decent days work in the job they have chosen & provide for their family, not think I wonder what I have to go through tommorow just to get paid what was agreed the job entails.
 
DAvE18 said:
In my opinion its nowhere near different hes there to work in IT not be a warehouse lacky lifting heavy boxes. The guy could have a dodgy back or not be healthy for all we know. Even IF he is perfectly healthy I wouldnt be doing it. Its a totally different job end of.

Its no different to asking him to clean the place as he is not a cleaner.
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Stupid comments. Does that mean you wouldn't wouldn't put the kettle on because your job description doesn't say "tea lady"?
 
Tim said:
Thing is, by mucking in, you're just getting the poor management out of the ****. Let the job fail, then maybe management will learn to be less ****?
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This. In an old job I had, I moved from warehouse to transport office, and wouldn't think twice about jumping on a truck or helping unload a container manually , as it was a good bunch of people and we would all chip in . Especially in warehousing when containers tend to turn up all at once rather then when they are booked.

That said, if I'm in a job where if feel people don't 'have my back' then they don't get the same level of enthusiasm in return!

I don't think anyone's debating that lugging boxes is easy/hard. .
 
Andr3w said:
I would have just done it, be a team player etc etc.

People who are all 'NOPE NOT DOING THAT, NOT IN MY CONTRACT SO DO IT YOURSELF AND STRUGGLE' really annoy me.
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There is a considerable difference between asking someone employed as a coder to draft some presentations and them refusing and asking someone employed as a computer operator to spend the day doing manual labour though...

Everyone would draw the line somewhere, it just depends where. I'm sure you wouldn't spend a day at work cleaning out all the toilets because the cleaner was ill, or would you, because you're a team player?

There is a difference between being helpful and a team player and being taken advantage of and treated like a doormat.
 
I do wonder what goes through some employees minds these days.
You're bored
You have no work

So what's the boss paying you for? to sit on your fat ass?

Get the lorry unloaded and maybe the business will start going somewhere and you'll have something to do!


As for
Manual handling courses and 10kg being heavy.. LOLOLOL get a grip

(mutters.... "****ing students.....")
 
Scubascorpion said:
As for
Manual handling courses and 10kg being heavy.. LOLOLOL get a grip

(mutters.... "****ing students.....")
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something doesn't have to be heavy to cause an injury, that's something the manual handling course will try to drum into people, it's all about technique and it's suprising how many people don't know the correct way to lift somthing
 
JBuk said:
something doesn't have to be heavy to cause an injury, that's something the manual handling course will try to drum into people, it's all about technique and it's suprising how many people don't know the correct way to lift somthing
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Agree with that you can lift some thing pretty light and manage to do your back, gotta admit i work in a warehouse and i tend not to do it right :x
 
Depends, i used to work for currys and i was employed as a salesman, i was asked to do warehouse a few times because of short staff, i was happy to do it. But i wasn't lifting heavy boxes, so you're well within your right to say no.
 
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