You'd be surprised at the amount of people who appear rather muscular that struggle with 10KG+. I've lost count of them now, but I refer to them as "dignity weights"
o).My boss asked me to help in the warehouse tomorrow and I said "no way", was I right?
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You'd be surprised at the amount of people who appear rather muscular that struggle with 10KG+. I've lost count of them now, but I refer to them as "dignity weights"
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You lot are being a tad harsh on him (mods included - blimey I won't be working for ocuk any time soon.)
If he wanted to do lifting then he would be working down at a warehouse or in a supermarket stocking the shelves.
He has been employed as an IT worker for christ sake.
apatia77 if the work is slow in the job then it is time to start looking else where way before your manager has to start asking you to help out in the warehouse.
How long you been with them?
If he wanted to do lifting then he would be working down at a warehouse or in a supermarket stocking the shelves.
He has been employed as an IT worker for christ sake.
apatia77 if the work is slow in the job then it is time to start looking else where way before your manager has to start asking you to help out in the warehouse.
How long you been with them?
You'd be surprised at the amount of people who appear rather muscular that struggle with 10KG+. I've lost count of them now, but I refer to them as "dignity weights"
I train with 8kg's per arm
.I was going to post a nice comment about the OP, but instead, your post has kind of ****ed me off!
Helping out in other areas of work has nothing to do with being a do gooder. Have you ever worked in a job where there is bugger all to do? I have, and several of them. There is nothing worse than sitting around twiddling your thumbs trying to look busy and only complete retards are happy to do so.
I've done all sorts of work, software development, production line, despatch and warehouse management etc. As nice as it is sitting on your ass all day working there is something to be said for doing a proper hard days graft. As for your 'spine' comment, saying yes is hardly spineless, offering to do some hard work for a change, facing a new challenge isn't spineless.
I do understand you feeling calling the OP names wrong, it is, the decision is his and we shouldn't judge him on it. Personally, I would do it.
I train with 8kgs per arm
Hopefully your excuse is that you've just started.
Unofficially, almost all of it is ignored because we're not mindless drones. We're quite capable of assessing whether or not a genuine risk is involved. In some cases it is, and employees use the provided protective equipment. We have goggles, gloves, suits, steel-reinforced boots...whatever is actually needed. It's not like we're oppressed workers risking life and limb to get a few quid more profit for the employer.
There's a huge gap between what happens during an audit/inspection, what we pretend happens every day and what actually happens on a day to day basis. That goes for health and safety, security, everything. The official security procedures are even funnier - if followed, they make it genuinely impossible to work. I've no idea who made them up, but it's clear they haven't been at the working end of things. I'm not saying they would make it inconvenient to do the job - that's to be expected from security procedures. I'm saying they would make it actually impossible to do the job.
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Couple of hours and 10KG boxes? I would have said "sure np".
the manual handling course is for any weight, it basically just highlights the correct and incorrect way to lift an object, something many people don't know and can end up causing them long term inuury especially if they're lifting incorrectly quite often
If you hurt yourself lifting 10KG though, there's definitely something wrong there.
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When I was at Creda/Hotpoint I was taken on as a Quality Audit Technician making sure the products met a certain standard.
The bosses kept a massive spreadsheet of 'skilled' people against the 'skilled' jobs on the factory and I was right at the very top with all cells filled in green.
Every now & then a manager would walk in the lab and say that a certain assembly line needed help for a couple of hours and my hand would be straight up without asking what I would be doing.
It wasn't that I was a brown nose but that a change is as good as a rest.
In my last job I could do everybody elses jobs because when the opportunity arose I'd help out.
I'll also add that just because you are willing to help out everywhere it doesn't mean that your bosses will keep you when the knife chops.
Managers will always have favourites and will also read deeply into contracts.
Fact -
When Indesit/Ariston/Creda/Hotpoint was closing down all the old workers thought they would be safe from going earlier than all the temp Polish workers.
WRONG.
The people who were kept on were those that knew more jobs and not one they had done for 25 years.
The bosses kept a massive spreadsheet of 'skilled' people against the 'skilled' jobs on the factory and I was right at the very top with all cells filled in green.
Every now & then a manager would walk in the lab and say that a certain assembly line needed help for a couple of hours and my hand would be straight up without asking what I would be doing.
It wasn't that I was a brown nose but that a change is as good as a rest.
In my last job I could do everybody elses jobs because when the opportunity arose I'd help out.
I'll also add that just because you are willing to help out everywhere it doesn't mean that your bosses will keep you when the knife chops.
Managers will always have favourites and will also read deeply into contracts.
Fact -
When Indesit/Ariston/Creda/Hotpoint was closing down all the old workers thought they would be safe from going earlier than all the temp Polish workers.
WRONG.
The people who were kept on were those that knew more jobs and not one they had done for 25 years.
If I was OP I would just do as your asked.
People who behave like this usually end up without a job in the long run... for example, boss wants to save abit of money and let some people go, do you keep the whingers or the people who get on with the job and don't whine.
I know who I'd keep
Jobs are hard to come by these days, 10KG is nothing, I work in IT and lift up to around 40-50KG often... I don't refuse as I know where my paycheck is coming from
Employers love people who get on with the job in hand, that job whatever your position is to make the company work smoothly and make money...anything you can do to help will be noticed in the long run. Those who don't 'muck in' will be paid poorly and be first out the door!
People who behave like this usually end up without a job in the long run... for example, boss wants to save abit of money and let some people go, do you keep the whingers or the people who get on with the job and don't whine.
I know who I'd keep
Jobs are hard to come by these days, 10KG is nothing, I work in IT and lift up to around 40-50KG often... I don't refuse as I know where my paycheck is coming from
Employers love people who get on with the job in hand, that job whatever your position is to make the company work smoothly and make money...anything you can do to help will be noticed in the long run. Those who don't 'muck in' will be paid poorly and be first out the door!
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Can I ask if this is a joke thread ?
People like you in the work place make me sick . I manage over 100 people at my company , some directly and some indirectly. Out of the 20 or so I directly manage guess who puts themselves first in line for redundancy when it comes up? Guess who gets put straight to the bottom of the promotion ladder when opportunities arise ? Guess whos hours and lunch breaks get closely monitored more than others and pay docked if they don't complete the hours they are mention to work ?
You want to work to rule that your shout but as others have said make sure your CV is unto date as your gonna be moving around with an attitude like that , oh and for the record I was unblocking the mens toilets at 1am this morning .
People like you in the work place make me sick . I manage over 100 people at my company , some directly and some indirectly. Out of the 20 or so I directly manage guess who puts themselves first in line for redundancy when it comes up? Guess who gets put straight to the bottom of the promotion ladder when opportunities arise ? Guess whos hours and lunch breaks get closely monitored more than others and pay docked if they don't complete the hours they are mention to work ?
You want to work to rule that your shout but as others have said make sure your CV is unto date as your gonna be moving around with an attitude like that , oh and for the record I was unblocking the mens toilets at 1am this morning .
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Unlike near everyone in this thread, I understand where you're coming from. If you had wanted a job filled with manual labour, you would have chosen one instead of a desk job. As it is, you don't mind doing other tasks unless they're at the complete opposite of your job description.
I love the people saying "Oh, that's nothing, try carrying x amount of pounds all day long". Guess what, you chose to do that as a job, OP did not so it has no relevance.
However, I still would have said yes just to help out but if it became a regular/frequent occurrence, then I would mention something.
I love the people saying "Oh, that's nothing, try carrying x amount of pounds all day long". Guess what, you chose to do that as a job, OP did not so it has no relevance.
However, I still would have said yes just to help out but if it became a regular/frequent occurrence, then I would mention something.
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It's a couple of hours, not a job full of manual handling.
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It's a couple of hours now yes, however, the OP mentioned he was worried that they would drag him in there frequently if he said yes as that area is usually understaffed.
Is also why I said I personally would have done it, but once it become a frequent occurrence, I would mention something.
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Welcome to my job haha
It's all down to safety phrases and codes. Example, Mr Muscle might be fine because it doesn't contain a carcinogen but Pledge might not be the same. The example you use is very extreme, so I see where you are coming from. It's not just chemical incompatibility you have to take in to account, but also storage and first aid requirements.. you might have to induce vomiting with Pledge, and not with Mr Muscle.. so then you go down the road of re-training because you changed brand. Likewise, it might not be safe next to other spray cans because it's extremely flammable etc etc
As someone put above.. the way society is, you'll get sued if you don't take this in to account.
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