It was an attempt at a joke about UPS smashing shit, but it got muddled because (also having been a sorter) I couldn't commit to the bit. For anyone reading who's not in the know: in reality the actual humans working at hubs are very gentle considering how fast the workflow is (ngl I still threw boxes, but carefully), they do repackage whatever they can, and any damage that happens can pretty much always be chalked up to the 3000 miles of road, flight, and especially conveyor belt that the box goes through rather than the 5 feet of being carried.
Its still funny to pretend we just dropkick it from one end of the building to the other because union rules say no bending over
At Amazon every box we touched we threw not gently. When you flagged a package as damaged you could choose unsalvageable or salvageable (which let's u choose donate or destroy) but wed only mark tape jobs as salvageable.
It was an attempt at a joke about UPS smashing shit, but it got muddled because (also having been a sorter) I couldn't commit to the bit. For anyone reading who's not in the know: in reality the actual humans working at hubs are very gentle considering how fast the workflow is (ngl I still threw boxes, but carefully), they do repackage whatever they can, and any damage that happens can pretty much always be chalked up to the 3000 miles of road, flight, and especially conveyor belt that the box goes through rather than the 5 feet of being carried.
Its still funny to pretend we just dropkick it from one end of the building to the other because union rules say no bending over
At Amazon every box we touched we threw not gently. When you flagged a package as damaged you could choose unsalvageable or salvageable (which let's u choose donate or destroy) but wed only mark tape jobs as salvageable.