2 shootings in Rochester- Amazon & Wegmans

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I might know why.

I worked at that Wegmans warehouse for a bit. I busted my ass stacking boxes on pallets for 8 hours a day, making $10/hr. Meanwhile, three senior guys stood at the end of the line shooting the shit. When my pallet was full, one of them would hop on a ride-on pallet jack, lift my pallet, load it onto a truck, and go back to shooting the shit. They were all paid $30+/hr.

At the end of the week, I was required to fork over a portion of my paycheck to the union that caused this system to come about.
 
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Meanwhile on Thurston Ave. less than a mile from Wegmans warehouse is a tent set up on the grass between the curb and sidewalk. Every afternoon and evening the area host a bunch of people just hang, smoking and drinking and LOTS of drug activity and the city does NOTHING! They cross the street to a store and carry back empty plastic soda cases and sit on them. Yesterday they had a grille and tables set up blocking the sidewalk. I've lived here for 36 years and never seen anything like this before. Guess it's past time to leave, but I'll have to wait till winter to sell!
 
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OwnTheRide said:
I might know why.

I worked at that Wegmans warehouse for a bit. I busted my ass stacking boxes on pallets for 8 hours a day, making $10/hr. Meanwhile, three senior guys stood at the end of the line shooting the shit. When my pallet was full, one of them would hop on a ride-on pallet jack, lift my pallet, load it onto a truck, and go back to shooting the shit. They were all paid $30+/hr.

At the end of the week, I was required to fork over a portion of my paycheck to the union that caused this system to come about.
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A friend of mine hauled a load of shrimp into that warehouse. I was out of work so he said he could throw me some money. Must of been a few thousand boxes of shrimp all different sizes. ( maybe 5-10 pound boxes )Nothing on a pallet. .. I would stack a pallet and have to wait for an employee to pull it off the truck. Workers on the dock were pissed at me because many workers came in from a different Wegmans and were making time and a half... I was costing them overtime pay. ... I was not allowed to use the hand truck. Stood there like 20 minutes trying to get a pallet unloaded... What a cluster fuck. I did not make much money on that day either
 
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livingston said:
A friend of mine hauled a load of shrimp into that warehouse. I was out of work so he said he could throw me some money. Must of been a few thousand boxes of shrimp all different sizes. ( maybe 5-10 pound boxes )Nothing on a pallet. .. I would stack a pallet and have to wait for an employee to pull it off the truck. Workers on the dock were pissed at me because many workers came in from a different Wegmans and were making time and a half... I was costing them overtime pay. ... I was not allowed to use the hand truck. Stood there like 20 minutes trying to get a pallet unloaded... What a cluster fuck. I did not make much money on that day either
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Welcome to the wonderful world of LUMPERS!
I've delivered there a few times and hated all of them, dock workers would come in a few hours early and charge $300 to unload a partial trailer, don't like it? Then don't pay it, pallets will be dropped ON the dock (not in trl) and you carry each and every box out and stack PROPERLY on a pallet. Get one done and wait for the union asshole on a fork truck to take it away and bring another. NOPE, NOT ME!
 
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repete said:
Welcome to the wonderful world of LUMPERS!
I've delivered there a few times and hated all of them, dock workers would come in a few hours early and charge $300 to unload a partial trailer, don't like it? Then don't pay it, pallets will be dropped ON the dock (not in trl) and you carry each and every box out and stack PROPERLY on a pallet. Get one done and wait for the union asshole on a fork truck to take it away and bring another. NOPE, NOT ME!
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Is this why my groceries are so expensive? Jerks.
 
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