Getting a warehouse job.

[Krasnyy]

Any actual blue-collar workers on here?

I am currently working as a drive-thru cashier/presenter at Burger King (hate it, hate it, I would commit suicide if I had to work here forever).

I'm thinking about getting a blue-collar job, specifically as a warehouse worker. Because those jobs probably have the least customer interaction. I'm sure most of my co-workers might be shmucks, but I think it beats random and spontaneous amounts of customers everyday.

So for all the warehouse workers on here, how is your job?

On a side note. I'm scronny and short in real life, but I'm sure the roughness will rub off on me eventually. And as much as I would love to be in the comforting environment of a white-collar job, I sadly have no college or high school degree, so that's out of the question.

Also, I'm 18 years old (19 in one month), if that helps.

[Ele'ill]

All my warehouse jobs have been brutal but I would take them over fastfood.

[Krasnyy]

All my warehouse jobs have been brutal but I would take them over fastfood.

What type of people do you work with?
What are your managers like?
Are social issues (i.e. Sexism, Racism, Homophobia) common?


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[Sinister Intents]

Why not a construction job Krasnyy? The work is often good, and I recomend concrete work if you can

[Krasnyy]

Why not a construction job Krasnyy? The work is often good, and I recomend concrete work if you can

Sorry, my body just isn't fit for the hot sun, let alone hard labor in the hot sun. Couldn't do it.

If I'm doing hard-labor or blue-collar work it has to be in an air-conditioned environment.



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[Ele'ill]

What type of people do you work with?

People from all kinds of backgrounds



What are your managers like?Scum



Are social issues (i.e. Sexism, Racism, Homophobia) common?Yes


Although at a previous job I presented as female and while folks weren't exactly understanding they didn't simply ignore me. They weren't afraid to hunt me down for 5-10 minutes to grab me for a smoke/talk break and stuff. It was a rarity though.

[Krasnyy]

People from all kinds of backgrounds

Scum

Yes
Figures. I stand up for the working class, but it is a fact that on average the working class is socially reactionary.

But money is money.




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[Ethics Gradient, Traitor For All Ages]

uhh..warehouses are generally not air conditioned.

[#FF0000]

Most warehouses have openings mainly for temp workers.

So you need to find a temp agency in your area.

[Krasnyy]

uhh..warehouses are generally not air conditioned.

That maybe, but they are usually windowless. Where I live and in this season, the sun is usually out but the weather and air feels cool. But it doesn't make a difference when your job has windows all over the place, thus glare from the sun through window gets in and burns you.


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[Ethics Gradient, Traitor For All Ages]

Dude you have no idea how awful working in a warehouse is and its definitely not just the labor or the managers that make it that way haha. You don't need a degree to get a shitty white collar temp job, you just need basic computer/speaking skills. Have you checked out a temp agency?

[Rusty Shackleford]

I worked warehouse for two years, it wasn't super bad because it gets you in shape, but other than that, it also destroys your body and at least with me, I started getting bored... same thing every day, every week, every month.

PROTIP: dont try lifting more than you think you can handle, dont over work yourself, and dont get ballsy and try running under reach lifts that have 1.5 ton pallets of food two stories up.

warehouse jobs do one thing though, you become sort of indifferent to the idea of working 10 hours straight, and 14 hours can almost seem like a bit of a challenge, but 8 hours is magical by comparison.


also, if you can, aboid temp agencies, it will mean shit hours and inconsistency. try first to apply directly to the company that is operating the warehouse.

some food distributors include: US Food Service, Safeway, UNFI, Raleys, Savemart. Depends on what region you are in, but UNFI is national, for sure. They have DCs that are within roughly 200-500 miles of each other in the most dense spots.

[BIXX]

That maybe, but they are usually windowless. Where I live and in this season, the sun is usually out but the weather and air feels cool. But it doesn't make a difference when your job has windows all over the place, thus glare from the sun through window gets in and burns you.


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I'm gonna assume you don't have some disorder or disease or whatever that makes you extra sensitive to sunburns, and say that maybe you should (if this is such a huge issue for you) get an office job. My mom didn't graduate from high school and she's had a bunch of office jobs.

Also, "actual working class"? An office job is an "actual" working class job.

[Krasnyy]

I worked warehouse for two years, it wasn't super bad because it gets you in shape, but other than that, it also destroys your body and at least with me, I started getting bored... same thing every day, every week, every month.

Complaining about boredom on an anti-capitalist/anti-liberal website?
I'm concerned with payment (for vital essential things and not consumerist purposes of course) not enjoyment.



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[Krasnyy]

I'm gonna assume you don't have some disorder or disease or whatever that makes you extra sensitive to sunburns, and say that maybe you should (if this is such a huge issue for you) get an office job. My mom didn't graduate from high school and she's had a bunch of office jobs.

Also, "actual working class"? An office job is an "actual" working class job.
I guess I'll look into getting an office job (near my house of course)

And I said "actual blue-collar", blue-collar as in manual labor job. I don't use the term "working class", because by definition everyone with a job is working.


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[Rusty Shackleford]

Complaining about boredom on an anti-capitalist/anti-liberal website?
I'm concerned with payment not enjoyment.



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I dont think you get what I mean. A lot of my co-workers develop tricks to keep themselves from losing their minds from being a literal appendage to a pallet jack or reach lift and barely being stimulated mentally. The pay is usually decent compared to minimum wage but yeah.

[Psycho P and the Freight Train]

I'm gonna assume you don't have some disorder or disease or whatever that makes you extra sensitive to sunburns, and say that maybe you should (if this is such a huge issue for you) get an office job. My mom didn't graduate from high school and she's had a bunch of office jobs.

Also, "actual working class"? An office job is an "actual" working class job.

Hey, what kind of office jobs are easy to get? I've tried to research this stuff, but Google always fucking fails me lol.

I don't have any degree or anything and have no computer skills. I mean I'm not an idiot or anything like only using internet explorer or something. But I can type fairly quickly and am good with people. No past experience.

[Ethics Gradient, Traitor For All Ages]

data entry, call center, mail room, etc.

[BIXX]

And I said "actual blue-collar", blue-collar as in manual labor job. I don't use the term "working class", because by definition everyone with a job is working.


My bad, by the time I got to the bottom of the thread I must have incorrectly remembered what you said.

Call centers are (according to what I've heard- never tried for them) some of the easiest office jobs to get. But you may have to go through a temp agency.

[#FF0000]

Complaining about boredom on an anti-capitalist/anti-liberal website?
I'm concerned with payment (for vital essential things and not consumerist purposes of course) not enjoyment.

Boredom is counter revolutionary and being a communist doesn't mean being an ascetic

[Sperm-Doll Setsuna]

Boredom is counter revolutionary and being a communist doesn't mean being an ascetic

From laziness is born the wheels of progress on which to roll without the churning mundanity of work. (That is to say, ye revolution.)

[The Garbage Disposal Unit]

I worked backshift (11PM-7AM) at a grocery store - not a warehouse, but a similar deal (unload pallets, move boxes, play with dollies and boxcutters). The big thing about the work is that it was outcomes based, as opposed to customer service (where it's just like, "key, the clock says 5 - I'm done!"), so it made slacking harder. We were also brutally understaffed, so there was almost always an hour (or several) of overtime - which was great for the pocketbook, but thoroughly unpleasant.

[Krasnyy]

I'll give it a shot for 1 month, but I'm just getting sick of customer service.

I'm also glad to know there is real blue-collar workers on this site and not just rebellious teens/college students.


EDIT: just turned in a job application for a nearby department store, and applied to be a stocker.
We'll see how that goes.

[Rusty Shackleford]

Give it more than a month. You won't get used to it until you've been doing it for roughly 90 days, which might be your probationary period anyway for stuff like benefits if you get picked up as a full time company employee and not a temp.

[Crabbensmasher]

I've worked with people who used to work in call centres. Lots of mixed reviews. A lot of people like it, but apparently they're notorious for cutting hours without notice and crap like that. AND the people I talked to were working in fast food with me at the time, so that may say something