Friday, April 5, 2024

My Last Pallet

Part of my job for the past 16 years is building and wrapping pallets of freight.  Today, I wrapped my last claims pallet.  And it was both a relief and sadness.  

When customers return stuff to their local BigBoxStore, it was my job to box up those items, and ship them back to the vendors.  We send them on pallets to the return center.  My pallets have always been stacked and packed nearly perfectly.  They are high, tight and squared up.  I joke around, saying I get paid to play Tetris with boxes, and yes thats how it is most of the time!

Now that I've decided to step down, change jobs, its going to be very weird doing things different - hard to change 16 year old habits!!  We will see how this goes ... no more worries about coverage, getting all the tasks done, and the other little stresses that have been adding up.  

Good time to start looking toward retirement!!


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