Extra hour of sleep tonight!

Yeah!!

Funny how changing to and from daylight savings time has never really mattered since it happens on the weekend. Well, let me tell you, this year its very important since we are working the week-end shift at Amazon. We work Friday through Monday. I will love getting that extra hour of sleep tonight.

I haven't written about some of the wonderful people we have met. I am very surprised to see so many women who are working and traveling alone. There is a woman who drives her own fifth wheel and one who drives a class b (looks a little like a van). One women who is in her 60's is driving a 30' class a with a tow dolly and car!!! There is a man working with us who is 84 years old and walks faster than I do!!!

The work here is very physical as I have said before. We start each day with a meeting and then we go through a series of stretching exercises. We also do the same after lunch. They are very safety conscious. We have to walk in what they call the 'green mile' since there are so many different motorized vehicles going around. In receiving, there are pallets of merchandise all over with 10 truck bays. Its been a long time since I visited Amazon.com. It's amazing some of the merchandise that we are seeing come through. They aren't just books and tapes any longer. Lots of toys, kitchen items, electronic items and a lot of apparel everything from underwear to coats!!

Our receiving line has 3 different conveyors. The middle is where we pull the boxes to scan into totes. The bottom is where our loaded totes are taken to someone who loads them onto pallets to be taken to the different areas for the stowers. The top one is where we put our empty boxes to go to this machine that crushes them and they come out looking like bales with wire around them. Really an amazing set up. Now that I have switched over to receiving, I'm liking it better (but not enough to do this again!!)