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I don’t miss the tube days. I still remember the day Sony’s new 36” flat screen tv’s came in and I had to unload a semi trailer full of them alone. Each one weighed 276 pounds.
dept manager wanted those to go on the top rack in the warehouse because they weren't sold as often.
we told them that someone will get hurt when they have to pull one alone, which was common. they said they didn't care and to "figure it out".
three weeks and five broken TVs later the store manager asked why these items were so high on shrink reports. we explained to him what had happened. within the hour they were all moved to the bottom and the 13 inch TVs were moved to the top. he even helped us move them.
for those three weeks whenever I would inevitably need to grab one, alone, I would just climb up and push it off the top rack. where it would fall the 20ish feet to the concrete floor and explode inside the box. I'd explain to the customer that I just broke the last one we had(lie) and to go buy it from our competition.
the dept manager was written up for creating a hazardous working environment and eventually quit after some other idiotic choices.