Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
We are still at it in Coffeyville.....aka..... Amazon.com..... it is hard work and many mornings on our way out the door of the plant at 5AM...we say we are not coming back but after a few hours of sleep and sitting with our feet up we are ready to go back to get the day or night over with! The work is hard but it seems to be getting easier for us to do the work. We are still in receiving and Amazon is still getting merchandise to send to you! It is amazing what all they have and sell .... I had no idea ..you could buy a ream of paper or Rubbermaid kitchen containers at Amazon.com when you can go to Walmart or the Dollar store and get the same thing! Also.... used books from different places like libraries or Goodwill or garage sales! :) haha!!! we have checked in thousands of boxes of new and used books,tapes,cd's and all the electronic games you could think of......
We are working 11 hr. shifts now so we go to work Friday through Monday night from 5:30 PM to 5AM...although we received a call last night that we will go back to 10 hr. shifts beginning Friday night so we will be getting off at 4 instead of 5.....
we usually come home and get to bed by 5:30 and get up around noon..... I feel guilty sleeping past noon but we eat lunch and then take a nap in the afternoon to get rested up for the night..... it's kind of funny because we don't really get tired as such during the night until around 4ish then we "hit a wall' and are so tired and ready to finish the job. We only have about 16 working days left unless we work overtime again which we did last Tuesday...so that made us working a 55 hr. week....
The week of the 11th my sister and brother-in-law came to visit us and were here for 2 1/2 days. We had nice visit and enjoyed having them around. We went to the "Dalton Defender Museum" here. Sandra and I like to go to museum's so we really enjoyed it. They promote the Defenders of the Dalton gang....The Dalton gang robbed 2 banks at one time here in Coffeyville on Oct. 5, 1892..... 4 of the 5 were shot and killed....the last brother was shot but served prison time in California. They have life size photos of the "gang" laid out on the street..... BUT the town emphasizes the defenders or the townsmen who shot them....they do not want to promote that crime pays..... my way of thinking is that without the Dalton gang doing what they did they wouldn't have the "fame of the museum"...... ?????? You decide! :)
We haven't done much in the past few weeks except working and sleeping and eating.... and of course trips to Walmart! We did go to Topeka for the day last week as I had a dentist appt. in the morning and a hair appt.in the afternoon...then we came back to Coffeyville..... we do not like driving in the dark and it was almost 7 by the time we got home. We had lunch with Megan which was great.....
We got up and around yesterday morning and talked about going to the laundrymat but our neighbors were moving to another campground something that has full hookups and 50amp instead of the 30 amp we had at Walter Johnson overflow. We decided to move too as they had spaces open...... so we did laundry and then went back to get things ready to move.We are now at Heritage park. It is quiet here but we lost our "scenery" of watching the highway traffic! We will have sewer now which will be better when it gets colder we can dump water when we need to. Also no more laundrymat! Yea!!!!!
We moved over here around 3:30 and I cleaned and got things put back out and also our 1 tub of Christmas stuff ..... so we have our Christmas tree up!.... but when I plugged it in...the bulb broke so we have to get a new bulb for it.
Today we and about 25 other couples went to a restaurant for our Thanksgiving dinner.... which was nice but we didn't get to visit a long time as they closed at 2 and some had to go back to get ready to go to work.... never enough time to visit....
We sat with Dennie and Karen, Ralph and Lorna and Jim and Bobbie. Bill and I had read Bobbie's blog for about 2 years and they are working here...so it has been great getting to meet someone we ready daily! :) Bobbie and Jim are very active in Escapees so we can find out more info. about that since we joined Escapees in Sept.
Well, that is about it for this Thanksgiving...... it was quiet and pretty laid back this year...not sure what next year will bring! I thought about 2 years ago when we were moving some things to Topeka and Lawrence and Megan and Jeff came to help. We loaded an enclosed trailer to take some things to storage on Wed. and also some things on Thanksgiving morning..... I had made 3 pies on Wed. morning before the kids got home. We had decided to have our Thanksgiving on Friday afternoon with Erin's family..... in the hustle and bustle of packing the trailer and hustling around to leave we didn't realize we had left the pies in Stockton until that Friday evening..... also we had ham Jeff,Megan,Bill and I had ham sandwiches for Thanksgiving dinner that year! How funny to look back on that!
Have a Happy Thanksgiving--- we are so blessed to have so many good friends and family all over the country and count each of you who read this as a blessing !
Until next time!
BJ
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Our first week of working
We finished our first week of working and only have about 6 1/2 weeks to go until we are finished! Yes, my feet hurt or ached at the end of each shift but by the time I got up the next day they had stopped aching. We were both glad to see Monday night or Tuesday am arrive! We even celebrated by going to eat a donut at 4 AM with Dennie and Karen! Then we went home and went to bed!
Tuesday I really felt for quite a while like a Mac truck had ran over me and forgot to tell me about it! But after moving around the day got better...we fixed some fish for dinner and had Dennie and Karen come over...we were all so tried the evening was short!
We stayed the 3 nights in receiving and we are happen about that...we hope to stay there...... we both have finally gotten the hang of it and like that area and want to stay ...whether they will let us or not is in the air yet Iguess..... we have heard beginning on Sunday night we are to work 11 hours daily...we will see how we handle that!
Wednesday morning, we were up and around early as we decided to go to Chanute because Dennie and Karen wanted to go through the Hitchhiker RV plant. It was a small tour and Bill and I could really tell the difference in a Newmar product and the Hitchhiker..... Just the level of quality was evident for sure! We stopped at Walmart. We drove downtown to a restaurant called Main Street Restaurant...it was very good and we had a great meal. It was in an old hotel/...the hotel had 6 stories and was in an old old building. The downtown was really pretty neat area with lots of old buildings but many were also empty..something we have found very common in this area of the state....
Early evening we decided to have some ice cream so we went to Braum's and had an ice cream.
This morning we got up and did our laundry at the laundrymat. There were 2 other couples there that were also Amazon people and we had a nice visit with them finding out different places they had been and what they are doing at Amazon now....we are all in the same boat.... working to make money and then taking some time off!
I have some ironing to do and it sounds like Bill is napping already! His "daily" job.... taking a nap! :)
So that is about it for now.... 1 more day before we head back to the grind!
Take care
Until next time!
Tuesday I really felt for quite a while like a Mac truck had ran over me and forgot to tell me about it! But after moving around the day got better...we fixed some fish for dinner and had Dennie and Karen come over...we were all so tried the evening was short!
We stayed the 3 nights in receiving and we are happen about that...we hope to stay there...... we both have finally gotten the hang of it and like that area and want to stay ...whether they will let us or not is in the air yet Iguess..... we have heard beginning on Sunday night we are to work 11 hours daily...we will see how we handle that!
Wednesday morning, we were up and around early as we decided to go to Chanute because Dennie and Karen wanted to go through the Hitchhiker RV plant. It was a small tour and Bill and I could really tell the difference in a Newmar product and the Hitchhiker..... Just the level of quality was evident for sure! We stopped at Walmart. We drove downtown to a restaurant called Main Street Restaurant...it was very good and we had a great meal. It was in an old hotel/...the hotel had 6 stories and was in an old old building. The downtown was really pretty neat area with lots of old buildings but many were also empty..something we have found very common in this area of the state....
Early evening we decided to have some ice cream so we went to Braum's and had an ice cream.
This morning we got up and did our laundry at the laundrymat. There were 2 other couples there that were also Amazon people and we had a nice visit with them finding out different places they had been and what they are doing at Amazon now....we are all in the same boat.... working to make money and then taking some time off!
I have some ironing to do and it sounds like Bill is napping already! His "daily" job.... taking a nap! :)
So that is about it for now.... 1 more day before we head back to the grind!
Take care
Until next time!
Sunday, November 1, 2009
We survived our first night!
It has been YEARS and YEARS since Bill and I have "chosen" to stay up until 4AM for "fun"....anyway! So I guess last night was a "test" and we passed with flying colors! Not that we are making it a steady habit after this job is over for sure!
We made it through our first night anyway..... we were sent to "receiving" last night and worked there the whole shift. Receiving is when the big semi trucks back up to the dock and boxes upon boxes upon boxes are unloaded on coveyor belts and "receivers" (us) open the boxes and put the items in the computer and then put them in totes to go on another conveyor to someplace else....I think where they go is where we thought we were going to work...to be "stowed" into bins. So later "pickers" can pick the items for shipping to you!
We each had a computer station and had to enter each item and make sure the "count" was correct for each item in the box. If the tote was "full" aka..... like items in the totes ..then they could be sent onto the conveyor belt to the next step. It wasn't hard work at all and we were able to move around and not really hussle as some have told us they have to. Bill and I are hoping we will be able to stay there.Items are brought to us on pallets and we empty the pallets as we work, throwing the boxes into a bin to be recycled to another box. Right now they are gearing up or stocking the shelves so in about 3 weeks when the ordering is at its max things will be on the shelves and ready to pick and send out.
We had thousands of items to do but there were about 15 or more of us on our shift working. If we had questions or problems come up we had help all the time on the floor willing to help.... they were very nice about helping. Believe me sometimes it seemed a whole box was wrong on the computer and then they had to come in and "do something" to correct it! For example.... I had a box with the upc label that said BBQ sauce and it was a whole box of football team "gnomes"..... someone messed up before we got the box for sure!
We finished emptying a semi-truck and we started on another one so we felt like we did a good job for our first night anyway....we will probably find out numbers tonite. Each shift if started with simple "moving-stretching" excerises and announcements...
We won't know until we get there today where we will go and our "stowing school" wasn't even mentioned..... stay tuned!
Bill woke up early this am and was up and around by 8;30---we were in bed at 4 so I know he will be tired tonite... I slept until about 10:30 this am. Neither of us were really sore this am...my feet hurt this morning when we got home but not when I woke up....so that is a good thing!
So until next time!
BJ
We made it through our first night anyway..... we were sent to "receiving" last night and worked there the whole shift. Receiving is when the big semi trucks back up to the dock and boxes upon boxes upon boxes are unloaded on coveyor belts and "receivers" (us) open the boxes and put the items in the computer and then put them in totes to go on another conveyor to someplace else....I think where they go is where we thought we were going to work...to be "stowed" into bins. So later "pickers" can pick the items for shipping to you!
We each had a computer station and had to enter each item and make sure the "count" was correct for each item in the box. If the tote was "full" aka..... like items in the totes ..then they could be sent onto the conveyor belt to the next step. It wasn't hard work at all and we were able to move around and not really hussle as some have told us they have to. Bill and I are hoping we will be able to stay there.Items are brought to us on pallets and we empty the pallets as we work, throwing the boxes into a bin to be recycled to another box. Right now they are gearing up or stocking the shelves so in about 3 weeks when the ordering is at its max things will be on the shelves and ready to pick and send out.
We had thousands of items to do but there were about 15 or more of us on our shift working. If we had questions or problems come up we had help all the time on the floor willing to help.... they were very nice about helping. Believe me sometimes it seemed a whole box was wrong on the computer and then they had to come in and "do something" to correct it! For example.... I had a box with the upc label that said BBQ sauce and it was a whole box of football team "gnomes"..... someone messed up before we got the box for sure!
We finished emptying a semi-truck and we started on another one so we felt like we did a good job for our first night anyway....we will probably find out numbers tonite. Each shift if started with simple "moving-stretching" excerises and announcements...
We won't know until we get there today where we will go and our "stowing school" wasn't even mentioned..... stay tuned!
Bill woke up early this am and was up and around by 8;30---we were in bed at 4 so I know he will be tired tonite... I slept until about 10:30 this am. Neither of us were really sore this am...my feet hurt this morning when we got home but not when I woke up....so that is a good thing!
So until next time!
BJ
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