Troll of the Day
Speaking about needing a vacation... I've had quite a day at work. And I have often considered whoever is in charge of ordering our goods as a Troll of the Day candidate, because I often find myself having to figure out how to stuff obscene amounts of new car parts into our shelves, even though there are still plenty of identical items left.
Today, I had to handle many of those, where you have to clear entire shelf boards in order to make room, only find out that you have to handle a similar amount of the items you just put somewhere else in order to make that room. Then came the adhesive weights...
They come in surprisingly heavy packages of 100 units each, and I previously put a residual amount of 2,198 of those little weights away in order to make room for something else. Then came the rest of my order... 4,000 more of them, so 40 packages of 100. I put them in the same place, even though the shelf board wasn't in the best condition, but that's just how some of them are. As I kept putting them on, I noticed that the board was bending a little, but once again, it just happens some time, no big deal.
Then I put the final one of those boxes on... and that steel board suddenly starts giving way like a piece of butter. My first instinct was to try and hold it up again, but then my other instincts kicked in, urging me to get my four frail squirrel paws away super fast - the board was collapsing under its weight with a huge crash, dropped down and hit another board, which also collapsed. And all those 6,198 adhesive weights, as well as all other items on those boards, were scattered all over the floor.
I already felt a bit frustrated by that order at that point, and I was also feeling a little stressed in general, so the first thing I did was just leaning against the other shelf and staring into the distance. A co-worker came to see what the noise was about, and I pointed at the mess on the floor. Then I gave what was left of the shelf a little roundhouse kick and just cowered on the ground in despair.
Yes, as unpleasant as this was, it wasn't as big a deal as it may have appeared at first glance. That shelf was in dire need of replacing anyway, and I just went and gathered those adhesive Troll weights, and also put the other items that fell victim to the crash somewhere else.
As I was gathering those weights, it became clear why this was a problem: They come in strips of 12 as seen above, with each weight weighing 5 grams, so one strip is 60 grams. A package contains 100 of those strips, so each of them weighs 6 kg. And I was about to put 40 of those packages on that old beat-up shelf, for a total of 240 kg... plus the 2.198 extra weights from the residual amount, for another 131.88 kg. This makes 371.88 kg in total, which is about four Harriers, and that doesn't even include the other items that were also on the shelf.
If I had known about those exact numbers before, maybe I would have thought twice about trying to put them all there. Based on the information I had, though, those were just some slightly heavy packages. And after being such a massive troll to me at work, those adhesive weights are my Trolls of the Day.
Either way, I can unfortunately not say what kind of breed he was, but he was quite well-behaved and therefore beginner-friendly, which is why he was assigned to me when i gave equestrians a try.
