I'd like to figure out how much of the neglect--pallet jacks needing bearings and even missing wheels--in this $700,000-a-week store is the abusive, greedy manager and how much might be the unaccountable corporation.
The store I work at now has a pallet jack with the wheel separated from the bearing and the bearing is froze. That used to be the best pallet jack in the day.
Another store I used to work at had one bad pallet jack. The bearing was gone from one wheel. A vender "borrowed" the pallet jack I was using. His helper returned the pallet jack. The ******* returned the bad jack to me.
Our power equipment is just as bad as our hand-jacks. You can maybe unload a truck with our power-jack by the time it dies and the deadman switch goes off when ever it feels like. We're supposed to get new ones soon, but that been said for the past 3 months.
Hell, I just had to take one of the wheels off of our 6 wheeled produce cart because that bearing froze and we couldn't move it.
Turning the jacks got so bad, I decided to bring my old grease gun to keep at the store. Its sad that I have to use my own equipment and spend time that I need to be doing other things with to fix simple things.
All this and the fact that our loading dock stops working every other month and the baler is leaking hydraulic fluid and the lines are full of air. Oh well, its not my $$$.
Ours became an hydraulic fluid volcano. Company did nothing for days until OSHA forced it to.
Hand-jack wheels, we doubt OSHA is too interested in, and it's clear Krogrr isn't. How sad and sorry, though, that we have to essentially go to the federal government to get a corporation to replace a hose or wheel bearing.
