New shoes..get some made for concrete not to look pretty.
that could help, but part of the back hurting problem is having to bend over several hundred times a day to sort pallets of goods, bend over pick up pallets, bend down to stock lower shelf items. If it's not your back that's hurting, it's your knees!
If one were to have a back injury, what would be the best plan of action before seeking medical attention? I'm talking "it's definitely caused by something I did at work" vs "idk when/how it happened"
(it's always work related, though one time I had to call and describe my life outside of work)
person trying to deny me: how much vigorous activity do you do at home?
Me: well I do standard household chores
person trying to deny me: do you play sports?
Me: I toss the ball around occasionally
person trying to deny me: oh..........well......how vigorous do you get?
Utility Clerk. Sometimes from carts, sometimes from just crap to deal with.
Is that from bending over and getting crap off the floor? I am a utility clerk. I never do carts on lot.
Lucky you. No, mostly from stacking pallets in back with co workers, doing trains of carts sometimes if the carts do not want to work with me n the other UC properly and be difficult to turn, and mostly sometimes if you pick up a 36 pack of water wrong because "ma'am you can leave that in the cart" "**** that" then me having to lift it from the belt while trying not to trip over myself because the custy puts the cart right behind me rather then on the side of me. Ugh.
Lucky you. No, mostly from stacking pallets in back with co workers, doing trains of carts sometimes if the carts do not want to work with me n the other UC properly and be difficult to turn, and mostly sometimes if you pick up a 36pack of water wrong because "ma'am you can leave that in the cart" "**** that" then me having to lift it from the belt while trying not to trip over myself because the custy puts the cart right behind me rather then on the side of me. Ugh.
You have 36 packs of water? Only thing we sell is 24 and 32 packs.
Lucky you. No, mostly from stacking pallets in back with co workers, doing trains of carts sometimes if the carts do not want to work with me n the other UC properly and be difficult to turn, and mostly sometimes if you pick up a 36pack of water wrong because "ma'am you can leave that in the cart" "**** that" then me having to lift it from the belt while trying not to trip over myself because the custy puts the cart right behind me rather then on the side of me. Ugh.
You have 36 packs of water? Only thing we sell is 24 and 32 packs.
Yup, welcome to being "bought out" by Kroger and our main parent thinking it's ok to continue to sell these, because PROFIT
Yes, I feel like **** after every shift. Massages are temporary relief, but I can't afford them as much as i need them on kroger's bull**** wages.
Dairy and produce are the worst departments. Those milk and egg cases strain your back muscles something awful.
In produce, at least our store, some sadistic ****tard sum bitch decided the logical way to sort the new deliveries was to put heavy as **** cases (rutabaga, cauliflower, bags of apples) on top shelves, and labeled the shelves accordingly. Also, uncasing bananas (removing lid, placing box in lid so they don't turn yellow as quick, supposedly) is a huge cause of back pain, especially with the Burj Khalifa tall stack I had to do last night.
A big fat yes. And I work in bakery. Sure most would think that a box of cupcakes would be light and easy to work with and it's not a big deal. But what really gets my back hurting is all the standing, from putting the cookies out, mark downs with equipment that isn't up to snuff, taking out the trash(which I always think is a two person job, but rarely when I have to do it. I'm stuck with co-workers that barely even want to help hold the card board on the top or even heft deli's trash bags), and the joy and fun of putting said over grown boxes on the shelves. The really high shelves as my current branch likes to do. And it really kills my back as yet again there are some folks that do not like helping to pass the box up to you or even hold the rickety ladder either. Therein causing my back to tense up or twinge at times too.
