It is quite difficult to make my boss understand that using manpower for lifting and carrying big crates and heavy palettes to our warehouse at the dock is just a waste of time and apparently almost impossible. Human power has limit moreover when they are forced to work from morning. I certainly don’t want to get blame for recent accident that almost killed some of our workers at the dock. This happened because four workers were trying to lift a stone-cut machine down from a truck and put it on the dock. Unfortunately, one person on the back left did not set his position so firmly that he could stand the weight and the other three got impact of this weak point. They luckily just got injured but the machine was slightly damaged. And because of it, our company was claimed for replacing the machine. This surely strikes the whole system of working system! How could this be? It is because the customer was a government officer and he could bring this case to higher level of government policy that will ban us from our operation. Luckily, he did not have to do that because my Boss would replace it in several time payments.
Telling my Boss does not seem to work right, hence I’d better propose and show him the best hydraulic lifts that will make big and heavy things from trucks easier to lift and remove. This excellent machine could be used more than just to do as mentioned; there are more of its usages. And with simple explanation, though I feel a little bit nervous, I am sure my Boss will understand what I mean with my words recently.
For my surprise, my Boss does not only agree with my idea; he even wants me to get our company better equipped with other loading dock equipment. He told me that he has changed his mind that employing our workmanship on that part is extremely dangerous and we will get more troubles than just injuries. He also has learnt any possibilities and, moreover, the profit that will get from applying this machineries rather than manpower use. Good choices, Boss, and I will make sure that everything will be well settled, and for sure, there will be no more claims and complaints from customers.
Archive for September, 2009
Better Equipped
September 3rd, 2009Something Old, Something New
September 1st, 2009
‘Never leave home without it’. Well, I am not talking about credit cards, but it is extremely everything in my home! All stuffs must go away with me from London to my new place in Scotland! I wish I don’t have to move that far, but my boss really needs me to be there since an urgent situation or something that I must settle there for a year or so. Oh My!
As a matter of fact, transferring me there is not a big problem; the problem is that I must take all my things such as clothes, paperwork, working tools and working devices at my apartment now. Of course there are some more and bigger things like my TV, Sofa and the tables, lovely plants, bed, personal computers and all accessories, wardrobe and many more that I don’t think my car could accommodate. And I think the car itself needs removals. These all things need to be removed as soon as possible because I know that the longer I delay the removal the more stressful I would be.
If the removal takes a short distance, just like when I moved from Oxford to London, I could manage it quite well; I was helped by 2 of my best friends and did the removal only in three times going back and forth. It took us three days to accomplish. But now, I will move to another country which means that this is international removals. Will I apply the same procedure? Can my 2 friends help me in this removal? I am sure they will, but of course this will take more time, energy and cost. I’d better reconsider the best way.
I certainly need to contact someone or a company that surely gives service in this matter. And shortly, I go to a company with a big banner “DOMESTIC and INTERNATIONAL REMOVALS”. Getting inside the office, I learn that this company is good in this field offers me their best service with standard quotation (I have no idea whether the cost is reasonable or high because I never used this type of service before). I guess I have no other choice but to agree with the price, in addition, this certainly is not an easy thing to do.
Soon, some people from the company are coming to my apartment. They seem to be expert on their job when they are calculating and estimating the possible accommodation, weight or cubic meters or something. Then one of them approaches me and shows me the total cost and estimated time departure and arrival at the address I gave in Scotland. They say that they will come back in two days and pick up everything written on the list while some small things will go with me. However, some other things are supposed to be left or sold cheaply because I don’t think I will need them or it is impossible to take them along. In the new place in Scotland, there will then be something old and something new.