#warehouse practices

[risha9517]

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[aliosne]

Saw a post about working class butches in physical labour jobs and wanted to make my own, so: I love you butches who do childcare or early education. I love you butch nurses. I love you butch house cleaners and janitorial staff. I love you service industry butches. I love you butches who do sex work. I love you working class butches who do “feminine” jobs you are cool as hell

[rebouks]

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[seagulls mewing] Brodie: [sniffs] That’s what cheap rent smells like, better get used to it. Alex: It’s disgusting. Brodie: Are you complaining? Alex: NO! Brodie: Hm. Alex: I’m not! It’s.. lovely. Brodie: It’ll do. Alex: For how long? Brodie: I don’t know yet, kiddo.. a while. Alex: You promise? Brodie: No. Alex: Ough-.. it doesn’t smell as bad in here at least. Alex: Oh my god-.. dad! Brodie: Uh-huh? Alex: There’s fish in the bathroom too! Brodie: What? Alex: On the shower curtain. Brodie: Oh. Alex: Can I go explore now? Brodie: We literally just got here, let’s get settled first. Alex: Pleeeease? I can unpack later-.. we don’t even have that much stuff! Brodie: This isn’t a movie, Alex.. you’re not just gonna bump into him. Alex: I might? Brodie: You’ll be starting school next week. Alex: But what if he doesn’t go to the same school? Brodie: Well-… Alex: I wanna look around in general! I’ll be back before dark, I swear! Brodie: I’m not unpacking for you, so don’t go far-.. and don’t get lost! [Alex yelled vague promises over her shoulder as she sped outside, the frigid wind whipping the door shut behind her. Brodie sighed, surrounded by silence and the faint smell of old tobacco and fish]

[08-47]

i saw the terminal glow

okay,, merry late christmas whoops and goodnightt !! ALSO, thank you everybody for the insane reception on the first post!!, and also check out the donations/gfms on my main page for people in palestine/gaza who are in need! i cant donate, so spreading it around's the best i can do to help <3 ! donate if you can n share it around!

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Walking Practice

weird scifi horror novella

follows an alien who crash-landed on earth years ago, and spends their days hooking up with people to then eat them & gain enough strength to make it through the day

explores existing outside of the binary norm and being seen as other, deep loneliness, and desire for connection

meandering narration, interesting formatting, illustrations

[alwaysbewoke]

[ihaveaskeleton]

Before and After: Edna's Ghoulification

Before: Edna Murdoc, four times widow and divorceé.

After: Edna Murder-McCoy—still married to the same man after a century and a half, against all odds.

[gammija]

idk i find that a former panopticon prison is the worst thing to turn into an amazon office.

even the idea of a mall is not as bad. but a single large company, esp one known for horrific working conditions and surveillance, choosing to outfit a prison as an office feels grotesque

It's not actually Amazon that repurposed it: according to the wikipedia, a third party did the restructuring with permission from the government - since theyre such unique buildings, all 3 extant panopticon complexes have monument status and need special permission to make changes or renovations to, I suspect that's why they havent even replaced the cell doors - and several companies of varying sizes rent out the spaces, among which, at some point, apparently, Amazon.

(plus a cinema in the basement)

like i said, its a fun visual metaphor and that's why i reblogged it, but in practice i wouldnt mind working there for a different company, honestly

[chibitortuga]

What if The Warehouse had a living avatar of sorts and it was Leena???

[shironezuninja]

It sucks when you have physical Anxiety Attacks before you leave the house for a family gathering.

[milkweedman]

Actually, doing some math--if i do spin a yard a minute on one of my good spindles, and i spin for 2 hours at work (have never timed how much i spin at work--its just not really feasible since i stop and start constantly to ring things up and do other work stuff), then thats 120 yards of singles a shift. So for a 3 ply yarn it should only take about 3 or 4 days to spin 120 yards of what im guessing would be a light worsted weight. Which is pretty damn good ! Desperately wanna know how much ive spun on my spindles so far, but i'll have to wait until ive plied it to get the yardage. I suspect i'll need one more shift to finish filling the spindles (ive got 1 full so far, 1 at about 2/3, and 1 at about 3/4.)

[theconcealedweapon]

I work as a programmer for $35 an hour.

They once forgot to pay me for 8 extra hours that they needed me to work on Thanksgiving weekend. They simply needed me to be present for 8 hours in order to quickly fix any problems that happened during their busiest weekend, and no such problems ended up happening.

When they saw the mistake and paid me for it, the gross pay for that day was $420 (base of $35 x 8 hours x 1.5 for overtime).

The first thing I noticed was how that compared to what I got paid at my warehouse job before I became a programmer. When I started the job at the warehouse, I got paid $10 an hour. For a full time week, I got paid $400.

I got paid more for that one day of doing practically nothing as a programmer than I did busting my ass at the warehouse for a whole week.

So enough about this "I work harder than them so I deserve more pay" bullshit. You're all the working class. In our fucked up system, hard work does not equal more pay. If you want more pay, you need to fight back against the rich assholes who profit off your labor and pay you jack shit, not fight with other people who are underpaid about who deserves to be more underpaid.

[ewanmathers]

Commercial Photography - new web page live!

After some time putting it all together I have finally put live my Commercial Photography page and gallery on my web site.  Over that past couple of years I have photographed a huge range of commercial subjects; many example of which you can now see.  Every commercial project is different and I like to try to bring out something that the client has not seen before.  So if you are in business and…

[mayakern]

Things are bad right now.

As many of you know, way back in 2020 we weren’t sure if our business was gonna make it. Our factory was already on break for Lunar New Year–a month-long holiday for many businesses in the area–and with the announcement of COVID19, everything shut down indefinitely. We knew immediately we were in for a bad time. Despite our fears, our sales grew so far beyond anything we ever expected, to the point where we had to hire two employees just to keep up with demand! 

Unfortunately, even after our factory reopened, our problems were not over. Their quality drastically declined almost immediately, to the point that a significant amount of our  fabric would literally fall apart in transit between the factory and our office. Because of this, we discovered that our sales rep had no idea what she was doing and knew nothing about the factory she was representing, so when we told her the fabric was garbage her response was “👍 factory said it’s good!” At the beginning, only roughly 10% of our new product was defective and we were able to sell the affected items with a reasonable discount. By the end of our relationship with that factory, 40% of our midi skirts and 70% of our miniskirts were defective, some affected so severely that they practically fell apart when touched. And still, our rep said everything was fine and there were no problems and the fabric composition had not changed.

So in 2022 we changed factories. We hired Ash to handle this since I was way too busy managing fulfillment to do the amount of research and communication necessary to find us a factory that met our criteria. Finding clothing factories that can make clothing over a size 2-3X is significantly more difficult than one that can’t because it often requires larger and more expensive machinery. But Ash did it: she got us set up with a new factory that has excellent certifications for both their labor practices and their methods for textile production, that delivers consistent, high quality sewing on well made fabric that can be printed without suffering loss in detail–and she was armored with the knowledge for what makes a quality garment so she could check them if they tried to screw us on quality. Their minimum orders were way higher than our previous factory’s, so we decided to focus on ordering more units of fewer designs. We ordered way too much our first round–some of those designs were in stock until the 2024 blowout sale! But it worked out, and slowly we had a warehouse full of stuff to sell.

Fast forward to 2024, business is slowing down between the economy being bad and what seemed to be a general skirt fatigue amongst our customers. We tried expanding into shirts, which would’ve been successful if our minimums were lower. In the late spring we realized we were in trouble if we didn’t make drastic changes and we ultimately decided to end in-house fulfillment and transfer to a third party fulfillment center that would support domestic shipping in Canada and eventually the UK, EU, and Australia. In order to make that transition affordable we drastically discounted everything and that sale was super successful! We were able to begin shipping from the fulfillment center with an almost clean slate, even if it did mean having to close the store for almost two months and thereby missing out on two very important months of sales.

Unfortunately, we were stupid. We continued to order new designs on an every other month schedule instead of switching to an every month schedule, forgetting that having a backstock in a variety of designs is what previously helped us float between orders and now we quite literally didn’t have enough inventory to match the sales we made for last year’s holiday sale.

That brings us to now.

We’re a little stuck. We have a round of skirts in production (yay!) but they won’t get here until February (boo!). To get back on that monthly cycle we would need to order the next round of skirts right now, but we can’t pay for production until that next round of skirts gets here; if the current sale goes well, it’s paying payroll, not production. We are currently in the very difficult, horrible situation of not having enough money for next month’s payroll unless we are somehow able to make significant sales with our very sparse inventory.

We’re scrappy and we do our best to adapt to disasters and I’m sure we’ll find a way to adapt to this one as well, it’ll just take us some time to get there. Basically we’re going to be okay eventually–hopefully later this year–but in the meantime if we seem frantic, now you know why. 

If you’re been considering trying out our viscose shirts but haven’t been able to justify paying full price, they’re on clearance PLUS half off right now! That’s $9-$15 for the viscose tops, and other tops on clearance are $20-$45. Some of the shirts we’re having a LOT of trouble selling are now priced below cost to help us recoup some of the money we spent making them.

Any amount of support helps right now. Sharing posts, telling your friends, buying a $9 shirt–all of it helps. If our clothing isn’t your thing, we also have a Patreon you can support for as little as $1 a month. https://www.patreon.com/mayakern

Thank you so much for reading, and I hope you have a great rest of your day and that 2025 is a brighter, kinder year for us all.

[prlssprfctn]

Jason, who is constantly making death jokes, and gets back a "dgaf" kind of answers from his siblings. Which he is... used to. Firstly, because it is what siblings supposed to do, be mean to each other, and secondly, because... they are not wrong. His death didn't mean anything. No one cared much about him dying. Yes, they were bothered that he died - a kid, a son and a brother, had died. Everyone mourns dead kids, he wasn't special. Right?

So, he is fine with whatever he gets from his brothers. He often laughs back, even his laughter sounds far too strained to his ears. But, honestly, whatever! It is fine!

Until once, it isn't.

Maybe it is just a bad day. Or maybe his death anniversary is getting closer, and he gets more anxious. Nonetheless, he makes another joke - something about warehouses and crowbars; so, nothing new - and gets a usual funny-snappy reply back, something along the lines And no one cared. And he just huffs, his smile turning to a scowl, and before he can take it back, he shrugs.

'I know.'

Suddenly, it is too quiet in the room. And suddenly everyone is staring - confused, hurt, slightly surprised, even. Jason tries to laugh it off, to make them stop looking at him with so much pity, but his forced laughter sounds too much like a certain clown's in his insane, tired mind, and he ends up murmuring a haste farewell, before practically running away from the cave.

He thinks someone tries to call him back, but he ignores it.

The defeating silence and the looks of pity haunt him in his dreams for the rest of the night.

[orpheusilver]

just bought materials for the pirate shirt from the friendliest bloke ive ever fucking met in a store