keep it general not to dox yourself and whatnot, just wondering if there’s anyone else adopting the fielder method. and also what’s the worst thing you have had to pick up and carry somewhere? for me it is a toss up between upright piano, heavy treadmill and slab of granite.
Long ago, before many of you were alive, I worked as a mattress delivery dude. It was honestly not a bad gig, but there was a few things I found doing it.
One, the poor treat service workers far better than the rich; I literally never got a tip from the people with big houses or fancy cars, but I would frequently get $20-30 from those living in cramped apartments buying our cheapest mattresses. With people living in McMansions in middle class areas at least tipping $3-5 usually.
Two, driving box trucks up canyons requires you to be on another level, I ended up having to pull over and letting the more experienced guy drive because I wasn’t comfortable going twenty over with a 500 foot cliff as my reward if I messed up.
And three, “organic memory foam mattresses” are fucking heavy as shit. Like, I could carry a California king typically easily in one arm while moving quickly up and down stairs, but that thing… holy fuck did I struggle hard. Added to the pain was that this was a hyper rich client with chalk walls, who was so super paranoid us lowly workers would damage them that she made us carry the mattress around her entire house up two stories and back down one on this crazy cliff side deck that she had. Then, of course, no tip. We did get the satisfaction of telling her off a bit though. She claimed that she ordered “king size pillows”. We told her, we don’t sell king size pillows, and after some back and forth, decided to keep her pillows and told her that she can come down to the shop and pick up her pillows herself then. A small bit of satisfaction after a terrible delivery. Oh, and we had to back the truck up her 500ft winding driveway built into the side of a mountain barely wide enough for the truck to fit on. Fuck that lady, decades later and I still get upset thinking about her.
I used to do something similar- I worked in a furniture warehouse. Unloaded trucks full of furniture coming in and loaded trucks for local deliveries and going to the stores going out. Steel frame electric couches and bed frames were the worst 💀
I used to, mostly construction materials. Worst experience I ever had from a lifting perspective was when some dickhead made me carry like 40 bags of concrete 50 feet each rather than moving his truck right next to the pallet where they were sitting and then had the gall to complain to my manager when I gave him the side eye for it. Luckily my manager was cool and told him to piss off lol
That’s always fun. I only did one job in concrete and decided that was enough for me. I once, though, had to carry 8 5 gallon buckets of paint across a street and around the corner because the boss wouldn’t let me pull my car onto the sidewalk and there was no parking where the job was.
A giant pane of glass that was custom made to protect a giant wooden conference table. The glass wasn’t heavy, but it really sucked turning a corner with it in a tight stairwell, flexing it too much, and then having to clean up a million pieces of broken glass.
I’ve also moved a lot of logs. It sux.
Caterpillar tracks, all sorts of gymn equipment that recommend you use a forklift, gold, several bags of flour consecutively, white picket fences, and a bucket of cum.
No I’m not joking.
