Source: shantremaine on Instagram

I work dispatch for a commercial HVAC parts distributor. Our new warehouse supervisor decided that anything not on the 4 PM digital pick list doesn't go on the truck. Normally that's fine. Tickets generate at 4 PM. Warehouse picks them. Night trucks load and leave for morning delivery. Then a contractor called at 4:45 PM because a compressor failed at a hospital.

Branch manager approved the emergency order and printed the manual green slip we've always used for late emergency shipments. Warehouse supervisor refused it. I reminded him that emergency green slips are part of our SOP. He said his performance is measured by digital pick list accuracy and he doesn't accept paper hand offs. So I didn't argue. I logged it in the client portal as held per warehouse operations protocol and went home.

The next morning there was a 6:30 AM conference call because the hospital had a crane crew waiting and the delay was costing around $2,500 an hour. The compressor was still sitting in our staging bay. My manager asked why I didn't override the supervisor. I showed him the memo the supervisor had signed the week before saying no manual paper add-ons were permitted on outgoing freight.

Suddenly everyone became very interested in following the written procedure. The supervisor had to arrange a $1,200 hot shot courier from his department's budget to get the compressor there by noon. And on Monday the manual green slip process was back. I didn't have to say I told you so. The paperwork did it for me.

If your fiance (blonde, tan, long blonde hair) was traveling home to the DMV area from Arizona from her bachelorette on United 1017 into Dulles (seat 28a), she spent the entire 4 hour flight talking and flirting with the man next to her. They were deep into conversation from work, to relationships, to goals and dreams. It was extremely intimate. They did not come up from air. They exchanged numbers and plan to see each other maybe this week. She did not speak fondly of you. I feel so sorry for the groom and soon to be husband. What a horrible thing to experience. Plus, what horrible plane etiquette! A disrespectful girl all around.

I get the Lindsay Clancy was bad for woman part (not that I agree with it), but what’s Cornell 7?

The sad thing, there are people who listen to her.

TR