Anyone else notice that this ST convention is going to be on the same three days (August 2nd - 4th) in Las Vegas as Defcon X is going to be? Drunk techies and trekies in Las Vegas = biggest, nerdiest party ever.
I worked a short stint at UPS (3 weeks of working that shit job of 5 hour nights in a 120 degree trailor for shit pay (screw that)), and I can tell you that the entire time I worked there I never saw anyone attempting to damage a package. However, when you have 50 boxes flying down a shoot at you and you're alone to stack them, you stop trying to be careful, and just get the job done. I saw packages thrown, tumbled, and tossed, but my only explanation for that smashed shipment was that something heavy fell on it in the truck, or some idiot loaded it on top and it dropped 15 feet from the trailor.
Screw UPS.
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Anyone else notice that this ST convention is going to be on the same three days (August 2nd - 4th) in Las Vegas as Defcon X is going to be? Drunk techies and trekies in Las Vegas = biggest, nerdiest party ever.
I worked a short stint at UPS (3 weeks of working that shit job of 5 hour nights in a 120 degree trailor for shit pay (screw that)), and I can tell you that the entire time I worked there I never saw anyone attempting to damage a package. However, when you have 50 boxes flying down a shoot at you and you're alone to stack them, you stop trying to be careful, and just get the job done. I saw packages thrown, tumbled, and tossed, but my only explanation for that smashed shipment was that something heavy fell on it in the truck, or some idiot loaded it on top and it dropped 15 feet from the trailor. Screw UPS.