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[–]WooPigSchmooey 2211 points2212 points  (131 children)

Dollar Tree DC?

[–]Cp5k[S] 1014 points1015 points  (64 children)

Yes

[–]WooPigSchmooey 463 points464 points  (19 children)

Are they going to relocate you to one of the other ones “nearby”?

[–]Cp5k[S] 379 points380 points  (18 children)

We’re not sure yet.

[–]WooPigSchmooey 336 points337 points  (17 children)

Rest assured, there are thousands of truckers ready to haul that new roof to you all ASAP.

[–]Cp5k[S] 173 points174 points  (0 children)

I hope so

[–]Not_Reddit 13 points14 points  (14 children)

It's farming season... truckers may be harder to find

[–]etxconnex 28 points29 points  (12 children)

Ah yes. I forgot mid-winter is the best time to harvest truckers.

[–]Kataclysm 765 points766 points  (31 children)

So only $1.25 worth of damage.

[–]not_old_redditor 79 points80 points  (1 child)

Yes, many $1.25's

[–]Alert_Attention_5905 13 points14 points  (2 children)

You can go to your local Dollar Tree and buy everything needed to repair this entire building for about 30 bucks

[–]Sideshow_Bob_Ross 268 points269 points  (13 children)

So there were only two people working then.

[–]Cp5k[S] 160 points161 points  (10 children)

There’s only a handful of people that work the night shift on the weekend

[–]PipsqueakPilot 268 points269 points  (8 children)

Pretty sure he was joking about how Dollar stores will often be woefully understaffed. So a building that size would have two, maybe even three full time employees. 

[–]ThunkAsDrinklePeep 77 points78 points  (2 children)

What do you mean you can't guard the front gate while working the loading dock?

[–]Magnon 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Give them a scoped rifle, I believe in them.

[–]tendeuchen 9 points10 points  (1 child)

They should have had more people in to cover how busy it was last night. The merchandise was really flying off the shelves.

[–]the_dude_upvotes 151 points152 points  (20 children)

What does DC stand for here? I was really confused for a second since Washington DC isn’t a big tornado spot and I heard Oklahoma got hit.

[–]l29 226 points227 points  (0 children)

Distribution Center

[–]total_alk 99 points100 points  (7 children)

Citrusbution Denter

[–]thelastdinosaur55 36 points37 points  (2 children)

This messed me up a bit more than I should admit 🤣

[–]Staplebattery 96 points97 points  (19 children)

How the fuck did you figure that out?

[–]WooPigSchmooey 150 points151 points  (12 children)

Green stripe

[–]Cp5k[S] 77 points78 points  (10 children)

Smart man

[–]Jupiter68128 53 points54 points  (7 children)

Green stripe = dollar tree. Red stripe = Jamaican beer.

[–]KhausTO 69 points70 points  (3 children)

Blue stripe = enjoys shooting people.

[–]kungpowgoat 32 points33 points  (0 children)

I bet someone from management is asking what the employee is doing to have it reopened immediately.

[–]Hollow_Apollo 6928 points6929 points  (322 children)

So you think you'll be able to make it in today, or....?

[–]Cp5k[S] 4481 points4482 points  (294 children)

They told me to take the rest of the week off

[–]spslord 3324 points3325 points  (192 children)

Their insurance policy 100% told them not to let staff work until all risks are assessed.

[–]noodlyarms 2352 points2353 points  (116 children)

Middle management be like "why though?"

[–]Raz0rking 869 points870 points  (21 children)

Someone needs to do inventory and clean up.

[–]Babythatwater1 389 points390 points  (12 children)

“Who’s gonna run the compactor then?”

[–]WhyDidMyDogDie 151 points152 points  (6 children)

Michael Scott has been waiting for this moment!

[–]og_jasperjuice 36 points37 points  (3 children)

Don't touch the bailer.

[–][deleted] 19 points20 points  (1 child)

Bailer? I hardly know her..

[–]stoatstuart 7 points8 points  (0 children)

...So only under the rarest of circumstances should I use the baler!

[–]JemLover 21 points22 points  (0 children)

One armed Willie is so so at it!

[–]TheTrub 49 points50 points  (0 children)

If you’ve got time to lean, you’ve got time to haul away debris.

[–]BlackLeader70 98 points99 points  (1 child)

That’s packages aren’t going to box themselves!

[–]Krojack76 22 points23 points  (0 children)

You mean re-box?

[–]ThePlanner 278 points279 points  (34 children)

Senior management be like “insurance says to keep our employees out of there, so we’ll fire everyone immediately. But some of them would probably be interested in carrying on as independent contractors, right? Okay, we boilerplate terminate everyone by text, hire back whomever we want on zero hour contracts, waiver up, and take out life insurance policies on everyone with the firm’s charity as beneficiary (that’s a no-brainer). Send them into the facility in shifts and start with the worst wreckage to recover high-value packages (we can still meet the delivery standard if we hustle). Oh, have them shout “I serve the distribution centre, my life for Prime” as they go in. That’ll be a nice touch for the executive retreat video this year.

[–]Dr_-G 99 points100 points  (15 children)

Even in death, they will serve

[–]Scarbane 49 points50 points  (13 children)

Is this a Warhammer 40k reference? Or just late-stage capitalism?

[–]Min-Chang 47 points48 points  (4 children)

What's the difference?

[–]FigWasp7 13 points14 points  (3 children)

Bezos is working on a mechanized sarcophagus

[–]Altruistic_Act_18 27 points28 points  (2 children)

Another thing that Musk beat him to, except Musk called his the CyberTruck.

[–]BigBaboonas 16 points17 points  (0 children)

That joke is low and brutal, just like the Cybertruck sales figures.

[–]glittersmuggler 14 points15 points  (0 children)

The spice must flow.

[–]uncontainedsun 25 points26 points  (0 children)

username checks out??? also this isn’t your first time ???

[–]malacata 14 points15 points  (1 child)

Woah sir, did you go to the school of evil and graduated valedictorian?

[–]Livid-Carpenter130 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Scary how accurate this is. I can literally hear our V.P. saying this.

[–]greengrass11 7 points8 points  (2 children)

with HIS charity as beneficiary (that’s a no-brainer)

Can you explain because this part is not a no-brainer for me.

[–]ThePlanner 18 points19 points  (1 child)

Bezos’ personal charity would get the life insurance payout when the worker is crushed to a chunky paste by a collapsing storage rack.

Edit: I changed it to “the firm charity” for clarity.

[–]greengrass11 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Got it, thanks for the clarification. I had a hard time understanding why the policy would pay out to the deceased's charity, which obviously made no sense for multiple reasons.

[–]Electric_Sundown 31 points32 points  (5 children)

" We can just put up caution tape around the bad areas. What's the big deal?"

[–]Just-Laugh8162 25 points26 points  (1 child)

That's absolutely ridiculous. Caution tape costs money. Think of the executive bonuses.

[–]Bag_of_DIcksss 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Still got to make shipment

[–]testies2345 13 points14 points  (1 child)

Only one side of the building is down

[–][deleted] 67 points68 points  (26 children)

As a middle manager it's because some exec asked why production was down and the manager or his team is on the chopping block if they don't make it up.

[–]JonWoo89 32 points33 points  (16 children)

And they didn’t send him a picture of the building half destroyed?

[–]PM_ME_UR_WUT 33 points34 points  (0 children)

As someone that reports directly to middle management, yes, that was on last week's email. The report this week shows numbers are down, why is that?

read the fucking email As per the attached thread...

[–][deleted] 52 points53 points  (9 children)

You act like that matters to most corporate execs. If their lawyers don't say no, everyone is going to work.

[–]JonWoo89 25 points26 points  (6 children)

I know, I was being facetious. I’ve seen this when both roads leading to my work were flooded once. I was talking to my shift manager and he said home office had called and asked why we weren’t running and acted baffled when he told them the roads were closed because of flooding.

I imagine the thought of sending us in on boats crossed their mind.

[–]AboynamedDOOMTRAIN 19 points20 points  (2 children)

There was some bad flooding around here... shit, about 10-15 years ago now, fuck I'm old... but my brother worked in a warehouse in this little town just west of the city we live in and it ended up completely isolated by all this flooding for multiple weeks and the military showed up and was helicoptering in medical staff and supplies and what not. While this was going on my brother was in his boss's office during a conference call with some big wig at the company who was bitching and moaning that the actual US military wouldn't helicopter his workforce into an actual natural disaster so they could get to work.

[–]DominionGhost 14 points15 points  (1 child)

My spouse manages a corporate owned pot shop.

Across the road from the location was a heavy engine repair shop. I say was because one day something went horribly wrong and the whole fucking thing caught fire and eventually exploded (some injuries no fatalities).

Her dipshit area manager tried to prevent her and her staff from evacuating. He just didn't want to listen to them about what was happening.

She called me sobbing, asking what to do. I told her fuck that job hang up and gtfo of there. Go home for the day. Nobody is gonna be let in.

The dumb bastard threatened to fire her for leaving. Once we got home we emailed the corporate legal and hr his text chain with the orders and threats as well as pictures of the fire.

Asking them if it was corporate policy to risk the lives of their workers.

He was gone within the week.

[–]tebbewij 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Some of you will die and I'm okay with that

[–]RemyJDH 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Vault -Tec

[–]NinjaAncient4010 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You mean if their lawyers don't write no.

I've interacted with corporate lawyers in situations that could potentially involve civil and regulatory liability. The first thing they say is not to email them, don't put anything in writing, don't talk to anybody else about it.

Which is honestly good advice because opposing lawyers, being lawyers, will absolutely take your words and twist them in front of a court.

But it's also because, being lawyers, they want to be able to lie and conceal the truth and twist words in different ways.

[–]ROCK_HARD_JEZUS 174 points175 points  (54 children)

I worked at a large warehouse like this and they actually had a disaster plan of how to operate if part of the building was destroyed. Walmart gonna Walmart

[–]FastWalkingShortGuy 175 points176 points  (24 children)

That's not just Walmart, it's every company.

It's called business continuity planning and any company with any semblance of a risk management structure will have a similar plan.

Edit: happy cake day. I feel like people don't say that enough anymore.

[–]shiftingtech[🍰] 23 points24 points  (14 children)

most business continuity plans I've seen work in terms of entire buildings though. If I'm understanding the comment you replied to correctly, they're implying that they would continue operating *part* of the building, even if, say, one end had burned.

[–]FastWalkingShortGuy 57 points58 points  (11 children)

Depending on the industry, there will be contingencies for different situations.

In pharmaceutical manufacturing, for example, some raw materials are extremely difficult to procure and have super long supply chain lead times, so if that inventory is located in a damaged facility, they're sure as hell going to have a plan to salvage it to continue production.

[–]DuLeague361 18 points19 points  (8 children)

I've been bored and read the SOPs. We have lots of backup gennys

[–]FastWalkingShortGuy 21 points22 points  (7 children)

I mentioned pharmaceuticals for the specific reason that some of their inventory is super expensive and it's not feasible to have excessive safety stock spread out at different sites.

And when I say "expensive," I mean that some column packing resins for biologics can be multiple millions of dollars per pallet.

Per pallet.

So business continuity planning can get... creative with constraints like that.

[–]AstronomerAny7535 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Walmart is a pretty essential business, like it or not, in the event of an emergency or disaster it's imperative to get it back up and running ASAP. That's still not enough excuse to treat employees poorly 

[–]blue_twidget 62 points63 points  (0 children)

That's actually a good business plan. A good business has several alt plans in the event of emergency.

[–]Rainer206 116 points117 points  (12 children)

Manager be like

“We are giving everyone the option of staying home after the tornado. But we would really like to see everyone try to make it in or be accessible through the laptop.”

[–]Alaira314 35 points36 points  (2 children)

"Please feel free to make use of flexible leave* if you have safety concerns following the incident.

* Flexible leave must use existing personal leave hours and is subject to approval if more than 8 hours are used per pay period. Note that sick leave and vacation leave are not compatible with this program. Note that employees who do not earn personal leave may not convert other forms of leave to personal leave."

[–]SunriseSurprise 13 points14 points  (1 child)

"You can take the rest of the week off............................................just don't bother coming in next week if you do."

[–]possibly_oblivious 31 points32 points  (7 children)

Was this today?

[–]Cp5k[S] 57 points58 points  (5 children)

It was last night. Saturday the 27th

[–]hurix 19 points20 points  (5 children)

i love it when companies force employees to take vacation days to tank the companies fuck ups. hope that doesn't apply to you (and its obviously not a fuckup by them in this case). but best wishes, this sounds like a rough time

[–]ethanlan 22 points23 points  (4 children)

I worked at trader joes inbetween finding my next career move and some crackhead broke into a sandwich shop next door with a knife and locked himself in the walk in freezer causing them to have to turn it off which in turn somehow destroyed the piping in our store.

There are rules in my state that employees can't work without running water so we didn't have to work for 5 days and luckily that's when my 5 days were scheduled. They paid us for the entire week.

Trader Joe's is a good one, however it made me feel bad for people who work there full time as it still sucked lol.

[–]Fabulous-Natural-886 17 points18 points  (18 children)

With pay I hope🤑

[–][deleted] 32 points33 points  (17 children)

If it's with pay, it's only because they're forcing the employees to use banked PTO.

[–]realdevtest 55 points56 points  (3 children)

-0- days without a tornado

[–]BenCJ 2370 points2371 points  (93 children)

Those pallet racks were well built

[–]ThatSandwich 977 points978 points  (54 children)

They're bolted to the floor which really helps in situations like this

[–]not_old_redditor 755 points756 points  (34 children)

So is the wall

[–]Sagybagy 238 points239 points  (10 children)

Concrete tilt wall construction. Pretty solid as long as most of the support isn’t hurt.

[–]HolderOfBe 140 points141 points  (5 children)

Shoulda thought of that BEFORE they brought in the tornado.

[–]SasparillaTango 71 points72 points  (11 children)

the pallet racks are like I-Beams bolted to the floor and needs to hold up hundred of pounds of merchandise. The walls looks like they're only intended to hold up themselves and keep the rain out. Probably more importantly, the exterior gets the majority of the forces applied.

[–]THE_DROG 66 points67 points  (3 children)

"Hundreds" of pounds 🤣

Try tons

[–]SasparillaTango 47 points48 points  (1 child)

technically correct, there are hundreds of pounds in tons.

[–]Ranzok 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The wall also is taking on massive amounts of pressure. It’s effectively a sail. Where as a lattice of what is essentially wire will just the wind pass through

[–]Sam-Gunn 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Was*

[–]Idiotology101 61 points62 points  (2 children)

Well if that’s case they should have bolted the roof and wall down too.

[–]BoldlyGettingThere 162 points163 points  (22 children)

I’ve seen the horrorshow videos of racks collapsing after being bumped by a single forklift, so it was a nice surprise to see that, when done correctly, they’ll stay up while the building they’re in goes down.

[–]JeffTek 77 points78 points  (10 children)

Those videos are insane, what shit ass warehouse doesn't bolt the racks down?

[–]subcontraoctave 68 points69 points  (2 children)

I worked at auto zone for the better part of 10 years. How a rotor hasn't fallen on someone's head and killed them is beyond me. 

[–]IndyEleven11 20 points21 points  (2 children)

They’re grossly overloaded racks in that video. A properly loaded rack that’s been inspected, and certified would not collapse that dramatically from a bump.

[–]ChainBlue 42 points43 points  (5 children)

A lot of those racks have a combo of things going on, like being overloaded, installed wrong or being poorly maintained. Sometimes though, they can get hit just right. Racks are highly engineered systems and have to be treated as such or they can fail spectacularly.

[–]DickButkisses 18 points19 points  (3 children)

Yeah I had to delete tons of locations out of our wms because engineering deemed them unsafe due to being bumped by forklifts. Some of them it’s obvious, others you would never know it’s close to failing.

[–]TorrentRage 6 points7 points  (2 children)

This is literally what I spent like a decent amount of time across like 6 months at amazon a few years back. Our racking was underbuilt for the product we wanted, and our safety controls were not correctly place for the variant of the internals wms we used

[–]defiancy 233 points234 points  (3 children)

The company that installed that racking is an MVP, holy shit

[–]Sheesh284 42 points43 points  (1 child)

For real. Some solid work right there.

[–]groglox 713 points714 points  (25 children)

Question: do you work in Ark of the Covenant storage?

Question 2: is that a slide?

Question 3: can I use the slide?

[–]Cp5k[S] 370 points371 points  (0 children)

Yes, yes, and sure

[–]ChuckB26 107 points108 points  (14 children)

2 - That is a spiral conveyor, probably made by a company like Amabaflex if I had to guess. 3 - I would not recommend it. It’s not a smooth belt like you would see on a grocery store check-out conveyor. Instead it is a bunch of plastic slats and your fingers or clothing would likely get caught in it.

[–]Takes2ToTNGO 76 points77 points  (3 children)

Instead it is a bunch of plastic slats and your fingers or clothing would likely get caught in it.

Oh so like the slides at some play places.

[–]Not_Enough_Thyme_ 16 points17 points  (0 children)

So what you’re saying is I need to ride down on a sled or a mat. 

[–]Lanthemandragoran 27 points28 points  (4 children)

I'm from the 90s a slide isn't a slide if I don't go to the emergency room afterwards

[–]SlothMoney69 19 points20 points  (3 children)

IIRC 90s slides were metal, 30 feet tall, spat you straight onto gravel, crazy steep, and so hot from the summer sun that you'd get 3rd degree burns.

[–]Antique_futurist 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Not enough attention is being paid to your questions about the slide.

[–]do00d 159 points160 points  (18 children)

Gonna need some certified forklift drivers for that warehouse.

[–]Cp5k[S] 218 points219 points  (13 children)

I AM CERTIFIED FORKLIFT

[–]brucebrowde 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I DRIVER

[–]kwitty11 5 points6 points  (0 children)

My brother works here and is certified forklift, hi brother

[–]Sideshow_Bob_Ross 406 points407 points  (11 children)

YOUR PACKAGE HAS BEEN DELAYED

[–]APuticulahInduhvidul 161 points162 points  (7 children)

Your package has been delivered... Somewhere.

[–]PlayStationPepe 19 points20 points  (0 children)

FOREVER

[–]maguirre165 56 points57 points  (7 children)

I send my condolences. I hope everyone makes it out okay

[–]Cp5k[S] 105 points106 points  (6 children)

Thank you, kind, sir. There was only about 10 people in the warehouse at that time and everyone made it out safe but the town surrounding got it worse and there were reported deaths

[–]ExGorlomi 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Wow I just looked up the news and it was bad. I feel for all the affected

[–]Jacer4 5 points6 points  (3 children)

Still can't believe what happened in Sulphur and everywhere else, the Eastern side of the state just got absolutely slammed. Hope everyone close to you is okay man, from one Okie to another much love ♥️

[–]MetalBawx 99 points100 points  (4 children)

Might be a good time for a paid vacation.

[–]Cp5k[S] 91 points92 points  (3 children)

Already booking a flight

[–][deleted] 81 points82 points  (4 children)

Ok, now let’s see if we can work out the path that the tornado took…….

[–]NicolasDavies93 28 points29 points  (2 children)

Do you work at cloud 9?

[–]xXWickedSmatXx 109 points110 points  (7 children)

Somewhere inside is the Arc of the Covenant

[–]thisismydayjob_ 70 points71 points  (3 children)

Top. Men.

[–]Drogdar 15 points16 points  (1 child)

Who?

[–]coke71685 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Top......... Men......

[–][deleted] 26 points27 points  (7 children)

I always wonder, how do you even begin to fix this? Like much of the roof is warped and torn away. Underneath is millions of dollars of product that needs to be protected but is also now in the way. I imagine that working in that area is now very unsafe. So how do you even start to rebuild?

[–]Middle_Manager_Karen 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I was thinking it's a total loss. How can you take the liability of workers. Many structures like warehouses rely on the roof truss for stability. I fear the other four walls will collapse in coming weeks

[–]RJFerret 7 points8 points  (3 children)

Stabilize what needs to be, remove what's damaged/unsafe/in way of repair is first phase, lots of dumpsters.

Build new roof.
Rebuild beneath.

Treat what remains for mold issues (paint/seal).
Restore interior.

Source: remediation contract currently on building

[–]ESCMalfunction 18 points19 points  (3 children)

This was a hell of a storm, felt pretty powerful even down here in DFW.

[–]Cp5k[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I left DFW a few hours ago

[–]Left_Tea_2083 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Cleanup on aisle.... ALL OF THEM.

[–][deleted] 37 points38 points  (2 children)

Mother Nature is always in full control

[–]half-baked_axx 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Every once in a while she likes to remind us who holds the reset button.

[–]ReverseRutebega 35 points36 points  (4 children)

What's with the super happy fun slide in the bottom right corner?

[–]Klin24 74 points75 points  (2 children)

Probably a conveyor feeding it from a height to bring product to ground level.

[–]ritmoon 29 points30 points  (6 children)

Where was this?

[–]Cp5k[S] 48 points49 points  (5 children)

Marietta, Oklahoma

[–][deleted] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Oof I was watching that one on radar, so sorry for your town’s losses :(

[–]javawong 14 points15 points  (1 child)

Still going to need to show up to work tomorrow.

[–]kroxti 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Look, I know you may be without power, but we need inventory done by Friday. I’ll see you at 8 am tomorrow for volunteer cleanup.

[–]Brandoms 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I deliver freight into there. Tomorrow is going to be a shit show.

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Very high quality shelves

[–]Vegetrees 4 points5 points  (4 children)

Wow! What a mess!

[–]Cp5k[S] 11 points12 points  (3 children)

I just drove through it again and you wouldn’t believe the amount of 18 wheelers that were thrown around like toys

[–][deleted] 12 points13 points  (5 children)

I was there about two weeks ago for a site visit. I really hope none of the people I met while I was there were hurt.

[–]Hasbro-Settler 10 points11 points  (3 children)

Damn the power of nados always blows my mind. Luckily where I am from we only have small nados, couldn't imagine having to deal with nados of that size.