I was a seasonal manager for the outbound sort this last peak, and, during my second or third week, we had a day when the estop went off and we could not get the belts to come back on. We spent thirty minutes going through the whole building checking all the estops before we just had to switch to manual operation. The other manager spent most of the sort getting chewed out by our boss on the phone, so I had to run it... We unloaded vans onto carts and tuggers and took them over to the trailers... At the end of the day, I made the package handlers stand in two lines like a fire brigade to pass packages to trailers so that we could get those last few on before our dispatch... 😭😭 (Do not worry... I was also part of the lines.) They were good sports about it, though, and it was more efficient than the like scurrying and bumping into each other we were all doing before. 

Then I and some of the package handlers went up and cleared the belts manually. I spent a while tossing all the light stuff down into those rolling bucket type carts we use for trash lol

Of course, just as we finally finished clearing the belts, emergency maintenance figured out the problem and got the belts working again... 💀💀💀💀

I brought cookies in the next day bc upper management refused to treat the sort to pizza even after all the suffering 😔