I work in the lumber yard of a large hardware company, and for 8 hours every day we are expected to never be sitting, even though we load endless mounds of lumber for customers, 30kg bags of concrete pre-mix, post-mix, bags of crushed stone, large patio stones, full sheets of drywall and plywood, etc.
If there's a brief 5 minute lul period without customers we can't even sit down to take a breath, despite being tired, sore, and baking in the sun all day. “Sitting is for breaks”. Yeah, maybe inside where they just direct customers to things, stock shelves and check customers out. We do real, backbreaking work out here. We're lifting heavy shit all day long, very awkwardly at times, might I add. Ofcourse we get paid the same shitty wage as they do inside aswell.
Today they took our chairs away because a worker who just got back yesterday after snapping his arm in two over two weeks ago falling off a pile in our storage that he was expected to climb to retrieve some product, was sitting. HES ON LIGHT DUTY, so all he can do today is take customers' invoices and let them out the gate. Why cant he sit?
And the worst part is, management breathes down our necks as if we dont do any work at all. They TRULY think we dont do much out there. Anybody else face issues like this?