So I worked at a warehouse, kinda like Amazon. I was supposed to be watching and correcting boxes on their way to the docks on this stretch of conveyers. I’m supposed to be in the middle one, where there are no e-stops. I have continually brought this up on my safety walls for over a year now and nothing has been done about it. So last weekend our coach was gone and a really incompetent PI was managing the docs instead and they do everything wrong. This causes massive backups in my area. Constant jams, boxes occasionally falling off the line. Until a box volcano just starts exploding in several places and just won’t stop because of faulty conveyers. I’m panicking because boxes are flying at me and the only thing I can think to do it lean over the conveyer to hit the e-stop on the other side. During this frantic reaction, a box hit my shoulder. I have EDS, so I head it pop and it kinda hurt afterwords. It could have been fine after a couple days or it could have completely fucked up the joint, so I reported the incident just in case. I was just hoping they would finally listen to me and add e-stops and more dock workers so we wouldn’t have such a massive failure of the system. I ended up only needing a day off for my shoulder. I went in to the on site nurse and she just recommended rest and ice and it could be fine by the time I had to work. even though I had the paperwork for workers comp I felt ok by the time I had to go back so I wasn’t going to pursue it.
Today I was pulled in and told I was being let go because of unsafe actions after review of the case. I’m so fucking upset and angry. We were already only barely getting by. None of this would have happened if someone competent was in charge and they had actually e-stops in reach. Oh, and the faulty conveyer systems that were “especially bad” in the industry that they refused to let maintenance fix because of part cost.
Any advice of where to go next would be helpful. today I’m gonna cry about it. Tomorrow I’m going to do something about it.