We drove down to the Oklahoma border, 5 miles away, again for gas for the car. It is 20 cents cheaper over the border. Back in Coffeyville, we stopped for groceries and cinnamon rolls at the store, then home for brunch and getting ready for the game. Watched the Kansas City game - bummer, they lost! We pretty much relaxed today, keeping warm on this chilly, windy day!
Monday - a day of overtime we signed up for. The overtime days on Mondays are run by 1st shift management, so we are always put on stowing. The day went quickly, a lot of product to stow before the holiday weekend. This week Amazon is giving its workers a Thanksgiving turkey lunch. We got to participate today since we were working, the dinner day for our shift will be Saturday. Sliced turkey or ham, potatoes and gravy, dressing, corn, dinner roll and choice of dessert pie (mostly pumpkin or apple). Because of the rush of everyone breaking for lunch at the same time, they were out of the whipped cream and cookies they also were serving earlier and later. A good hot meal for lunch, we were thankful.
Tuesday - another day of rest for us. I made sure we got the laundry done for the busy days ahead. Ran some errands and had my dentist appointment to pick up my permanent mouthpiece to help my TMJ and clenching. I bought the fixings to make pumpkin pie for us, not sure which day we will make it.
Wednesday work as usual. Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, we are ready to work 6:00 - 2:00, a shorter day. Gary was put on water spider duty, moving the carts of received product to the buffer zone for the transporters to take. They had him running- they were pushing the product out like crazy!!! I was running back and forth stowing product in the high value area, all those IPads, IPhones, tablets and more. After lunch at 11:00 they told us they were going to focus everyone on stowing, so the product was available for the Black Friday shopping, and then they would let us go for the day. At 12:30 they told us all to go. Great!! And they sent everyone home with a pumpkin pie.
We went home and cleaned up and then went out for our meal. By then we weren't really hungry for turkey dinner, so we ended up at Hog Heaven and had a delicious BBQ brisket sandwich. Then home for pie and a nap. Later, we met some of the workkampers at Jack's Pub for visiting and beverages. We had told quite a few of the campers that we were going to meet, guess who joined us? The three couples that are all older than us, the one gentleman is 78, but delightful to visit with. They are our heroes, we admire the shape they are in and they do the same work we do. We can hardly keep up with them.
Friday was busy, busy and the pickers came out of the woodwork, they were everywhere, picking the orders being made on Amazon. And they have been there in droves ever since. Friday and Saturday they pulled some of the workkampers over to pick, some of them have picked before and they trained others. Saturday we received another Thanksgiving dinner at work. Yum. We were pretty worn out after this work week. Came home and watched college football until we could not stay awake any longer.
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