Work and Football, football and football

I feel that we have become Amazonians....but not permanent ones. October 12 was our first day and December 23 is to be our last-if we don't have something 'come up'. Thoughts are swimming around in our heads for sure. It has been an experience. We both read many RV'ers blogs about working seasonally for Amazon. It sounded like one of those things you just have to try yourself and figure out if it's a right fit. And Gerard is up to try anything...at least once. This may be our 'been there, done that' category. The jury is still out.

The location of SDF-1 is Campbellsville, KY in the heart of Kentucky. A small rural town filled with very nice people. Amazon is probably the largest employer. There is a Lowes, Walmart and a few fast food chains,DQ and Sonic. There is a Chick-fil-A located at Campbellsville University :)! The university is small, like Campbellsville, filled with eager students wanting to learn ;) We did buy a meal ticket for 61.00 for a total of 6 meals. The salad bar is great along with a variety of entrees. I think it's probably the best buy in town.

Gerard and I have been assigned to the ship dock, J shift which is Sunday thru Thursday with mandatory overtime on Thursday. We have worked 2 weeks of mandatory overtime, which is a total of 50 hours per week. I don't plan to work any more than that unless I knew we could work in Trans-Ship. Last week we trained in that area of ship-dock and we both like it. Basically, we palletize yellow totes of products onto a pallet, shrink wrap it, and transport it to the loading dock. I am proficient in operating a pallet jack and hand scanner now! We did receive very good training from Eric, our ambassador. Regular employees can volunteer to be ambassadors, which help the newbies with learning the ropes.
James trained us on ship dock to stack boxes forming a secure wall onto trailers and palletize boxes.  Building a box wall...similar to tetras...really. About a dozen box sizes fly down the conveyer and our job is to stack evenly, securely and level to form a wall. It takes a while to learn the box combinations that fit together. If you have 'time'....it comes together nicely. But...imagine 7368202 boxes in a few minutes, falling onto the floor, conveyers jamming, sirens going off, lights flashing....all signally the whole dock that you are way behind! Man, does it get stupid crazy on the ship dock.

So, we took 10 hours of unpaid time to travel to Memphis to watch NAVY beat unbeaten Memphis State. It didn't look good after the first drive...about 5 plays and 7 points on the board for the tigers. I thought it was going to be a long night. But, the mid-shipmen came thru with a win of 45-20. Friday night we stayed with Alex and Lianne, our son and daughter-in-love, in Franklin, Tennessee. We also dined at Soapapilllas for tasty Mexican food. I had a much deserved Margarita. I need more. Margaritas.