RNO1 - Day 12 - Camperforce brings it!

The weather has warmed up a bit at night with overnight temps staying in the high 30's, and day time temps in the low to mid 50's, and it has been quite overcast with a few rain showers here and there.......the local mountains are showing snow again.

On days when we work we don't do much else besides get up, drink coffee, take showers, do a little laundry as needed, and that's about it......life gets very basic, and we are just moving from one work day til the next.  One piece of good news is that we will not have 'MOT' next Saturday, so we'll have off Saturday and Sunday....YAY!

We were off driving to Fernley at precisely 5 pm and, once again, arrived without incident around 5:35.

It's easy to tune out during 'stand up' to the daily barrage of announcements, and 'ra ra' cheerleading in which our managers, of necessity, participate.  They need to get us pumped up each evening to meet arbitrary, but necessary goals set by home office in Seattle.......but last night one proclamation stood out.....the night shifts (4 and 6) are the only shifts that routinely achieve the aforementioned goals.  Of course, these two shifts are made up primarily of 'Camperforce' folk like TLE and I.   Okay, I admit it......my chest briefly swelled with a hint of pride.

Our Friday/Saturday shift was our 12th, and it bore a remarkable resemblance to many other shifts recently......TLE and I once again found ourselves in the Utah 'Pick Mod' trudging up and down ever familiar isles in pursuit of the increasingly rare spot to insert the goods we have been given to stow.  This was how things went until just after our 10 pm break......I was just starting a new cart with a bijillion things to stow when I got a message on my scanner telling me to 'drop' my cart and move over to "Aqua"......one of my favorite 'Pick Mods' here in Fernley......YAY!  TLE also got the message along with a few other of our Camperforce friends, and we all made our way over to 'Aqua' in the Nevada side of the building.

What we found were cavernous holes in which to stow stuff......the items were flying off our carts as we inched along each isle......it was like being let loose in the candy store and given carte blanche.....I was able to empty my first cart barely moving a few feet down the first isle.  In 'Utah' I might have to move my cart the entire length of the 'Pick Mod'  just to empty it.

The rest of our shift flew by, and hardly seemed like work at all.....it's wonderful to leave work and realize it is not 'Groundhog Day' anymore.....

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