Phyl, I think this one would have made it to the finalist on "Funniest Home Video's"

I am short also.. have been known (pre-stroke) to climb on the shelves in the grocery isle to reach an item on the top shelf. (After checking no one else in the isle..lol) I now generally wait until a nice tall person comes down the isle.. and I ask...LOL

Phyllis,

I too am a shorty 5'3" (used to be 5'4" - Shrinking already). Like Bonnie, prestroke I would do whatever it took to get to high places. I think you and I would be a funny pair as I too am extremely uncoordinated LOL. And...taking on projects with assembly involved.....nightmare!!

phyllis:

I don't have to watch charlie chaplin just read your blogs and stunts at the store gives me enough laugh. I know now which job I should not apply for, I don't consider myself short but with left side paralysed reaching things from tall shelf has become harder, but luckily have tall hubby.

Asha

Phyllis,

They got boxes of that stuff in a day ago and are setting it all up in what used to be the layaway department. Haven't taken a peek lately but see what's going on when going to the break room next door.

I guess that is where the Easter rabbit will be staying. It's crammed pack with all sorts of things.

You are amazing, Phyllis! You may be too short for some tasks but you sure are getting a lot of cognitive exercises out of the stuff you have to do on the job. I don't think I could work as hard as you and I'm younger.

Jean

So now many "shorties" have responded, there are the advantages - of that and of being "old" LOL!. Yesterday when setting the top shelf, the mgr. of the store must have had a fit when he saw someone on an egg crate, I heard a man shreiking (just about) the name of the Winn/Dixie reset supervisor. Shortly after the reset supv. comes over to me and told me that the mgr. wants me to use the step saver. They are plastic raisers that are somewhat weighted. He told me to use 2 or 3 (and he gave a look as if to say he understand but we have to do it). OK, I got them (there were only 2) and 2 did not make me as tall as I needed to be to get to the back of the top shelf- even on my tippy toes. My team lead, a tall man, came over and made a remark and then said, get down, I will do it for you, and he put up the piece I was having trouble with. I did use 1 egg carton to get up on so I could reach the 2 step savers and to get off- no way I was going to jump down that distance. I heard no complaint about that. This is why I like worker with this team; they are really nice in very way.

Yes, customers and store employees are very helpful- however, when customers see me on the floor, they think I may have fallen (because I am old) and at first don't realize that I have to reach all the way back on the lowest shelf.

I also have the help of the W/D supervisor. I strip the shelves and he is good enough to set the shelves. Not only can they be heavy but I cannot reach a 4' span to hold a shelf and of course could never get them even. Hey, he sometimes is a notch off.

I may be short and can't help that, but I am learning to control my clumsiness and what I must do to get my rows back straight. I get a lot of happiness when I'm done and see the shelves looking the way they should- just as they are when a new store opens. :big_grin:

Phyllis,

I remember my days with P & G. Our displays were shipped to us and we had to take them into the store and assemble them then stock them. One time a grocery manager and I were building a display of Bounty at the front of the store. He graciously volunteered to take that dolly of empty Bounty cartons to the back of the store. When he pulled around the corner where a freezer was he bumped the ceiling and the cartons went tumbling down. A woman was standing by the freezer and I thought she'd have a heart attack.

The store owner happend to be in the store - and he was a real corker. He didn't come to me, but the manager got a real reprimand. The woman had very recently actually been hospitalized with a heart condition. Truth is stranger than lies and when the manager told me that I almost fainted. If she'd passed out I bet Lynn would have lost his job and I would have lost mine too.

The one thing about putting those displays together is that you do learn to follow directions first instead of trying to put the thing together than finding a critical piece laying at the bottom of the carton the display comes in!!! The other thing about the displays is.....you can always find a cute young man around to bat your lashes at and get some help! Age has its perks sometimes, and ya' gotta take 'em where you get 'em!!!

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