Nah, he's the guy who shook his head knowing picking 2 bunks of 2x4 that high up wasn't a great idea. Every employee there* (edit) is incompetent at their job.
That's what happens when you hire 50 year old Susan's who couldn't tell the difference between a Phillips and Flat at a hardware store, old women need jobs to but that's what JC Penny's is for
Jackson Allen Im sorry...all I can imagine is someone getting buried under that avalanche of studs. Real safety hazard. Thats why they push out the caution gate. Nobody’s company will pay employees to catch pallets of wood in their hands. Safer to let it all fall then play mop up.
That's how it is when you drive a fork truck I drive one at work everyday and people are always telling me what to do, and most of them aren't certified to even drive a fork truck, it's retarded
GUARDIAN702 I work for lowes I'm lumber and I been there 2 years now. And I'm tired of piece of shit like you ! You want straight Lumber ? Pay the fucking price for straight Lumber and don't be picking through our #2 And #3 grade boards and throwing what you do not like on the floor. I'M SICK OF IT. I have to pick up shit all the time because of ass holes like you. Fuck you go to home depot or something and do that shit or buy #1 Grade.
GUARDIAN702 how about I come to your house and tip over your bookshelf, TV, and smash your game console just to even the score? You throw half a bunk on the ground just for one piece of wood? Dumbass. You're the guy we talk shit about in the break room.
cmndrkool321 You talk shit about straingers in the break room? Your probably single. If not you get punkd by your chick. Your not gonna win in here dude. Youguys restock some fucked up shit. This whole team in this video fucked up.
Whoever the jackass that was directing him how to do it was annoying and didn't know shit! Telling him to tilt the load foward when you're supposed to tilt it backwards so all the weight is towards the forklift. He probably would have been fine then. I just wanted to jump through the screen and do it myself
@@jasenrock whoever was directing him was an idiot telling him to angle it foward and he ended up pulling more out from the bottom. Plus you never angle it forward you angle it backwards so the weight transfers towards you. He probably would have been fine then
@Jack Mehoff U Said it brother! Who the hell in their right mind would have told him to lean the forks forward, that guy giving directions WAS, and might still be, an IDIOT!
This doesn’t occur at any Amazon warehouse, their employees don’t even have time to use the restroom to pee! Why do they hire all these lazy asses all the time?
hairoftehdog. reminds me the city of phoenix one working eight standing around when jobs done they all start saying man that guy works hard lets go get a beer
That's because none of those Associates work in the electrical department. Just because you work at Lowe's doesn't mean you're going to automatically know every department. They all looked at each other because they were finding the electrical associate. He was on lunch at the time of place.
Why the fuk all these people standing watching the man, probably hoping he would drop it so they would have something to talk about in the break room. Smh
As a former Home Depot associate in lumber I've seen this many times but it's mostly because the unit wasn't properly placed or the stickers was incorrect so whoever put it there should be held accountable
And that is why you were only a home depot associate. If you were a real forklift operator you would know that that load is too heavy for how high he is lifting The dude just straight up doesn't know how to operate one
One stack at a time. Or take it down one board at a time. Hand over hand until the lift can handle the load. Lazy crazy and stupid should never work on the same task at once.
getting a forklift cert isnt that hard hell you don't even need a drivers license typically you need to check if your forlift can handle the weight its about to pick usually being around 2 pallets or 6000 pounds, you also have to account for slopes and speed your driving. needless to say the fact he picked up what seemed to be 2 bunks of wood is ballsy
thats what i was thinking i feel so bad for the kid. I mean forklifts aren't this hard really but you need experience. poor guy has all these people watching and can probably barley think straight
The workers must not like the forklift operator They are obviously standing around watching to make him nervous Just look at them judging the poor guy Those "workers" should of been fired
i use to work at lowes. i can assure you each location has about 50-60 employees on the clock at all times. but 30-40 of them camp thier whole shift in the break room
At mine there are like 20. When it's 9pm you see all the workers cars. They have so many employees. Wal-Mart down the street is richer and only has 1 cashier and stocker
I love when people do that when im on the lift, I'll just slam the forks down, pull the brake lever back, jump off and go here you go, you wanna do it? They go umm no, and I'll go good then stfu and go away.
@@english_muffinss I did that a few times so far and still get a laugh out of it every time ... I also get a laugh when people tell me I don't know how to drive a forklift yet I operate them with more skill then other's who have years more experience than me ...
They could have strapped those 2 pallets together , on each end ( the 2x4's are 8' at least ) .go up on the side with a Raymond Order Picker , keep pressure on the load . ..could have been avoided .. no ?
I am a forklift operator at an actual lumberyard and this is just pathetic, take the top bundle set it on the ground and use the tilt back to grab the debanded bundle, and grab as much as you can and even if a quarter of the unit falls atleast you have a partial stack. GOOFS
Yeah, I was wondering how high his forks can go. Why is he picking up 2 units with such low backrests, especially 2 units with a rolled unit on the bottom with no banding. I would have done either what you said, but if the forks on that lift can't go that high, I would have gone all the way up on it, and tilted all the way back and then lowered it. The backests will keep the bottom rolled unit in place and the top unit should be just fine. I work at a lumber mill, have driven a Hyster XL for 6 years, and have dealt with MANY rolled units of lumber.
What's wrong ? He got the wood down and now it's at a reduced price. Safe work at it's finest. With so many employees blocking the aisle, how could anyone possibly get hurt? Bravo !!!
Yeah I blame that idiot too. Giving him wrong tips. Should’ve had an extension or should’ve moved forward too push the load into the mast then tip the mast back
I know lots of people who have driven fork lifts but never a fork truck..... Is that like a truck that delivers forks? And the guy in the blue is the idiot.
Jason Y he wasnt giving him tips to save the load he was giving him tips on how to let the load drop as safely as possible. No driver was gonna save that from falling so he was making sure it was done in the safest way possible
Not all of us stand around. Our policy at my store is to run to get it even if it isn't your dept. I'm a pro service loader. I have run across the store to hit a button
Don't fire the spotter. There's supposed to be someone (ONE person, lol) watching the aisle adjacent to this one while the forklift guy is pulling the lumber.
tay gai that’s what you’re worried about? They get paid $10 an hour this took about 5 minutes so they each wasted about a dollar and you’re seriously telling me that if you worked at fucking Lowe’s and this shit happened at your work you wouldn’t go watch that shit fall too quit getting butthurt about people with minimum wage positions
At the end of this occurrence all the employees scattered like roaches to their smoking break, the break room, and other parts unseen by customers. I've never seen that many of them in one place....heck, I've never seen that many during an entire trip to their store!
You that's a good point I've ever only seen the 2 cashiers and the one person in the paint section along with the random guy walking around pretending to work, never this many
I used to work at a warehouse and this was my number one fear. My boss told me though to never try and pick up 2 bundles of anything at the same time unless they were wrapped.
I worked night stock at Lowes, and I have never attempted to lift more than one bundle at a time. The last thing you want to chance is a complete collapse and going over the load limit of the forklift. Also, one wrong move and you could have multiple collapse of the racking, it doesn't take much. Granted that the lumber is on cantilever racking, but the adjoining racking can still be adversely affected. The closest thing I had to a similar situation, was a pallet of disassembled wheelbarrows that started to come apart up in the top-racking as I was lifting them off the racking to bring them down. I managed to save the situation, with no help or onlookers.
bob knar legally you can't work at lowes or Home Depot unless your 18. You must be 18 to drive lift trucks. Yes it is very nerve racking to drive lift trucks for most of us. Doesn't mean I won't do it but I don't like doing it. Maybe if you're comfortable doing that kind of work and you don't really care that's great but when you work part time till you can start a real career you get pretty stressed having to do that kind of stuff. It's the companies faults for improper training. Why is it all the safety training is on the computer?
The only thing that I can tell people is that if you work in a warehouse, if you think that you can get two loads of two by fours what appears to be a small forklift don’t do it because you’ll end up like this
I was thinking the same thing. And then some dumbshit tells him to tilt down and then bring it down. No tilt back then lift up a bit and back up some so you’re not riding the pallet below. Wtf.
Dell Scotten bro, do you even lift? As in forklift lol There IS an option of tilting up or down, you know. Granted, idk if this specific lift has said capabilities, but I'd figure it does
I can't stand anyone just watching me at work when there's a really hard task like this that requires concentration. When the first person started gawking I know what I would have done because I've done it plenty of times before. I'd shut the lift off and walk away and ask everyone if they have anything better to do than watch me.
A spotter isn't a bad thing but they should also be an experienced operator. Actually even more the the guy on the machine. Giving less experienced operators get some time operatoring is also important. But there is way to many here. I'm a Forklift driver and from time to time I ask a spotter to help out. Especially when there's a lot of people walking around on a busy dynamic loading dock. Or in a retaill situation like this. But I pick who I trust. And always they have to be good operators themselves.
@bluegrassman3040 that good to here I'm glad you haven't had to many Accidents after what a year of operating. There are operators that have had there ticket fir 10 years but only drive a couple of times a week or even less that can say they have never had an accident. But it's relative to the Hours of operation that makes it impressive or not. Otherwise it doesn't really mean anything to say you haven't had an accident. So what how many hours have you operated for example. Tell me that after operating for 40+ hours a week then I'll be impressed.
Shit happens, but at Lowe’s or Home Depot they act like it’s the end of the world. Come work in a real lumber yard and this shit is nothing, especially in the winter
John Riley I typically don’t build lumber loads unless we are slow that day, I work with engineered lumber such as ijoice and lvls which are anywhere from 6 ft to 48ft. So moving 2x really isn’t that bad
Outdoors Minnesota I'm in pressure treating. All of our bundles come from the mill so the only time anything gets stacked is if it gets dropped. Those untreated 2x4's just love to slide around lol.
I worked at Lowe’s for 2 years. Those forklifts are not designed to carry the weight of 2 bunks of lumber at a time. Absolutely the drivers fault for trying to take shortcuts. And everyone is faulting the spectators for not doing anything, for one, there’s nothing they can do, and 2 they’re not allowed to. Once an aisle is blocked, no one’s allowed In, not even an employee.
Plot Twist: This actually took place at a Home Depot. The employees r wearing Lowe's gear as part of an elaborate ruse to virally embarrass the competition. Literal paid actors.
I do call things like this out. You have 6 associates or more standing around for 10min or more, and theirs nothing they can do to help while the forklift is being used. As SOON as everything falls apart, and theirs work to be done, everyone starts to leave. If they would all help, That mess could be cleaned up and organized in about 10 minutes smh But I blame managers for allowing it to be like that. If I were the Manager I’d announce that everyone standing around watching will help clean up the aisle.
For those that aren't putting together what exactly happened, a strap broke on the lumber. This was noticed, and the driver halted immediately. Had the driver stuffed it back in, the entire pile was at risk of falling. This is very obviously a planned uh....... rapid descent. You can hear this at 1:52 where the manager says "Alright, angle foward."
This is actually standard practice. I worked at a Lowes lumber department for six years. The actual problem here was attempting to put a "rolled' unit on the stack with another unit above it. You just don't do that. The rolled unit needs to be placed on it's own cantilever rack, or worked into the active bay. The person who was working was an idiot.
Exactly what's wrong with everyone these days. You go to work but expect to get paid just because you showed up... take a little initiative. might get you somewhere..
Reminds me of one time I was working in a multiproduct warehouse. We were working with salsa displays that day and one of of the forklifts had picked up one of them to take to the wrapper. However on his way over there, the pallet the display was on broke sending who knows how many jars of Pace Salsa to the floor. Salsa went everywhere and it took ages to clean up, and the warehouse smelled like the stuff for the next few days.
Be glad it wasn't a case of Repel-All or Liquid Fence. One night, a co-worker came up to me complaining that he dropped a case of Repel-All AND Liquid Fence in the seasonal department, (I was working Tool-World). I helped him to clean up the super offensive mess (I have a "cast-iron" stomach) and he was ready to vomit. The birds in the overhead were awakened by the stench and started dive-bombing him. LOL
Mr Leon sometimes lifts can’t reach that high. We used to be forced to do that at this country rural place where they didn’t give a shit about our safety. Just work work work.
Right? Something isnt right though. Both pallets got up there, but they can't get them down? If they put both up with the same lift, then it should be able to get both down. Maybe they hand stacked extra 2x4s on later to make it heavier, or used a different lift last time to put them up. As another poster wrote earlier, just about everything that could make this video a fail was done. This was the lottery fail
Mr Leon same thing I said... Or had another forklift on the other side ready to catch the good bale of 2x4s so you can just focus on the faulty one... Idk
LOL, and this is why I file Blowes (and HD) under I, for idiots. One guy running the forklift who takes 5 minutes to drop a bunch of stuff, while no less than 6 other employees stand there doing nothing while 1 pissed off customer can't get the one thing he needs in that isle. Meanwhile, the woman who can't find the light bulbs is wondering why there is no one to help her.
Seth Watson the isles are required to be closed off for this very reason. and there's usually only 2 involved, driver and spotter... unless it's something spectacular...
joek0617 Yeah, I know that. To a degree, they are protecting us from their inept employees. But my point is that they are prone to stupid stuff like this.
well, and it's generally easier on the forklift operator as well. people do stupid stuff, especially customers. plus, sometimes, shit happens. stuff falls, etc.
James Foskey how is it too high? That’s easily reachable. You could definitely get the top stack without getting the bottom because of the runners underneath the bunk that separate the two. That’s the entire point of them so the forks can easily get them
No the problem is the lower bunk had came unbanded and he couldnt get under the top one without further messing the bottom one up. So he unfortunately had to do this. I dont know why it couldnt wait until after hours
David Fubuster I love ace too, mostly because they have dog food too. Not enough lumber or materials for bigger jobs but ace definitely has the best employees
This is why I cannot stand people. Help the guy out instead of standing there watching him. That shit would make me uncomfortable if I had 10 people watching me literally. This is why I try too stay too myself at work because people are too lazy and snitches who like too see people fuck up
He can't see the way the load is shifting from his vantage point. This is why the manager was telling him how to move to allow the load to fall safely. There was no real way to salvage the load when the bottom pallet load began rolling off the tips of the forks. Best he could have hoped for was two VERY unstable stacks on the top shelf waiting to collapse.
whiteknightcat.. I have 14 years Experience as a fork truck operator. Don't tell me the load wasn't salvage worthy. The manager told him the wrong and unsafe way of getting the stuff down. I'm certified on every type of lift in the industry..
BEARDED YAKIN I agree with you. I have 12 years and drive deep reaches, stand ups, cherry Pickers, clamp trucks and sit down. That guy telling him what to do is a moron. This company doesn't pay didly squat for their drivers so they won't ever have awesome drivers and to be honest they probably don't care. They just need somebody that's not gonna kill somebody. I would like to see if they close off both sides of the aisles when they do stuff like this. I would hope so.
Yep, that's Lowes. One person working. Nine people watching.
gremlinsbreath Just like the TSA people at the airport..
Me too lol like do these people have NOTHING to do?
that's the safety committee
gremlinsbreath home depot is better
The Rocket Brother PNW that's right they have 20 people watching..instead of 9
There's always that one jerk who claps...
SantaDog81, right? Like he would have done any better with that disaster waiting to happen.
Bodybuildingking he looked so burnt out from being up 3 days straight in that stretched out shirt.
I feel like it was more of a “what we were all waiting for finally happened now let’s get back to work” type clap
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SantaDog81 the fucker that thinks he will do it better
When it came time to help restack those 2x4's ..... all those spectators vanished .
I work at Lowe’s and do all the grunt work. I can confirm that when a helping hand is needed, all your old age co-workers vanish without a trace.
Then you do a job at these people's house and they bitch at your hourly rate.
@Justin R why not just tell your boss if the old lady isn't gonna be doing the grunt work neither am I that's what I would do
So true 😂
@@justinr2564 Not ALL of us "old age co-workers", I helped wherever and whenever I could. I'm not afraid of work, like many young-uns.
Meanwhile; some tweaker walks back and forth clapping his hands!!!
Fr that guy lives in my head rent free what are you clapping about pal?
Nah, he's the guy who shook his head knowing picking 2 bunks of 2x4 that high up wasn't a great idea. Every employee there* (edit) is incompetent at their job.
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No wonder someone needs help in Electrical. Everyone is watching the damn forklift show in aisle 55
The Black Knight I was goin to say the same damn thing lol
They'll be there in a hour if electrical is aisle 55 and wood is 18
Random Hero lol they all watching the forklift show that's there whole store
That's what happens when you hire 50 year old Susan's who couldn't tell the difference between a Phillips and Flat at a hardware store, old women need jobs to but that's what JC Penny's is for
Actually aisle 18
Everyone except the guy in the forklift should be fired
Hahaha
Why is that?
Igot1 too I was think the same thing, Lazy bastards could b catching studs rn
Jackson Allen Im sorry...all I can imagine is someone getting buried under that avalanche of studs. Real safety hazard. Thats why they push out the caution gate. Nobody’s company will pay employees to catch pallets of wood in their hands. Safer to let it all fall then play mop up.
JohnTGaming thanks captain obvious 🤦♂️
So, EVERYBODY was playing supervisor that day, huh?
That's how it is when you drive a fork truck I drive one at work everyday and people are always telling me what to do, and most of them aren't certified to even drive a fork truck, it's retarded
Yah, nobody advised Him to do it correctly. He was the guy They all wanted to get rid of.
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This is why 1 out of 20 register are open
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Meanwhile I'm waiting for a cashier while 17 employees are just standing there
meanwhile shaddup
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Update from yrs ago , the check outs are now "Self check outs" 😮
All that because a customer demanded to buy a straight 2x4.
Jim Beshears I just throw the warped and split wood on the floor, so tired of this junk
GUARDIAN702 I work for lowes I'm lumber and I been there 2 years now. And I'm tired of piece of shit like you !
You want straight Lumber ?
Pay the fucking price for straight Lumber and don't be picking through our #2 And #3 grade boards and throwing what you do not like on the floor.
I'M SICK OF IT. I have to pick up shit all the time because of ass holes like you. Fuck you go to home depot or something and do that shit or buy #1 Grade.
Jim Beshears
ahhhhh........
Had ta be you that wanted a strait one
GUARDIAN702 how about I come to your house and tip over your bookshelf, TV, and smash your game console just to even the score? You throw half a bunk on the ground just for one piece of wood? Dumbass. You're the guy we talk shit about in the break room.
cmndrkool321
You talk shit about straingers in the break room?
Your probably single.
If not you get punkd by your chick.
Your not gonna win in here dude.
Youguys restock some fucked up shit.
This whole team in this video fucked up.
That load was doomed no matter who moved it
So why not place ladders, cut and open the plastic. Manpower it with those 8 extra employees. Bring it down one piece at a time
@@miltonperez3421 should have lifted one bundle, rather than 2
@@miltonperez3421 Kinda did that.
Whoever the jackass that was directing him how to do it was annoying and didn't know shit! Telling him to tilt the load foward when you're supposed to tilt it backwards so all the weight is towards the forklift. He probably would have been fine then. I just wanted to jump through the screen and do it myself
Should have taken the top bundle first.
I dont think they needed that many spotters
they needed more
they needed a few more when they put it up.
Jeremy yes they do when his a Mexican drunk
They needed a new driver
There's probably a bunch of customers roaming the next aisle completely unaware because all the employees are watching the forklift
Q: What's the busiest place inside of any Lowe's store?
A: The break room.
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As a Lowe’s employee I can confirm this.
Kek lol
Actually, it's the restrooms. Both customers and employees can be found in there.
How many people does it take to watch a forklift driver at Lowe's?
Answer = 6
I seen at least nine
Better add 'teen' to the end of it!
Richard Wolfe I work at Lowe’s, that is the true mystery
Anyone would stop and watch when they know something is going to happen
Technically a forklift only needs one spotter. Those others ought to get back to their department.
I worked at Lowe's for 10 years, drove the forklift, etc. Picking up two stacks is just asking for trouble unless you know what you're doing.
EXACTLY!
@@jasenrock whoever was directing him was an idiot telling him to angle it foward and he ended up pulling more out from the bottom. Plus you never angle it forward you angle it backwards so the weight transfers towards you. He probably would have been fine then
@Jack Mehoff U Said it brother! Who the hell in their right mind would have told him to lean the forks forward, that guy giving directions WAS, and might still be, an IDIOT!
The forklift operator didn't center when he picked it up so it was off balance to begin with.
You're supposed to know what you're doing.
Who would have thought that Lowe’s had that many employees working at one store.
I WOOD've...
A lot of people? It's a big ass store, usually.
They weren’t working.
Josh Stratton I know. Every time I am looking for help. Nobody is around
Josh Stratton ;LETS all just stand around and let the customer use the self check out lane!!!
So much pressure on the forklift driver, every single damn employee at Lowe's is watching him.
Agree
no wonder we cannot find help in that store!
aulani C
Even if u can find someone, they don't know anything
They usually take off running when you make eye contact at my store.
whatfreedom7 this is so true. I hate this store. It's run by post highschool grass. Who's don't know what work is.
EVER lol
aulani C I work at a Lowe’s my store is strict on costumer helping
I count 8 employees standing around, just watching...
These are probably the same people who complain about being underpaid
This doesn’t occur at any Amazon warehouse, their employees don’t even have time to use the restroom to pee! Why do they hire all these lazy asses all the time?
hairoftehdog. reminds me the city of phoenix one working eight standing around when jobs done they all start saying man that guy works hard lets go get a beer
they got rid of all of them now the left are pissed they want a revolution
Supervisors
You are A dumbass lol
Lowe's. Let's wreck something together.
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I like how 90% of the staff are older people that just observe
I like how 0:12 the loud speaker calls out for customer assistance and everybody just kind of looks at each other and stays 😂
Is that what he said when he lost his dads fortune ? And got in all that debt with russian mob ?
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That's because none of those Associates work in the electrical department. Just because you work at Lowe's doesn't mean you're going to automatically know every department. They all looked at each other because they were finding the electrical associate. He was on lunch at the time of place.
Good Vibes you were probably the bald associate trying to defend yourself lol
I couldn’t understand what the person said on the PA system. She must have been black
2:32 that one idiot that has to clap
Lol he’s good
Because the forklift operator was a total idiot. The clapping was probably meant sarcastic.
izzi that's my hero!!!!
Dude's a weirdo, walks back and forth looking pretty cracked out. He's probably that white man in construction that sparks a ciggarette every hour
Richard van Pukkem The strapped ripped it wasn't his fault it was more like a defect
Why the fuk all these people standing watching the man, probably hoping he would drop it so they would have something to talk about in the break room. Smh
Dark Horse you guessed it
Well, I can't blame them, boring ass job lol
Lol
Lmao
As a former Home Depot associate in lumber I've seen this many times but it's mostly because the unit wasn't properly placed or the stickers was incorrect so whoever put it there should be held accountable
And that is why you were only a home depot associate. If you were a real forklift operator you would know that that load is too heavy for how high he is lifting The dude just straight up doesn't know how to operate one
One stack at a time. Or take it down one board at a time. Hand over hand until the lift can handle the load. Lazy crazy and stupid should never work on the same task at once.
I can't understand why they didn't remove the upper stack first? And how long are the forks?
getting a forklift cert isnt that hard hell you don't even need a drivers license typically you need to check if your forlift can handle the weight its about to pick usually being around 2 pallets or 6000 pounds, you also have to account for slopes and speed your driving. needless to say the fact he picked up what seemed to be 2 bunks of wood is ballsy
Absolutely buddy!
The way the load was received in and subsequently put away is everything!
A Quality MHE Operator is also essential!
Why are they all standing around and making the forklift driver even more nervous?
Mystery Buyer
Exactly
Mystery Buyer that's what white people do they stand around in observe there noisy people
Mystery Buyer poor management not telling them to get to work lol.
thats what i was thinking i feel so bad for the kid. I mean forklifts aren't this hard really but you need experience. poor guy has all these people watching and can probably barley think straight
Gold Channel Yeah, and the blacks are at home not doing shit.
The workers must not like the forklift operator
They are obviously standing around watching to make him nervous
Just look at them judging the poor guy
Those "workers" should of been fired
they're all boomers lol
Miguel E that shit gets intense with those 2 bys
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@KMac utube are you a good person by living waters
really surprised lowes has that many workers. i usually only see 2 at one location.
Daniel H come.to the one in Wooster Ohio. We got a shit load ready to help
ghostdasquarian I live in a commercial area so any hardware store around me has an employee around every corner asking if I need help.. so annoying
i use to work at lowes. i can assure you each location has about 50-60 employees on the clock at all times. but 30-40 of them camp thier whole shift in the break room
At mine there are like 20. When it's 9pm you see all the workers cars. They have so many employees. Wal-Mart down the street is richer and only has 1 cashier and stocker
They bracket town for everyone safety
Drove a forklift for 20+ years and I just love that how some on the floor tells you how to operate one,lol just saying!!!
I love when people do that when im on the lift, I'll just slam the forks down, pull the brake lever back, jump off and go here you go, you wanna do it? They go umm no, and I'll go good then stfu and go away.
@@english_muffinss I did that a few times so far and still get a laugh out of it every time ... I also get a laugh when people tell me I don't know how to drive a forklift yet I operate them with more skill then other's who have years more experience than me ...
They could have strapped those 2 pallets together , on each end ( the 2x4's are 8' at least ) .go up on the side with a Raymond Order Picker , keep pressure on the load . ..could have been avoided .. no ?
@Dr Pepper Kev actually that's the job of the machine operator
If your already fucked your not gonna save it , swallow your pride and move on to anthoter fucked up day only at lowes lol
And in the other side there's a big crowd of people waiting for cashiers cuz all the employees are just standing there.
I am a forklift operator at an actual lumberyard and this is just pathetic, take the top bundle set it on the ground and use the tilt back to grab the debanded bundle, and grab as much as you can and even if a quarter of the unit falls atleast you have a partial stack. GOOFS
Hmmm, tell us what you WOOD've done different...
Right. 😏
Yeah, I was wondering how high his forks can go. Why is he picking up 2 units with such low backrests, especially 2 units with a rolled unit on the bottom with no banding. I would have done either what you said, but if the forks on that lift can't go that high, I would have gone all the way up on it, and tilted all the way back and then lowered it. The backests will keep the bottom rolled unit in place and the top unit should be just fine.
I work at a lumber mill, have driven a Hyster XL for 6 years, and have dealt with MANY rolled units of lumber.
I kept saying tilt back, tilt back, some manager said"yeah go ahead and tilt forward
@@jhawk870 true it looks like he coulve just taken the top bunk off But the fork lift should be able to get to the top shelf
What's wrong ? He got the wood down and now it's at a reduced price. Safe work at it's finest. With so many employees blocking the aisle, how could anyone possibly get hurt? Bravo !!!
Hahahaha
Ive worked in a lumber yard... this isnt that big of a deal.. in 20 minutes they will have those units restacked and banded
Yup a resell all those twisted pieces of shit
You must've been proud of yourself when they called you and said you're hired
Mike Rycc now it makes sense why all the 1x2’s are always warped to shit at Lowe’s 😂
If you can find the bander.
So picking up 2 giants load at the same time isnt that big of a deal?? Thats just moronic.....
I like the idiot in the blue vest telling him what to do. Prob never drove a forktruck in his life.
hes the manager lol
Yeah I blame that idiot too. Giving him wrong tips. Should’ve had an extension or should’ve moved forward too push the load into the mast then tip the mast back
I know lots of people who have driven fork lifts but never a fork truck..... Is that like a truck that delivers forks? And the guy in the blue is the idiot.
Jason Y he wasnt giving him tips to save the load he was giving him tips on how to let the load drop as safely as possible. No driver was gonna save that from falling so he was making sure it was done in the safest way possible
He was a manager and all managers at lowes is required to be trained on all power equipment incase they are needed.
So this is where all the lowes employees are when im in the lighting section pressing the help button
Ryan Oldham, so sorry, sir. I WOOD've helped you, but I was helping my manager.
Not all of us stand around. Our policy at my store is to run to get it even if it isn't your dept. I'm a pro service loader. I have run across the store to hit a button
Proof that at any moment in time, there are 8-10 Lowes employees with absolutely nothing to do.
You know shit 🤡. But feel free to continue showing up with your shitty attitude moronic commentary.
" welcome to lowes how can I help you? "
Yea I need some 2x4s
I would (FIRE EVERYONE) except the lift operator for lack of production and riding the clock.
6 people there watching , and only one guy working LMAO 😂 😂
No kidding, at least the operator was actually working.
That's why paying people by the hour is a joke
Don't fire the spotter. There's supposed to be someone (ONE person, lol) watching the aisle adjacent to this one while the forklift guy is pulling the lumber.
Now they have the Home Depot bend in them.
Lmao! True statement.
Lol the home depot bend.
LOL!
YEP, they sure do..
ROFL
love how 10 of his co workers got paid to watch the fun
lowes is a shitty place to work. I work there.
tay gai that’s what you’re worried about? They get paid $10 an hour this took about 5 minutes so they each wasted about a dollar and you’re seriously telling me that if you worked at fucking Lowe’s and this shit happened at your work you wouldn’t go watch that shit fall too quit getting butthurt about people with minimum wage positions
Jiju j no. Wal-Mart is the shittiest place to work
Robby Leonard for every $1 they waste the company loses even more.
JonFFavale no they just lose the dollar they wasted
That customer clapping 😂😂😂😂 you know every employee standing around gawking is a master at forklift driving
At the end of this occurrence all the employees scattered like roaches to their smoking break, the break room, and other parts unseen by customers. I've never seen that many of them in one place....heck, I've never seen that many during an entire trip to their store!
Ryan Butler lmfao
Lmao exactly, i never knew there was that money employees there at Lowes. Smh
Ryan Butler customer assistance was called and nobody moved. Lol
You that's a good point I've ever only seen the 2 cashiers and the one person in the paint section along with the random guy walking around pretending to work, never this many
Ryan Butler facts
I used to work at a warehouse and this was my number one fear. My boss told me though to never try and pick up 2 bundles of anything at the same time unless they were wrapped.
I literally just thought that out loud, it's common sense I didn't need to be told not to do that, the shit just look dangerous asf
I worked night stock at Lowes, and I have never attempted to lift more than one bundle at a time. The last thing you want to chance is a complete collapse and going over the load limit of the forklift. Also, one wrong move and you could have multiple collapse of the racking, it doesn't take much. Granted that the lumber is on cantilever racking, but the adjoining racking can still be adversely affected. The closest thing I had to a similar situation, was a pallet of disassembled wheelbarrows that started to come apart up in the top-racking as I was lifting them off the racking to bring them down. I managed to save the situation, with no help or onlookers.
My boss told me never carry two crates stacked on each other. Didn’t listen to him and I learnt the hard way 😂
Random contractor comes up, hey I need six bundles of 2x4's loaded into my ford ranger from 1989 with a 4 foot bed...
lmao
This is accurate
That's the only way to do it! Why show up with the right truck lol?
HJW Pumps and the it’s the bed with the side step built into the bed of the truck so it’s like 1/3 less space then normal
bob knar legally you can't work at lowes or Home Depot unless your 18. You must be 18 to drive lift trucks. Yes it is very nerve racking to drive lift trucks for most of us. Doesn't mean I won't do it but I don't like doing it. Maybe if you're comfortable doing that kind of work and you don't really care that's great but when you work part time till you can start a real career you get pretty stressed having to do that kind of stuff. It's the companies faults for improper training. Why is it all the safety training is on the computer?
The only thing that I can tell people is that if you work in a warehouse, if you think that you can get two loads of two by fours what appears to be a small forklift don’t do it because you’ll end up like this
Who else spent 2 minutes and 27 seconds thinking "TILT UP, TILT UP, TILT UP!"? 😂
Maka'ainana I was thinking: hurry up and fall, i don't have all day, how long is this video?
Maka'ainana Because there is NO " tilt up ".......its " lift up" or it's " tilt back" ! That's like saying "raise it down" !
I was thinking the same thing. And then some dumbshit tells him to tilt down and then bring it down. No tilt back then lift up a bit and back up some so you’re not riding the pallet below. Wtf.
Dell Scotten bro, do you even lift? As in forklift lol
There IS an option of tilting up or down, you know. Granted, idk if this specific lift has said capabilities, but I'd figure it does
Me, while questioning why not take the bundle on top off first.
Attention Lowe's shoppers:
We just crashed the price of two-by-fours in aisle 8!
6 employees standing there spectating instead of doing their jobs.
it's a minimum wage job what do you expect? no one gives a fuck when they get paid like shit lol. It's a shit job for shit pay
Lmao have you never had a job? You see something like this going on you're allowed to watch, and you are probably going to
@@Ruuku1 agreed
I go to depot
That is the safety team.
Man. There's a lot of people in these comments revealing how shitty they would be to work for.
Classic low's, store manager stands there like he knows everything, but knows nothing😉
Understatement of the century
The dude that was clapping😂
I can't stand anyone just watching me at work when there's a really hard task like this that requires concentration. When the first person started gawking I know what I would have done because I've done it plenty of times before. I'd shut the lift off and walk away and ask everyone if they have anything better to do than watch me.
It’s the same with me too. Fortunately, the only accidents I had with palletised merchandise, was when we were closing for the night.
A spotter isn't a bad thing but they should also be an experienced operator. Actually even more the the guy on the machine. Giving less experienced operators get some time operatoring is also important. But there is way to many here. I'm a Forklift driver and from time to time I ask a spotter to help out. Especially when there's a lot of people walking around on a busy dynamic loading dock. Or in a retaill situation like this. But I pick who I trust. And always they have to be good operators themselves.
@bluegrassman3040 that good to here I'm glad you haven't had to many Accidents after what a year of operating. There are operators that have had there ticket fir 10 years but only drive a couple of times a week or even less that can say they have never had an accident. But it's relative to the Hours of operation that makes it impressive or not. Otherwise it doesn't really mean anything to say you haven't had an accident. So what how many hours have you operated for example. Tell me that after operating for 40+ hours a week then I'll be impressed.
" Hey everybody, come check it out! Dave just got back from break and hes using the forklift"🤭
Good video. Showed the importance of safety. Everyone who is watching is learning to not be afraid to speak up when something is unsafe.
Shit happens, but at Lowe’s or Home Depot they act like it’s the end of the world. Come work in a real lumber yard and this shit is nothing, especially in the winter
Outdoors Minnesota In a real lumber yard the workers wouldn't be standing around watching like this either lol
Cameron Peterson nope
Outdoors Minnesota
I hate moving 2x4 8's. At least they don't take long to restack.
John Riley I typically don’t build lumber loads unless we are slow that day, I work with engineered lumber such as ijoice and lvls which are anywhere from 6 ft to 48ft. So moving 2x really isn’t that bad
Outdoors Minnesota
I'm in pressure treating. All of our bundles come from the mill so the only time anything gets stacked is if it gets dropped. Those untreated 2x4's just love to slide around lol.
3:54
Intercom: Clean up in aisle 18.
All the employees ..... Gone!! 🤣😂
I worked at Lowe’s for 2 years. Those forklifts are not designed to carry the weight of 2 bunks of lumber at a time. Absolutely the drivers fault for trying to take shortcuts. And everyone is faulting the spectators for not doing anything, for one, there’s nothing they can do, and 2 they’re not allowed to. Once an aisle is blocked, no one’s allowed In, not even an employee.
Too much people watching. Made the poor guy nervous! 😓
Yep, it WOOD've made me nervous, too
Plot Twist: This actually took place at a Home Depot. The employees r wearing Lowe's gear as part of an elaborate ruse to virally embarrass the competition.
Literal paid actors.
Based & redpilled
Take the top 1 off first, then lift the third 1 carrying the 2nd roll. Driver got nervous cause 9 lazy ass employees staring at him.
I do call things like this out. You have 6 associates or more standing around for 10min or more, and theirs nothing they can do to help while the forklift is being used.
As SOON as everything falls apart, and theirs work to be done, everyone starts to leave.
If they would all help, That mess could be cleaned up and organized in about 10 minutes smh
But I blame managers for allowing it to be like that. If I were the Manager I’d announce that everyone standing around watching will help clean up the aisle.
For those that aren't putting together what exactly happened, a strap broke on the lumber. This was noticed, and the driver halted immediately. Had the driver stuffed it back in, the entire pile was at risk of falling. This is very obviously a planned uh....... rapid descent. You can hear this at 1:52 where the manager says "Alright, angle foward."
....and when he said "angle forward" you just knew that was going to shift the weight and cue the money shot.
I WOOD've done it differently
who ever put two bunks of 2x4s that high needs to be fired
I agree. Those bundles are way to high. If they need more room. Let me do there job and show them how to make room.
Where I'm from, they are usually stacked about 5 high
This is actually standard practice. I worked at a Lowes lumber department for six years. The actual problem here was attempting to put a "rolled' unit on the stack with another unit above it. You just don't do that. The rolled unit needs to be placed on it's own cantilever rack, or worked into the active bay. The person who was working was an idiot.
In Home Depot we stack 6 high and sheet rock 12 high
Yes
That random customer who just came through and started clapping 😂😂👍🏻
Funny how they come out when things like this happen, but when customers need help they’re nowhere to be found.
That's always break time.
Funny how after the damage is done.. the rest of employees just leaves... LoL 😂😆
🤣
Would have grabbed 1 load at a time instead of the double stack, unless they set him up for failure and told him to grab the double stack
No wonder all the two-by-fours look like pretzels
guy clapping made the vid significantly more enjoyable. looks exactly like a typical guy i would see shopping in lowes LOL
After the bundle goes down that is when I would slowly walk away, because now it comes clean up time...
im going on break dude
Exactly what's wrong with everyone these days. You go to work but expect to get paid just because you showed up... take a little initiative. might get you somewhere..
I wouldve walk away long before it fell
Will McGowan pretty sure you don't get a job at Lowes to work on your serious career
Scott Riggs I've clearly offended you and your lowes career
Those standing around is a safety Hazzard and a distraction. Lowe's should know better
No wonder why you can't find a straight board to save your life
UnitedWeGame lmao your right
Boss: “Okay, no one is clocking out till we get all the 2x4s stacked up high and neat.” 😂
Reminds me of one time I was working in a multiproduct warehouse. We were working with salsa displays that day and one of of the forklifts had picked up one of them to take to the wrapper. However on his way over there, the pallet the display was on broke sending who knows how many jars of Pace Salsa to the floor. Salsa went everywhere and it took ages to clean up, and the warehouse smelled like the stuff for the next few days.
Scrapyard24c yay!!! Salsa party on aisle 6.
Be glad it wasn't a case of Repel-All or Liquid Fence. One night, a co-worker came up to me complaining that he dropped a case of Repel-All AND Liquid Fence in the seasonal department, (I was working Tool-World). I helped him to clean up the super offensive mess (I have a "cast-iron" stomach) and he was ready to vomit. The birds in the overhead were awakened by the stench and started dive-bombing him. LOL
Why not take of the top layer to reduce the weight and then the bottom layer last? Am I missing something 😂
Mr Leon sometimes lifts can’t reach that high. We used to be forced to do that at this country rural place where they didn’t give a shit about our safety. Just work work work.
Mr Leon probably would've been for the best, yeah.
Right? Something isnt right though. Both pallets got up there, but they can't get them down? If they put both up with the same lift, then it should be able to get both down. Maybe they hand stacked extra 2x4s on later to make it heavier, or used a different lift last time to put them up.
As another poster wrote earlier, just about everything that could make this video a fail was done. This was the lottery fail
Mr Leon YEAH A LOWES JOB APLICCATION
Mr Leon same thing I said... Or had another forklift on the other side ready to catch the good bale of 2x4s so you can just focus on the faulty one... Idk
LOL, and this is why I file Blowes (and HD) under I, for idiots. One guy running the forklift who takes 5 minutes to drop a bunch of stuff, while no less than 6 other employees stand there doing nothing while 1 pissed off customer can't get the one thing he needs in that isle. Meanwhile, the woman who can't find the light bulbs is wondering why there is no one to help her.
Seth Watson the isles are required to be closed off for this very reason. and there's usually only 2 involved, driver and spotter... unless it's something spectacular...
joek0617 Yeah, I know that. To a degree, they are protecting us from their inept employees. But my point is that they are prone to stupid stuff like this.
well, and it's generally easier on the forklift operator as well. people do stupid stuff, especially customers. plus, sometimes, shit happens. stuff falls, etc.
Seth Watson lol first thing i thought when started watching video! like watching highway workers work. one works while the rest watch
it's called read and stop being lazy. yeah workers there suck, but customers making you do their shopping is what's the problem finding help.
"You got it Orlando"
Pallet breaks
That's why you take ONE stack at a time. Retraining needed.
@jason Patterson someone put both stacks up there at the same time. The top stack is too high for the lift to reach it.
He's not even up high
James Foskey how is it too high? That’s easily reachable. You could definitely get the top stack without getting the bottom because of the runners underneath the bunk that separate the two. That’s the entire point of them so the forks can easily get them
No the problem is the lower bunk had came unbanded and he couldnt get under the top one without further messing the bottom one up. So he unfortunately had to do this. I dont know why it couldnt wait until after hours
@@jamesfoskey2804 nope it isnt.
You guys havin a meeting??
Manager be like, WOOD you all move back
Daniel Jimenez fuck I hate lazy fucks like them.
yep, classic lowes, everyone standing around watching some monumental moment while customs roam aimlessly in need of help. #lovemyacehardware.
David Fubuster I love ace too, mostly because they have dog food too. Not enough lumber or materials for bigger jobs but ace definitely has the best employees
David Fubuster "ace is the place with the helpful hardware folks" I guess it's true.
This is why I cannot stand people. Help the guy out instead of standing there watching him. That shit would make me uncomfortable if I had 10 people watching me literally. This is why I try too stay too myself at work because people are too lazy and snitches who like too see people fuck up
Glad to see the employees working so hard!
Apparently the guy on the forklift doesn't know what he's doing.. but now he's probably wrapped up in accident reports and a piss test..lol
He can't see the way the load is shifting from his vantage point. This is why the manager was telling him how to move to allow the load to fall safely. There was no real way to salvage the load when the bottom pallet load began rolling off the tips of the forks. Best he could have hoped for was two VERY unstable stacks on the top shelf waiting to collapse.
whiteknightcat.. I have 14 years Experience as a fork truck operator. Don't tell me the load wasn't salvage worthy. The manager told him the wrong and unsafe way of getting the stuff down. I'm certified on every type of lift in the industry..
Well then, I'd guess this particular Lowe's outlet could use a person of your expertise.
whiteknightcat.. they can't afford my expertise...lol
BEARDED YAKIN I agree with you. I have 12 years and drive deep reaches, stand ups, cherry Pickers, clamp trucks and sit down. That guy telling him what to do is a moron. This company doesn't pay didly squat for their drivers so they won't ever have awesome drivers and to be honest they probably don't care. They just need somebody that's not gonna kill somebody. I would like to see if they close off both sides of the aisles when they do stuff like this. I would hope so.
When you lie on your application but still get the job
Done that one time. Had to pick everything up by myself. Lesson learned
ALWAYS THAT ONE GUY AT LOWES WITH THE SUNGLASSES ON!
Pt0wN973b0iI faded shades
That's not how you play Jenga
Rofl this is the new version: Jenga Piss-cup lol
@@pws3rd170 piss-cup!?!?!
LOWE'S STOCK is doing really well. Next dip is the best time to buy for some good gains.
This turned out to be a good tip. Hope you followed your own advice.🙂
When the guy on the floor, who doesn't drive forklift, is telling the forklift driver what to do 🤔
He was set up . 👎
Mark Contreras someone its going out of the store with lots of free merchandise
this is amazing considering how many ratchet straps,bungee cords and rope that they sell at lowes
😂
How many people do you need watching the forklift driver? Lowe’s: Yes
The dude clapping for all the hip holders was awesome. Good work team haha
This is why you should go to Home Depot. "More Saving, More Doing!" 😂❤
Yeah especially if you wanna get harassed my illegals
You ain't saving shit and you sure as hell ain't doing more
@@Maxim_74 okay minecrafter 😂
@@ResurrectMee Don't be mad I'm telling the truth.
@@Maxim_74 okay 😂
Typical behavior for Lowes cashiers. Standing in packs with their arms crossed immobilized by stupidity or being over weight.
Feel for the Forklift operator. Did his best and all those people were standing around being judgmental and hoping for him to fail.
Yep and that one guy clapping especially
If they were to get closer, they could have been hurt.
I love how the guy was telling him what to do and it still went everywhere. Like he knew what he was talking about hahaha
Jenga sure is getting harder
Haha Ahaha welcome to pro league
Well, seems like they have plenty enough employees to help clean up.
punknhead23 and they are a bunch of cheapskates
Typical blue vest !! clueless as the corporate management staff.
Lazy workers need to go back to work 😣
Homero Quinonez thats why they work at lowes
they only there for a check.... have u ever tried to get any help at Lowe's.... Wut a joke
You recently got hired at Lowe’s and you was searching your job title and ran into this