A new profession

Today I've been educated to a new profession. It took 2.5 hours. I guess that's why they pay minimum wage :).

However, it wasn't as easy as I first thought. I mean the job is simple enough, but there is a ginourmous apparatus of logistics behind it all.

Tomorrow there shall be a delivery to my house. A wagon with boxes, a bag, the material to be sorted and delivered, some paperwork and a GPS. Talk about being watched by big brother. The GPS has to follow on every round, so that they can see exactly where you go and how fast ("but if you wanna stop for a beer we don't care". This is where I remarked that the rules say no alcohol :), which brought a few laughs). It then gets transported into an extremely detailed xl-sheet, and each deliverer is monitored and graded, where A is best.

Several people had questions on pay, not me, I know it's next to nothing, but it turned out to be an very intricate matrix with weight, number of packages, hourly pay based on the route and the number of mails that cannot be delivered for one reason or another. Everything is calculated down to the second.

Anyway, every Monday I will get an sms with the number of packages and the weight to be delivered on Wednesday. Then I have Thursday and Friday to do the job.

This week I shall sort 229 mails/catalogues which together weigh 49.6 kg's. That sounds doable in one round. I actually look forward.