Cynically Insane They must have taken my marbles away kiwifarms.net Aug 11, 2019 Highlight #809 I worked as a low level supervisor at a USPS sorting facility. The post offices uses various standard pieces of equipment to move mail. One of these is referred to as a pumpkin. A pumpkin is orange, rounded at the bottom and about the same size as a big commercial laundry hamper. One fine day I am giving the employees a safety talk on the sorting floor. This talk was sent to us from above and we are required to ensure every employee understands the content down to getting their signatures. This particular talk was about using postal equipment for unintended purposes. They are not stools, ladders or lunch tables, yada, yada. While giving the talk, a 300 lb lady decided to sit her fat ass on the edge of a pumpkin. The pumpkin tipped and she hit the concrete with a thud, laid out on the floor covered in small packages. I had to go to the ladies room so I could let out my laughter. But it wasn't over. They sent 2 little EMTs with the ambulance and they couldn't get her onto the stretcher and she of course refused to just stand up and get there herself. An employee comes up and says, "I would suggest rolling her into a pumpkin and loading that on to the ambulance but that I now know that would be misuse of a postal container." USPS was, without a doubt, the most professionally horrifying job I ever had. I got a million of them. ===== rcvrd jan 2021