Monday Through Wednesday

Since my past few days have all been pretty much the same I thought I would pick a day that I wasn't completely exhausted to type up another blog about my hard work this week.

Well, This week I have been driving to a little town north of Orlando named Sanford where there is another Auto Auction company that is merging with IAA so I have been somewhat helping with the transition.

Basically to help with the transition I have been going Isle by Isle and Car by Car matching up numbered stickers with the weird number already on the car and stickering the front and the back of all of the autos in the lot.

Basically it by itself isn't that hard. When you factor in the Hot 95 degree days and the High humidity with no Cloud coverage or wind it starts to get down right nasty to work outside. Then another problem is that there is approximately 2500 cars to sticker so I would be lucky to get about 500 cars done each day working all 8 hours in the heat.

Fortunately yesterday My Boss Jeff came out to help for a few hours, speeding things up a little, then I should get some help tomorrow from a few other guys that should come to help. I wish there would have done this Monday to Tuesday as we might actually be done already, but who knows.

Well that's basically my highlight of the week so far... a real hot day, but no stress... I guess.

Wednesday July 11

I guess today wasn't as difficult as the other days as I didn't spend much time in the sun today. The day started out like most Wednesdays do where we refill tires or change tires for spares and then drive the cars through for the auction.

After the auction I was instructed to shrink wrap some cars that were yet to be put in the building. I spent a bunch of time waiting for the cars today as one of the guys there was being pretty difficult about retrieving the cars. Fortunately he isn't my boss so I just went to my boss and let him know of my problem and he made the call over the radios to let the Tractor-Forklift drivers to bring in these cars.

Since we have switched to clear plastic the wrapping of the cars has gotten a little easier but the shrink roll is so much heavier so it takes more effort to get rolled out over the cars.

So basically I spent the whole day using a Propane Heat gun out in the 95 degree shade. I guess it's just about as bad as being in the sun because I singed my arm hair because of the heat. (Have you ever noticed the really odd smell of burning hair? Un-mistakable)