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[Nurian]

So, even though I work moving boxes around, in a way, I still have to deal with dumb things customers do.

Case in point:

Today in my trailer, 5 boxes came down. These 5 were from a company that offers one product: Ice cream.

Ice.

Cream.

My warehouse is about 95 degrees. The TRAILERS are about 115. It's been in one or the other for over a day by this point and will continue to be so for another. The freaking boxes even say "Keep Refrigerated" on them. The boxes, I might add, were damp and leaking water. I really, really, REALLY hope it's condensation from some blue ice or something. They weren't even in styrofoam like other food companies put their products in.

My question is, why not use a refrigerated shipping service? I'm glad <package service> is used so much but what the hell? All I can see is some call center rep getting a call that could have been avoided.

[bankworking]

Ice Cream. In a non-refrigerated truck. Someone messed up big time.

[wolfie]

Or they heard one item from a trucker's comedy CD (7th from the top in the list shown on the link) and took it seriously. The piece was about refrigerated tarps, so a flatbedder could haul temperature-sensitive cargo.

[PepperElf]

hell i'm just thinking John Ringo's "Last Centurion" now... cos putting refrigerated items in a non-refridgerated container is just gonna ruin the stuff.

[Eevie]

I wonder if intended to sell new creamy ice cream flavored beverages. Because that's what they're getting at the end of this.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Ice Cream. In a non-refrigerated truck. Someone messed up big time.

They must be related to my co-irkers who leave ice cream sitting out in the backroom over the weekend for someone else to clean up.

Obviously the simple fact that ice cream melts when it's out of a freezer is lost to them

[TheSHAD0W]

I wonder if intended to sell new creamy ice cream flavored beverages.

Alcoholic creamy ice cream flavored beverages, because by then they will have fermented!

[eltf177]

Just how much other merchandise is going to get ruined because of this royal FUBAR?

[Grendus]

Must be related to the custys who leave ice cream in the drink coolers, or even worse hide them in clothing racks. Seriously... I get that you may not want to go back to the freezer section (though you should, you're the genius who pulled it out then decided you didn't want it), but at least don't hide it so we can send someone to put it back (or clean it up so it doesn't make a mess).

[XCashier]

That poor ice cream, dying a fiery death...

[Nurian]

That poor ice cream, dying a fiery death...

Take heart. It was protein Ice Cream, not the regular stuff. So it might not have been too bad. Minimum order is $100, though.

[Lovecats]

We had someone on this past Sunday leave breyers ice cream on the shelf in the soup aisle. Of course, it was kind of soupy by the time I found it so maybe they thought it went there.

[taxguykarl]

Ice Cream. In a non-refrigerated truck. Someone messed up big time.

Talk about epic fail. Assuming they were (for the sake of argument); what were they thinking? A non-refrigerated truck in the middle of a Chicago winter is one thing, but in the summer?!

[wolfie]

Talk about epic fail. Assuming they were (for the sake of argument); what were they thinking? A non-refrigerated truck in the middle of a Chicago winter is one thing, but in the summer?!

Possible explanation - 2 workers at the shipping dock, one has brains but uses slang terms, the other is an idiot. Load including frozen goods is to be shipped, truck that shows up is a "dry van". Smart worker tells idiot "We're shipping ice cream, you need a reefer", then goes on to other work. Idiot misunderstands the slang, and smokes a joint.

Note: In transportation, "reefer" means a refrigerated trailer/container/rail car. Outside transportation, it's an (obsolescent) term for marijuana.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Possible explanation - 2 workers at the shipping dock, one has brains but uses slang terms, the other is an idiot. Load including frozen goods is to be shipped, truck that shows up is a "dry van". Smart worker tells idiot "We're shipping ice cream, you need a reefer", then goes on to other work. Idiot misunderstands the slang, and smokes a joint.

That sounds like the intelligence level of my co-irkers right there.

Even worse yet . . . I could explain to Cheech's brother that a "reefer" is a refrigerated truck and he still wouldn't get it!! He'd think it was a truck load of pot!