u/Lopsided_Delivery_93

I covered a shift at small pool and at that pool we had two lifeguards on duty at all times. The other lifeguard didn't give a shit about anything and was on his phone the whole time and I had a lazy mentality but was still looking at the water. Earlier that day some safety manager came to for a "safety readiness check" so she talked a bunch of bullshit that maybe made me a little more paranoid about my job. So I am observing the water and I had come up with this little mental strategy after being a lifeguard for over a year that when someone is under water for 10 seconds that's not a big deal they are just playing or even possibly trying to make me nervous, so only after some is under water for 30 seconds I really start paying attention to them and at 45 seconds it's quite possibly an emergency and maybe I will stand up and get ready to jump and at one minute you have to jump. So anyway I am sitting there and kind of detached but in my head I am still counting seconds for people under water and of course most people come up after about 15 seconds. So there's this one boy probably around 4 years old and his head is under water so I wasn't consciously thinking about him but I was counting the seconds, all of a sudden I jumped up as if I was dreaming filled with adrenaline because I realized that the boy had been in the same position for 45 seconds with his head under water and he was splashing his hands the whole time kind of like how you see real videos of people drowning. So in this adrenaline rush I didn't use my whistle but just let out a really loud weird scream and jumped in and pulled out the boy.

The boy looked ok and was breathing. his parents walked over right away and said that he knows how to swim and even put him back in the water while I was still in the water. I said no he can't swim and our pool also had a rule that kids under five need to have an adult within arms reach at all times. So I got out of the pool all wet my shirt and shorts soaked and the other lifeguard was still sitting there looking weird at me for jumping in, and this was a fancy hotel so a bunch of families where sitting quietly around the pool area looking at me. anyways I felt very awkward for the whole rest of the day while still being wet.

What do you think, should I have jump in? And how can I avoid feeling awkward next time even if I realize that maybe I didn't need to jump, how can I still look cool as a professional lifeguard?

NYC isn't that bad as long as you know the following: on my first week with western express I was solo in New York City and I need to make a right turn that you see in the photo. I realized when I looked in the mirrors that I was already touching the light pole and about to knock it over, so I stopped and waited for help. Two minutes later a local Tucker waiting behind me walked up and told #1 my tandems were all the way in the back and they need to be all the way forward to be able to make the tight turn #2 back up and go into the oncoming lane to be able to make the turn very wide. I did that went into the oncoming lane to be able to swing wider and I was able to complete the turn like butter. I drew in red the correct way to make the turn.

I delivered frozen eggs in these buckets and one day the shipper didn't wrap them correctly and they left a little bit of space between two pallets so it shifted. the receiver told me that I have to fix all of the buckets on the pallet, so I fixed it as you can see in the second photo.

The problem was that the receiver didn't allow me to go inside of the warehouse to fix the pallets so I had to pull up a few feet and fix the buckets. once I fixed everything I backed up three feet to reconnect with the dock. a few minutes later the employee comes out again and tells me all of the buckets fell down. as you can see in the last photo.

This time I asked for another truck driver for help and he help me lift up and restock the 30 lb buckets. Thank you stranger one again. AND I BACKED UP VERY SLOWLY MAKING SURE NOT TO HIT THE DOCK AND EVERYTHING WAS GOOD.

Lessons learned: wrap the pallet before you hit the dock again or be very careful to very lightly hit the dock.

I hauled eggs for six months and i had to load the pallets by myself. be careful with the pallet jack and going on and off the dock plate because the pallet can tip over. Here are some photos of my fuckups.

https://youtube.com/shorts/6sUvwOf-pkY?si=Cme6Z0Ea7UDiXp6T see more on my YouTube channel. let me know if you want to know more of my "lessonss learned" in egg hauling.

my boss fired me a few weeks after I refused to drive this trailer because of the brakes. notice the missing pin what does the pin missing mean?