{"id":135717,"date":"2017-12-19T17:27:30","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T00:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135717"},"modified":"2017-12-21T23:29:11","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T06:29:11","slug":"perhaps-get-exciting-career-warehouse-worker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/19\/perhaps-get-exciting-career-warehouse-worker.html","title":{"rendered":"Perhaps I should get an exciting career as a warehouse worker"},"content":{"rendered":"

An executive networking group I’m in did some volunteer work at Food Bank of the Rockies<\/a> this morning, helping pull donated goods (all corporate donations in our case) onto pallets, shrink wrap them, then identify what shipment they were for (mostly to food banks or religious groups that organize food distribution for poor in their communities).<\/p>\n

In the course of the morning, the trio I was in loaded up six pallets six feet high full of light things (13 cases of Sriracha Cheez-Its! 30 boxes of Sweet Potato Flake Cereal) and not-so-light things (71 12-packs of Coconut Water! 12 20# bags of onions!), all for one particular organization. It was very tiring work, but interesting to see how it all worked.<\/p>\n

FBR provides food relief for 30 Colorado counties and all of Wyoming, delivering close to 49 million meals a year. Volunteering helped me feel a part of that, which is a neat thing to do around the holiday season, but I suspect they can use help all year around. And I suspect there are other organizations of this sort in communities around the nation that could use help in these times.<\/p>\n

(Also, they have a huge wall in the warehouse covered with giant checks — company X gives a $20K donation to the FBR, and there’s a photo op with the giant check, and they actually keep them here (after deposit, one presumes), mounted on the wall. It was kind of fascinating to see; not sure why I didn’t take a picture.)<\/p>\n

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