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King Calyo Delphi

@jaykass @foone lmao yeah it's a common term in warehouse logistics

Signed:
Someone who has delivered car parts for a living and had to unpack gaylords brought in on truck day

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PhilipKing

@dragonarchitect @jaykass @foone Unfortunately, outside the US it has a derogatory meaning.

Oliver D. Reithmaier

@PhilipKing @dragonarchitect @jaykass @foone yet it's one of those insults you only use ironically because nobody over 16 can take it seriously anymore.

Bill Ricker

@dragonarchitect @jaykass @foone
I've filled and unfilled one*, but it was branded by the freight carrier, so I didn't learn the generic (=original trademark) name; so likewise, TIL.

*(and seen them full of fruit at the grocery; when i was in fruit mid-late last-century, 15bu bins were still wooden)

King Calyo Delphi

@BRicker @jaykass @foone My first time working in a store that receives some merch that way on truck day, I thought it was a silly term used internally by that company.

But when I worked for a different company in the same industry, same term used. So the dots connected and I figured out that it's just a common normal term in warehousing.

Much the same way mechanics say "tranny" but they're actually talking about transmissions, not trans-people. Context matters! :)

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