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One of the first days of work at The Colbent Corporation I was assigned the task to remove several desks and chairs.  These were no ordinary desks, they weighed about 500 pounds each, the desks that is.  So to begin this task we had to drive all the way home to get Mike’s truck, and then we had to drive all the way back.  Once we were finally back we began.  We had to move the desks from the back room in the warehouse.  The same back room that we had to move all of the boxes into for the people up stairs.  Finally once all of the boxes were in the warehouse instead of the room we began to have problems.  We had to move them about one hundred feet to a loading dock.  Then from the loading dock we had to drop them into Mike’s truck, which was about three feet lower than ground level of the loading dock.  This only caused us a problem for about ten minutes, and being the smart kids that we are we decided it would be best to get a pallet jack, a device made to move thousands of pounds of boxes on pallets, and put three desks on at a time.  This started out a great idea because it made them much easier to move more quickly.  The only problem was they could not fit through the door to get them out to the loading dock.  So after another ten minutes of working out how we could do this, we decided we would just slide them from there, and then slide them off the edge into his truck.  This was loud and obnoxious but the only way possible.  This was a day were we didn’t do much business but we did learn how to move a bunch of heavy things.