A well-deserved day off too!
I've found myself in those situations a few time myself. And I believe in equality, so I take a kind of heavy-handed approach, after the first time when I did it all myself and just got more and more frustrated about the lack of assistance from the men. Now I just walk up to them and point to a box, or a pile of boxes, and tell them where to take them. Kind of like dealing with a teenager. Gotta give them clear, concise, immediate directions and they'll normally do that. But don't give them a list of directions, as only the first one will be remembered and acted on. ie: Take this box and load it into the moving truck outside. Not: Take this box to that truck, and then move that plant, and then.... too many directions blows their minds and makes them shutdown without doing any of the work. And most men would rather assist after this direct approach than to appear ungentlemanly by ignoring the request. And then I spend more time directing than doing actual lifting and carrying. Can be frustrating at times, but after moving 2 times at my last job, with the same guys around me and approaching it this way, the 3rd move was easy as they automatically helped without me bugging them about it. Learning had occurred.
CountriGal
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