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Suckish day...
Warning: long...
I don't post much about my current job, since I don't deal with customers, but today sucked. A little background: I work for the distribution center, and they are consolidating their operations to this new facility that has been fairly recently built (maybe a couple years old? I've been there almost a year and when I started one of the guys in my department was still in the old building, which is only about 10 minutes away). Mostly my job is an office job, but our office is upstairs in the receiving end of the warehouse (most of the office staff is in the front section of the building). We also have 6 stations outside on the "line" as it's called, where we research things that the receivers can't receive for whatever reason (missing ISBNs, not in the system, etc. Most of the receivers don't speak much English, so if they have to read much beyond the numbers, they usually need to pass it on to us.) So stuff comes down the conveyor belt on one side, and we figure it out, receive it (or otherwise dispose of it), and send it on it's way on the other belt to be put away. Other than the actual receiving part, most of what we do can be much more efficiently done in our quiet office where we can sit down and concentrate (and sometimes use the phone to call publishers), but they don't seem to care about that. My boss admits it's highly inefficient, and he knows we all hate it, but "they" want us out there, to the extent that we are still supposed to do other stuff we normally do in the office if there is no receiving for us to work on. I so enjoy going deaf and straining my muscles at a not-so-ergonomically-correct setup that I can't really adjust enough to make it comfortable for me. But I digress. There are 4 of us that spend time out there on a regular basis; normally we are supposed to do a few hours a day. In reality we avoid it as much as possible. I bring a lot of research into the office and do it there, and then just receive when I have a tote full of stuff.
Anyway, the last month or so they've been getting shipments for the old building and they've been lining up pallets of boxes on the other side of our line, waiting for the-powers-that-be to decide what to do with them (if there is a purchase order for the item but it is for a different facility, we can't receive it to the PO in our facility; in that case we "bogus" receive, which just creates a fake PO#, and then I don't know what happens after that; not my concern. Normally bogus receiving is the last resort). So they finally decided we were going to just bogus all this stuff. Probably 99% of it was casepacks, and we just had to scan it, make sure it contained what the label said, scan/type in the ISBN, and receive it, and send the box on it's way. (Otherwise we receive items individually into plastic totes.)
So this morning, my boss called the 4 of us into his office, and said that the woman in charge of receiving upstairs asked if her group could use our computers. He said he was territorial and didn't want other people using our computers (they are each set up with our personal profiles so they would have to be logged in either under our name, or the system admin. would have to get them in). So it was decided (read, he volunteered us) that we would help them out. For 8 hours. Or maybe 4 hours today and 4 tomorrow. We went out around 9 and we finished a bit before 3. So yay for us.
So now I have a paper cut on one finger, and the side of another finger seems to have pulled away from the nail a bit and that hurts, I have a cardboard burn on my wrist, and after I got home I noticed a bruise on my thigh from using it to support some of the heavier boxes. Plus it was pouring this morning, so I wore my water-resistant shoes instead of sneakers, and my heels are still killing me from standing in them all day. On top of the fact that I twisted my ankle yesterday morning so that was still bothering me to begin with. And I'm just all around beat. My last hour and a half at work was really not very productive, cuz all I wanted to do was put my head down on my desk and sleep.
I was getting a headache since it's really noisy but it didn't get as bad as I expected, and I know that when I finally go to bed and it's quiet, my tinnitis is going to be really loud in my head.
So if you've gotten this far, thanks for listening to my bitch session. I just wanted to rant a bit.
On the bright side, tomorrow is Friday, and payday, and will be the first check that will contain my raise that went into effect last week, and my boss went around this afternoon to ask what kind of donuts we wanted. Mmmm, chocolate-frosted.
I don't post much about my current job, since I don't deal with customers, but today sucked. A little background: I work for the distribution center, and they are consolidating their operations to this new facility that has been fairly recently built (maybe a couple years old? I've been there almost a year and when I started one of the guys in my department was still in the old building, which is only about 10 minutes away). Mostly my job is an office job, but our office is upstairs in the receiving end of the warehouse (most of the office staff is in the front section of the building). We also have 6 stations outside on the "line" as it's called, where we research things that the receivers can't receive for whatever reason (missing ISBNs, not in the system, etc. Most of the receivers don't speak much English, so if they have to read much beyond the numbers, they usually need to pass it on to us.) So stuff comes down the conveyor belt on one side, and we figure it out, receive it (or otherwise dispose of it), and send it on it's way on the other belt to be put away. Other than the actual receiving part, most of what we do can be much more efficiently done in our quiet office where we can sit down and concentrate (and sometimes use the phone to call publishers), but they don't seem to care about that. My boss admits it's highly inefficient, and he knows we all hate it, but "they" want us out there, to the extent that we are still supposed to do other stuff we normally do in the office if there is no receiving for us to work on. I so enjoy going deaf and straining my muscles at a not-so-ergonomically-correct setup that I can't really adjust enough to make it comfortable for me. But I digress. There are 4 of us that spend time out there on a regular basis; normally we are supposed to do a few hours a day. In reality we avoid it as much as possible. I bring a lot of research into the office and do it there, and then just receive when I have a tote full of stuff.
Anyway, the last month or so they've been getting shipments for the old building and they've been lining up pallets of boxes on the other side of our line, waiting for the-powers-that-be to decide what to do with them (if there is a purchase order for the item but it is for a different facility, we can't receive it to the PO in our facility; in that case we "bogus" receive, which just creates a fake PO#, and then I don't know what happens after that; not my concern. Normally bogus receiving is the last resort). So they finally decided we were going to just bogus all this stuff. Probably 99% of it was casepacks, and we just had to scan it, make sure it contained what the label said, scan/type in the ISBN, and receive it, and send the box on it's way. (Otherwise we receive items individually into plastic totes.)
So this morning, my boss called the 4 of us into his office, and said that the woman in charge of receiving upstairs asked if her group could use our computers. He said he was territorial and didn't want other people using our computers (they are each set up with our personal profiles so they would have to be logged in either under our name, or the system admin. would have to get them in). So it was decided (read, he volunteered us) that we would help them out. For 8 hours. Or maybe 4 hours today and 4 tomorrow. We went out around 9 and we finished a bit before 3. So yay for us.
So now I have a paper cut on one finger, and the side of another finger seems to have pulled away from the nail a bit and that hurts, I have a cardboard burn on my wrist, and after I got home I noticed a bruise on my thigh from using it to support some of the heavier boxes. Plus it was pouring this morning, so I wore my water-resistant shoes instead of sneakers, and my heels are still killing me from standing in them all day. On top of the fact that I twisted my ankle yesterday morning so that was still bothering me to begin with. And I'm just all around beat. My last hour and a half at work was really not very productive, cuz all I wanted to do was put my head down on my desk and sleep.
I was getting a headache since it's really noisy but it didn't get as bad as I expected, and I know that when I finally go to bed and it's quiet, my tinnitis is going to be really loud in my head.So if you've gotten this far, thanks for listening to my bitch session. I just wanted to rant a bit.
On the bright side, tomorrow is Friday, and payday, and will be the first check that will contain my raise that went into effect last week, and my boss went around this afternoon to ask what kind of donuts we wanted. Mmmm, chocolate-frosted.
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