I had an awful day at work today.
Truck was 1800 pieces and was not finished, despite the unload crew having 5 people working 4:30-10, plus a couple other people helping during that time.
Then, somebody was scheduled to work overnight because the cleaning company has scheduled a strip-and-wax for the floors. The people who were supposed to do this didn't show up. So overnight guy went home after being in the store for an hour, but gets paid for 8 hours at shift premium wage. Thanks a lot, fuckers.
We had been counting on him to do autopulls and maybe fill a smaller department or two.
But the worst part of all: an ungodly amount of school supplies. I do not know which deity I displeased to be stuck doing this department every truck, but I'm sorry, dammit!
Two pallets plus two 6-wheelers PLUS 6 shopping carts of stuff out of repacks. And it was all little putzy shit like little boxes of pens, glue sticks, pencils, and so forth Let me tell you in layman's terms how much school supplies I had today: I had a whole fucking lot of school supplies.
And none of it was stuff we actually needed. NONE. I spent 6 1/2 hours out of my 8-hour shift filling school supplies (remember it has to be filled in two different spots at opposite ends of the store) and still sent about 75% of the shit to backstock.
No problem, we'll just carry it all over to next year and try to find spots for all the shit going on clearance when the season is over, and count it in inventory next year.
Fuck, we have to start setting Christmas in a couple weeks. We also have to set the rest of Halloween. The way the freight's coming in, there's no way that will happen. We're still sitting on a bunch of fucking patio furniture that is not selling at its current clearance prices, but corporate refuses to give us the OK to mark it down even further. The schools open exactly two weeks from today; BTS should be winding down now instead of coming in like it's the beginning of the season.
So in summation: There's a special spot in Hell, right down the hall from Sadaam Hussein and Adolf Hitler, for the person who decided to turn Back To School into this ginormous shopping extravaganza.
Actually, I take that back. Hell's too good for that person.
Truck was 1800 pieces and was not finished, despite the unload crew having 5 people working 4:30-10, plus a couple other people helping during that time.
Then, somebody was scheduled to work overnight because the cleaning company has scheduled a strip-and-wax for the floors. The people who were supposed to do this didn't show up. So overnight guy went home after being in the store for an hour, but gets paid for 8 hours at shift premium wage. Thanks a lot, fuckers.

But the worst part of all: an ungodly amount of school supplies. I do not know which deity I displeased to be stuck doing this department every truck, but I'm sorry, dammit!

Two pallets plus two 6-wheelers PLUS 6 shopping carts of stuff out of repacks. And it was all little putzy shit like little boxes of pens, glue sticks, pencils, and so forth Let me tell you in layman's terms how much school supplies I had today: I had a whole fucking lot of school supplies.
And none of it was stuff we actually needed. NONE. I spent 6 1/2 hours out of my 8-hour shift filling school supplies (remember it has to be filled in two different spots at opposite ends of the store) and still sent about 75% of the shit to backstock.
No problem, we'll just carry it all over to next year and try to find spots for all the shit going on clearance when the season is over, and count it in inventory next year.

Fuck, we have to start setting Christmas in a couple weeks. We also have to set the rest of Halloween. The way the freight's coming in, there's no way that will happen. We're still sitting on a bunch of fucking patio furniture that is not selling at its current clearance prices, but corporate refuses to give us the OK to mark it down even further. The schools open exactly two weeks from today; BTS should be winding down now instead of coming in like it's the beginning of the season.
So in summation: There's a special spot in Hell, right down the hall from Sadaam Hussein and Adolf Hitler, for the person who decided to turn Back To School into this ginormous shopping extravaganza.
Actually, I take that back. Hell's too good for that person.
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