I am so livid right now.
Today I was spot-checking our store for upcoming inventory. Counting inventory takes an entire day and requires me to show up at the store at dawn. I despise it. And if we don't have a "clean" count this month, we're forced to do it all again next month. And if that one's not clean... well, you get it. And so on and so on.
At this point, there's no way we're going to come in under the acceptable variance range. We have a shoplifter (based on the two products we're missing, I'd say it's the same person) who has ripped us off of 30 bottles of wine over the last quarter. I swore that I'd watch that section like a hawk and it would never happen again.
I just finished compiling our list of discrepancies for my boss when I got slammed with customers. I was handling three people at once at one point. After the rush, I went to face all the shelves. And we were missing one bottle of the same damned product that the shoplifter goes for. I counted them down again just to be positive, and sure enough, we had lost another one.
The reason I'm so angry is because there is literally nothing I could have done to prevent it. I can't be everywhere at once, and I was the only person working at the time. I turn my back for a second and another bottle is gone.
Normally I'd say, that's the price the company pays for being too cheap to pay for staff overlap, except they are not the only ones paying the price. I'm the one who has to count inventory every single month. And they refuse to allow us to write off product even when we KNOW it's been stolen. It just gets counted against us.
I'm so frustrated and tired right now.
Today I was spot-checking our store for upcoming inventory. Counting inventory takes an entire day and requires me to show up at the store at dawn. I despise it. And if we don't have a "clean" count this month, we're forced to do it all again next month. And if that one's not clean... well, you get it. And so on and so on.
At this point, there's no way we're going to come in under the acceptable variance range. We have a shoplifter (based on the two products we're missing, I'd say it's the same person) who has ripped us off of 30 bottles of wine over the last quarter. I swore that I'd watch that section like a hawk and it would never happen again.
I just finished compiling our list of discrepancies for my boss when I got slammed with customers. I was handling three people at once at one point. After the rush, I went to face all the shelves. And we were missing one bottle of the same damned product that the shoplifter goes for. I counted them down again just to be positive, and sure enough, we had lost another one.
The reason I'm so angry is because there is literally nothing I could have done to prevent it. I can't be everywhere at once, and I was the only person working at the time. I turn my back for a second and another bottle is gone.
Normally I'd say, that's the price the company pays for being too cheap to pay for staff overlap, except they are not the only ones paying the price. I'm the one who has to count inventory every single month. And they refuse to allow us to write off product even when we KNOW it's been stolen. It just gets counted against us.
I'm so frustrated and tired right now.
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