I had fifteen minutes left in my shift after finishing all my tasks and setting up for the truck, so I checked e-mails on the computer in the receiving office one last time. People are sending and responding to e-mails at various times in the day, so the receiving clerk has to check for new e-mails periodically.
And this round of new e-mails included a bunch from various stores about a problem they're having with our new book vendor, which also takes care of our CDs. These were their first shipments since taking over, and stores were finding themselves either shorted books their invoices showed they were getting, or finding extra books that weren't on the purchase order.
When I checked in our shipment of their books, the boxes scanned just fine and didn't flag for an audit, so I figured that was the end of that. But no problemo, I can just pull the boxes of books that came in back off the shelf and leave them for the receiving clerk to physically count tomorrow...
...except standing outside my door is the vendor rep for this same book vendor, and she has to put her books out! Crap. Crap crap crap crap crap crap crap crap crap crap crap crap crap crap. Now I have to find a way to tactfully tell her her company's fulfillment department appears to be staffed by drunken, inbred, glue-sniffing orangutan misfits, and I can't let her put out the shipment that came in today until they're physically counter, and that won't happen until tomorrow at the earliest.
At least she took it well and found other stuff to do.
And this round of new e-mails included a bunch from various stores about a problem they're having with our new book vendor, which also takes care of our CDs. These were their first shipments since taking over, and stores were finding themselves either shorted books their invoices showed they were getting, or finding extra books that weren't on the purchase order.
When I checked in our shipment of their books, the boxes scanned just fine and didn't flag for an audit, so I figured that was the end of that. But no problemo, I can just pull the boxes of books that came in back off the shelf and leave them for the receiving clerk to physically count tomorrow...
...except standing outside my door is the vendor rep for this same book vendor, and she has to put her books out! Crap. Crap crap crap crap crap crap crap crap crap crap crap crap crap crap. Now I have to find a way to tactfully tell her her company's fulfillment department appears to be staffed by drunken, inbred, glue-sniffing orangutan misfits, and I can't let her put out the shipment that came in today until they're physically counter, and that won't happen until tomorrow at the earliest.
At least she took it well and found other stuff to do.
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