What the hell C & S, yesterday we got a delivery of a pallet of poinsettias, today they sent a half a pallet of mums! WTF, we are not florists.
We got the same order last night. Don't feel bad.
What the hell C & S, yesterday we got a delivery of a pallet of poinsettias, today they sent a half a pallet of mums! WTF, we are not florists.
Came back from a three day weekend and what do I discover?
- The TM I thought was scheduled to cover for me traded shifts with somebody else.
- Neither of them knew how to check in vendors with the new app, as told to me by the second TM, who apparently called everyone but me for help.
- The only thing this person did was check in vendors and start (but not finish) a credit. No ESIM, no recalls, no taking care of the mail. They didn't even fill out the store stamps correctly.
- A few vehicles of salvage just scattered around the area. Most of it's furniture thank God. Some of it's broken stuff that belongs in the compactor. Like the bag of syrup marked "Donate."
- AP getting on my ass about MIRs and vendor credits that he already talked to me about last week.
- A GSA trying to pawn off to me some gift cards that the register printed off slips saying "Give to the GSTL," with instructions as to what the GSTL is supposed to do with them.
Then when I went on break, FedEx and a freight truck showed up to make deliveries and a the TM who had the misfortune of answering the door almost had a moment trying to get somebody, anybody who knew what they were doing to come back and do whatever it is receivers do.
So now I have to add "Go back to the ETL-HR and tell her that no matter what anybody else in this store tells her about receiving-trained TMs in this store, disregard that and find me an actual fucking backup I can trust to be scheduled and stay scheduled when I take time off."
Even better yet, I have another day off coming up and if I'm reading the schedule right, they haven't scheduled anybody for receiving that day. I'm debating if I want to let somebody know or just grab some Xanax and popcorn for when I get back.
Only one ETL? All hands today at my store!
The ETL-LOG spent the last two days cleaning up and rearranging receiving. Which I should probably be a little bit grateful for. Its way, way cleaner than it's been in ages back there. The problem is, I didn't have any real say in what changed. He asked for my input but ignored or overruled most of it. Now my workflow's all fucked up and I spent part of today trying to not have an anxiety attack because of too much change in too short of a time.
I'd almost prefer the sudden shock to spending an uncomfortable amount of time trying to ignore a madman invading my personal space while I'm trying to work.Be thankful it wasn't done over the weekend. You may have had a stroke first thing Monday morning, lol. I feel for you
#scrappy, that's how!So how do pull 5 hours in three o'clock CAFs in 2 hours, plus Flex and get-for-guest?
Today in numbers:
2 trucks
1200 pieces of backstock
18 hour autofills
~400 SFS orders by noon
88 hours of logistics call offs (FF, BR, and Flow)
14 checklanes open with lines backed up to softlines most of the day
$150k in sales by 4pm
It was a long day...
Partner with LOD who should either send someone to help you pull or have a TM usually TL in our store, grab the flexes. In this case both should be happening if there is only 1 in the backroom.So how do pull 5 hours in three o'clock CAFs in 2 hours, plus Flex and get-for-guest?
Kid could be mentally disabled or autistic.There's this family that I've seen probably 3 or 4 times in the last few weeks, and every single time their ~3yo son is screaming his head off for the entire trip. Like...you can legitimately hear him across the store (PFresh, not Super) The first time I noticed them I actually came out from the backroom to track him down, because I could hear the screams all the way in the back and figured something terrible must've happened.
That's all my store seems to have been the last week. Not to mention we were seriously not prepared for half the state to come into the store today, so we had calls for backup, long ass lines and bitchy, rude guests all day. Ugh.Constant, increasingly insistent calls for backup from the front end.
Spent too long in below freezing temperatures yesterday digging through snow for soda shelves and pallets and dragging stacks of pallets and a bale through snow and ice. So glad I had some help on that but the whole thing was ridiculous. Decided I'm done with storing anything outside unless it absolutely will not fit inside. Trying to ignore the flow TL trying to get me to send extra sweeps or put pallets back outside because they're taking up so much space. It's one stack of pallets. One.
Paychecks didn't get delivered on Thursday. The UPS delivery happened while I was on lunch so nobody who knew what they were doing was around to ask the driver about it. They arrived today but I'm so glad I have direct deposit.
Today's unload was seriously delayed after the driver first got his key stuck in the pin lock, then got his truck stuck trying to move the old trailer. I think we finished just before the lights came on.
Constant, increasingly insistent calls for backup from the front end. Things were starting to get nasty over the radio with a TL promising to hunt down anybody left in the store who wasn't responding.
And finally, can you spot what's wrong with this picture?