what sense of honesty?

Yesterday Bonnie told me that the truck schedule was changing. That regular freight loads would come in on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. So I said that they better not show up until after I'm done breaking down the milk and that we'd have to have two people on load days. I actually got used to the idea pretty quick. It would mean Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays would be pretty easy. But then today she said they got a memo that it won't be so. That's ok too.

Today I was 27 minutes late for work because the driveway was icy and I had to get Victor out to help me and it still took a while. No one even noticed.

The milk load was really hard for some reason and I got tired out. My left shoulder started bothering me and my neck was doing something weird where it was hurting and I got nauseous when it crackled.

John, who's the night checker and was doing the night shift today and did it last night, had only broke down a bit of freight and there were still two pallets left. The load came in at 2:00 yesterday and he had 6 hours to do it and hadn't.

We had a CAO Audit today and Zhaun wanted me to check frozen over right before it and that I was to make John go fill Wall Deli for an hour or two because Darby took today off. But Patty and this guy (her son? I've seen him before) were in filling Wall Deli and Meat Frozen so I was off the hook on that one! I made John fill yogurt.

And then I went and started fixing my holes. I do this by pulling the tag, stuffing the tag in my apron, and facing it over. John saw me and asked if I was doing price changes. Uh, no, I was fixing up for the audit. He was all, "Well is Bret ok with that?" I said, "He wants us to have no holes on the audit. Sometimes filling all the holes can take a while. He doesn't care how we accomplish not having any holes." Aw, he hasn't worked here long enough. Trust me after a while all sense of honesty is squashed out of you.

Then later Bret called me to check and there wasn't anyone to check so I went back and he called me again and I said to myself, "What does he want me to do, grab someone off the aisle and make them checkout?" but I made John get it. Then Bret came back and was all, "Barb!" with venom dripping from his voice. Uh, oh. I was about to plead not guilty when he suddenly grimaced smiled and said good job, there's no holes in dairy and that's incredible. Thank you. If he looked hard enough he might find one or two, thank you. I said to myself, while patting my apron, "Oh, you don't have to look hard at all to find about 20 holes." He said my name like that on purpose to see the fleeting look of terror I'd give him, I have no doubt he enjoyed doing that.

Apparently I messed up one of Bonnie's reports by doing two week's worth of a reclamation report and putting the same week's date on both of them. I simply said, "oops!" and laughed about it with her.

Oh, and all Zhaun said about me working Saturday was just, "So they told you to work on Saturday, huh?" and I said, "Yeah. *shrug*"

And I did my first dairy backstock scan. I scanned my ad items since I probably did get some of those in on the load, and I scanned a few other things I know I have a lot of. I scanned it on the shelf. Should have scanned more yogurt than I did but oh well. I'll do that next time. I suppose tomorrow will have to be my big scan, Bret said we have to scan everything once a week and stuff from the loads every load. I think Sundays would work best for the everything scan. *groan* I'll have to scan almost all the yogurt, all the ad items, and a few other things to make it look good. Like creamers maybe. I'm not going to take inventory once a week, and Zhaun's never got in trouble for not actually scanning backstock so why should I?

Oh, and Bonnie agrees with me. It should be a good thing to have the markdown effectiveness score as low as possible because that would mean your markdowns are selling instead of being thrown away.