I worked 9 1/2 hours today. I did get a break though!
Zhaun was all, "I don't feel like being here so I'm going to have you do my crew sheets, shelf review, two carts of markdowns, take out the empties, build an end cap, sit in on my conference call, and, btw, dairy looks like it was hit pretty hard yesterday."
Well, I got the empties out and was nearly done with the endcap at 8:00 when grocery showed up. It was some creepy guy I've never seen before. There was no room for anything so I had to make room and we got done around 8:45, but grocery's conference call was at 9:00 and fdm was there. So I started getting ready for that load. I set up the conference call on Bonnie's phone in the backroom and kept getting ready for the truck. Which was hard because there was no room except down the vendor hallway so I had to try to wait for the vendors to leave. All but pepsi left by time I started putting wheelers down the vendor hall. I bounced between that and the conference call for a bit until real stuff started. The driver of the truck had gone up to sit in the service deli area so I had time to do that. Around 9:30 I could go back to the truck entirely. Got that done and loaded returns and it was 10:45ish. I finally had time then to fill the milk for the first time today. But I wanted my break so I tossed enough on the shelf to make it look good and went. Got back and filled milk. I was working on getting out some empties but was called to check. Came back from that to find Bret telling me he would make a bale for me and I should fill dairy. Which kinda meant I wasn't allowed to do things like order and shelf reviews because he wanted to see me filling dairy up. So I finished with the empties and got on the yoplait. 12:30 came and no sign of Dustin. I didn't have time to ask Deana about it cause I was called to check again. A half hour later I was able to leave checking and go back to dairy but Dustin still wasn't there. So I checked the schedule. He was off today and I had a bagger tonight. !!! Oh, no. Thus why I wound up staying till 3:30. I did my order and shelf reviews. I did the crew sheets. I did one scan out so I wouldn't hit the bad list. I then filled filled filled.
I learned that the backstock shelf review would at some point be replacing the regular shelf review. Which makes no sense at all. Ok, a shelf review is where you scan all your holes. If the computer says you have some you go look to see if you do. If you don't then you change that number to a 0. I fit says you have a negative amount, same thing, you see if you have more and if not change it to 0. This report allows everyone to see how well you're keeping up on out of stocks and balance on hand. Now, a backstock review is a report that means "I have this in backstock so I scanned it". It's not informative. And there's no time to do a real one. Basically they'd be wanting me to take inventory every day. Inventory takes, at the very minimum, 8 hours. I'd need a whole nother person every day, probably overnight. Which, actually would only take them about 4-6 hours because they wouldn't have to check or inventory other people's departments as well as their own.
On the conference call Harold was also going on about how our markdown effectiveness score is down. Well, gee, maybe that's cause we're selling markdowns. He was complaining cause some stores were throwing away so much product that wasn't marked down. Ok, well, what about damaged product? 99% of everything I throw away is damaged product. The markdown effectiveness report tells them how much of the product we throw away was marked down first. Well, if I have a yogurt that's split up the side and half empty with yogurt due to this am I supposed to tape it up and mark it down to see if anyone wants it? o_0 And, btw, if 100% of everything stores throw away at 150 dollars a week has to all be markdowns then I think we have bigger problems. Like our markdowns not selling. I should think that the lower the score on the report the better. That means we're selling our markdowns. Oh, no, Harold's too idiotic for that. So when I have a broken yogurt that's leaking all over the place, a half gallon of juice that's got the spout pushed in and juice coming out the top, butter that's mushed and ripped into, I have to first mark it down before I can scan it out so that we get a good score on the report. It's just so mind bogglingly stupid.
I was checking and I got this woman's receipt but I couldn't hand it to her because she was fiddling with her purse. So I held onto it and so as not to inconvenience the person behind her I started one handedly ringing her up. So she jabbed her card into my hand, and it was on her keychain. So while I was juggling with the keychain with one hand the first woman said in a very snotty, snobby voice, "Do I GET a receipt!" Uh, yeah, if you'd held out your hand instead of taking forever with your purse you'd have had it by now, and, btw, *jangle jangle* you could get mad at the person behind you for jabbing keys at me.
I hope tomorrow's a little slower. Being the 5th I know that's not possible. But I do need to get in a scan audit tomorrow or the next day. Oh, and I skipped markdowns today so I'll have to do them tomorrow and hope not too much went out of date today. And I still have to cut the milk tag strippings down like they wanted me to do on Monday.
Got a bad headache.
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