It was stormy all night, and throughout the morning we had snow, hail, rain, more snow, and finally it became big, fluffy flakes. So we have a lot of snow right now and it's still coming down. There's snow predicted for every day. On one hand it's kinda nice, on the other I don't really want to be driving in it.
Work:
Tuesday is one of the biggest receiving days of the week. I started at 5:30 (instead of the usual 6). And within an hour or two I was turning around to yell everytime I heard a cart roll near me. Even if they weren't going outside. Everyone was trying to go over the doorframe in the little door with their carts and they can't do that! That breaks the frame! And everyone acts so surprised, even the vendors! I was certain Bonnie's yelled at just about every vendor already. I was in the process of making up a paper to hang on the door that said to go out the roll-up when someone simply left the rollup open and it was open all the rest of the day. It was still open when I left at 1:30.
We had corporate in and I'm sure they would have been mad if they saw what I was doing. Policy is two vendors in the red zone, one vendor waiting in line. I had three vendors in the red zone, two of them scanning their invoices in, and one I was currently checking in when I let another bread guy in to sit in a corner. Receiving only has two guns so I had to go get my dairy one out of hiding.
Two of the corporate guys went out back behind the store to look around so I followed them and told them that we're doing all we can to keep it organized but it's a losing battle. They were very displeased.
I also ran out of room. I had Fun lined up to one side, but they didn't have enough room so they had one pallet in the next row over, then Pepsi took up all but two of the remaining spaces in the back room, so when Coke showed up and said they had 7 boards I had to make room for them, which meant blocking the trailer, and then Meat Dept comes back and says they need turkeys so Coke can't stay there and I told him if he wants his turkeys to ask Bret if he can put Coke on the floor cause I didn't have any room, and then Flathead Showed up and I was so very happy when he told me he only had one pallet that I let him put it in front of the little door, as it was the only really out of the way place to stick it.
I skipped my break because I had to sit in on an hour-long conference call. They had sent out emails detailing a new dairy program where we scan donations in the E-40 system (what we use to transfer product from one dept to another, or store to store, or store to donations, or store use, or something). And people were asking if they can trust dairy managers to give the ICM's the correct upcs. Goodness, give us some credit. As a dairy manager myself I am slightly miffed. Although it does vary from store to store. Apparently the meat guys at 168 offload trucks! *gasp* And when Zhaun was in the hospital last year and we had Dwane filling in he was treating me like a baby and reminding me of everything I had to do and I was all, "Actually I do my job plus some of his job and I'm the backup ICM, no need to worry." Anyway, so they were saying that we pull milk on the 8th day and went on and on about it so I asked them if, since we get our milk with 10-11 days on it as per state law if we still had to pull them on the 8th day, so Teresa from the other store chimed in to tell me we weren't part of this new rule. Well maybe they should have made this clear, and apparently that confused others cause then someone was asking which stores this DOES apply to.
And apparently Nestle, pizza, is going Pay Per Scan. Lovely! Seeing as 75% of their product is listed as Discontinued. So as soon as the conference call was over I submitted all the bad upcs to be authorized. I was dragging my feet cause I was unsure if submitting it to the forums was the right thing to do. I guess it is though.
Oh, and Bonnie will be so happy! I was pulling the ESIs (electronic store invoice) and I discovered how to print them at our computer in the back. Ever since the new Critix computer terminal emulator thingie came out earlier this year we've been having to print in the office and then run to get it before someone tossed it or lost it. We always hit Print and then selected if we wanted it landscape and only the store director's printer and the scan office printer were available, but if you hit Page Setup you can hit the Printer button which gives you a list of all the printers in the store, so you select the DSD printer and then close that out and then hit Print and you'll print to the DSD printer! I tested it when I printed the E-40s too, and since it worked on those I bet it works on the IDR (inventory difference report)!!! This will more than make up for any mistakes I make this week.
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