wasted space

Yesterday I got a really bad headache at some point after I came back from break, so around 11ish I guess. Turns out Victor had gotten a migraine around then. We call it "weird married telepathy". Cause it happens often enough. Sometimes I'll just get a really bad headache and then it'll turn out he has one. Or I'll be sleeping bad when he has a bad night. Or sometimes I'll get a feeling in the middle of the night and go see him and turns out he kinda needed a hug.

Work:
Yesterday I was about 40 minutes leaving. So I've got about 49 1/2 hours for last week. This week I'm only scheduled 40 but I expect it'll actually come out to about 42-45. Especially due to the day before Thanksgiving, that day is just insane. Overall, though, this year it's been very quiet for the week before Thanksgiving. Good.

The men's bathroom still isn't done and the guys are just whining about it endlessly. Us girls put up with our bathroom being gone just fine, but the guys are lining up and complaining and going out to use the portapotties out back. Blaine keeps walking around saying he's going to start using the sink in his back room. eww. (produce guy) I never liked him.

Anyway, Bret was in a really bad mood. He left me alone, though, which was nice. Bret was trying to help Meat Dept with turkeys and a few boxes fell off the top of a pallet and landed about four feet from me, which was unnerving.

Robert was at work yesterday. Which I found interesting because I wasn't aware he still did dairy. I do keep seeing his paycheck in the stack but I didn't know where he was working. Robert is a jerk. He's Julie's pet and he works Sunday and Saturday mornings sometimes, usually he was in dairy, but we got sick of him and sent him to produce who eventually got sick of him and gave him back to us. Anyway, he was his usual, annoying self. Doubting my ability to order because of how much milk backstock we have. Yeah, I over ordered. This time of year that's not bad. It's better to have too much right now. And he thought I was an idiot for wanting to case-fill the yogurt.

I ordered some knee pads for filling the yogurt, I told Zhaun I needed them. My knees are bad enough as it is, and I've thought of asking him for knee pads in the past, but I've always been fine using empty boxes crushed flat. But if I'm going to be on the sales floor to fill my stuff I won't want to have to pick up my box every time a customer makes me move. It'll be easier if I have knee pads cause then I can simply stand. Besides, those knee pads are comfortable. The guys go through them fairly fast, but some of them are three times my size and wear them all night long every night. I knew how to order knee pads, but management decided the guys went through them too fast and are only giving them so many per so many days or something I dunno how they arranged it but they're not just ordering a bunch and leaving them for anyone to take anymore. The supply guide is kinda neat, there's all sorts of stuff on there. Ever since Zhaun told me how to pull it up me and Bonnie have been taking care of ourselves rather nicely. New printer cartridges whenever we need them, instead of having to ask people for a month after they're so empty we have to take them out and shake them from time to time. Baling wire, shrink wrap, instead of hoping Zhaun eventually remembers.

Anyway, with how they're moving all the product around I gather we'll be a very good specialty store with very little variety. I now have two doors of 1%, two doors of 2%, two doors of whole, two doors of Viva, and two doors of Darigold. There's a whole cooler case for cold 12pk soda. All the yoplait has 4-6 facings. It's just unnecessary. It's a waste of space. I don't sell anywhere near enough 1% to need two doors. Or Viva. Or Darigold. I'll admit the 2% is a good idea, though. The only section we actually did need expanded upon was frozen. Otherwise the rest of the store was fine. But like I've said, they're playing to the outlier departments. I guess sales in Bakery and Service Deli are more important than sales in Grocery. You know, seeing as Bakery makes 7,000 a week whereas Grocery makes about 150,000. I don't know where Bakery gets the hours to have three people a day. I made 25,000 a week and barely have enough for two people a day and one of them isn't even a full shift person. I have Patty on my side about this though, she says that now that dairy is bigger we'll need more hours and I agree with her completely. I even told her it's going to take forever to fill yogurt now, especially when it's on sale. Yogurt customers tend to be the rudest. But it is weird, it's like they're trying to kill our sales. Before, they had cling-shelves stuck to the dairy and frozen doors, they had shippers at the end caps and down the aisles, round display shelving at the ends of the coolers and some of the end caps and down some of the aisles, product displayed on the registers, etc etc. I mean, sure non-foods could stand to shrink a little, no one bought appliances from us anyway, but grocery? And who really buys from the olive bar anyway? Like I've said before, in the last few years we've had an olive bar I've seen people buying it two or three times. Even produce shrank, their new tables are smaller.

I need to figure out where to put my markdowns. They took my spot away and now there's no room to drop an empty egg box into the egg case to put them into.

I need to get going, I need to get ready for work. I go in at 7 today. Back in dairy. Kinda. Even for having stayed almost an hour late last night I still need to print the consolidated reports for the last week and work the reclamation into non-perishable tracking.

Oh, just a funny thing, quick, on the 709s there's a section called Blanket Credit, and this is a bit of money they give to the department each week to help combat shrink and scan outs. Well for one department they gave 6 cents. Wow. You know, if MY department got a whole 6 cents credited against my shrink/scan outs well, gee, I'd be just so much better off. What do they think 6 cents is going to do??