Left to clean up a mess

I never did fix my work pants. But I did fix my work shoes. I hot glued some places that were coming apart.

So I've been ICM for two days now. I do hope Bonnie's going to come back from vacation. I went through Monday just fine and with a half hour to go I went looking for the consolidated reports from Saturday to put with the dsd order register and esis and instead I found that Bonnie had left last week's 709s and the various reports to put together and a note telling me to pull up the consolidated from the previous Saturday as well as the transfers. !!! Not good. Explanation: 709s contain: The 709 and it's Second Page, an Adjustment Report if there is one, the ESI, the DSD Order Register, the Consolidated, grocery department has the Supplemental, and then comes Transfers if there are any. You put those together, take numbers from each report and add them up to see if they match the big number on the first page and if they do, good, if not, you have to research and find out why. I've never had one not balance. And there's one set of these reports for each department in the store, so, 16 departments I think. So yesterday I stayed over to print out the consolidated from the week of 01/30/2011-02/05/2011. Then today I pulled up transfers from the same week. And I pulled up the transfers from last week as normal for Tuesday. And I put together all the 709s from last week now all I need to do is balance them. I spent quite a bit of time today getting reclamation together. Bonnie left me a note to get that sent out. She prefers to do that on Wednesdays. Being sympathetic to how hard it is to load returns on Wednesday and being that I had no time to get them ready to be sent out, they'll be going on Friday. I got the mounds and mounds of stuff sorted on the damage cart but had no time to put it on a pallet, basically.

Fun, who is usually done and out by 7:00, 7:30 at the latest wasn't out till 8ish or so. Because his invoices didn't NEX down (invoices that are sent from their office's computer to our computer without the need for a handheld or scanning it manually) so he had to Vendor Scan (scanning each product and inputting the quantity and cost), which took forever. And Fun is a big vendor anyway. After that I did Meadowgold and Coke called to say his truck was having problems and he'd be late which was great. Pepsi's dock time is about 7:30is with Coke at 8ish. Pepsi didn't get out till nearly 10 because he had three pallets of credits to pick up and someone had worked off of them which meant they didn't match the credit invoice and he had to recount it all and do all the match, and Pepsi's a vendor scan vendor so he had add it all up and change his paperwork and then call the office and get them to fix the computer end and it was a mess. Coke came by again and said it was too backed up and he'd be back later. As did the local beer guys. Darigold got upset when I told him to take his product off the back instead of waiting for the dock, but oh well. Would he rather wait to offload? Coke didn't get in till nearly 11 and the local beer guys weren't checked in till nearly noon. Receiving closes at 10:00 and Bonnie would have been so mad. I was stomach-grumbling hungry but not upset. I knew when noon rolled around I'd get an hour long break sitting down listening in on the stupid conference call. Grocery calls go fast, no one talks and Harold rushes. In ICM calls they ramble on and on and on and various ICMs get on there and ramble on and on about various issues they're having that could be easily solved by just emailing someone instead of taking up everyone's time with their nonsense. Anyway, while the beer guys scanned their stuff in I did the milk orders.

And now they want the IDR Tracking and IDR Build to be in the same file and I can't figure out how to do this. They said to copy the Build into a new tab on the Tracking but it doesn't work. When I did it it reduced the size of the Build by half at least and some of the cells are filled in with symbols (#s? or maybe *s? I don't remember). So I'll have to play with it on Thursday. It has to be emailed as an attachment on Thursday and they want it the new way by then. I guess if I can't get it I'll send a note attached with the files saying I couldn't figure it out and I'm just a backup.

I stayed an hour today. I was going to do my order but Pam at the desk called me to ask why I made a money order for 2.80 for Fun when the invoice says 280.00? So I looked at the printout I had and it said 2.80 and that's what I'd gone off of, I don't look at their invoices. I'd thought it was some weird pricing deal we got. So I asked Chris who I guess is a rep or something now I dunno, and he said it was supposed to be 280.00 so I had to go explain to Pam who said we needed the money order back so we had to get the guys to come back in with the money orders and we got that voided and I made a new one, voided the invoice and made a new one. And as I was running around doing this a delivery guy showed up with "fencing". What??? So I got the money order taken care of and then dealt with the fencing guy, turns out it was about six cart returns for the parking lot. I called Bret back and he was confused and was all, "We don't really need these, but I guess someone must have ordered them." Bret told the guy to take them outside. In the snow. Yeah, they won't be new and nice for long. So finally I got the ad items ordered in dairy and told Dustin to order whatever he felt needed it. He's the one who has to break it down on Friday, so he can order however he sees fit as long as we don't run out. And he's actually pretty good at it too. He isn't as mathematically challenged as I am.

I don't know if the 709s from this week will be worked this week. I'll probably leave them for Bonnie. Which is ok cause at least they'll be put together with all the reports printed. It's not really surprising she's so far behind, she always is for about a month after an Inventory.

Anyway, Valentine's Day. We did it on Sunday. I got up in the morning to find Victor had left stuff for me on my desk. A large Reese's heart with a fork and knife crossed over it, a stuffed frog with a heart in it's mouth, two kerosene lamps (he was only going to get one but they came together as a deal), and a love letter. He can make anything romantic and had turned the lamp into a metaphor. :) He's so cute and sweet.

He made me tiramisu later. It's delicious!!!

I'm about 140 pages away from the end of my book and I'm starting to get anxious and a little depressed about it. It's all very shocking.

I have stuff to say about Clone Wars but my hands are tired and Victor wants to play Burnout with me.