Games and Projects

I’m back! At least for now, I leave again around 20:00 or so on Sunday.

Went to the WaHo with Ember and Sammie and Nay and some other people. We’re setting up to play some game I can’t remember the name of, but it sounds neat. It’s a Role Playing Game, and Sammie is the Storyteller (think Dungeon Master in D&D). We were at the WaHo for three hours setting up our characters. We left when Ember got tired. After that things didn’t quite go as planned, but that’s Ember’s story to tell if she chooses to do so.

The project is going well, we got a little held up with one department: we were supposed to finish today and it didn’t happen. The department is just shrinking (square footage and linear shelf space) too much and there’s too much old product to cram into the new location. Finding places to put the old product is taking too much time, and we can only mark it down so much. The food departments we’ve done already are going quite nicely, we’re almost half a day ahead on that, but we’re about to split from two teams to four teams and we didn’t get any extra people and the workload for each team is remaining the same or increasing. It’s just going to get harder, but we can do it. We just have to portion out our, well, “special” workers into the places they can be most productive. They aren’t “special” in the sense of the word you’re probably thinking: they can all drive, write checks, and sign contracts, they just need to be managed differently and they aren’t as well-rounded ability-wise as most people are. For example, we have one worker who at varying times during the day exhibits signs of ADD, OCD, and high-functioning autism in random order. We really never know what he’s going to do when we give him his instructions for the task ahead. Once we get him on the right track, he’s a phenomenal worker, but you can’t just give him instructions and walk away, you have to stick around a bit even if he repeats them back to you correctly. That sounds a bit militaristic, but I’ve found that that’s the best way to make sure that what I said, what they heard, and what I meant are all the same thing. It saves all kinds of grief later.

I’m off to watch my taped shows now, or at least one of them. ‘Night everyone!