Date and Project News

I got stood up! Rude, to say the least. I’ll see her again on Tuesday, I think. I’ll try to politely find out if she just changed her mind or if there was some sort of emergency.

I just found out today that apparently a good portion of the work done on the project so far has been done wrong. It would have been nice to find that out two weeks ago when we started doing it wrong. Part of it is not our fault: the format for the shelf labels was supposed to have changed and it did not, no way we could know that.  The other thing is that apparently we’ve only been painting the parts of the shelves that people could actually see. Makes sense, right? Wrong! They wanted the front third of the underside painted as well in so people in wheelchairs and scooters wouldn’t see old paint. That’s a bit silly if you ask me. A lot of the problems on the bottoms of the shelves are deficiencies in the original application of the enamel coating they used, not wear and tear. Whatever, it’s not like we have to fix it, the QC people that didn’t tell us about it two weeks ago are in for a rough forty-eight hours: they can’t leave the building until it’s fixed. I’ll bet they tell us these things next time.

Probably going to lose a couple of employees from the project for theft. They’ve been riding together the past two weeks and have both been submitting mileage claims. Yeah, they both get paid for the time it takes them to get to the project from their normal store, but they can’t both claim mileage if there’s only one car involved. Idiots. We’ll be having that discussion on Monday. It’s a shame, really. One of them had a lot of potential, and the other one had a lot of experience, just a bad attitude that could have been fixed, given time.