COW!

So, I almost hit a cow on the way into work the day after inventory. Well, technically a calf but if was a frakking big one, probably about a year old if I’m judging correctly. It was just standing there in the middle of the road, being fascinated by the shadow my headlights were casting. I barely had time to stop since it was just over a small rise, but since I was tired, bleary-eyed, and heading into work an hour early to work on inventory follow-up I was going slower than most folks do through there. I honked and it fell over, got up and started running toward a driveway, but the bottom part of the driveway was made of stone instead of concrete and it fell again. I waited until it was into the grass before I drove off. There’s a dairy farm in the area, but this is the first escaped bovine I’ve heard of in the five years I’ve been driving through there.

Inventory was not as good as we’d hoped, but we are certain most of the store got a good count. I know for a fact my areas did, because I watched the counters like a hawk and then helped work the reports the next day. There were some errors, but they didn’t affect us financially, just with what our in-house SKU counts were. For example, say I sell three kinds of widgets in one of the departments, and they all cost a dollar. I physically have three blue, three orange, and three green, but the inventory service counts all nine as blue ones. This causes an overage in the blue widgets, and shrink in the orange and green ones, but they balance out exactly. Of course if I don’t get it fixed the warehouse will start sending me loads of orange and green widgets I don’t need since they now think I’m out of them. That’s what we need the post-inventory reports for.

Tired now, after a month of extra days and long hours, so I’m going to sleep.