Follow-up from the last one… #EpicFail

OK, as one of you already knows, my last night was not so good. We had a normal amount of freight coming in, but we are still recovering from inventory so there was another truck’s worth of freight the computer wanted pulled out of the racks in the back. We actually lost ground on that since sales were so high on Saturday after we’d been hammering away at it all week.

Well, without taking into consideration that we only just had enough people to work the trucks and without waiting to see what the computer would want pulled Idiot Manager decides to tell Facility Manager about all this extra stuff he’s gonna do. Yeah, that didn’t happen. As a matter of fact, we didn’t even get all the truck freight worked because of staffing and performance issues. One person called at the start of the shift and said she wasn’t coming back, two people with less than two hours worth of work to do took four hours each to do it, and one person with three hours worth of work to do never even made it out of his area. I’m not even sure he actually got done. I had stern discussions with each of them, but Idiot Manager was more concerned that the two people with nine and eleven hours each weren’t getting done and he felt they should have. Well, ya moron, they would have gotten done if the people that had two hours worth of work each had only taken two hours and gotten over there to help them, which happened to be the instruction I gave at the beginning of the shift.

So, over the past two weeks we’ve lost three people, we’re probably about to lose another one, and because of the inventory we are under a hiring freeze. What the hell?

Oh yeah, more dirt on inventory irregularities:

There was one whole row of endcaps that DID NOT GET COUNTED.
There was a stack of disputed counts on the table when the "finalize" button was pressed that had not been addressed.
The counters were pulled off the floor at 1600, even though they weren’t done yet.
One of the day managers actually saw a counter guessing at a count, told someone about it, and was told not to worry.

No wonder we got screwed. The day after inventory we get three sets of reports, based on comparisons of the inventory service count versus our own computer’s on-hand records. The undercount report, the over count report, and the not counted report. The not counted report (items we showed on-hands for but the service didn’t count) was three times thicker than the other two put together, which is unheard of. They are normally all about the same, give or take. In my opinion the errors found on the not counted report should be enough to justify a re-count but it’s not going to happen. We’ll just be punished for someone else’s mistakes for the next twelve months until we have a massive correction next year. Then maybe they’ll decide we were right about getting screwed, but it’s just as likely they’ll open up an investigation over inventory tampering since (if we do have the massive correction) our shrink will be so low as to be suspicious.

I’m really loving the last half of Eureka season four! It’s got more of Wil Wheaton’s character in it, Felicia Day has a new character in it, it’s just fun. And by the by, for those of you who may have heard otherwise on Twitter, Facebook, or Google+, Wil Wheaton is not a dick.

Still loving the new car, not so much loving the payment. Maybe we’ll have a super-nice bonus this year and I can pay ahead some even though I already have a list of things I want to spend my bonus on. I update it regularly so there aren’t things on it that are irrelevant anymore. For example I had already decided that the truck needed to be replaced, and I was going to use part of next year’s bonus as a down payment at a buy here/pay here place, but I crossed that off the list since I’ve already got a new car. There were some other things too, things I’ve been meaning to buy but just haven’t had the money for since two years ago I used the whole bonus on getting moved and my new television and this past year I used the whole thing on my washer/dryer set. But now, since my necessities are in order and my entertainment technology is less than twenty years old, I had planned on doing some fun stuff. Who knows? Maybe I’ll get promoted and the ridiculous amount of extra money they’d throw at me as a Senior Manager could all go to the car.

Not holding my breath, mind you. But you never know.