I would like to say that my mind
is in a better state since I blogged yesterday, but it really isn't.
I spent my day doing almost nothing, I am basically just using today
as a rest up day so I can turn around and do the same thing starting
Monday morning.
Things didn't get any better after
I left off my blog at lunch yesterday. I went back in to work,
thinking that I would do a grocery order, maybe get a couple of racks
of items scanned into the new system, but it didn't turn out all that
way. Sure I did get those things done, but I also ended up doing
another handful of things that I had no plan on doing when I headed
back in.
First, when I got there there was
a cigarette order on the fax machine, one of the people that orders
cigarettes for their company through us sent me an order to put in
for Monday, 45 cartons. So I put the order together and I faxed a
copy of the order to Ed as well as the price to bill them. One of
the new tastks I have taken on is now I do pricing on everyone else's
orders. I don't have to do it, but since it is in front of me it is
just easier for me to do it and put it in than someone else do it.
Plus if I leave Ed actually do the cigarette order, he doesn't know
the item numbers involved and it usually ends up with me sending
cigarettes back and reordering the ones we needed in the first place.
So I sent did this, faxed it to Ed
and of course that just resulted in him faxing me 9 pages of stuff
that he wanted price checks on. Mind you some of the stuff are
things that I just sent him the prices for not more than two weeks
ago, but now I get to recheck them.
Then there was the fact that a
bunch of items that were laying in the basement and should have been
put on the sales floor weren't so that got tossed onto my pile of
shit to do as well. And the new credit card swipers on the terminals
were not working, so I had to figure out why that was taking place,
then call the people that installed the system and tell them what I
found out. We have a redundancy built into the system, the cards are
processed on an internet connection, but if something should happen
where that connection is down or interrupted then there is a phone
line backup where the system will call in the transaction instead.
Of course if that doesn't work we do have a third option, we still
have our old cedit card machines on the counter we can use. Well the
internet connection was not working, so the terminals were defaulting
to the phone line, which was saying no dial tone, meaning that
everyone was going to the third option and running the cards on the
old machines. Except what was happening when the system was
defaulting to the phone line was it was timing out before the
transaction could appear on the screen, so even though it was saying
no dial tone, in fact the transaction was taking place. By using the
old units we were in fact running their cards twice.
Anyone want my job? Really,
anyone? I think I would give it away for some magic beans at this
point. By the time I had actually gotten to doing my order and
getting out for the day I had logged another 10 hour day and I still
have a list of things that will have to be dealt with Monday on top
of what I already do. So instead of doing anything exciting today,
I mostly just laid around my apartment. I went for a short walk
while drinking some hot chocolate, but the weather was crappy enough
that even that wasn't enjoyable.
Anyway, I should try to get
motivated here, I need o make an honest effort at doing some laundry
tonight and maybe doing some invoices for work and then try to get
some sleep before another week of fun is upon me.
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