No rants, no opinions, no music, just a
quick note or three. Today was pretty much like every other day at
work, a day that thought would go relatively easy, after all I had a
head start on my work today, nded up taking far longer than it should
have.
I got to Gus Millers around 8:30 am,
which is pretty much on schedule for me, but when I got there things
already were starting to fall behind schedule. The instant ticket
machines were actually pretty full, we sold $2200 worth of tickets
since the day before, so I had plenty of money to count and sort,
plus a lottery ticket order was delivered to the store the day
before, so I had that to deal with as well. Still I got out of the
store in a decent amount of time and began the trek down to
Smithfield News, which took far longer because once again it was
snowing and the city of Pittsburgh has no salt with which to clear
the roads. By the time actually got into work it was almost 10am.
Still I should have had plenty of time
to do everything needed to do, bu at noon I was stuck in a meeting
with Comcast about the possibility of switching internet providers.
The problem with our internet constantly cutting in and out was the
reason for the meeting, but I don't think it is a provider issue so
much as it is a wiring issue. We have had a habit in the past of
hiring people who are less than qualified to do the work that we gave
them, but because they were cheaper we went with them. That was the
problem with our last register system as well as a handful of other
problems. Now those problems are coming home to roost with our new
system in place. The in house network works fine, but connecting to
the internet is problematic.
After that meeting, I still had my
grocery order to do, but before I could Dee was saying that the
deposit amount for Smithfield was coming up way short, so I
ran a few reports to see if I could locate the missing money, which
was even harder because our people are still struggling with figuring
out the registers. One would think that after having the system for
two months now, a certain familiarity with it would start to take
hold, but that isn’t the case.
By the time I got started o doing my
order it was almost time to send it in, so I ended up scrambling
around, trying to get as much stuff as I could, though I am sure I
missed plenty of items in my mad dash to make sure I ordered
everything we needed.
Then just as I thought my day was
finally starting to get on track, I am told that the ATM is not
working. Given Brian just put money in it earlier today (yes, we had
a guest appearance from Brian), I knew it still had money, so I went
to see what the problem was. Apparently some bills got jammed when
the machine was trying to dispense them, literally $20 bills jammed
in the dispenser, I have never fixed this problem before, so I guess
we will wait and see if I did it properly, though it seemed to be
working when I left the store.
I still had my return trip to Gus
Millers though, I had three more books of lottery tickets to load
into the machines after all of the ones we had sold the day before.
All is well and good, it is a task I am usually pretty good at, but
while I am there the lottery terminal where the numbers games are
played decided to freeze up, so I ended up on a 30 minute phone call
with Scientific Games in order to get the terminal back up and
online. By the time the day ended, what should have been a
relatively easy day turned into another 9.5 hour clusterfuck. Now
all I want to do is relax and go to sleep, which is why I am writing
now, if I fall asleep it probably will not be a nap, but a nice long
slumber. So off to slumbering I go.
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