I can't say that this is an early start to the day, but it is early
enough. I am sitting at the counter at Kelly O's waiting on a roast
beef and Swiss cheese omelet. It is another weekend where I am in
Pittsburgh rather than helping out with remodeling but again it is one
of those things that couldn't be avoided.
I usually send in a grocery order on Thursday, and that order is
then delivered on Friday as well as any other cigarette orders we get
in. The cigarette orders I call in separately, then I will send the
grocery order in electronically via a handheld unit that transmits over
the internet.
Friday I was running late into work, I overslept, and when I got
there our grocery order had already come and gone. Except it hadn't, at
least not all of it. All of the cigarette orders I had called in were
there, but the order I sent in via the web wasn't. I went to the office
to see what happened, perhaps that order was mistakenly placed on
another truck or something. It wasn't, instead what I found was a
transmission error on the handheld unit. After I had placed it in the
unit and hit send on Thursday I had walked away, the amount of stuff
that is popping up on my plate on a daily basis this days is such that
once I hit send I really don't have the time to sit there and babysit
it, I am off to do something else. Seeing the error message a day after
I sent the order explained a lot, but it left me few ways to fix
things.
I made some phone calls to see if a delivery could be rescheduled
that day ( it couldn't, all of the trucks were already out), or if it
could be sent on Saturday (Saturday deliveries have been discontinued).
The only option is for Monday delivery. Given I didn't place an order
on Tuesday because I was helping with a freezer delivery and now my
Thursday order isn't there means that I will be going a full week
between deliveries. Not very good when selling things is how we make
money and the last order I did place was under the notion I would be
getting another one two days later and not seven days afterward and it
is just another of those things I am left trying to put out after the
fact.
Thus I am headed back to the friendly confines this morning,
trying to fix things and get other things caught up. Ed is planning on
coming in at some point today or tonight so I will have to make sure the
store looks good for his return including getting our two new freezers
merchandised properly and getting about 10 days worth of invoices off of
my desk.
Anyway breakfast is just about over, I need to get this show on the road and pretend like I work or something.
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