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Because I can never state it enough: Holy freaking crap, I am so out of the loop on everything these days. O_o
I swear to God, if it were not for my flist, and sometimes my co-workers, I would have no clue what's going on in the world anymore. Though I guess that isn't so bad... considering I used to rely on Jay Leno for all of my news needs. Though if I remember correctly, he should have retired this year. Therefore were I able to get local stations in my apartment, I suppose I'd be relying on Conan O'Brien now instead.
Well that was a tangent. ^_^;
But yeah, so Obama is president now, huh? Good thing to have in your bag of trivia answers should anyone ask you anything relating to this moment in history. :D
...Dear God, the Aussies knew before me. (headdesk) I fail at life. XD
Though seriously, I kinda do. I'm starting to get really bored and lonely now and can't think of anything whatsoever to do. I mean, not my usual for when I'm bored- stuff like surfing the net or drawing, etc. I do those all the time, and it's just kinda reinforcing it all. I want to do something fun, and something new, but I have absolutely no idea of what exactly to do.
It's all so very confusing to me. I don't have very many friends to so stuff with, and it's pretty hard for me to make new ones. So it'd kinda have to be something I could do on my own. Only... what is there to do on your own? This is a pretty small town. All I can think of is walking to the little movie theatre, or maybe sitting in the park (which would quickly bore me, sadly), or perhaps going to Wal*Mart. And as I work there, that wouldn't be very much fun at all.
Gah! What do adults do for fun? I have no idea! ;_;
(sigh) Going back to the subject of work, it's been kinda stressing these past few days. Our store is officially on the new backroom program that all of the other stores are doing. It basically makes everything easier for everyone... with the exception of us, of course.
The bins are kinda fun. Sometimes complicated, but pretty simple. Basically, it works so that using a little handheld computer thingy, we can find any item in the backroom. It also is supposed to tell us which items need to go out. Not all of the bugs are fixed in that part yet, as it's going off of som much incorrect data from the old program. But when it's all sorted out it'll be nice.
So yeah- to the issue for us in ICS. One of the things this new backroom program calls for is to have the consumable items we get a lot of be placed on a flatbed cart instead of on a pallet. This is supposed to help the stockers work them faster. The departments this rule applies to are for HBA (which consists of three departments: hygeine, cosmetics, and pharmacy) and Grocery items.
Our problem is this- pallets hold a lot more stuff than a flatbed cart. We also have a great deal more of them than we do the carts. It wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the fact that they now also want a separate cart for each aisle of grocery, or that besides that truck, we have to deal with the food that comes off the GM truck as well. Seriously guys, that's a lot of carts.
Also look at it this way: It usually takes us to about eight to finish unloading the GM truck. If we get done early, we can start downstacking the grocery pallets onto the carts, but the earliest we get done is seven, so that's only an hour of work. When we get back from lunch, the pallets have to go out to the floor, but the grocery carts also need to be out there before the stockers show up. It takes a long time to do that, and if only half of us can do so while the other half pulls, progress is even slower.
Not to mention that the stockers all use those flatbed carts to move their frieght so they can perform their jobs as well. But we pretty much use all of those carts up on grocery, so everyone who stocks GM is left without a cart until grocery is done, making their jobs harder. I don't really think that's fair, but it's not out fault either.
We just started it on Saturday and have yet to get everything done in time. I'm hoping all the kinks are worked out when I get back there on Thursday. Gah- so complicated.
More complications, by the way. I'm having several issues with some of my co-workers. Sunday night was the first where we had to do both a GM and Grocery truck, so before we went to lunch, it was decided that Billy and Paul would pull freight while Sue, Kathy, and I would downstack grocery.
...Only, somehow I ended being the only one doing this.
The breakpacks hadn't all been finished up when we left, so that's what Sue and Kathy worked on while I set to downstacking. I could sorta understand that, only they were taking so looooong. I was getting pretty irritated- some of these boxes are heavy, and the work would go by so much faster with help, you know?
But I didn't even get it after they finished! When they were done, Sue started to pull out some of the carts started while we were doing the GM truck, and I kinda pointed out that it'd be nice to have those still as some still had room on them and we're limited with the carts. She left me one, but it was almost like she was lecturing me over the thing. She had such an attitude that day, which was the main reason why I never voiced that I thought they should be helping (stupid of me, yes I know). In the mean time, Kathy went somewhere and did something for a while, before coming back and getting the electronics to lock up.
One of the managers showed up after that and after a moment asked with some confusion if I was the only one downstacking. When I told her I was, she pointed out that she'd though the others were supposed to help, as she'd witnessed Billy suggesting what we do before we went to lunch. I said I'd thought that too, but again made it clear that I was the only one doing this.
Things got busy after that, and I didn't see either one for awhile. I think they got in trouble for it though, as they were both giving me nasty looks later on... all of which I pretended not to notice. I'm good at the whole 'I is oblivious and don't know you're looking at me' act.
The next day we had no truck, so I downstacked with Billy and Kathy while Paul and Sue binned. That was another interesting experience. Sometimes, I just really don't like Kathy. Like at all. She's probably in her early fifties, but she can be such a bitch. She spreads rumors (btw- that whole thing with Billy? Rumor she started, I found out from management), is critical of everyone else, and is very much addictied to the drama. She can be fun sometimes, yes, but it doesn't really balance out.
Anyways, so she was nice some of the time while we were working, but then she'd do a complete switch on me (more often when Billy wasn't there). Often times, we all had to correct one another on which aisle one item would go in, and I've been right as many times as I've been wrong, same as her. So I had no idea what the hell was going on when she got so bitchy about me thinking the pancake mix was in the baking aisle instead of breakfast and made me go check. She was right, and I could care less so long as I knew where to put the damn box. But when I told her she was right, she got all snippy, with all these sarcastic comments about her being right as it was apparently so impossible.
I'm not at all used to having to act more mature than people even a little bit older than me. I was kinda getting sick of it all by that point, so I just said that I wasn't making a big deal about her. Kept her quiet for at least a little while, though she wouldn't let me help her on a carryout later, instead making me go drag Billy from his break to do it with her. >.<
Ugh. Why are people so irritating?
Anyways, to make a long story short, later that day we also found out that management is moving Sue out of ICS and to Shoes. I'm almost grateful, seeing how rudely she's been acting to me lately. But I really hope they're not moving her because of the whole situation on Sunday. I mean, I should have asked for help after all, so it's not entirely her fault.
...Couldn't they have just moved Kathy? >.<
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