T.J.T.A.M.B./M.O.
Dec. 9th, 2006 10:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Four days of Mandatory Overtime so far at The Job That Ate My Brain...my body knows I've already had a 40 hour week---I actually slept for seven hours last night. (My recent average has been more like 5-6.) Yesterday was abyssmal. We're out of everything, or so it seems, and everyone who's already placed an order wants to know where it is, or wants a credit.
On the plus side, I'm navigating multiple programs with a faculty that I wouldn't have thought possible a week or so ago. It's gotten to where I've started looking up items in warehouse inventory BEFORE I place the order, because otherwise, they'll just get an e-mail notice saying the order has cancelled because it's out of stock. If the link in the main program is messed up, I can go into the backup for the tracking number to find out when the shipper claims they delivered the order. (Sending something? Ask the sender to put "signature required" on it, so it won't just get dumped on the doorstep for your neighbors to pilfer.)
On the other hand, I did have one heart-warming example of how nice people can be: a lady called me and said she'd gotten someone else's order. (Naturally, I thought she meant the warehouse got the order wrong, and my heart sank at the thought of more transactions.) No, her order was there in the box, and so was someone else's. AND the shipping address ON the mailing label, so I was able to pull up the other person's info and note the account. The gal who received it, as I was talking to her, was pulling off her postage label and getting ready to put our label on it and send it to the correct recipient and joking that she'd better get her presents wrapped, since she wouldn't have the box to hide it in. She was a very classy lady, and I hope she has a terrific Christmas. Honesty should be rewarded.
According to her, one of the items in both orders was the same style shirt in a different color/size, so apparently, someone at the warehouse got distracted while pulling items and threw it all in the same box. (Good think the paperwork got in there, and that it went to someone with a sense of principle.) I can safely say that, as stressful as my job is, I'm really glad that I'm not working in one of our warehouses. I don't know---or care---how much they're making, it can't be enough. I know how many orders we're placing; they must be completely swamped. Heck, they've probably gotten to the point where they're laughing hysterically and saying, "It's all sold out---can we go home?"
All *I* want for Christmas is...well, let's just say it's one of a kind and isn't available in stores. It doesn't have to be gift-wrapped---in fact, completely naked would be preferable!---doesn't need batteries, and the only accessories required are a jumbo box of condoms and a squeeze bottle of chocolate sauce.
Okay, I'm smiling now. Time to go get ready for work.
On the plus side, I'm navigating multiple programs with a faculty that I wouldn't have thought possible a week or so ago. It's gotten to where I've started looking up items in warehouse inventory BEFORE I place the order, because otherwise, they'll just get an e-mail notice saying the order has cancelled because it's out of stock. If the link in the main program is messed up, I can go into the backup for the tracking number to find out when the shipper claims they delivered the order. (Sending something? Ask the sender to put "signature required" on it, so it won't just get dumped on the doorstep for your neighbors to pilfer.)
On the other hand, I did have one heart-warming example of how nice people can be: a lady called me and said she'd gotten someone else's order. (Naturally, I thought she meant the warehouse got the order wrong, and my heart sank at the thought of more transactions.) No, her order was there in the box, and so was someone else's. AND the shipping address ON the mailing label, so I was able to pull up the other person's info and note the account. The gal who received it, as I was talking to her, was pulling off her postage label and getting ready to put our label on it and send it to the correct recipient and joking that she'd better get her presents wrapped, since she wouldn't have the box to hide it in. She was a very classy lady, and I hope she has a terrific Christmas. Honesty should be rewarded.
According to her, one of the items in both orders was the same style shirt in a different color/size, so apparently, someone at the warehouse got distracted while pulling items and threw it all in the same box. (Good think the paperwork got in there, and that it went to someone with a sense of principle.) I can safely say that, as stressful as my job is, I'm really glad that I'm not working in one of our warehouses. I don't know---or care---how much they're making, it can't be enough. I know how many orders we're placing; they must be completely swamped. Heck, they've probably gotten to the point where they're laughing hysterically and saying, "It's all sold out---can we go home?"
All *I* want for Christmas is...well, let's just say it's one of a kind and isn't available in stores. It doesn't have to be gift-wrapped---in fact, completely naked would be preferable!---doesn't need batteries, and the only accessories required are a jumbo box of condoms and a squeeze bottle of chocolate sauce.
Okay, I'm smiling now. Time to go get ready for work.
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Date: 2006-12-09 05:22 pm (UTC)That's just so nice about the honest customer, and super at how awesomely skilled you've gotten at the job. You go, girl!, and major halo polish to your customer. May there be many more like them in the next few weeks.
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Date: 2006-12-10 05:28 am (UTC)I sure hope so!
(It's so nice to have fiends who know me well enough to read between the lines.)
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Date: 2006-12-10 05:30 am (UTC)FRIENDS!
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Date: 2006-12-10 03:44 pm (UTC)Back when I worked for newspapers, which was in the days before the internet was used by common folk, I used to have very vivid nightmares that I turned "friends" into "fiends" or "united" into "untied" in re-typing wedding announcements.
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Date: 2006-12-10 04:28 pm (UTC)http://fairyd123.livejournal.com/tag/house
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Date: 2006-12-11 03:10 am (UTC)http://pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com/57537.html#cutid1
Links to the new chapters are at bottom of the first chapter.
This thing has turned into a quintuple crossover -- why, yes, somebody dared me to try it! The second chapter hopefully won't leave you scratching your head. I've dropped into it a character almost no one has ever heard of (he's from the pilot for "Dragans of New York," which never aired and can be seen only at the Museum of Radio and Television) but the third chapter features Ian from "Flight of the Phoenix."