Relay

My department relay (moving everything around) is just about done. Some cascade shelving we were waiting on finally came in. I'm still missing an entire fixture as well as a few shelves though. Once those come in, we'll be done! Hooray!

It was a lot of work. A LOT OF WORK.

My partner and I started it early one morning (4 hours before opening) to get a good start on it. That really didn't happen. We would have gotten so so so much more done had the managers called sooner to fix the scanners. The next day one of them finally called and boom, instant scanning. Not waiting and hoping for 30 seconds that you would get a response instead of asking you to reconnect to the system which takes a good 60 - 90 seconds itself. We scanned about 1,000 books that day just trying to sort them into their new categories as we moved things. Had our scanners worked properly, we could have gotten 10,000 scanned. And at least 5 more areas done than we did.

I was annoyed for an entire week that it took a 5 minute phone call to fix the issue. It wasted our time. It wasted the company's time.

Once it was fixed the next day I got the same amount done as my partner and I had done in a whole day in half a day by myself!

Moral of my ramblings the story, make sure you have properly working equipment before taking on a MAJOR project.