I think I need some kind of new time management strategy.
At work, I'd like to delegate some of my responsibilities onto a co-worker. My responsibilities are triple normal capacity. My predecessor decided to just simply not print hang tags for items in the side lot or make those annoying 8 X 11 signs for nearly all outside items. Therefore, I am already behind. ASM has been great about it, making some signs for me for the front lot while I tossed freight.
I simply lack the time.
An example of my Friday:
4 am: wake up
4:30 am: leave house
4:55 am: pull into work, notice a semi truck lurking out back
4:55:30 am: wonder what evils lurk in that semi trailer
5 am: ASM arrives, walk into building, start pushing freight
7 am: start pushing totes
7:40 am: fill out the forklift inspection sheet
7:50 am: unlock night locks, use torch on one
8 am: truck driver approaches, hands me bill of lading
8:05: unload 5 pallets of horse bedding pellets
8:30 : check rain checks on horse bedding and any freight items I may have missed, call customers
9 am: do negative on hands
9:01 (there weren't any, weird) start front lot signage of trailers, pallets, ect with the signs ASM so nicely printed
10 am: key out defectives
10: 15 am: key out inventory adjustments
10:45 am: check in Exide Batteries
11 am: lunch!!!!!
11:30 am: rotate and stock Exide Batteries, try to make them all fit on one pallet (fail, they sent too many)
12:30 pm: check in UPS deliveries
1:00 pm: start backroom clean up, work 2 remaining dog/bird/cat small bag/box pallets
1:30 pm: load out 20 bags of horse bedding that was on raincheck
1:40 pm: forklift runs out of propane
1:41 pm: Princess' father comes to alert me that he's here to pick up the tractors he had out for repair
1:42 pm: I alert him that I will be right with him as soon as I switch out the propane tank on my forklift
1:45 pm: I give him the paperwork for his tractors, send him to the registers
2:00pm: He still isn't through the register, so I enlist Jason to help load tractors into Princess' father's horse trailer so I can clock out on time.
Whew....I'm tired.
It's nice the days go in a snap, though, instead of relentless pacing around at the register. Even though the fax machine and I don't get on, and the night lock/ monkey puzzle/chinese finger trap device and I don't get on...I am good unloading feed/wood pellets, lol. The freight truck, well, its one hell of a challenge. So is the loading the empty pallet truck. Oh, the salt truck was fairly simple as well. So its two trucks that I really don't want to see--ever...until I get better with the forklift and then I will consider myself a grand master.
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