First off a little background: during a normal week it is me and three other women doing pricing at our store we average on a week 15,000 individual SKU's (one style of shirt in one color in one size is one SKU - each style has 4 to 12 colors and each color has 5 sizes - you do the math)!
Monday, September 1st: So, today we had another girl join our team (Natosha, my roommate). She worked out quite well and picked up everything very quick. We did all of Mondays normal work plus most of Tuesdays work as well as we had a huge amount to do Tuesday and needed to get ahead as much as possible. Finally, time to go home we got in at 6am and left at 4:30pm!Needless to say I went home and took a nap, woke up at 10pm had dessert and went back to bed after a shower.
Tuesday, September 2nd: Today we went in at 5am - barely 12 hours after we had left the day before (today we had 6 of us on the team, we were joined by one f our regular helpers). We started in Back-to-School, marking down everything but backpacks and lunchboxes (those will go later this week). Five hours later we were done and headed over to Stationary, to further markdown all the scrapbook items. Just to give you an idea of the enormity of this undertaking - just one style of ruler had 352 units that's 352 stickers - supposedly we should be able to put 120 stickers on in an hour - so just one ruler could've taken 3 hours to ticket (it took less than an hour). We finally got to go home at 3:30pm - that's another 10 1/2 hour shift. Went home took a nap and then got up for some dinner and went back to bed.
Do you see a pattern here? Wednesday was a shorter day we worked 6am to 3pm (our normal schedule is 6am to 2:30pm). Thursday was another long day as we were trying to get as much of Fridays work done early (very big day) - we got out around 4pm. Back in on Friday at 6am and we managed to just make it out before we would've had to gone to lunch (by 11:45am). All told for the week we got time and a half on Monday (for Labor Day), and then on Tuesday we received shift differential an extra $1.25 an hour because we went in so early...we had worked over 42 hours by the time we were done (myself and my original team), the others got close to 25 or 35 hours for their time with us, not including what they worked elsewhere in the store on other days.
We made it through it just fine, and no one killed anyone - an accomplishment for all of us!
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Whew! Life can be exhausting! It's especially good when you make it through the week without any mutilations or killings :-)
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