Annoying Day

Oof. The week hasn't been so bad overall, but today just annoyed the shit out of me. Monday I had to go to the warehouse for 'training' which is really a formality at this point since I've been doing the job for 6 months or more already. I just learned a little trick or two. It was definitely satisfying to see how happy the warehouse staff is with my work :) i got lost on the way because its in a fucking annoying place, but after phoning and waking Jeri up to google map it, I was fine. I was done by 1pm too which was nice.

This Week our New coordinator started. He's transferred from another Opus store so he's worked for Opus for many years and he's very good. He's a very nice guy, he really is but today he pissed me off. All week he asks "what are you working on?" so many times that you begin to feel scrutinized, and then today he had a customer asking about the status of an order. All pending orders are in the box labeled "waiting to Arrive" There is no information in the POS system for orders because I use a Purchase ordering system. All my orders are sent electronically through a different part of our computer system called "Silk". The staff fill out little forms for the stock requests, I fill them out in the Purchase order, send it and then the form the staff fill out gets filed in the "waiting to arrive" box. when the stock arrives then it gets put on hold in the POS.
Well our coordinator I guess did it differently in his other store and said some comment about the need to have something in silk to refer to. I was totally confused... Why when the box is right there? Why have 2 pieces of paper work? why go through all that extra work? it didnt make any sense to me at all. I questioned his statement but we left it as it was... I rang in a customer and the POS froze on me as I was accepting payment.
I fucked around with it for a bit then the coordinator fucked around a little too, and got it back up. Well the person paying, paid with a Mastercard with a chip on it, and since we dont handle the chip cards we dont get Expiry dates on the cards so we just put the expiry as 1111 for those ones since the visa terminal will record it digitally from the card anyways. So the coordinator goes to finish the transaction for the customer and asks me the expiry date and i told him about putting 1111 and he said "um, no you should never be doing that." then asked the customer for it... whatever... then he said "i'll have to make a list of everything you guys are doing wrong".

Well naturally that pissed me off. We work damn hard, and long to get the system set up how we have it after life with our Previous inventory was such a nightmare of fucked up paper work. Our system works, and we like it and we are sick of changing things around. So I went back to work doing my own thing, and later told Jeri about how pissed I was. She said I should talk to Ann, our manager about it because it was so innapropriate, but I didnt get an opportunity. Jeri told Ann that she should check on me because I was pissed about it and told Ann, so Ann said that Yes, Coordinator had mentioned it to her and she said we weren't changing anything at all, and told him that we were supposed to put the expiry date the way I said.

I was like " so I'm not doing everything wrong?! yay!" I've felt so scrutinized and watched this week and I really shouldnt be. I've never done anything to warrant being watched. I'm a very capable and "above and beyond" worker, and I've had my work cut out for me the last few weeks. The counts and the sale and all the ordering has been killer.
Now I have a months worth of Framing ordering to catch up on. If the Framing company sends the stoff on Tuesday like they're supposed to, then I'll be okay I think, but if they send it tomorrow, I'm hooped :B Fridays are too hard to get that much work done.
Maybe I should have split the order up over 2 Runs but I didnt want to. HA.

I keep staring at my humminbird painting for mum that I havent worked on in a while, knowing I have to work on it. I might just work on it now.... Right after I take mums animal crossing character to get a Bubble wand from Phineus, if he's stil in the City :p

Since my dA page isn't much good for posting art at all since most features ignore the film gallery, and I have maybe..... 2 people who actually comment on my work, I might take everything down and move it to a personal gallery on my domain. What do you think? I have a domain, I should use it right? No one comments, so I'll not have comments able and I wont miss anything! Or make it like a blog feed or something.. I dunno. Seems like a good plan to me. I'll just need a stellar website design to inspire me, and that might take a while.

ladydove7 is raising money to get a lighting kit to improve her stock photography. she is offering custom/exclusive stock to anyone who donates $15 or more. Read more here

fallenrox and allhopeislost have a Girl cat named jack, that had a pretty woundy wound that needs un-wounding. Please go look at the sad little pictures of their kitty and donate to the fund of healing. Read more here and here. (sorry it took me so long to pimp you guys! :love: )