Speaking of humming – I have a co-worker who is always humming while working. It’s nice that he’s happy in his work, but he drives me absolutely BATTY!!! And not just because he hums all the time. It’s because he gets so little work done. It takes him at least 2 hours to work half a pallet of freight when it should take less than an hour to do it. While he worked his tiny bit of stationery freight yesterday, I did 5 pallets of plants and I finished my 5 pallets long before he finished his. The first was some orchids for Mother’s Day. In order to make room for them, I had to rearrange some other flowers we had up front. So I got those new orchids out, then I moved more orchids from the garden center to the front of the store so I could use that space for some of the new houseplants that came in. Then I did the houseplants. First I had to condense and rearrange the Boston ferns to make room for the new plants. After I put out those 2 pallets of plants, I brought out another pallet which had a half pallet on top of it with a wood sort of shelf unit full of small house plants. I had to take the plants off the shelves so I could get the half pallet off the big pallet, then I put the plants back on the shelves. Once that was done, I was able to work out the big box of Boston ferns that were on pallet #5. I got all of that done before my first break, meaning I did it all in 2 hours. And the “Hummer” was only about 75% of the way through his small pallet of stationery stuff. Then there was just a tiny bit of garden center freight for him to do while I went out and started watering flowers outside. Just a few bags of charcoal and some bags of bird seed and some suet cakes – stuff I could have gotten all worked in 15 minutes or less. It took him more than an hour! My 5-day vacation begins 2 weeks from tomorrow. It can’t come fast enough!
Speaking of humming – I have a co-worker who is always humming while working. It’s nice that he’s happy in his work, but he drives me absolutely BATTY!!! And not just because he hums all the time. It’s because he gets so little work done. It takes him at least 2 hours to work half a pallet of freight when it should take less than an hour to do it. While he worked his tiny bit of stationery freight yesterday, I did 5 pallets of plants and I finished my 5 pallets long before he finished his. The first was some orchids for Mother’s Day. In order to make room for them, I had to rearrange some other flowers we had up front. So I got those new orchids out, then I moved more orchids from the garden center to the front of the store so I could use that space for some of the new houseplants that came in. Then I did the houseplants. First I had to condense and rearrange the Boston ferns to make room for the new plants. After I put out those 2 pallets of plants, I brought out another pallet which had a half pallet on top of it with a wood sort of shelf unit full of small house plants. I had to take the plants off the shelves so I could get the half pallet off the big pallet, then I put the plants back on the shelves. Once that was done, I was able to work out the big box of Boston ferns that were on pallet #5. I got all of that done before my first break, meaning I did it all in 2 hours. And the “Hummer” was only about 75% of the way through his small pallet of stationery stuff. Then there was just a tiny bit of garden center freight for him to do while I went out and started watering flowers outside. Just a few bags of charcoal and some bags of bird seed and some suet cakes – stuff I could have gotten all worked in 15 minutes or less. It took him more than an hour! My 5-day vacation begins 2 weeks from tomorrow. It can’t come fast enough!