06:30 - wake up
06:35 - shower
07:00 - stop putzing around and get dressed
07:20 - leave for work
08:00 - start work, add tracking + S&H to sales orders from yesterday
08:30 - check email or get written up for not checking email every 30 minutes before 1pm
08:31 - back to SO's
08:45 - give SO's to accountant to be invoiced
08:46 - be asked questions by accountant about Sales Orders, answer routinely mind-numbingly stupid questions
08:51 - answer questions from techs in tech support (who have been there longer than I have) about how to troubleshoot our products and how to repair RMA's... :roll:
09:00 - check email or get written up
09:12 - print daily sellable-product physical inventory worksheet
09:15 - verify in-house dealer stock of products from 3 different sources to ensure dealer stock is correct
09:25 - answer more questions from Tech and Accounting about their own jobs
09:30 - check email or get written up
09:31 - answer questions from sales regarding what all our products include, how they function, etc. :roll: ... I'm the new kid on the block, here. Why am I answering your questions? :|
09:45 - back to physical inventory worksheet, now 15 minutes late, risking getting written up
09:46 - get interrupted by Tech using my computer in production to work on their customer's RMA's instead of their own computer or the official RMA-computer in another room
09:50 - back to physical inventory worksheet, now 20 minutes late, risking getting written up
10:30 - check email or get written up
10:11 - get interrupted by production temps asking how to do this or that or how to fix this or that or what to do about little pissy problems that they should be able to handle themselves
10:15 - back to physical inventory worksheet, now 45 minutes late, risking getting written up
10:20 - notice production temps doing something wrong, retrain them AGAIN.
10:25 - back to physical inventory worksheet, now 55 minutes late.
10:30 - check email or get written up
10:31 - reply "in progress" to request from sales to make Product-X because we're low in stock and they have to make the sale RIGHT NOW or they're not going to get their commission... :roll: :|
10:37 - answer more questions from Tech about how to do their own jobs and how our products function
10:40 - finish soldering/customizing/building/upgrading/whatever Product-X for sales
10:43 - try to build the item in our computer's inventory program, but find problems with inventory stock of parts required to physically build the item. However, it's already built so that means inventory on the individual parts has been fvcked up for some reason.
10:45 - go to manager asking why, how to fix, etc., because I don't have authority to fix inventory problems
10:45 - get blamed for inventory problems, even though I don't have control over it and other people do who don't get in trouble for fvcking up inventory in the system or physically
10:46 - get red-faced and swallow it to be able to get back to my job
10:47 - manager gets problem fixed again this time, I go back to build the item in our inventory/stock program
10:50 - get back into email to reply to sales that it's been built and they can sell it, only to find anywhere between 2 - 7 emails about the same issue, each going WHAT ARE YOU DOING? WHY AREN'T YOU DOING YOUR JOB? I NEED TO MAKE A SALES ORDER FOR THIS RIGHT NOW!!
10:51 - ponder getting a new job
10:52 - reply to sales that the world is now back on course around the sun
10:53 - back to physical inventory work sheet, now 83 minutes late.
11:00 - check email or get written up for not checking it every 30 minutes, find another request for Product-Y to be built so sales can make more sales orders and go back to babbling at the water cooler
11:01 - throw physical inventory worksheet up in the air, walk over the pages that are strewn all over the production floor, build Product-Y.
11:14 - reply to sales, reassuring them that the sky is not falling and that Product-Y is ready to go again.
11:15 - pick up physical inventory worksheet, skip the last 3 pages, head off to build products that are low in inventory that sales hasn't already hounded me about because they need more to keep them busy
11:40 - curse because I forgot to check email at 11:30, hope manager doesn't check to see when I logged in to email last
11:41 - check email not really caring anymore whether I get written up or not
11:42 - back to building various products for inventory
11:55 - put products I've been able to build into our inventory/stock program reflecting what's physically built
12:00 - log in to email, fly the finger to the LCD, close the window
12:01 - go to lunch, drive around with an awesome coworker
12:31 - arrive back at work, pick up sales orders from sales in the "BEFORE 1PM" bin, check to make sure they're all timestamped when they came in, get started on building custom legacy products et al to be shipped out that day
12:55 - check with sales to remind them that they have 5 minutes to get orders in to go out today, get the standard "oh, I didn't realize what time it was, here's 6 hours of work for you, sorry for not getting it to you this morning so you could start earlier to get everything shipped out on time. Now if you'll excuse me I have to get back to our watercooler conversation" response
12:55 - curse repeatedly
13:00 - take all orders from the BEFORE 1PM bin, review them that have been timestamped before 1pm for proof, order them by priority and skill difficulty, begin working on hardest or highest priority first.
13:55 - watch sales sneak in and dump more orders into the BEFORE 1PM bin and sneak out, knowing I'll get an email regarding those orders going "now, you got everything before 1pm, right?" later in the day... that bitch.
14:19 - accountant comes in looking for my manager, I tell them he's not here (as if they're blind or something) and get the standard "well maybe you can help me" reply, followed by questions meant for Tech or Sales or upper management. I either answer them or tell them to go away, depending on my mood.
14:25 - back to orders for the day, in a panic because I may not get everything shipped on time and will get written up for such
15:20 - wipe sweat from face, dry hands, get coworker to check orders for accuracy, verbally stamp them with QA seal-of-approval
15:45 - start boxing products, weighing, printing shipping labels
16:15 - print day's end barcodes for shipping company
16:20 - watch sales walk in and listen to them bitch at why I didn't get all the orders out
16:21 - point out that they're being bastards again and that all orders before 1pm are going out
16:22 - get lied to, right to my face, that those orders were in before 1pm
16:23 - tell sales to get the fvck out of production and that they're lying assholes, pointing out the lack of timestamp on the orders to show they came in before 1pm and pointing out that I watched them come in at 2pm just like they did the day before.
16:30 - help the shipping driver load his truck up with products getting shipped
16:40 - mentally go over everything ELSE that I've been tasked with but don't have time to get done
16:41 - curse
16:42 - give up, go home with 12 minutes overtime on the clock.
17:30 - arrive home, drink beer, turn off brain, get stupid watching TV, go to sleep whenever I can get to sleep
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