Incoming Shipments

It's interesting how...quick my managers are to well...freak out over things. 

Honestly, I think it's just the stress being caused by the pandemic. 

As it feels like a lot of my managers are two seconds away from going into full on meltdown. 

*exhales*

The current grief -besides our annoyance at customers who are coming in just for funsies-is the fact that after a week of having no animal shipments (besides fish) come into the store as the company had stopped all shipments due to virus concerns...is that this week we are getting shipments in again. 

As apparently corporate has a contract with the company that breeds/delivers our animals to us...and apparently the 'lack of hours' and general "hey there's this huge pandemic going on" isn't enough of a reason for us to stop the shipment of animals to stores. 

So they had to allow the company to send us more animals.

At least that's my understanding.

Which I get it. If you're breeding animals you kinda need to keep them moving or else risk overcrowding at your facilities. So I get it. 

But my managers and alot of my coworkers are upset about this reversal.

Mostly because having animals in the store means that it encourages people to come into the store to look at them and buy them and with more people in the store it means more chances of us catching the virus.

So yah. 
It's just a general consensus that we shouldn't be selling animals right now among my coworkers.

And I do agree with that sentiment.
Because sure you have time for the animals now.
But what about after the pandemic is over and life returns to normal? (if it ever returns to normal?) 

What are you going to do with your new pet then?? 
Hopefully...still take care of it.
But I can see us getting a ton of phone calls in the future asking if we take in pets because people suddenly 'don't have time' for them anymore.

In any case.

My managers were freaking out about us getting in more animals into the store because they were thinking that we would suddenly be overwhelmed with animals.
Like the breeders would send us so many animals we wouldn't be able to safely care for them or contain them all.

*shakes head*

Stress. Stress makes people not think things through.

Like.
The only times we really get overrun with animals is around Christmas when there's a huge buying market for animals. That's when we have trouble finding room for the animals...if they aren't selling. 

But like.
The other big holiday of the year.
Easter.
Has already passed.
So honestly. There's very little risk of us being overwhelmed with pets.

Because most of the time, the breeders send us replenishment shipments.
Meaning that we only get more of an animal if we run out of the animal.

Like. Mice? Usually the store likes us to have between 3-6 of them in at a time.
If we get under 3? Usually we end up receiving another shipment of them.

Same for the hamsters. Most of the time we only get what we sell.
But if they're selling faster then they send us more of them.
Like Robo Dwarfs. Sometimes we get shipments of only three. Othertimes it's like a dozen. 
Same with the Guinea Pigs.

The breeders aren't just sending us animals willy nilly. They send us animals based on what we are selling now, and probably based on what was selling last year too.

And yet I could just see my manager picturing us having to deal with like 40 guinea pigs and a hundred different hamsters and a ton of birds and just...having no room.

*exhales*

Not gonna happen.
Like we're low on birds now. But they only sent us 4 parakeets this week.
And while the rodent shipment was huge...that was because they were making up for not sending us a shipment last week. 

Every week isn't going to have a ton of animals in it....unless we sell a ton of animals.

It's just a matter of convincing my managers that it's not a big deal that the animal shipments are continuing.
Yes that means that we have more opportunities to sell animals. 
But at the same time. I doubt they'll go overboard.

We'll only get in what we need.

Life is going to basically go on normally for the animal shipments.

*shrugs*
Who knows...maybe I'm just not concerned because I'm the one who actively deals with the animal shipments and has seen what's come in week after week after week for seven years. 

So I know how the company works.

Dunno.

But yah. It's just....frustrating to see people getting worked up over minor things.
Like yes it's not great that having more animals may encourage more people to come in.
At the same time though...it's really not worth stressing over it. 

Until you next read these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!

-Sarnic Dirchi