There's one thing that I struggle with and that's the "Well, now I don't wanna."
Most of the time it's when I have this plan to like.... do a particular chore and then someone comes along and goes "Hey can you do that chore?"
Like they didn't know I was already planning to do it." but because they now expect me to do it....I now don't want to do it because it's an expectation.
Kinda had that today at work....but in the "I don't know what you want from me so why should I even try doing anything." sort of frame of mind.
You see two weeks ago while we were working truck my PL told me that we had enough extra cat food that it wouldn't all fit on the u-boats. And that I would need to wrap the extra bags of food up on the pallet and place them in the steel.
Which okay.
Makes sense.
Easy enough to do. So I placed what bags of food I could on our u-boats (two layer carts that we can stack with food and the pull around the store) and then placed the rest of the food on a pallet and my other pl then placed it in the steel for me.
Easy enough.
Fast forward to last week.
I'm once again working the cat food pallet. And I have extra bags of food.
The u-boats are still full.
So I wrap the extra bags up on the pallet and put them up in the steel like I did the week before. Because thats what the PL said I should do. So I continued her directive and did it last week too.
Cut to today.
And I'm once again working the same pallet.
And PL goes.
"Hey, btw. It's okay to put food up in the steel, but make sure that the uboats are stuffed completely full first as well as checking the midsteel before doing so."
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Like. Okay. Granted.
I did not check the mid steel.
Because in the receiving area the midsteel is this tiny area where you can stuff like maybe two bags onto a shelf. And usually those bags are the smaller 11-15 lb ones.
Pretty sure ALL the bags I put in the steel were the HEAVIER ONES.
But whatever.
I DID however check the uboats and had considered them full enough that I didn't couldn't place more food on them.
But apparently they were still 'empty' enough according to my PL's standards that I could have fit more bags on there.
Which okay....but like I only had like maybe 10 bags the pallet. I was trying to make it worth it to have the pallet up there in the first place.
Because yah sure maybe I could have fit like 2 or 3 more bags on the uboats...but I would have still needed to put 7 more on the pallet in the steel.
*exhales*
I think I'm also just annoyed because they waited a full week to tell me this.
Like ... we saw each other on Thursday. Why did my PL not say anything then? Why not take a moment to TEACH ME and be like "Hey I noticed (thing) here's how you could have (explain solution)"
But nooooooo.
It reminds me all to much that I'm the one who's had waaaaaay more experience training new people than my PL has because I've been the one in charge of training most of our petcare people. I've also been in charge of the cashiers.
So yah I've learned how to teach people and show them things.
My PL? Not so much. There's been like no mentoring whatsoever. And if I do go ask a question I kinda feel like I get treated with the "I'm so busy why are you wasting my time asking this question you should know this." or "Why don't you know this it's obvious."
So yah. Not great on the training.
Regardless.
I really had to fight the urge to just leave the cat food pallet in the back untouched today. Because like.... there's the thought of "What is my PL going to nitpick this time." going on in the back of my mind.
Like yes. I make mistakes. They pointed out that bags I thought were overstock actually had space on the shelf that was completely empty because I'd thought the bag was a different similar looking bag that had it's home filled on the shelf.
So yah. I'm still learning and I miss things.
But like..... it was more stressful putting food away after I was done working the pallet because like .... there was a ton more overstock this week than there was last week. Last week it was like maybe 10 bags. This week it was closer to like...thirty? The pallet was nearly waist high.
And despite the uboats being emptier this week....I only managed to cut the pallet in half by placing bags of food on those and yes in the freaking midsteel too.
But I seriously debated about leaving the remaining food on the pallet on the floor and just not wrapping it. Because I'm sure despite stuffing the uboats and steel as full as I could, my PL would probably be like "Look you can fit 3 more bags here."
Which sure. Maybe I could but there's still at least TWENTY OTHER BAGS on this pallet.
Just *exhales*
I did end up wrapping the food up and placing it in the steel.
But I'm now just expecting my PL to nitpick me next week on how it could have been done differently...without actually teaching me how to do it better.
Like there's only so much I can learn by osmosis and observation and figuring it out on my own.
Sometimes I need to actually be TAUGHT.
Until you next find these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!
-Sarnic Dirchi
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