Priorities

 So usually on Monday's we have a routine in the mornings. 

That mostly involves me and another manager going through the front half of the store counting holes on the aisles. 

Aka. Looking for empty spots on the shelves and scanning the tags below them to make sure the spots are actually supposed to be empty. And if they're not, double checking that inventory isn't hiding elsewhere before adjusting the numbers. 

Which is semi interesting because like, I'll also scan areas with low numbers too. Places where there's only one or two on a shelf when I know there's usually more of the item. Or I'll scan items that I've found to be higher theft items in the past.

And it's interesting to note the ... idk trends? Trends in like what items are consistently not right on the shelf. 

Which begs the question of.... was it stolen? Or did the DC send us the wrong amount?

Like we were supposed to have 2 large 40 gallon tanks of one particular type on the shelf. I could only find one. 

So does that mean one didn't arrive on the truck when it should have? 

Or does it mean that somehow a customer managed to walk out of the store with a 40 gallon tank without paying for it?

Who knows. 

In any case. 

Every Monday we do these scans first before the store opens so that we can ensure that our truck can be properly replenished in the next week or so. 

....Except the First Monday of the month.

Because then we have AD that we need to set.

Because new sales need to go up and therefore those need to be set first before the store opens and once we're done with those then we can go back to our normal Monday tasks.

Which its pretty easy to figure out priority.

Ad first. Scans second.

And like....I reminded my other manager of this this morning when we were getting ready for the day.

"We need to get ad done first. I'll take petcare, you just need to do the back wall area and then we can do scans after that point." 

Only....other manager....didn't do that?

I think they may have been trying to do both things at once? Scan and set ad? Because I could see the ad in their cart. But I could also hear the beeping of the scanner meaning they were doing their scans as well.

Which didn't make sense to me.....

Like the obvious priority is to get the ad done first. Scans second. Because while the scans for this section should be done today....we can also do them throughout the week. While ad definitely needs to be up on the first day of the sale so that customers can know what deals they can get while shopping in our store.

May main thought is...is that this manager doesn't particularly like doing ad. 

They usually take 3x as long to do ad compared to others.....

Though it's hard to tell if that's just them or if it's on purpose.

As most tasks seem to take longer than they should for this manager.

So who knows for sure.

But it's mind boggling and very irritating when I say "Hey we need to get ad done first." that ....they don't do ad first.

Like why?

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

-Sarnic Dirchi