It has been YEARS and YEARS since Bill and I have "chosen" to stay up until 4AM for "fun"....anyway! So I guess last night was a "test" and we passed with flying colors! Not that we are making it a steady habit after this job is over for sure!
We made it through our first night anyway..... we were sent to "receiving" last night and worked there the whole shift. Receiving is when the big semi trucks back up to the dock and boxes upon boxes upon boxes are unloaded on coveyor belts and "receivers" (us) open the boxes and put the items in the computer and then put them in totes to go on another conveyor to someplace else....I think where they go is where we thought we were going to work...to be "stowed" into bins. So later "pickers" can pick the items for shipping to you!
We each had a computer station and had to enter each item and make sure the "count" was correct for each item in the box. If the tote was "full" aka..... like items in the totes ..then they could be sent onto the conveyor belt to the next step. It wasn't hard work at all and we were able to move around and not really hussle as some have told us they have to. Bill and I are hoping we will be able to stay there.Items are brought to us on pallets and we empty the pallets as we work, throwing the boxes into a bin to be recycled to another box. Right now they are gearing up or stocking the shelves so in about 3 weeks when the ordering is at its max things will be on the shelves and ready to pick and send out.
We had thousands of items to do but there were about 15 or more of us on our shift working. If we had questions or problems come up we had help all the time on the floor willing to help.... they were very nice about helping. Believe me sometimes it seemed a whole box was wrong on the computer and then they had to come in and "do something" to correct it! For example.... I had a box with the upc label that said BBQ sauce and it was a whole box of football team "gnomes"..... someone messed up before we got the box for sure!
We finished emptying a semi-truck and we started on another one so we felt like we did a good job for our first night anyway....we will probably find out numbers tonite. Each shift if started with simple "moving-stretching" excerises and announcements...
We won't know until we get there today where we will go and our "stowing school" wasn't even mentioned..... stay tuned!
Bill woke up early this am and was up and around by 8;30---we were in bed at 4 so I know he will be tired tonite... I slept until about 10:30 this am. Neither of us were really sore this am...my feet hurt this morning when we got home but not when I woke up....so that is a good thing!
So until next time!
BJ
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