09:29
Take the Seats Out of the Van

So Boss asked Shipper#1 to pull the van out front, and he'd help him take the seats out to deliver a local order. This is fairly standard practice, we usually have a room where we can put the seats temporarily so it's not in anyones way.

Today was a little different. When Shipper #1 pulls the van around, Boss is nowhere to be found of course. So naturally since everyone's always late here because you don't get in trouble no matter how late you are, seriously, I've walked in at noon and got a good afternoon from Boss.

We can't put the seats where they would normally go because Boss#2 wanted a fridge upstairs but didn't bother measuring and of course it doesn't fit in the elevator, so we're waiting for it to be picked up next week. Which means we have to put the two bench seats in the storefront. Everyone can see them and they are an eyesore. I don't know how he doesn't care what his store looks like to his customers. Only in select spots, like the paper room is all that matters now.

10:21
Do Not Let Shipper#1 up Here

So I was minding my own business changing image sizes prepping to load them onto the website, all of a sudden I hear a waterfall of junk, I turn around and Shipper#1 is going down! He's a big dude! like 6'7" and 300lbs, going right for the Other Guy Behind Me's Mac! I watch him slowly fall step by step as he tries to correct and save himself. Other Guy Behind Me came back pretty quickly after the incident and was left with the sight of garbage that had fallen onto his desk and cluttered around where he sits.

I don't think he actually hit the ground, but he sure did make a mess. You couldn't even get into Boss's office afterwards. Boss is a major hoarder. He doesn't like throwing things out and he'll even dig through the garbage from time to time to make sure that you haven't thrown anything out.

Boss didn't bother to ask if Shipper#1 was ok, instead he just told us not to allow him up there, nor did he clean up his mess, but just pushed it to the side, so it's back to normal I guess but it's still a disgusting pile of clutter.

Pic Related, it's his second desk a couple years back. Imagine that, plus a few defective products, cramped onto 4 steps falling down.

11:38

Use What we Had on our Old Website

Every day here I'm constantly going through a time machine to roll back to the way it was back in 2007. It's like he didn't spend thousands of dollars on a new website, and I didn't spend years preparing for the launch. Everytime he says check the old website I cringe.

This time it's about shipping charges. I applied a charge per variant based on an estimation of box size, It makes sense until you order a quantity greater than 1. Boss noticed this right away and commented on how they'll be turned off and just drop the order. He suggests I go to the old website and copy what was already there (it wasn't there it was on a different product naturally.). So that's what I did, and I created a giant headache for my order manager who is now going to have to get a quote every time somebody orders said product. Not to mention I have to talk to someone that's going to charge us $100 to have me ask, how can I turn off shipping options for this line.

It'll be fun when he gets the bill for it.

15:48
Dangerzone

We have music in our store, it was setup fairly recently by The Other Guy Behind Me, and as a result we have control of what we play. The first track I added was Rick Astley - Never Going to Give You Up, and there has been one story about a customer walking in, he basically told us that it was his 4th time being "Rick Rolled" this week. It made us chuckle a bit.

A few days ago I added Kenny Loggins - Danger Zone, It just played and reminded me to tell you about Rick Astley. This is inspired by Archer. Love that show.

17:29
It's quit time. Take care.

The Other Guy Behind me, have a good vacation, see you next thursday.