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Re: What I do. (NSFW, Salty language)

Postby Askmeastupidquestion » 15 Feb 2017, 00:18

Excalibur wrote:Do u get to keep stuff for free?
Do you ever just keep some items and mark them missing from inventory?
Is this contract work?
What's the weirdest thing you have kept stock of?


Keeping items and marking them missing would be construed as theft and I would be fired. If it was one of the pharmacies I do, or heaven forbid the airport duty free stores, or on the Indian reservations I could get charged with a federal crime, so no I don't screw around. However, I find if you ask for stuff nicely they'll freely give. At the medical supply warehouse, (surely the weirdest thing I've taken inventory on) I asked one of the salesmen for a sample and he gave me a hip joint. I now have a saline breast implant to go with it. http://i.imgur.com/V873Mrf.jpg?1 I use it for an ice pack. At a craft store I counted thousands of silk flowers, they let me keep the broken ones. I gave them to a friend and she hot glued the flowers to barrettes and put them on her kids. Sometimes you find awesome deals in the clearance sections, old stuff way below cost.

I work for a national corporation that has offices in 49 states. (we in Washington cover Alaska) Washington State has a business and occupation tax on company inventories, we are at our busiest this time of year. We have like three district offices in Washington with managers and secretaries. The sales force negotiates the contracts with the stores... the managers juggle the people and places, I get a schedule every week and a paycheck every other week, minus my taxes. I suit up, and show up, and try not to screw up. Such is life. I find myself at the malls a lot. You can't beat mall food, like a hot dog on a stick, or an Orange Julius.

The medical supply stuff, has to be the strangest stuff I've counted, hip joints, bone cement, tiny screws and metal plates. The trenching equipment rental place was strange in the opposite way, big metal plates, girders, bracing, pumps etc. I liked doing the marine supply place with anchors and marine hardware. I do drug stores, so I invariably get the aisle with condoms, lube, adult diapers, enemas and suppositories. I've counted pallets of liquor, $30,000 handbags, musical instruments, dishes, weird smelly asian groceries, porn, guns and sporting goods, shelves of narcotics, parts warehouses for auto supply stores and exercise equipment. I do a lot of clothes, I seem to get stuck with bras and underwear. if you've recently bought underwear in Western Washington. I've probably handled it. Let that sink in for a minute :shock: . Washington is a legal marijuana state, some of our associates have counted weed shops. One associate was asked if she would be okay doing a sex shop, with toys and bondage gear, she was fine with it and I think it was nice they asked her first.

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Re: What I do. (NSFW, Salty language)

Postby Excalibur » 15 Feb 2017, 22:13

What do u use to count things? A digital click counter?
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Re: What I do. (NSFW, Salty language)

Postby Askmeastupidquestion » 16 Feb 2017, 11:11

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This is the RM2, it's what we use to count stock on. It has a barcode scanner built in the front, that can be removed and strapped to your finger. The laser scanner transmits the barcode information via bluetooth to the computer.

The RM2 transmits your completed areas via WiFi to the flow leaders computer. Different inventory programs are loaded on it for each store. Some stores like apparel you must autoscan, scanning each item individually. For other stores like groceries, you can scan or enter the sku of the item and then enter the quantity. For autoscan stores, I just clip the RM2 to my belt and use the finger laser and blast through racks of clothes. For multi stores, I hold it in my left hand and use the laser internally to scan one item, then key in the quantity with my right hand.

The machines themselves are pretty hardy, I've seen them dropped six feet off a ladder and work just fine. The software is pretty simple, there's search modes and other pages for supervisor functions. Sometimes in a huge warehouse you don't always get the best WiFi connections to transmit your work back, so you have to upload to a USB stick and the supervisor runs that back to their laptop and downloads it to the master program.

The RM2s run off a rechargeable lithium ion battery, and the laser scanner has it's own little battery too. The machines act squirrely when the batteries are low, so they keep a battery charger with extra batteries nearby.


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