Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 3:18 am
YAY! Cagbro! I can't wait to be an auntie again!
Ali, that was sweet about the heart. I'm planning to surprise Caitlin with lunch on Monday for her amazing work in the copy center supply closet today. She kicked some major ass. When she was about to leave yesterday I told her, "Caitlin, when you come in tomorrow you go straight to the closet and start cleaning and when I get in I'll check in." She told me she didn't know where to start so I told her to start with assessing the paper stacks and seeing what was identifiable and what was not and moving the unknown/unusable stuff out of the closet to be dealt with later. I got to work and she had made hecka progress. I had Sorus mark down all the excess paper and partial paper packs that I wanted to get rid of with a "dummy" item number and price it at $1.00. Most of it was gone by the time I left tonight. We also drummed up some service sales for the copy center because this older lady saw the legal size paper for a dollar and paid us $1.50 to cut it to letter size, three reams. Hey, every penny counts. Anyway, when I got in and checked in with Caitlin she asked me about what to do about the miscellaneous coils laying around and several other items and I told her to just throw them away. She was very happy with that answer and the closet is now almost done. A little fine tuning on Monday and we will be in perfect shape.
Sorus, I'm so glad you aren't upset with me moving shit all over the place and then often moving it again. I'm also very flattered that you think the copy center looks awesome because your opinion is extremely valuable to me especially since you are familiar with the handicaps I am up against and the disasters of the past that I have been trying to fix. I forgot to ask you what you thought of my adorably cute and girly chained pen and apple holder post it note dispenser so that customers can write down the item number and quantity of paper they take from the single sheet rack. Caitlin and I were cutesing over it after we set it up and Derek was trying to call us ridiculous and silly but I told him it wasn't my fault he had no sense of style nor flair and told him run along and go back to his boring tech department. He walked away. We giggled. He pointedly pretended to ignore us. It was quite amusing. Later in the office, privately he did tell me it looked good and that the changes were impressive, especially Caitlin's attitude towards work in the past few weeks. On other notes, I had Kin change my schedule to later so I can monitor Bryce. I've noticed him doing things the wrong way, told him how I would like it done and then found him doing it the wrong way again and again and found him leaving miscellaneous paper piles a few times even after me telling him in a constructive way with a positive tone, "Make sure to put the paper away when you are done with the job, that saves us so much money, time and confusion, OK?". If I can't change his habits I might have to kick him out of the copy center so I'm going to be working 10:30 to 7 next week on the days that Caitlin works. Same with Jay. He's still post it note on some of his orders. GRRR.... Anyway, if this helps, with Caitlin there and most of our reorganizing finished, when I come in I can help you with the massive price changes and yes, more are coming up next week. I can probably be at your beck and call for at least two hours a day next week.
Ali, that was sweet about the heart. I'm planning to surprise Caitlin with lunch on Monday for her amazing work in the copy center supply closet today. She kicked some major ass. When she was about to leave yesterday I told her, "Caitlin, when you come in tomorrow you go straight to the closet and start cleaning and when I get in I'll check in." She told me she didn't know where to start so I told her to start with assessing the paper stacks and seeing what was identifiable and what was not and moving the unknown/unusable stuff out of the closet to be dealt with later. I got to work and she had made hecka progress. I had Sorus mark down all the excess paper and partial paper packs that I wanted to get rid of with a "dummy" item number and price it at $1.00. Most of it was gone by the time I left tonight. We also drummed up some service sales for the copy center because this older lady saw the legal size paper for a dollar and paid us $1.50 to cut it to letter size, three reams. Hey, every penny counts. Anyway, when I got in and checked in with Caitlin she asked me about what to do about the miscellaneous coils laying around and several other items and I told her to just throw them away. She was very happy with that answer and the closet is now almost done. A little fine tuning on Monday and we will be in perfect shape.
Sorus, I'm so glad you aren't upset with me moving shit all over the place and then often moving it again. I'm also very flattered that you think the copy center looks awesome because your opinion is extremely valuable to me especially since you are familiar with the handicaps I am up against and the disasters of the past that I have been trying to fix. I forgot to ask you what you thought of my adorably cute and girly chained pen and apple holder post it note dispenser so that customers can write down the item number and quantity of paper they take from the single sheet rack. Caitlin and I were cutesing over it after we set it up and Derek was trying to call us ridiculous and silly but I told him it wasn't my fault he had no sense of style nor flair and told him run along and go back to his boring tech department. He walked away. We giggled. He pointedly pretended to ignore us. It was quite amusing. Later in the office, privately he did tell me it looked good and that the changes were impressive, especially Caitlin's attitude towards work in the past few weeks. On other notes, I had Kin change my schedule to later so I can monitor Bryce. I've noticed him doing things the wrong way, told him how I would like it done and then found him doing it the wrong way again and again and found him leaving miscellaneous paper piles a few times even after me telling him in a constructive way with a positive tone, "Make sure to put the paper away when you are done with the job, that saves us so much money, time and confusion, OK?". If I can't change his habits I might have to kick him out of the copy center so I'm going to be working 10:30 to 7 next week on the days that Caitlin works. Same with Jay. He's still post it note on some of his orders. GRRR.... Anyway, if this helps, with Caitlin there and most of our reorganizing finished, when I come in I can help you with the massive price changes and yes, more are coming up next week. I can probably be at your beck and call for at least two hours a day next week.
:):) a prayer to you and yours...
. I have more than enough "L" women in my life as it is. Off the top of my head there's Lorin, Louise, Laura, Laurie, and Lexi. 
Several stores and many, many pairs of shoes later, she found a pair that was more or less acceptable. She's trying them out today.
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