surviving inventory day
Jun. 30th, 2008 09:45 pmSemi-annual inventory today at work. I escaped the worst by counting stuff in the back room and the basement, and then various things up by the counter. I only had to do one magazine rack, and it was small.
I think, in retrospect, that I don't in principle have a problem with counting endless things by price point. I just have a problem when there's no variety -- it's one thing to switch from drinks to discarded cigars to reserve magazines to foreign candy to coffee supplies to bulk tobacco to snacks to batteries to... well, you get the idea, but it's another thing entirely to count magazines and magazines and magazines and magazines and magazines and magazines and maybe, for variety, books and books and books and books.
The latter leads to porridge brain. The former seems to allow me several slivers of retained sanity. :-)
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Bed now.
I think, in retrospect, that I don't in principle have a problem with counting endless things by price point. I just have a problem when there's no variety -- it's one thing to switch from drinks to discarded cigars to reserve magazines to foreign candy to coffee supplies to bulk tobacco to snacks to batteries to... well, you get the idea, but it's another thing entirely to count magazines and magazines and magazines and magazines and magazines and magazines and maybe, for variety, books and books and books and books.
The latter leads to porridge brain. The former seems to allow me several slivers of retained sanity. :-)
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Bed now.