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Semi-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. :-)

...

Bed now.

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Date: 2008-07-01 07:47 am (UTC)
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The back room is better. When I did such things for a research metal suppliers the back room was where we counted, and measured, and weighed, the really expensive stuff. The fascination of "This is worth £8000?" could make up for a lot.

Winding 2km of wire from one spool to another to see if it'd shrunk was not interesting. At least the little things were weighed if there were more than100 of them.

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