Restless.....

Lately, I have been restless.... Maybe it's because of winter, maybe I'm sick of being in only one store, maybe it's because I'm starting to really feel the weight of bills.
Whatever it is, I'm not feeling the love at the Zone anymore.
The other day, I was helping a customer like I usually do, and he mentioned that I have great customer service skills and I may be a perfect fit for his company. He wanted to know if I would be interested and asked if his associate could call me and maybe set up an appointment. Since I wasn't sure if this was altogether on the level, I gave him the number at the store.
Surprisingly, a few days later, the lady actually called me back. We ended up playing phone tag for about a week. Today, I finally got a chance to talk to her and we set up a time to meet. Her company is having an open house next Tuesday, and I'll be there!
I've explained that I have to be at the Zone until at least mid-March to get the tenure requirement for the ASE certification. So I've got some hope for this new adventure....

Last day of setup...

I'm done with setup for this store now. Today was the setup crew's last day.
It makes me sad... I like to do setup. No uniform, no customers, authorized overtime....

Now that this store is done, I have to wait for another one in the area. I am so glad that AutoZone is expanding so quickly in the area. It looks like I will be able to do another setup in a couple of months!

But while I was at my home store last night, picking up parts, my store manager told me that our store is a taller store than I was originally told. It seems that for at least a couple years now, we've been setting our planograms wrong. They are supposed to be set up differently because of the difference in height.

This means that when I go back to my home store in the next week or so, I will have to re-shelve the ENTIRE store! I'm NOT looking forward to that.
Anyways, I have to get back to doing all of my name-change stuff...

Bustin' it out!

Well, I am currently setting up a new store and until today we were up to a day and a half behind in our work.
Today we were scheduled to get a truck with 22 pallets of stock to go up. That truck was scheduled to be there when we got there at 8 AM. It wasn't there... It also wasn't there yet when we took our break at 10. We couldn't get a hold of the Distribution Center to find out where it was so we were getting worried. And this truck has to get at least mostly done today because we will get another one tomorrow.
Well, the truck finally got there at 11:30. We unloaded the truck, took a lunch and then got right to putting the stock away. 22 pallets filled with stock all got put away and the aftermath cleared by 5:00.
The supervising crew was impressed with our speed and accuracy and was very proud of us.
We only have a half-day tomorrow, so we won't get the whole thing up, but I hope to get most of it done so we don't have to kill ourselves on Monday.