Learning More

Our day started with a surprise yesterday. We went out to the car to get in and go to work, and guess what?:

Yep - a flat tire. We could see a screw sticking out of the tread of the tire so we probably ran over it on the way home on Wednesday afternoon and it was such a slow leak that we didn't discover it right away. It's a good thing we had the truck or we would have been stranded. Our neighbors all started their training day at 6 AM, so they were all gone by the time we left. It looks like we will not get it fixed until tomorrow - our first day off. We don't want to take a chance on the repair taking longer than the time we have in the morning.

The work day went fine. We spent almost the entire 5 hours actually stowing items from the carts. The biggest problem we had was locating bins that could accommodate the items we needed to stow. Either the volume of business hasn't picked up enough yet in order to empty these bins, or the area of bins we were sent to were already worked by another shift. Anyway, we are getting better and doing the work faster than the day before.

Our last training day is today, and then we will be tossed to the wolves to work on our own. There are some details that we need to work on such as instruction on how to use the scanner for problem items. We hope to learn more of that today, but the job gets the first real test on Sunday when we have to work our first 10 hour shift.

The weather continues to be excellent - high of 76 and low of 42 and clear skies yesterday. It's a real shame that we need to work while all this nice weather is here. It is the same so far today. No complaints so far...