Walking Stats at Work

I've had a pedometer for several years that I bought to use for workouts at the clubhouse when we lived in Surprise. We talked about wearing it to see how far we actually walked during work but kept forgetting to take it. I wore it yesterday for our entire 11 hour shift and was surprised to see that the total distance walked was 4.5 miles. Even with that distance, we didn't walk as much as normal since the available empty storage bins are closer together as a result of the increased business. When it was a bit slower - before Thanksgiving - we had to walk further between available storage space to stow the new items. Josie will wear it next time to see how far she walks during the shift.

It was a banner work day for both of us yesterday. At the end of our shift, we went to the team leader to find out our productivity statistics for the day. These are numbers that are available to the management team in real time, which means they were available instantly after we ended our shift. Josie did a high of 167% of plan and I did 237% of plan. We all target 100% for each day and they give out prizes to the top performers of each day. Generally, the top 3 or 4 performers (out of probably 50 stowers) get something. Yesterday, I was given a $5 discount coupon for the Amazon store. We're happy that it looks like we finally have the procedures down pat.

We will probably work five 11 hour days per week from here on out. The opportunity is there to make more money so we will go with a 55 hour work week. We also decided that it will be better for us to work 5 days in a row since this week it disrupted our sleeping schedule too much by working the middle day of our days off. That probably means that traveling to many of the attractions in the area will be difficult, but we'll see.

We have some snow flurries today and temperatures in the mid 30's. I wrapped the outside water hose with weather wrap yesterday and it looks like it worked - so far. It went down ino the high 20's last night and everything is fine with the water. There isn't much scheduled today for our day off except to do some local chores. Until tomorrow...