New Faces

Of course, the biggest change at work yesterday was the new faces. We have a new manager and the people, with just a few exceptions, were people we haven't seen before. If the first day is any indication, we both thought that there was a better attitude among the daytime people than the night shift folks. We can't place our finger on it, but an example was the courteous manner of the "pickers". Every one of them was more pleasant than the gruff, get-out-of-my-way attitude of the night shift pickers. Remember, they are the folks that go around taking merchandise out of the bins that we stow to fill orders. The meetings that are held before work and right after dinner break were much more relaxed. We just hope it is not just Sunday that explains these changes, but will be an ongoing improvement.

It was a little tough getting up at 4 AM in order to get things done and be at work by 6 AM. The flip side of that was that it was nice leaving work when all the familiar faces were just coming on duty at 4:30 PM. Our eating schedule is now different as a result of getting home around dinner time. We are going to try to keep the snacking down since we now have the normal, evening TV time, instead of going to bed immediately after coming home from work. Our dinner break now becomes a real lunch break.

The meet-and-greet meeting for the workamper program kickoff is today at 3:30 PM. We will arrive late after we leave work at 4:30, even though we have approval to leave work  early to attend. We can't see any reason to give up the extra hour plus of paid work for the meeting. As long as we are there for the second half, it should be fine. That's when all of the goodies are handed out and you get to meet the new people coming in for this early start to the peak season. It appears that these people coming in will miss the hot and humid part of the summer - lucky them. It was only in the low 80's yesterday for the high and much less humid. Everything is "go" so far, so we'll see what a Monday has in store for us "new" daytime workers...