Work ramblings.

Covering an area for someone else today, 10 door area.
3 people called in. I was left with three pickoffs and 3 loaders.
Three loaders for a 6 destination belt.

CHAOS of course wrapped its loving arms around me today. We immediately got backed up as i called all other areas for help. Shit.
Well after 45 minutes I get my first helper. Unfortunately by then Omaha was backed up clear to the pickoffs so i couldn't get him in a 4 destination to load and had to have him help with Omaha. Fuck.
30 minutes later I get 3 more people, but the damage was done, we were already off are feet and behind the flow. I now had all 6 destinations covered but no one for the floors.
I had to go around asking everyone to step it up because we needed to get caught up ASAP.
2 hours later we are caught up in the trailers but the floors are covered with carts of irregulars to be put up.
CHAOS.

All and all I played off the hand I was dealt decently. It was a shitty hand, but all together I managed to keep my cool all day, and do my best to keep all the variables in a line. My areas numbers no doubt looked horrible, but everyone worked hard until the heat exhaustion set in at the end of the day.
I had support from other supervisors from time to time. Next week I begin my "permanent" move into the scan room. They are going to train me on the computer system in there and i will be fixing equipment and information errors in the system, as well as my previous job in there of stopping and preventing missorts during the shift.

Should be interesting.

Namaste