Today I was in the warehouse again working on a project with two other Burroughs students and two students from other schools. There were also some CBC guys there in the morning who have been putting stickers in books for like a week so not sure what's up with that. Anyway our sponsor wasn't there today because she had a funeral to go to but she left us with a list of things to do that she thought we wouldn't finish. We started off by filling orders from one of the schools but these were re-orders, meaning we either didn't have the specific clothing item when the orders first went out to the school or the item did not fit them. There were about 20 of these and we filled them in about 10 minutes. We then moved on to our big task for the day: inventory.
Since the school year is ending, orders don't really need to be filled anymore. Our job today was to count. Everything. Our sponsor left a packet for us that listed everything that needed to be counted and it was like 8 pages long. We started with uniform shirts which are unisex and counted the ones that were easily accessible. But that was where things got complicated. Along with the bins, the warehouse shelves were full of boxes with extras of different sizes and most of the time what was written on the outside of the box was incorrect. We had to pull the boxes off the sometimes really high shelves, count what was in them, and put it back. After we counted the uniform shirts we did boys uniform pants, girls uniform pants, mens uniform pants, womens uniform pants, shoes (boys and girls and mens and womens of all the sizes), and winter coats which had boxes all the way up to the ceiling. We were burnt out pretty quickly and this task became extremely tedious. We finished around 1 and since our sponsor had thought that that would take us more than a day she didn't have anything else planned for us to do. We were excited because we thought we could leave early but then one of the other employees grabbed us and gave us a new task. A shipment of new uniform shirts and pants had just arrived so there were about 15 boxes of clothes. They had to be counted and the tags had to be taken off and then they had to be put away. We finished that in record time and re-totaled our master inventory sheet and they were all really impressed that we had finished. This time they really didn't have anything else for us to do so we got to leave an hour and a half early.
Also there is so much dust in the warehouse that my allergies are majorly acting up so that's been a blast.
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