I’m working on getting all my thread rps caught up today. As it stands now, I have three left to do. That’s not as much as it sounds. Then I will begin working on my PM rps. So if you have a reply now, and you send me one back, do not be surprised if I opt to wait to reply until after my PM rps are replied to. It depends on how much my muse is with me and how much creativity is flowing with the rp. If I’m strongly feeling our rp, then you’ll probably get a reply. Yesterday my muse was with me quite a bit. So I got out a few replies. I was rather happy with that. So today I would like to finish up my thread replies as I have to partners in PM that I want to respond to. Deruckus and Reydan, I have not forgotten about you. After that, it may be Monday or Tuesday most likely, I would like to be caught up on my email rps. That involves working on two lit rps as well as another rp. So yeah. That one is going to require some time as well as a cooperative muse. So here’s hoping she hangs around for a while.
I have to work tonight. Not long enough for a dinner break but long enough for me to start to hate the place. I didn’t even mention that I received an award at work. Here’s a little bit of useless Home Depot knowledge for you. We have our departments, as I’m sure you could have guessed. Plumbing, lumber, hardware, garden, and of course paint are just some of them. Each department has their own number. For example, at my store, D28 is garden. On the phones we carry, if I want to call the phone for garden, I simply dial 1, instead of a D, 28. Well we also have a freight team. Their job is to unload the trucks that we get. They use forklifts to take off pallets that are shrink wrapped with the various items. The items are not on the pallets according to departments. They fill up a pallet and wrap it. That’s all that is done to send the freight to our store. The freight team gets it off the truck, and then their job is to break down the pallets. We have metal carts that roll, and they line them up around the pallets. As they break it down, they sort it out by departments. That information is printed on the box, and there’s also a sticker that tells exactly what department and what aisle it goes on. Once a cart is full, it can be pushed out into that particular department. The freight team stays after closing to work the carts, but the managers do ask that if we have time to help them out from time to time. Well I have no problem doing this. I will go in, and during the week, I’ll ask if we’re getting a truck that day. If we are, then I’ll go ahead and get my department closed up early. That doesn’t mean I refuse customers. It means that the duties I have to do when I close it down are done early. That means filling the tint machines and making sure the shelves are straightened. I save taking out the trash and sweeping for last. That way I can focus my attention on the freight. Putting up the freight is not something that is required. It’s not my job basically. I do it to help them out. Well the department over freight gave me award for helping them when I can. Where I work, they give these out when you go above and beyond or if you’re consistently doing a good job. It’s a patch that we were. Next time you’re in Home Depot, look at someone with an apron on. You might see them hanging from a metal ring. It’s a shower curtain ring. Some people have a lot. Some not so much. I have three. When you get three of them, you reach a new level. The first level, the one I’m at now, is the bronze level. With that level, you get a bonus on your paycheck. Now it’s nothing too grand. I’ve been told they think it’s either $25 or $50, but the fact is, that’s money I don’t have, and I got it for helping out. My other two were for different reasons. One was for doing a great job. The other was for staying over one night when the closer called out. No big deal. So now I’ll get the bonus on my check, and I’ll get a bronze level patch. This month I also get one year patch, and I get my vacation time. 20 hours of paid vacation time. It’s not a bad job. I can get medical, vision, and dental benefits, I think. 401k, profit sharing, vacation time, and sick time. I’m only part time, but the job offers so much. At Thanksgiving and Christmas they gave us a free pie. I know. Whooooooaaaaa! That’s big, but it’s something the company doesn’t have to do. You better believe I took my apple pie. Lol. I’m not even a big fan of apple pie. It was actually pretty good. So now that I’m done gushing about my job, I’m going to go take care of something.
By the way, does anybody live near a barking dog. There’s one in my neighborhood, and I promise you that if I ever move from here, it will be to a place with NO DOGS! *smiles* Have a good day BMR.