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ROAD TRIP!
May. 22nd, 2006 08:19 pmSo, my store is discontinuing our paint department. We're losing money on it, and it's taking up space. We haven't sold paint in quantity since Home Despot went in down the street. So for the past week we've been packing and palleting paint.
We're transfering it to differant stores in our region. Today, I took 10 pallets of paint to Burlington, MA.
For those of you who don't know, paint is freakin heavy. Getting the rented 24 foot Ryder truck up out of the Connecticut River valley was the first challange, accomplished by liberal use of my hazards and crawling along interstate 89 at 35 miles an hour. It took me 3 hours to drive from Lebanon to Burlington.
The Home Improvement manager at Burlington forgot to tell the Recieving Manager that I was coming. He hit the roof, because he hadn't made any space for 10 pallets of paint. That was freind not made number 1.
Friend not made number 2 was the HI manager, who was hoping for primarily exterior paint. She got mostly interior.
Friend not made number 3 was the Store Manager, who refused our inventory transfer paperwork because it was filled out incorrectly. So the paint is physically in Burlington, but theoretically in Lebanon, because the paperwork hasn't been processed.
The truck drove a lot faster on the way home...once I got off 128, which was a parking lot from Burlington to where it meets 93.
I've had a very long day. Tommorrow, I may be taking paint to Manchester and Concord. Closer, which is good.
Other than that, life is otherwise busy, and I still don't have a job for the fall. Please pray for me. I can't do retail indefinetly. It's killing me.
We're transfering it to differant stores in our region. Today, I took 10 pallets of paint to Burlington, MA.
For those of you who don't know, paint is freakin heavy. Getting the rented 24 foot Ryder truck up out of the Connecticut River valley was the first challange, accomplished by liberal use of my hazards and crawling along interstate 89 at 35 miles an hour. It took me 3 hours to drive from Lebanon to Burlington.
The Home Improvement manager at Burlington forgot to tell the Recieving Manager that I was coming. He hit the roof, because he hadn't made any space for 10 pallets of paint. That was freind not made number 1.
Friend not made number 2 was the HI manager, who was hoping for primarily exterior paint. She got mostly interior.
Friend not made number 3 was the Store Manager, who refused our inventory transfer paperwork because it was filled out incorrectly. So the paint is physically in Burlington, but theoretically in Lebanon, because the paperwork hasn't been processed.
The truck drove a lot faster on the way home...once I got off 128, which was a parking lot from Burlington to where it meets 93.
I've had a very long day. Tommorrow, I may be taking paint to Manchester and Concord. Closer, which is good.
Other than that, life is otherwise busy, and I still don't have a job for the fall. Please pray for me. I can't do retail indefinetly. It's killing me.
