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"Posted by: Kickimanjaro
I'm trying to become an '04, but it's not working too well."
DMGs Weekly What's Update! Brought to you by NyQuil.
Well, here we stand at the end of a long, mucus filled week. The only thing that is still bothering my well-being is the scratchy throat syndrome, leading people to believe that i'm a 70 year old over the phone.
Over at REI [Recreational Equipment Incorporated], we had our annual Inventory on Sunday. The shift was 4:30 PM to 11:30 PM. This 7 hour shift felt like a millennium, scanning each individual package with the assigned handheld. The fever of 102 didn't help the cause, but it was nice. The only thing heard throughout the store was the constant *beep* of successfully counting the SKU of whatever item we were assigned. I myself had to count the following:
1. Camping Furniture
2. Headlamps
3. Lanterns, Flashlights, Batteries
4. Knives, Multitools, Accessories
5. GPS accessories, Geo-caching accessories
6. Sunglasses, Glacierglasses
7. Kayaking accessories
8. Car Rack accessories.
I must say, the amount of red tape was astounding. Each section was taped off into 8 or so different sections to divide the racks into acceptable numbers for the scanners, to avoid any malfunctions from terrible software being overloaded by small numbers. My hands, stained with sweat... tears... blood... overcame the 100's of batteries and other assorted items for a successful evening. Free chipotle was the name of the game, though. Gotta love those Company paid lunches. Barbacoaaaaaaa
My poor brother, though. He was assigned the duty of Socks. 7 hours of counting nothing but soft, fuzzy, non-sharp socks. By the end of the night, he was almost insane... as if his brain had been infected with some sort of sock lint. Time will tell, though. If he starts buying socks in mass quantities, or says 'sock' more than 5 times per sentence, we'll know we have a problem.
As for the rest of the week, i was bedridden from that terrible cold. MW3 helped me get through most of it, then the grand 21st birthday party of my closest friend sealed the demise of those nasty germs. You know it's a good party when all of your 65 cups and glasses have been used, AKA not a single "full" cup was found throughout his house. You know, that annoying thing where you're cleaning and you find the 3 to 5 cups of unsipped alcohol, soda, water, etc? Not a single one. The only drops of alcohol not consumed were found on the garage floor next to the pong table.
*word of advice: You know that friend of yours that enjoys debating every single thing you say? Don't invite him to play beerpong. Every turn will take 5-10 minutes purely from arguing on how something is bullspit.
Aside from those things, fairly un-eventful week. I wish i could tell you guys more, but we're still in dark mode over here. I WILL give you two tidbits about the new DMG-IP, though.
1. It's not of the male gender
2. It's arriving sometime early spring.
:)