Log 28: Inventory
For the past few days, I've started working on taking inventory of every item Featherlite has in stock. All around the office, there are racks upon racks of stock items, each with a unique identification number. The racks that the materials are on, are then labeled by the area of the office that they reside in. So for example, the racks in Preston’s area all have labels starting with “SH” for shipping. SH1-1-1, then SH1-1-2, and so forth. It's a bit of a daunting task to slowly sift through and count all the items on all the racks, and the job is even more tedious because of an extensive rearranging of racks that took place during Covid. Luckily, Featherlite has an employee that enjoys both organization and tedium.
In order for me to properly take stock of everything, I needed to use a company laptop to access the online inventory system. A few weeks ago, I was set up with a company profile so that I could complete work orders under my name, instead of borrowing other people's laptops. However, my basic employee account does not allow me to digitally edit company inventory. I needed the account to be formally authorized to modify item quantities in the computer system. And in order to get that authorization, Robbie had to go into Featherlite’s system and give me: administrative power.
While I’m sure many would say this promotion was a long time coming, I don't take my new position lightly. I understand that being a member of Featherlite’s administration will come with great power, but also great responsibility.
I think the real risk here is that it could become harder and harder for others to discern who's running the show around here. Is it Graeme? Preston? Robbie? Or is it… me? I mean, I don't know, all of us do have administrative power. Who's to say which one of us is at the bottom of the totem pole anymore?
Anyways. So far inventory has taken 16 hours, and I'm probably about halfway to the finish.
Highlight: Robbie came over to me today and handed me a brand new laptop to work on! The corresponding lowlight of this was the six pages of notebook paper I had already filled taking inventory by hand now needed to be redone on the computer.
