Spring Break
Breaking into the Biz Part 8
By: Valerie Bishop
Issue date: 7/24/07 Section: Aggielife
I think I have reached my threshold for tedious busy work. As an intern at an Indie record label in Austin, most of the tasks I'm given are monotonous. I've been working here for about seven weeks now and am starting to get tired of many of my usual chores. Still, I'm plowing through my assignments with the same efficiency and enthusiasm in hopes of continuing to impress my bosses.
On Monday, I ended up starting my day with inventory rotation instead of counting like I usually do. Nobody was more excited than me to learn that the server was down in the office, preventing me from updating the inventory count. Instead, I moved some heavy boxes for a couple of hours to make room for the new product. This might not sound exciting, and really it isn't, but it's a little more mindless and relaxed. However, the computer error was eventually fixed, so I spent the second half of the day counting inventory.
Tuesday I finally had to deal with the shipment of returned product from Australia. Tommy, my boss, sent a large order of product to Australia to be distributed to stores all over the country. This distributor sent twenty-five boxes back to us. Then, annoyingly, the distributor placed two rush orders less than two weeks later for much of the product that was just returned to us. To simplify, this distributor wasted obscene amounts of our time and money.
It was my job to open every box, sort out all of the products inside, and then count how much of each item was returned. Of course, each box isn't separated by product or anything convenient. Everything is mixed together, so this became an all-day project.
I almost died Wednesday. Tommy asked me to reorganize the promotional DVD section of the warehouse. I grabbed the step ladder to start moving boxes on the top shelf. Just then the entire shelf began to fall apart and break in half. Barely able to hold it up with both hands and fearing I was about to be crushed by easily over two thousand DVDs plus the metal shelf, I yelled for Tommy to come help me.
On Monday, I ended up starting my day with inventory rotation instead of counting like I usually do. Nobody was more excited than me to learn that the server was down in the office, preventing me from updating the inventory count. Instead, I moved some heavy boxes for a couple of hours to make room for the new product. This might not sound exciting, and really it isn't, but it's a little more mindless and relaxed. However, the computer error was eventually fixed, so I spent the second half of the day counting inventory.
Tuesday I finally had to deal with the shipment of returned product from Australia. Tommy, my boss, sent a large order of product to Australia to be distributed to stores all over the country. This distributor sent twenty-five boxes back to us. Then, annoyingly, the distributor placed two rush orders less than two weeks later for much of the product that was just returned to us. To simplify, this distributor wasted obscene amounts of our time and money.
It was my job to open every box, sort out all of the products inside, and then count how much of each item was returned. Of course, each box isn't separated by product or anything convenient. Everything is mixed together, so this became an all-day project.
I almost died Wednesday. Tommy asked me to reorganize the promotional DVD section of the warehouse. I grabbed the step ladder to start moving boxes on the top shelf. Just then the entire shelf began to fall apart and break in half. Barely able to hold it up with both hands and fearing I was about to be crushed by easily over two thousand DVDs plus the metal shelf, I yelled for Tommy to come help me.
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