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....So, my day at work on December 29th, 2022

I don't usually post about my day at work unless it is shitty. Well, I just had a shitty day at work. For context, I work in the Stock Room. Like a mini-warehouse for my company. Parts come in different parts of the plant. I hold them in stock until they are ready to be kitted to jobs to further complete assembly and then ship out. I kind of fell into being in charge of almost 600 stock parts worth almost $5.5 million dollars. And that isn't even including the materials, which I am in charge of hundreds of.

Every month, I do end of month inventory. Do a count of everything. I have ways to make the actually counting quick with almost every part having labels with barcodes, allowing me to just scan the part number and than the quantity on the box. The program adds up all of the parts together and tells me which part I am off on. Sometimes it is because I forget to scan a box. Other times, the label wasn't updated and has the wrong quantity on it. But the part that takes the longest is going into the system and figuring out why I scan or count us having 2437 of one part when the system says we have only 1402. Some parts only cost a dollar because it is just adhesive and it is made in-house. Other parts are $200 each because they are LCDs we get from Sharp.

Very often, I am off on a lot of things. I wish I had the time to figure out the discrepancies for each end of month inventory. But because a number of factors, like Hot List jobs, poor time-mangament on my part, my usual duties in the Stock Room, I almost never have time to find the disrepancies or resolve them. It also gets complexed because one of the departments at my company cannot count parts as they are on the production floor. The leads refuse to so in the past. So if it is the case that I have given them more than I should of, I can't tell. So, often, I just said, "Yes, we have 1402 of so and so part. Like the system says we have." And I will just figure it out later.

Well, later has come because this time, it is Year end inventory. We need 100% accurate counts. We are having an outside auditor counts things with us. This one matters. And, I haven't really begin the Year end inventory process. Since I have to ask to be able to come in on Saturday and the weekend, that is what I did.... I was denied I can't come in on Monday (it is a holiday) or Saturday. I have to do the whole Year end inventory tomorrow. With 100% accuracy. "If you need help counting, we can give you some personal to help you with that."......The counting part is not the what takes a long time. Its the figuring out where we got 1000 more of these expsensive LCDs. But, the corporations that bought the company I work for wants to 'trim the fat.' "Cut down your non-billable hours. Cut down your non-billable hours." The last two meetings with my manager and supervisor, who I am now convinced has no idea about my job or what I do, but yet our now my bosses, was all about my "excessive hours" or my "efficiency." And if I do better on both, I will 'maybe' finally get that pay raise I have been demanding. Because my company is still "running a business."

But also today, I still had a hot list to do. Which I didn't complete all of the it. There were two huge jobs on it. I spend most of the day on one. And I still didn't finished it. But yet, my supervisor says my hot list is "manageable." "But if you are struggling to keep up, you can say so and so to help you with it." Yes, there is someone in Assembly that is trained some what on kitting jobs. But she isn't as experienced with the other huge job on the hot list. Which also usually takes a whole day to do as well. And she couldn't help anyway because she was busy with her task.

And this is on top of my supervisor wanting me to 'fix' the allocations with four different John Deere jobs. (There is a five ticket he also wants me to do that with as well but the ticket number doesn't exist in our system. So I don't know what that is about.) Because it is thousands of dollars in over allocations. But I just did a quick count of those parts in my stock. And if I did "fix" the "over allocations," it will throw off the counts of those parts even more. So, my Supervisor wants to fix a couple thousands of dollars of over allocations, but add to the hundreds of hundreds of thousands of dollars of way off inventory count. Which I won't have the time to fix let alone figure out as I can't come in on the weekend to do the inventory.

My Supervisor even wanted me to send an email on my "game plan" for year end inventory and how long it would take. So I spend an hour writing that email, over 5000 characters or more, I am sure, exhausting myself emotionally and stressing myself because they want me do the whole Year End in just one day. "It is just counting. It shouldn't take that long." Again, today's hot list was also "manageable."

On top of all of this, I am still only paid $18.28 for my job. With all of my responsibilities. And yet, they want me to "work less" because of the mandate from the top brass of "Cut down non-billable hours." THE CORPORATION PROFITED 1.13 BILLION OF DOLLARS LAST YEAR ALONE. IT CAN SURELY AFFORD TO PAY ME FOR WHAT I AM WORTH AND AT LEAST ONE DAY OF OVERTIME FOR ME! FUCKING DAMN IT!!!! But no, a supervisor and manager who doesn't know what my job intales is telling me to produce more work in half the time. And doesn't care about my inventory count because, "this one job is too expensive with over allocations." Maybe Assembly requested those parts to replace rejects. Happens all the fucking time.

And I am afraid that after the audit and I turn in my sheets, later in the week, I will be in a meeting with the chairman and I have to explain why we are over $500,000 of "missing" parts from our year-end inventory counts. I am just now praying that my supervisor and manager with be in that meeting too so that I am not only in facing the music.

Well, about 6000 characters about my day at work.

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It is time to start living my dream! I compromised my lifestyle and my passion to have golden years tomorrow. For many people, retirement is a time when your values become more important than money but for me, retirement is more of adventure, with a little inspiration. This golden period gifted me with spending more time with loved ones, lots of time for my hobbies. Today when I looked back I found myself frustrated, just working and raising children I totally forget about my hobbies and activities I ever enjoy. Overall, whole lifestyle changes, spending may increase for part of the time.