Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Blue Door Warehouse

In the back alley at work we have a warehouse that we call the "Blue Door Warehouse."  It has (as you might have guessed) a blue door.  We also call it the "Old HGF Warehouse" because before we moved all the materials to the blue door warehouse they were in the office building that used to house HGF's offices.

It has books and marketing materials.  The books are mostly partial boxes that our real warehouses don't really want to store and one or 2 full boxes of each title so we have some more accessible.  It also has most of our marketing materials: t-shirts, buttons, pillow cases, folders with materials about how great we are, etc.

In December 2012 we planned to do a full inventory of all warehouses, including that one.  The inventories of our 2 "real" warehouses were completed in December and we are on schedule to finish the blue door warehouse physical inventory tomorrow.

It doesn't help that the person hired to do the inventory has worked 4.5 hours in the past 3 months, but some interns have also been helping.

After the inventory is done then some of the items need to be reorganized because they weren't all put back in a useful place.  Hopefully we can use the hired help for an extra pair of hands to do that next Monday or the Monday after.  It's going to be really nice to have that finally finished.

Of course, in September we are scheduled to move the office 15 minutes away, but the warehouse isn't scheduled to come with us.  After 7-8 months of getting everything in order we are going to be a 15 minute drive from all of the materials we need to have access to.  Mostly we need them so they can be boxed and shipped out.  I don't know if the plan is to box them up from the current office or drive them to the new office first.

I can't figure out why they aren't moving the warehouse and why they don't expect that our staff will need to be near the warehouse basically every day, sometimes several times per day.

Friday, January 4, 2013

If money wasn't an issue

I've been thinking lately of what I'd do/buy/get if my access to money was unlimited.

  1. Quit my job and spend more time with my family.
  2. A new couch.  Nothing too fancy, just a sleeper sofa for the upstairs family room.  Maybe something like a sleeper sofa from Ikea like this this Ektrop or this Moheda.  
  3. A foam floor for the upstairs living room like this one from Skip Hop, but we might need 2 to cover all the area I want to cover.
  4. Carpet for the basement to help insulate it.
  5. A whole house humidifier.
  6. A whole house water filter.
  7. Redo the garage floor so that it slopes slightly so that when snow melts off the cars, the water is directed out of the garage rather than just sitting around and rotting the shelves in the garage from the bottom up.
  8. New shelves for the garage
  9. A swing set.
  10. Have someone to help clean the house once a week or so.  Vacuum, change the sheets, wash the kitchen floor, clean the bathrooms etc.



None of this is too exciting, but it would be nice to be able to do it all someday.