“Remoted” – Workday Thirty (Thursday)

Another day, another new system to learn for the special project. WebEx training. On the phone hands-on training with the entry screens for said new system. Oy. Cranium feeling cracked. After a supper break it’s back into the trenches to flex the new skills for a couple hours.

In the topsy-turvy world of deliveries, the Amazon Pantry order that was supposed to deliver May 4^th arrived today. Holy crap there is no place to put this stuff. So much for the strategic Whole Foods order to fill in the gaps for the deliveries that were not due for weeks out. Everything is in the house now. It’s crammed in the house. There is now legitimate danger of injury from falling canned goods and pasta products when opening cabinets. Where the home place is now also a workplace, there may actually be some OSHA violations at play here.

While the cabinets are chock full, the refrigerator is dramatically less full, due to the absent produce delivery, which is showing as “Charged” on my produce account, but not logged as packed /shipped /out for delivery or any other exciting words that convey the concept and or even a tiny shred of comfort that the regularly scheduled produce order will be arriving soon, or even at all.

The same MIA situation holds for the laptop ordered Sunday, that was followed by a message from the seller that it had shipped on Monday. The UPS tracking, however, tells a different tale. The UPS tracking tale is a very short story. It shows that a label was created Monday. As of today, it provides an expected delivery date of yesterday. And that’s the end of the story. No pickup notification. No transit tracking. It doesn’t yet seem to exist in the world of delivery.

According to this ... well, what?

That puts the delivery count for the week at two deliveries arriving 10 and 14 days early, one arriving late (the wine due last Friday arrived on Sunday) and two deliveries seemingly not even out of the warehouse gate. 

This aspect of life maintenance is the equivalent of a poorly paying part-time job. One that gives me a headache. It will be great to return to the normal flow of things of just in time inventory management where I get low on/run out of things, then go to the store and buy them. As the cabinet empties, items are replaced. There is order, logic, and control. And I’m the one in control.