Intro: this will be a first for me, as I usually don’t talk about my day job in-depth… mainly for reasons like “You never know who is reading your blog”. The company I work for, however, shouldn’t have a problem with positive things.
Work has been very interesting as of late. Earlier in the week, my regional supervisors wanted any volunteers in my line of work in the region to go to one of the stores this week for an overnight auditing session. Well, since I don’t want to be left in the lurch if I should need help later on this year, I gave up one of my workdays for an overnight (which was last night) at the other site. They also asked me to bring my whole team if possible. “Hell no” was my answer to that; with one person on injured reserve and the other a part-timer, the only one left is my other co-worker whom I leave in charge of the team when I do these road trips.
So I got my assignment, in two parts. By the way, this is inventory auditing that myself and my team do for the company. One category of merchandise absolutely needed to get done. My regional’s assistant said to audit that category and, if I had time, (this is the second part) audit another category related to that one, which was bigger. You would think that common sense would dictate doing the bigger project first, but it usually depends on when the categories were last audited; the most recently audited section would take a back burner to anything else. This is a store that is going through a complete yearly inventory soon, so prioritization is essential. I told my teammate at work about this assignment and she agreed with me that one person (myself) doing both categories would be next to impossible in one night. The smaller audit is easy. The bigger, less needed, audit would normally take two people a whole day to do. Last night, I went into that store with a pretty clear idea of what I needed to do.
Well, I suprised the regional LP’s assistant when she came in this morning. I managed to get both categories, with minimal cleanup work on her part, done. I kind of suprised myself with some of the multi-tasking and calculations that I had to do in order to shave off some time. Plus, it helped that the smaller audit actually went much smoother than it could have been, considering the items involved.
That’s the reason for the title of this entry. Through my career with this company, I’ve had a good reputation (coming from other managers) of doing the work of two or more people in the same space of time. Being a supervisor, you don’t always have the chance to shine like that; you tend to get your people to rise up and show off their talents, while you’re stuck doing admin work. It’s a good feeling to know that I can still unload some whupass when sorely needed!
