It started with 4 of us, pasting price labels on books. It wasn't the best of jobs, too monotonous and too simple in my opinion. I desired to learn something out of this vacation job, but during the first week, my wish just wasn't fulfilled.
Entering the new week, we were attached to another group of temps whom we're supposed to take over when they are going for their enlistment. Much more to learn and much more to do. That made me happier. 2 more additions came our way and now we have this team of 6. As the previous group ended their term, another another addition joined our growing team.
This team was fabulous, although we hardly know each other very well, efficiency was at its best, even the supervisors and manager were impressed at how efficient and precise we are.
Information flowed in bit by bit, we've learnt more skills of the warehouse. Such as the operation of a Auto-picker/Order picker, Electric stacker, Pallet jack, etc. We learnt much of the processes within the warehouse and learnt how to pick stock, do stock taking, stock transfer.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out our newly aquired knowledge, so when we learnt all that we could possibly learn, it starts to get boring and draggy again. Day by day, we are always doing the same stuff. Alot of double work being done, alot of wastage on scotchtape, plastic wrapper.
Before roadshow.
Picking the books for the roadshow, peeling off the old price tags, stock take, tag the new price tags, pack them into cartons, fit them into a pallet of ASRS standard. Shrink wrap the cartons on the pallet.
Few days prior to roadshow.
Take the pallets out from ASRS, removed some cartons and fill the remaining pallets to a higher height to save space and trips of the trailer.
After roadshow.
Pack up, send to warehouse, repack into ASRS standard, store in ASRS. Take out from ASRS, scan titles, pack and send back to ASRS, repeat for 60 over pallets. Found error, take out pallet from ASRS, sort out the errors, return it to ASRS.
Haha. Towards the end, it got really unbearable. Its so tedious that I dread going to work.
But one thing, I really did learn quite abit there and my colleagues there are awesome.