I'm getting cat kisses... :)
Jul. 29th, 2004 09:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mousmeGretzky's sitting with me on the bed (yay for having a laptop!) and is licking my hand. I am absurdly pleased. She's very affectionate. *purrs at her kitty*
Had an odd day at work. Six billion crises, which is about the norm, and a weird encounter with the Supervisor.
Spent the morning trying to figure out the damn lumper service charges from Provigo, since this is the end of the month and I have to tie everything up by tomorrow evening. Bleh. This Provigo stuff very nearly broke my brain. Most annoying. Quick explanation: a lumper service is basically a company that unloads product for us when we deliver it. Provigo insists on unloading our product themselves and then charging us for the service. A few of the larger companies do that. Par for the course.
What broke me is trying to write a P.O. for that, so that Provigo can get paid. See, they send all their yellow Unloading Reference Sheets in drips and drabs throughout the month, and then send a huge-ass invoice toward the third week, which unfortunately includes both charges which have been paid and outstanding fees, distinguished only by the letter "P" (indicating the ones already paid). So then I have to match up the yellow sheets with the charges that don't have a letter "P" and reprint the manifests that go with them.
Manifests, FYI, are lists that accompany shipments. They include the reference number for each load, as well as the shipper and consignee, the weight of the load, and the consignee's address.
Anyway, once everything is put together, then I make sure all the charges are right, and I pull out those particular bills which have to be charged back to Provigo. See, sometimes Provigo itself requests that we deliver a shipment, at which point we aren't supposed to be invoiced for the lumper service.
Confused yet? Good.
So, the difficult bit right now is that A) all the charges don't add up, and B) I'm missing a number of the yellow sheets. Also, there is no one in the God-blessed universe who knows all of the shit I just told you. I had to piece all this together over the last two weeks, which has been incredibly annoying and stressful and time-consuming, and there's no way I'm going to get this all done on time, because it's freaking HUGE.
Bleh.
Moving right along, I had to put out several little fires, all of which meant I didn't finish the P.O.s for the truck repairs and PMs (PMs are grease jobs and routine maintenance done on the trucks).
There were dozens of phone calls about misplaced products, and the people from Distal wanted to know how many pallets we were delivering and when we were going to pick up our empty trailer (fucked if I know, ask the guys in dispatch!). Then there was a whole bunch of misplaced product floating around. Something for Gourmet Laurier loaded mistakenly in Luc Desiel's truck, and 45 cases of Kraft stuff on the Baden dock that had supposedly already been signed for but which obviously hadn't been delivered. Yeesh.
After that, one of the trucks broke down, which means tons of reships for tomorrow. Gah.
Oh, and mustn't forget the weird encounter with my supervisor. He cornered me by the photocopier today and asked me how I thought I was doing and why. Luckily I had the presence of mind not to do my characteristic downplaying of my accomplishments because I loathe people who brag. So I didn't go overboard with the humble, and I think I managed to paint a pretty accurate and positive portrait of my past two months working for Erb. Go me!
I'm going to go bed early-ish, as I'm driving my mother to the airport at 6:15 tomorrow morning. o_O
Had an odd day at work. Six billion crises, which is about the norm, and a weird encounter with the Supervisor.
Spent the morning trying to figure out the damn lumper service charges from Provigo, since this is the end of the month and I have to tie everything up by tomorrow evening. Bleh. This Provigo stuff very nearly broke my brain. Most annoying. Quick explanation: a lumper service is basically a company that unloads product for us when we deliver it. Provigo insists on unloading our product themselves and then charging us for the service. A few of the larger companies do that. Par for the course.
What broke me is trying to write a P.O. for that, so that Provigo can get paid. See, they send all their yellow Unloading Reference Sheets in drips and drabs throughout the month, and then send a huge-ass invoice toward the third week, which unfortunately includes both charges which have been paid and outstanding fees, distinguished only by the letter "P" (indicating the ones already paid). So then I have to match up the yellow sheets with the charges that don't have a letter "P" and reprint the manifests that go with them.
Manifests, FYI, are lists that accompany shipments. They include the reference number for each load, as well as the shipper and consignee, the weight of the load, and the consignee's address.
Anyway, once everything is put together, then I make sure all the charges are right, and I pull out those particular bills which have to be charged back to Provigo. See, sometimes Provigo itself requests that we deliver a shipment, at which point we aren't supposed to be invoiced for the lumper service.
Confused yet? Good.
So, the difficult bit right now is that A) all the charges don't add up, and B) I'm missing a number of the yellow sheets. Also, there is no one in the God-blessed universe who knows all of the shit I just told you. I had to piece all this together over the last two weeks, which has been incredibly annoying and stressful and time-consuming, and there's no way I'm going to get this all done on time, because it's freaking HUGE.
Bleh.
Moving right along, I had to put out several little fires, all of which meant I didn't finish the P.O.s for the truck repairs and PMs (PMs are grease jobs and routine maintenance done on the trucks).
There were dozens of phone calls about misplaced products, and the people from Distal wanted to know how many pallets we were delivering and when we were going to pick up our empty trailer (fucked if I know, ask the guys in dispatch!). Then there was a whole bunch of misplaced product floating around. Something for Gourmet Laurier loaded mistakenly in Luc Desiel's truck, and 45 cases of Kraft stuff on the Baden dock that had supposedly already been signed for but which obviously hadn't been delivered. Yeesh.
After that, one of the trucks broke down, which means tons of reships for tomorrow. Gah.
Oh, and mustn't forget the weird encounter with my supervisor. He cornered me by the photocopier today and asked me how I thought I was doing and why. Luckily I had the presence of mind not to do my characteristic downplaying of my accomplishments because I loathe people who brag. So I didn't go overboard with the humble, and I think I managed to paint a pretty accurate and positive portrait of my past two months working for Erb. Go me!
I'm going to go bed early-ish, as I'm driving my mother to the airport at 6:15 tomorrow morning. o_O
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