Has to be. Well, it has to be counted that way.

I had that problem with our old Cable box, TV and sound system. When I connected the sound system with the fiber optic cable instead of HDMI and it worked.

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Thanks, Gene.

You should PM Celticbomber. Word is he does CS for the cable company too

Back to work.

Slow night.....

Time for bed. Up again in like 4 hrs. Figure a pot of coffee will spark me while doing homework.. then a cat nap.. then off to the circus for 2:00-11:00

Been doing the shipping/receiving/stocking thing at the circus for the past few days. Doing runt work and gtting my feet wet on that end of things. I'd have to say, Wally World has a pretty good system in place for logistics and supply chain management. Most of the hiccups and pot holes that I see are on the execution side of things.

Most of the stock is held on the floor rather than the back warehouse. In my store the warehouse is about 10% (or less) of the total building. Most of the warehouse (back room) just holds overstock that cant get onto the shelves or is waiting to get onto the shelves. You want the products on the floor so a customer buys it,

Getting stuff off the trucks and onto the floor is very manually intensive. We have three **** stocking the shelves but not enough bodies to (in my opinion) keep the flow going from the back room and onto the main floor.

I've been working the paper and "chemicals" sections: Garbage bags, sandwich bags, freezer bags, paper plates... Cleaning products (kitchen and bath crap), laundry products (holy $hit there are a ton of different laundry soaps). You'd be amazed on how must of this stuff we go through on a single day.

Pet peeve: the (franking) Glade and AirWick (franking) room deodorizer crap... another WTF do we need so many (franking) sent oils and $hit... Just standardize it... Pick one: Glade, Air Wick, Fabreze, WalMart version. Then offer only like 10 flavors. Do we really need 35 different smells (no exaggeration) from 5 different brands? In a single, a two pack, four pack, eight pack... These things will be the bane of my existence....

...along with the 92.8 different sponges. Franking WalMart brand, 3M, ScotchBrite, O-Cedar, Scrub Daddy... small sponges, large sponges... Each one is different and each one comes in a single, two pack, 4 pack, 8 pack. Then some are just plain rectangles, some are form fit to your hand. Does it really matter? Since we are on the topic... SOS pads.. store brand or SOS. Pink or blue... WTF?


Rant over:
One area that I see off the bat is lack of equipment. Everyone stocking should have handheld scanners, but they are in short supply. With the scanners (about the size of a cell phone) you can scan the UPC bar code on any item and it will tell you exactly what aisle, what shelf, and where on the shelf where that item belongs. If you don't have a scanner, you have to rely on experience from people familiar with where things go or (for a newbie) go on a treasure hunt to figure out where it goes. Sometimes locations change - seasonal items get moved around and standard items get bumped to a different place to make way for the seasonal stuff.

Having a scanner to use will help the stock person (newbie or oldie) find where an item belongs on the shelves. It can easily cut the stocking time in by about 25%.

ffffffriday.

Yup 8

Happy Friday fellas

Working until 11, then checking out for the day.

😎 Dudes...

So the tranny issue with my truck stopped once I got home and turned it off overnight. Looking online, it's a known issue and there's a known fix but it's hard to get it done before it completely chits the bed. The interim fix is to turn it off and turn it on again. I took it in for my appointment today at the dealer. Service writer says "there's no codes. I can't do anything without an error code." Told him it's a known issue, there was a recall including transmissions made up till December of 2016. I don't know the build date of my 2017 truck but there's a good chance there's a 2016 66RFE underneath it. He said I'll see if we can find anything but until there's a code, there's nothing to fix.

I hate this truck. And every automatic transmission I've ever owned.

Good Friday Morning! It's 74° on the way to 86° and cloudy.

No rain so I hope I can get some coffee roasted, I had to break out some frozen emergency use only beans, yuck, not like fresh roasted.

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Finally Friday greetings peeps...............





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GONZO FRIDAY....we made it.... Whoopi

Don't read this because it's TMI. I am warning you: Stomach cramps and bowel issues this morning.

I am down to 183.6 lbs. down from 200 in just three months ago! Gonna add about 2-3l bs. by tomorrow, but I'll still take it. Ideal weight for me, according to my endocrinologist is 178 lbs.

That's, coincidently, what I weighed 30-35 years ago when I was in top physical condition from riding and swimming. Planned on 1,000 yds. in the pool today, but I am not sure if I'll make it by like 5pm.

Chick-fil-a's seasonal peach milkshake: OMG!
If I was a drinker I'd definitely wanting to add some vodka or rum...

Never too late to start....

Yesterday I saw some Chick-fil-a' sauce of some sort come off the truck at Wally World. I'd like to see a Chick-fil-a' in my town. The nearest one is about an hour away.

Fiddy NINE!

GM sucks! I will never buy a GM product again in my life. I'm really sour on them.

Spent a week in MI at a GM plant (Dearborn, MI) to work with them on grinding stones and finishing stones for their transmissions. After the gears were cut, the grinding stones and finishing stones would finish them to tolerance. It was a cluster F to try to get answers and do any development for improvement.

While in the area we also dropped in on Detroit Diesel, again to do some product development. Work on improving the honing of engine block cylinders. Another cluster F.

The whole UAW thing was an impediment to get anything done, they just wanted to keep the status quo. Any intervention or process/product development was a hindrance.

In that lifetime, working on grinding, honing and finishing stones... Briggs & Stratton plant in S. Carolina was my favorite place to visit. They were open to collaborate for process improvement, the folks were super nice (southern hospitality) and I've fallen in love with good Carolina BBQ (vinegar based stuff).