Yep, it was that time yet again, when all the employees of the MCC Bookstore come together and sit in the deafening silence of the closed bookstore and count every single item that is sold there...Inventory.
I started out counting the art aisle, which I actually have never counted alone in my 3 years of Inventory experience, which was probably not the best idea for me. I started out good, or at least what I thought was good, but apparently I wasn't being as observent as I should have been. When Kathy B. (who decided to be a total Nazi today) came in to scan everything in with the tracker, she noticed that I didn't count all the tubes of watercolor seperately by color and I should have done the same with the acrylics...then she went on to say that I wasn't being observant enough and that I counted all of these bottles of what I thought were Matte Medium together when a few of them were different, and that I missed a few paint trays that were stuck together. She could have said it in a nice, "everyone-makes-mistakes" kind of way, but she didn't. She said it in a way that made me feel like I was the dumbest person on earth. Thanks Kathy. I still don't think I can fully forgive that woman for making me cry my first night I worked at the bookstore and making me put all the books I unpacked onto the shelves. I will never forget that.
And of course she yelled at just about everyone for every little thing. I was helping Eric turn the pens around so that the barcode was visible and we were of course talking because when you put me and Eric together, we talk, we're good friends, not to mention that I haven't really seen him since before he went back to school. But Kathy was in the other aisle and she heard us talking and said something like "you guys need to stop talking while you're counting", but we were just turning things over, which requires no thought process whatsoever...so Kathy, you stop talking.
All in all, it was another semi-fun, but mostly not fun inventory. We got a free lunch which is always good. As un-fun as these days usually are, I'm almost sad to say that this may have been my last inventory. I mean, who knows what I'll be doing next summer? I love working at the bookstore! I almost wish I could stay there forever, but it's all I've ever known. I don't think I was destined to spend my life there.
But anyway. I don't have to work tomorrow, when I normally would work because the ladies are just getting things finished up with inventory, and then Friday is the day before the 4th of July, so I have that day off as well. So I have a week-long weekend ahead of me! I'm excited for the 4th, we're going to my Aunt's House on Wonder Lake for a party, I'm excited to get some pics of fireworks with my new camera.
Oh and a week-long weekend means I won't have to deal with THIS yet again. This year, it's Brittany who gets to deal with the aftermath of inventory!
Oh, and I almost forgot, I'm going to the Renaissance Faire again this year, so with my new camera (and it's nifty rechargeable battery) I'll be able to get more and better pics! I'm going July 12th, so that's 2 weeks away.
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