Tuesday, we did our half day voluntary overtime shift for 5 hours. Some of the group we started with 2 weeks go signed up for the full day. We were glad to go home at 11:30. We did see other couples from our orientation group. They are on shift one, so they work Sunday - Wednesday. it was nice to visit with them. Gary and I started off working in the same area, but then he and others were moved to another section. Once home, we rested and organized our lunch bag and menu items for the next day. Supper, relaxing, then to bed.
Wednesday to Saturday - The alarm goes off at 5:00 AM for us. We shower the night before so we can get up, have breakfast, throw the last lunch items in and leave at 6:00 AM.
Wednesday went quickly, we found that we eat our lunch determinedly and try to relax in the half hour time period. Sandwiches, chips, grapes and cookies. The lunch room provides water, ice, coffee, sweet tea, styro cups, plates, plastic silverware, salt & pepper. There are also coolers/refrigerators for us to put our lunch bags in and shelves for coats, bags, etc. that we bring in. A lot of the full-time people have lockers, they must use combination locks. Some of the Camperforce people made sure they got a locker too, but we are using the cooler and shelves.
We were tired and my feet were sore by the end of the first 10 hour day. We are not really walking many miles at this time, but we are on our feet all day on the cement floors. Stowing items involves pushing carts of products to the stowing aisles, bending and reaching when scanning the cart code, the item code and the shelf/bin code. It sounds like it could get boring, but we have to pay attention with every item, watching to make sure the product scanned shows up correctly on the scanner, the bin number shows correctly and then we must enter the correct number of the item that we placed in the bin. If we miss a step, the scanner reminds us with a beep sequence. It is our new background music, we can hear that sound in the rows next to us from the other stowers.
Thursday to Saturday - pretty much the same each day. Gary and I were assigned separately many times, but we were each with others from our training group. We are in the same break room for lunch, but not always at break time. Many, many interesting products we are stowing. Costumes, books, hunting items - all those make sense, some items are less common. We are amazed at the grocery type items in sacks and boxes that people must order.
Thursday night after work I went to Dollar General to find bobby pins for keeping my hair up. I'm actually braiding my hair some mornings, I was tired of my fuzzy pony tail on the humid days. The bobby pins will help. At the store, the clearance rack called to me and I found plastic sandwich boxes. These special items will help us save money on sandwich bags each day and will remind us of our two favorite little boys at lunch time. Riley and Sam educated Grandpa about Monsters University and Monsters Incorporated - Gary always tells the twins we are going to "the plant" to work, like Sully and Mike do in the movie.
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| Monsters University sandwich boxes |
Saturday night after work we got home in time to watch the Michigan football game. Disappointing ending this week. Now at the end of the 4.5 days, I can really feel my quad muscles! The last two days we have been doing more squatting to stow in the lower shelves and reaching to the higher shelves - a good workout. And we were all being observed for following safety rules, so I made sure I was not bending over from my waist to reach down. We are pleased with how we feel after the first full shift, maybe we are in better shape than we thought we were.
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