Brain Fried

It's a typical Monday, and after a weekend of busy in the retail setting, my backlog this morning was immense.  My job is physically demanding, I consistently pickup, move, load, unload boxes that usually average 25 lbs, but some can weigh up to 75 lbs.  I'm no stranger to heavy lifting, and have a good strong scandinavian build for doing just that.   I average 12k steps a day at work when it's this busy.  My job depends on me remembering minute details about a wide variety of things, and how to handle each individual exception as they arise.  After doing this for several years, it comes as second nature almost.

But how much harder is it to explain every detail as you're doing it?

Imagine your own job.  A problem comes up and you know what to do.  Now imagine explaining every step, and stating the reason for that step ... over and over again for 6 long hours?

Yes, that was my day.  I am training an employee at another store to do the job that I do.  However, the biggest difference is that I'm very .... um, anal, shall we say ... about making sure that the entire scope of what needs to be done gets done every single day.  I don't leave a pile of something to deal with until tomorrow, because tomorrow's work load might be twice as heavy as the current day.  That just doesn't work with what I do.

In training at the other BigBox store, they are days and weeks behind in the processing of vendor claims.  When a customer returns an item, the claims dept has 48 hours to completely process the item into its proper box with a vendor claim attached.  Today when we were working, we found items dated from 11/19/15 !    It causes a lot of angst in my perfectionist world having something sitting around for that long!!!

Still, I did what I could, tried my hardest to help them get caught up with things ...  but it can be a backwards slide if it's not getting done in a timely manner every single day.  I came home exhausted, shredded up some pork, added a dollop of ketchup and bbq sauce and ate that on a bun.  I'm just too tired to have to think about any more details today.

Urban Dictionary says this:  Brain Fried:   When your brain feels so overloaded with work/stress/homework that you can't think straight and temporarily don't feel like doing anything that takes too much thinking.

Yep, that's me.
Brain Fried.
Happy Monday.