Day eighty-six

I'm just sitting down to lunch as I write this. Today has been an answer to prayer. The workload has been much lighter today. Perhaps as a consequence of that, we seem to be getting things done faster than the past couple of days. Thank You, God, for giving us a day to get caught up.

I've been thinking about since this morning, and I've come to the conclusion that a big part of the problem we have in the digital room is that we need more people. We need at least one more packer in the second shift, since we get the lion's share of the workload. The first shift has two packers and one packer/shipper. If they need three people to do the packing and shipping, we need three at the very least.

Also, there is only one person in the whole company who does the folding work for digital. He works the second shift, but has to do all the folding work, first and second shift, plus overnight. The company has been trying to promote from within to find a first-shift digital folder almost as long as I've been here and that will be seven weeks this Monday. Since he does all the folding, he has to rush to get it all done on time, which means we rush to pack it. It's not really his fault; he has to so it all, when he shouldn't have to be doing so.

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Update-11:35 pm: I am waiting for Mom to pick me up. What turned out to be an answer to prayer in a much less hectic workday has turned somewhat sour at the end.

I worked an hour of overtime which allowed me to get a little but caught up on tomorrow's work. It was also the first time all day that it was quiet in the digital room, since no machines were running apart from the actual digital printers, which make very little noise.

As I come out to where my bike is locked up on the sidewalk, what should I discover but that both of my wheels have been stolen. Admittedly, it's more annoying than anything else. The bike was bought secondhand for twenty bucks, and I can get replacement wheels easily; Dad probably has suitable rims in the garage.

The only major inconvenience is that I'll probably need a ride tomorrow. Oh well.