Day ninety-two

I just got home from work a little while ago, and while it wasn't a bad day, I'm glad it's over.

Today was a truly humbling experience. I've been at this job for almost eight weeks (though it seems longer) and I realize I still have so much to learn, even about the fairly simple job I have now. I also learned that you can be at a job for years and still make mistakes at something in which you're otherwise experienced.

Last Wednesday, I wrote about how I mistakenly packed two separate jobs in the same box, and it wasn't discovered until it got to the customer. Today, I did it again. This time, it was caught by Ana, our shipper, who must've caught it when weighing it. I really need to pay better attention when I work and it's easy to get distracted when there are a dozen other things to think about at the same time.

That's not to say you can be too experienced not to make mistakes at what you do. Later in the afternoon, Ana had to send out an order to be mailed rather than shipped, only for it to be discovered that an item was missing. And still later in the evening, our cutter, Guillermo, forgot about a stack of work to be cut that wound up not being sent out today, although it was technically shipped on time.

All in all, a humbling day all around.