Kill me ... seriously!

My boss wants to re-inventory our whole store, AGAIN. I work at a vintage guitar store, and this is the 4th time we've done this in 6 years. I know places inventory, 1-2 times a year. However, we dont have a computer that automatically deletes guitars from the inventory. Basically someone has to manually delete it. Problem is my boss comes in when we are closed, will sell something, not tell us, then yell at us 'cause the inventory isn't correct. We tried getting on him about it, and he said to us "It's not my job to take stuff off the inventory, that's your job.". Yes, this is true, but here's the problem ... we can't take it off if we didn't know you sold it! Even when we are there, he sells stuff and doesn't tell us! Now, he wants photos with all 2000+ guitars, a description and wants to sell them online. As if he hasn't learned from our past experiences with customers and dealing with FedEx who claims department is absolute (censored), he want's to make almost every guitar buyable at the click of a button. He has a problem to with remembering things. So when I'm spending all day packing stuff I'll get a yelled at for not cleaning the store up, and why the back room is a mess.
Today me and Jeff the manager did 3 guitars ... took us about 30-35 minutes to do those. 3 down, and about 2000 left. So please, kill me ... seriously! :D

Heh....sounds like you might benefit from taking your time to do a very thorough job of inventorying each item. Before too long, your boss will have forgotten what he asked you to do and be on to some other project....

Naw, he basically wants us to do this cause he's paranoid and thinks we stole something and hopefully if something isn't right, he'll assume we stole it. Its happened before, and it'll happen again.

Egads man that sounds like quite a task. Could be worse - could be revolving around stock you have zero interest in. Do you think he'd be any more likely to track his own sales if you had it all in a database he could access and navigate easily? Sounds like a good time to convince him to take on a summer intern ;)

fire!!! burn the place down! Damn it all to hell!!!


just kidding. Reward yourself handsomely this weekend for all your hard work!
thats what i do! if i gotta crappy week coming up...I plan something nice for myself on the weekend. rather its a nice dinner, getting my hair done, buy something expensive or just devoting some time to a hobby.
Heck man...you deserve it!

He will not touch a computer. He doesn't want to learn basically. He doesn't trust computers haha. When we do a credit card sale, he'll call up the credit company if it was a huge sum of money, and make sure it went through.

is he a hippee?

Nope, just REALLY spoiled and has too much money and complains whens he sells too much stuff ... I'm not kiddin' either! He was bummed out that we sold too much stuff and he worries cause stuff is going great, and he has got to think about the negative.

Bleh... good luck with that guy, he sounds like a barrel of monkeys :bleh:

There are two types of people I don't trust. Those that don't like animals and those who don't use computers. If you are under 80 you have no excuse! :)

Haha on top of not wanting to use computers, he got paranoid one time that people are tapping our phone lines to see who we sell too. Wtf ...

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Originally Posted by Vomitore

Haha on top of not wanting to use computers, he got paranoid one time that people are tapping our phone lines to see who we sell too. Wtf ...

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Well that one might be true. Maybe he isn't such a kook...

yeah that one i actually would worry about (Damn you Patriot Act!!!)

Sounds a lot like my last boss at the pet store I used to work at. He would get pissed about how his inventory was never right and at the same time figure out ways to keep us employees out of the inventory system so we couldn't make changes. Before I left, it seemed like every transaction required us to go get him and have him log into the system under his name and complete the transaction. Made us employees look stupid and incompetent in front of customers. Not a good thing when I'd just spent 20 minutes talking about reptile husbandry with those customers.

At the time of my resignation, he was at the bottom of an all time low in monthly sales in over 10 years of being in business. I've been in a few times since I left and things aren't looking any brighter. Its a shame, but you reap what you sow.

brad,

are you sure you don't live up here in canada cause my boss was the same way at the petstore i worked at LOL

but he was a mix of both these bosses actually cause he hated it when we sold too much (cause he'd look at how little he made on the sales) and get upset with us. like we set the prices??? if he needs/wants to make more $$ then up the prices!

anyway... i'm glad i'm not there anymore :)

Does he have security cameras? Convince him to get some; then he can be obsessive about watching the videos all he wants, but he won't see you stealing any guitars (since you aren't.)