And if you've never worked VA's before; be prepared for the monkey puzzles of your life. >< I don't know who puts these books/labels together but we had one humdinger of a puzzle in girls today. The VA called for two tables. They sent us 24 label strips on convertible sized labeling. If you know tables, they have 8 permanent shelves each for a total of 16 shelves. They cannot be added to nor subtracted from. Then instead of labeling the sides of the joined tables respectively as 1,2 then 3,4... they labeled table one and two on one side as 1 and on the other side as 2. If that wasn't bad enough they went from left to right in their shelf numbering. Table one on the bottom was 1-1-1 at its first position and table two on the bottom (same side) was 1-2-1..... This meant that table one from bottom to top read as 1-1-1 then 1-3-1 then 1-5-1 then 1-7-1 in the first positions. Table two was 1-2-1; 1-4-1; 1-6-1; 1-8-1. And now that I've probably lost most of you (unless you've been to this particular insanity land) when looking at the label strips I noticed that what I needed to make up the full length of a table label (remember, these were printed on shorter convertible labels) was connected to another label. This is why there were 24 strips. So I had to cut and sort and rearrange and patch-work quilt the whole dang thing to make it work.
Never a dull moment, eh? lol
Then there was the time they forgot to change the old picture for the product on a quad in women's plus but remembered to change the dpci's to match the new product. So there we were with the correct numbers for the product and no idea what the heck it looked like. They tell you these VA's take a certain amount of time and they probably would if you could rely on the information inside them. Some times the numbers are wrong, the pictures are wrong, the labels are wrong, the fixtures are wrong, the signs aren't shown, and the list goes on. If you like a challenge, this department will definitely give it to you. :excited:
On a side note - and I think someone already touched on it - do know the difference between a good time to delegate and a good time to get your rear in there and help your team. When an ETL calls for a touch up in intimate apparel and you're not doing anything, this is not the time to ask the TM who is knee deep in frantic RTW zoning prior to store opening to go do that too. :huh:
Personally I think you're already off to a great start by taking your position seriously and asking for advice. Lot of great stuff put on the board in response. :good: