MEGATHREAD Signing Tips, Tricks and Quips (along with howls of despair)

So I got offered a position at Best Buy as a Full Time Inventory Specialist. The position sounds like a combination of receiver / flow / backroom team member. They are willing to pay me about a $1.25 more than what I'm making now. I just don't know the times of day I'll be scheduled.

I'm considering it but at the same time I do like Signing... But supposedly it's getting the Axe next year so maybe it's time to jump ship.

What do you guys think? I can post the job description if you guys want.
 
MediocreSigning said:
So I got offered a position at Best Buy as a Full Time Inventory Specialist. The position sounds like a combination of receiver / flow / backroom team member. They are willing to pay me about a $1.25 more than what I'm making now. I just don't know the times of day I'll be scheduled.

I'm considering it but at the same time I do like Signing... But supposedly it's getting the Axe next year so maybe it's time to jump ship.

What do you guys think? I can post the job description if you guys want.
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IMO - Signing isn't going away. Presentation and Pricing workcenters are being absorbed into the General Merchandise workcenters. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. There still needs to be a signing TM. Unless the receiver is also going to take on the role of tearing down, sorting and organizing the fixtures and signing pallets that come in for transitions. And unless the company will no longer set large transitions then yeah, the signing TM will have to be in place, as far as I can tell.
 
MediocreSigning said:
So I got offered a position at Best Buy as a Full Time Inventory Specialist. The position sounds like a combination of receiver / flow / backroom team member. They are willing to pay me about a $1.25 more than what I'm making now. I just don't know the times of day I'll be scheduled.

I'm considering it but at the same time I do like Signing... But supposedly it's getting the Axe next year so maybe it's time to jump ship.

What do you guys think? I can post the job description if you guys want.
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Follow your heart, but if Best Buy will pay you more and guarantee you full time, that sounds like a good deal. I would decide based on that and which job comes with the best benefits. Either way, good luck.🍀
 
MediocreSigning said:
So I got offered a position at Best Buy as a Full Time Inventory Specialist. The position sounds like a combination of receiver / flow / backroom team member. They are willing to pay me about a $1.25 more than what I'm making now. I just don't know the times of day I'll be scheduled.

I'm considering it but at the same time I do like Signing... But supposedly it's getting the Axe next year so maybe it's time to jump ship.

What do you guys think? I can post the job description if you guys want.
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post pls
 
What does a Best Buy Inventory Specialist do?
At Best Buy our mission is to leverage the unique talents and passions of our employees to inspire, delight, and enrich the lives of our customers through technology and all its possibilities. If you have a passion and curiosity for what is possible and enjoy people, we invite you to join us on this mission.
  • This position is responsible to receive and ship merchandise to/from store and to stock merchandise in the warehouse or on the sales floor.
80% of your time you will:
Receive and ship store merchandise:
  • Removes merchandise from truck and compare against packing list.
  • Applies security tag to product and moves it to sales floor or warehouse storage.
  • Packages merchandise for shipment and completes bill of lading for transfers
  • Packages merchandise for shipment to return to Distribution Centers.
  • Operates equipment according to company safety standards to assist in moving merchandise.
  • Stocks merchandise on the sales floor.
  • Assists in the receiving of drop shipments
  • Prepares merchandise for home delivery.
  • Accurately documents movement of merchandise.
  • Completes paperwork for store receiving, transfers, home delivery, DEVO, Junk Out.
10% of your time you will:
Provide and maintain store appearance:
  • Ensures clean parking lot, sidewalks, store entry, aisles, restrooms, warehouse area.
  • Properly disposes of debris, boxes.
10% of your time you will:
Provides carryout service for customers:
  • Safely loads merchandise in customer’s vehicle.
  • Verifies receipt against merchandise.
What are the professional requirements of an Inventory Specialist?

Basic Qualifications
  • Ability to work successfully as part of a team
  • Ability to work a flexible schedule inclusive of holidays, nights and weekends
  • Ability to lift or maneuver 50-100 pounds, with or without accommodations
 
One of the reasons all kind of against leaving is because I've kind of done my time here, I'm 6 years into this place. This place has been here for me when I moved to the other side of the country. I'm also on the bench to be a team lead so an opportunity could always arise.

I'm just scared about my current position being axed and losing hours... but something new could always open up when the new process fully rolls in next year.
 
So we just can't print label batches to the Zebra printers anymore? It acts like it's giving you a choice but both choices are "no".

Also GOOD LORD the ZPL* labels are ugly as sin.
 
Unknown Fixture said:
Hello
Where in the back room do u guys have your signing area and how big is the space?
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For just signing. 8ft x 10ft steel space. Then across from that. I have another 8ft x 10ft for all my signing fixture and displays. I don't use much space in the fixture room though.
 
tmap98 said:
You should be able to select a portable printer instead of a Lexmark when you're inside myWork2 Print
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Yeah, it definitely doesn't. I think it's when it would have triggered the "that's a lot of labels, backroom or wireless?" message on 1.0.
 
Unknown Fixture said:
Hello
Where in the back room do u guys have your signing area and how big is the space?
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A tiny closet for salesplanner boxes, everything else is crammed in the fixture room. They needed my space after living me out of the storage trailer a couple years ago and promising I'd never have to give up my steel. Spoiler alert, it's not fixing the space issue to take my 8ft...
 
signingminion said:
A tiny closet for salesplanner boxes, everything else is crammed in the fixture room. They needed my space after living me out of the storage trailer a couple years ago and promising I'd never have to give up my steel. Spoiler alert, it's not fixing the space issue to take my 8ft...
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I feel like I am about to be boxed out of my space soon. I pointed out to my PTL that I can read between the lines when she suggested I start using fixture room space for my smaller things and use the steel space for larger. Um, I know what will happen on those weeks I have no larger signing - Oh, look we have unused steel, we can fill with this backstock furniture!

Think maybe I should print Signing Best Practice and just post it in MY steel area, highlighting my allowed space dimensions.
 
SigningLady said:
I feel like I am about to be boxed out of my space soon. I pointed out to my PTL that I can read between the lines when she suggested I start using fixture room space for my smaller things and use the steel space for larger. Um, I know what will happen on those weeks I have no larger signing - Oh, look we have unused steel, we can fill with this backstock furniture!

Think maybe I should print Signing Best Practice and just post it in MY steel area, highlighting my allowed space dimensions.
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Good luck! I've battled for years about where large signing can be stored all the while the floor is empty and the backroom is full. And Best Practice at my store is like a dirty word. Is it Best practice for Plano to pull or backstock? I will negotiate pulling because no way in hell will we ever get anything done if I waited for backroom to pull my batch. However now we are being asked to backstock our shit as well! So Best Practice?! I hope you get your point across and wish you luck because if they want your space they are going to take it regardless of Best Practice.
 
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Go2TL said:
Good luck! I've battled for years about where large signing can be stored all the while the floor is empty and the backroom is full. And Best Practice at my store is like a dirty word. Is it Best practice for Plano to pull or backstock? I will negotiate pulling because no way in hell will we ever get anything done if I waited for backroom to pull my batch. However now we are being asked to backstock our shit as well! So Best Practice?! I hope you get your point across and wish you luck because if they want your space they are going to take it regardless of Best Practice.
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Oh, I know. My PTL even admitted they could do it despite Best Practice. If they end up wanting all of it in the fixture room, I could do it- the whole pallet, unsorted right in everyone's way. Because that is the only way it will fit in there.
 
SigningLady said:
Oh, I know. My PTL even admitted they could do it despite Best Practice. If they end up wanting all of it in the fixture room, I could do it- the whole pallet, unsorted right in everyone's way. Because that is the only way it will fit in there.
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That's what the original plan was. Fixture room in an outside trailer. But what about when they decide no trailers again like they did this summer? Who is going to go outside for one peg in the snow, negative temps, etc?
#businessneeds
 
I have an 8x10 space on the steel. They already took the other 8x10 space I had for bigger signing and displays. I can’t have any signing or pallets of fixtures on the steel so wtf? The fixture room has been over taken by softline fixtures and Plano sage/push.
 
signingminion said:
Wine stackout price holder. Spiral goes over bottle neck, holds the red circle signs... starting at $5, $10 etc. Trying to get mysupport to give up the pdf of the instructions since I didn't get those either.

Pmt says flooring is coming early and we need entertainment done by Thursday, friday at latest.....bahahaha.
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Well I'm glad to finally know what those were for, even though I threw them out weeks ago. I tried to figure it out for over an hour.

Why didn't Target add any instructions is a complete mystery.
 
Does anyone know the correct number for SAP to order the gray, anti-slip mats used for frames? I tried both the AX number and DPCI number from the fixture guide. Neither worked. I mysupported it. Still waiting for an answer.
 
Iknowstuff said:
Starting the electric ride on displays. Anyone start theirs and have any advice?
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Still missing half mine, but the ones I built were pretty easy. Pretty much just attaching side mirrors or wheels. Peg Perego was crap- holes not drilled very well or at all. Make sure the PMT attaches the brackets with the vehicles facing left, instructions for the pmts might look different than what the expectation is.
 
Where is the toy catalog going next week? On the box it says FOS stanchion so I'm assuming it's the metal one where we put our new brand catalog right? My TL says it usually go on a shipper but I didn't receive one that I know of.
 

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