First off, as you can see unless you're reading a feed (something which I'm now very concious of - see the Flock chicklet), I've changed the layout of the blog and some of the coloration. I hope you like it....I hope it makes things easier to read now too! I also tried to change around the front page but gave up on the CSS frustration of it....basically didn't initially design it as well as I would have liked....plus that picture gets in the way a little....maybe I should get rid of it....
So anyway, here's a funny work story:
One of my co-workers was upstairs trying to work some sales magic on some people buying stuff for their dog. These people had already give us a little trouble downstairs with their nit-pickiness so I expected something odd.
After they left my co-worker says to me "These two roll-up dog covers don't seem to have any SKU numbers or anything on them." She then professed that she'd already checked the Orvis.com website, the physical catalogue, and our AS400 inventory system....all without figuring out this item's number.
The thing is called "The Dog Hog" for some unknown reason, as it does not resemble a hog or do anything hog-like. I replicated her search for the item and I too was baffled at this thing.
I asked one of my older co-workers about it and he suggested running through the same logical steps and after he was satisfied that we had, he said that he had sold one himself a while ago. They must have come in a bag with the number on that.
Well, we looked and looked for others that had the correct number on them, but we found none......so on the suggestion of the older guy, I called our catalogue number......
They had no idea either!
Finally, I resorted to my Google-skill and came up with the item from the company that makes this dog hogging nightmare (an Orvis item would be much easier to figure out). I found a page relating to wholesale and called the number it provided.
After explaining my plight to the woman on the other end, she was kindly enough to look through old records and told me that Orvis hadn't made a purchase from them for over 6 months. Finally, after doing some digging, she discovered that one of the old invoices listed OUR SKU on the form. Salvation!
Better than that, the people that were originally interested in the "Hog" (who had long since left) returned inexplicably. We checked the price to be a measly $11.70 and rushed over to try and make the sale.
They weren't interested. Oh well.... :-(
Pics courtesy of ABOGear.com
Aside from that, I visited my Mac-oriented friend at her new job at the Apple store and had a good time discussing random tech stuff. Also got in my form to BSA, yay for registration!
NOAC is only a couple days away....gonna be awesome!