That it is Steve.

 

Things are a bit on the busy side at work. They are doing inventory and that leaves some areas short.

 

When I worked for Home Depot I hated inventory time. We had to inventory everything in the tool rental. From sandpaper to teh rental tools to the tools in th shop.

 

I am not involved in the inventory. I guess because of my shift.. That is fine with me.

 

We would do the majority of the inventory in the tool rental ourselves because of everything we kept there. I had several items we kept that could not be inventoried mainly some spare parts for tools we rented. I had Honda small engines in the overhead that were in great shape. Just the chipper and the tiller they came off of were trashed. Saved what I could to repair other stuff. Also kept sewer snake cables ( new ones only) for when someone would kink the steel cables.

 

Seems like a good idea to save a bit of money..

 

It was Steve. The shop to repair the rental tools, ( I was one of the guys that did that by the way) had a small budget every month. Typically about 5% of what the toll rental brought in. So if the toll rental had a good month I had extra money to buy parts with. If it was a slow month I didnt have alot to play with. I usually tried to keep at least 2 of the big stuff on hand at any given time so I could use 1 and order a replacement and still be able to fix a tool if needed.

 

We don't have tool rental.

 

Home Depot does Steve. We were the evil step child locked in the attic when I worked there. They still are. Always understaffed and overworked.

 

I think that us outside are a bit over worked and understaffed. As long as we keep things going we probably won't get anymore help out there..

 

I know what you mean Steve.

 

I figured that you would.. But you just can't slack..

 

No you cant, That would be noticed by the higher ups.

 

One of the guys I had lunch with today was complaining about the service at our store..

 

Have had that before Steve. The tool rental was the worst for the most part we would usually only have 3 people for the whole day working every day of the week. It would get busy at times.