Re: Bunnings stocktake
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 12:18 am
Having done a few stocktakes at Kmart which were 9 hour shifts 3 days in a row - I for one hope you don't dream about barcodes in your sleep like I did!!!
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I used to work at Bunnings (6 years ago) and stocktakes there were teeeeeeeerrible. All people like yourself tend to get shafted into doing the aisles with horrid things to count (ie; Fixings, nuts bolts, hinges, etc....) Back when I was there I was on a higher tier full time than regular staff and I was on about $18/hr... so I suppose these days $22/hr for a casual would be close to the mark.espguy wrote:It's all on for young and old here in my town, Feb 16-17, and I'm one of the lucky schmos from the community who've been taken on for at least the first day of taking stock, for at least 10.5 hrs, starting at 8am. Given that this is my first work since mid-07, there's a lot riding on me to perform well... from my perspective at least. Anyone know what the actual rate of pay for adults at Bunnings is? $22 per hour was thrown around... we don't get paid until next week, which is in the middle of my fortnight, so somewhat handy there.
Surely they weigh smaller items such as nuts and bolts and calculate the total amount by working out the weight of one bolt/screw/nut and dividing that into the total weight?LowRider wrote:I used to work at Bunnings (6 years ago) and stocktakes there were teeeeeeeerrible. All people like yourself tend to get shafted into doing the aisles with horrid things to count (ie; Fixings, nuts bolts, hinges, etc....) Back when I was there I was on a higher tier full time than regular staff and I was on about $18/hr... so I suppose these days $22/hr for a casual would be close to the mark.
Now after night work, I dream about trains. I hate it, it's the worst sleep because you feel like you are awake and at work.Ikarbus wrote:I for one hope you don't dream about barcodes in your sleep like I did!!!
I would imagine that they're still needed because people still steal things.ajw373 wrote:I am surprised that with all this modern computer inventory technology that manual stocktakes are still needed.
When people steal they know when it comes time to re-stock the shelves. Stocktakes are done for financial reporting purposes, hence why it surprises me they count to the very last screw when the info of what should be there is ready at hand.Douglas wrote:I would imagine that they're still needed because people still steal things.ajw373 wrote:I am surprised that with all this modern computer inventory technology that manual stocktakes are still needed.
It would be highly impractical and inefficient to count stock each time it is refilled because too much time would be spent counting and then reporting the figures, especially items such as screws! Large retail stores in general do not have a system to progressively track theft, that is why half yearly or yearly stocktakes are done!ajw373 wrote:When people steal they know when it comes time to re-stock the shelves. Stocktakes are done for financial reporting purposes, hence why it surprises me they count to the very last screw when the info of what should be there is ready at hand.
Actually as I said stocktakes are done for financial reporting purposes not to see how much stock has walked. When it comes to re-filling I wasn't talking about doing a count, but for most items it would be obvious if your stock count said you had 20 items in stock when in fact you only had 5.Ikarbus wrote:It would be highly impractical and inefficient to count stock each time it is refilled because too much time would be spent counting and then reporting the figures, especially items such as screws! Large retail stores in general do not have a system to progressively track theft, that is why half yearly or yearly stocktakes are done!ajw373 wrote:When people steal they know when it comes time to re-stock the shelves. Stocktakes are done for financial reporting purposes, hence why it surprises me they count to the very last screw when the info of what should be there is ready at hand.
Taking your example, you would need a PDT to tell you what the stock count is supposed to be, meaning you would have to scan each item every time you filled (or even if you were just checking). Also, you would need to "count" the 5 that are on the shelf. In this example, it's straight forward because the numbers are relatively small but Bunnings has lots of product lines that are extremely tiresome to count, hence my argument for that being an inefficient process in general.ajw373 wrote:Actually as I said stocktakes are done for financial reporting purposes not to see how much stock has walked. When it comes to re-filling I wasn't talking about doing a count, but for most items it would be obvious if your stock count said you had 20 items in stock when in fact you only had 5.