My boss over here is a good teacher, I now know more about brass than just the fact that there is yellow and red lol. Lordy all the subcategories, I still don't remember them all 100%.
nobody would teach me at the other place so this is wonderful.
I have made the warehouse my own. I've set up an electronics breakdown area, a staging area and I've finished arranging all the gaylords how I want them, I've started barrels of some items that weren't there and should have been that nobody seems to have noticed/cared.
Today I started on a rolling tool cart. I took a rolling shelf unit and have started sorting all the haphazard tool boxes / tools and am making this cart the way I want it. Gonna take me a couple days of sorting and organizing and personalizing but it gives me something fun to do in the down time.
There is no stress here, I have two bay doors I can work during a rush which is great! I just zip between the two halves of the building/customers and it works out perfectly and smoothly!
the big buyers and sellers that come here don't look down on me because I'm a gal, they just sit in the office with the boss while I load / unload their trucks.
the boss puts no pressure on me, he knows I know what to do and just lets me do it. he walks around every now and then just to see how things are going and what we've got and will help if I need something but for the most part I am loving being able to do it all here. This fits me better than being stuck doing one thing only like I was mostly doing before because it utilizes all my talents as a scrapper/scrap yard worker. it all just works out at the end of the day and when I go home now I am even more tired than I was before but boy I tell you what, I go home happy and ready to come in to work the next day all excited again!
I did tell the boss I was a bit frustrated with not understanding 100% some of the brasses / other alloys by the end of my first day there but he said don't sweat it because it took him years and he still doesn't know everything 100%.
I noticed though that when I go out to help a customer bring in scrap they are surprised, like, I didn't expect someone to actually help lol. I like to help everyone bring stuff in that comes to us, its just the nice thing to do. If I'm not getting a rush of customers that is, then they are on their own lol.
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