Zaya William Nissan

Appliance Grabber -Quite literally what the title reads, I would grab a dolly as big as me and haul appliances-Dishwashers, Refrigerators, Micro Ovens, Ranges, Double Ovens, Laundrys from Double Stacks to single units to the necessary truck lots, we called them "fingers", and place them in the loading area for the specific truck after we had scanned them in our system.

Inventory Management -Mistakes were frequent with the 2nd Shift and Part timers that they had hired so our manager had given us areas to make sure that there we no mistakes (which never worked), however I had the Electronic and Furniture section and took pride in picking out mistakes, fixing damaged parts-From TV stands to bent chair stands, making sure stickers for our scanners were either up to date or eligible to read if a problem persisted.

Forklift Operator (6 months Straight) -I was taught how to operate a forklift since that was a privilege given to us when we had 3 months in on the job. When I was starting it was no point in just getting the key and not using it so for 6 ish months straight I was on the forklift, specifically a Crown "Squeeze" Lift, which had big clamps that would literally "squeeze" the product to a safe pressure and take it to wherever it needed to go. I used it in the mornings from 7-12 and then used it after that whenever the job called for it.

Floor Model Furniture Picker -When the furniture department had some people quitting the job due to cuts, they put me in temporarily, or so I thought, to assist the guys who moved all the mattresses and furniture pieces through out the day. Their only job was to do that so I tagged a long and would move mattresses from the little Twins and Full to the big heavy Queens and Kings-Even California Kings which took TWO guys big as me to even try it. We would also take inventory of our mattresses and moved them frequently since we had to take down the massive 5 story racks we had and put them back up.

Stock Picker -I would get the parts from our inventory of specialized SEALS and RINGS and pack them into boxes, depending on order size, carefully and protect them from damage caused by transportation.

Stock Check -I had taken lists of our sections AA-DD which had 12 rows of parts in each of the double sections and tote by tote count how many we have to update the inventory LIVE in our system-so after doing that we would know how much inventory we had to either order or to micro manage to keep supply good.

Shipping Clerk -I was trained to send out our orders via shipments(little boxes to big 24x24x24 boxes filled with our parts) to our customers both domestic and foreign via our system called T.M.S.

Assembler -Later on I was taught to assemble specialized parts that combined an O-Ring and a Seal to make a required piece that our customer would want assembled on sight, rather than sending them the pieces without the blueprint. Sometimes we would have to apply lubricant on them and specifically assemble them to avoid any damage or inconvenience to the customer.