The Inventory From Hell

It's a new quarter, right?
The crew at work took inventory at the store during Christmas week.
Today......we attacked Central.
Oh. My. Gawd.
I have many thousands of dollars worth of stock there, and this time, it needed to be itemized---a description of EVERY item.

To explain why, I need to give you a little 'backstory' here....the department is run by TWO women, one of whom (D) is new. She's calm, analytical, sensible and fun...the other one (V) is supposed to be stepping away from the department, mainly just guiding D while she learns the routine.

(V had been the floral manager in my store for about 8 years and, last spring, was promoted to a job overseeing all the flower shops in the chain...which is WAY more than she wants to do. To be fair here, corporate asked her; she didn't apply for the job).

Hmm. Have you ever tried to please two bosses? It'll make you crazy, I promise. The directive to itemize came from V.

But, how better to learn what we have than to inventory it, right?
So, D, J and I started today on....Christmas stuff:

Silver glitter point. pick.....97 x $1.00
silver glitter point. stem.....124 x $2.00
red glitter point. bush......76 x $12.00
burgandy glitter magnolia stem.....9 x $2.00
mauve glitter magnolia bush.....63 x $12.00
"Wait, here's four more of those silver stems....in a box with ...um...17 cream glitter point. stems".....AAArrggghhhhh!

Our normal inventory system is:
97 x 1.00
124 x 2.00
76 x 12.00
9 x 2.00
63 x 12.00
4 x 2.00

...see why the going is s-l-o-w? lol

On the other hand, I'm finding out exactly what there is to work with for next year, IF I remember that long.

I know.