Today’s job was simple and clear- cycle counting. It’s the world’s most interesting task, but also the most tedious. It consists of taking inventory of the tools and parts that are in lots in what we call the cage. The cage is a small room in the shop that stores a great amount of surplus material for Ideal Surplus. There are as many boxes as there are fish in a lake, so this project will be running for a bit of time. The difficult part is searching the list for the item number on the tool, which can take several minutes if you have many pages to look through. Sometimes I double and triple check because I felt that I messed up or remembered the wrong number to look up. Many times, the part in the box isn’t on the list, so you have to take it out of the lot and put it to the side; however, if that part was on the list and it was human error when looking up the number, it can have serious proble...
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