Transcript

00:00:00 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
What's going on, my man?

00:00:03 - [STEVE_WADE]
Just trying to get caught up from being gone this morning.

00:00:06 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
So what what were you I didn't hear yeah. Sorry. It's been a crazy day. What were you guys doing?

00:00:10 - [STEVE_WADE]
We went to set us up with to go look at some of those speed cells. They use them at at Meyer and Westfield. So

00:00:21 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Speed what's a speed cell? I don't know.

00:00:22 - [STEVE_WADE]
But I like this. It hangs on the bottom of a rack, and it contains different bins that you can move and slide and everything. You can go deeper for small items, you know, for, like, apparel and crap like that. And but they work like a big location. They got a tag on them and all that. So Okay. So it'd be something we could use for for marketing goods, especially fan shop. Anyway, he was looking at he's been looking at those. I I suppose he'll send you a proposal at some point. I don't know. They wanted Chris and I to go look at them. So it's just a way to get more pick locations in a condensed space for small smaller items.

00:01:13 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Okay. Makes sense.

00:01:15 - [STEVE_WADE]
Yeah. What's up with Amity? Because

00:01:18 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
I don't know. I I was just curious. I

00:01:23 - [STEVE_WADE]
go ahead.

00:01:23 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Hold on one second. Let me pull.

00:01:26 - [STEVE_WADE]
I figured Robert's been in her ear about something. He ain't even been here. So

00:01:46 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
I just asked her what's up because I I just answered her. I didn't ask why she wanted to know. So

00:01:52 - [STEVE_WADE]
So, anyway, we've been carrying six temps. We lost two people. We released some temps last week, and then we had the fiasco. Now we're behind a little bit. We're not bad yet, but it's it's more from containers coming in with back orders at this point, which is gonna continue to happen for a while. It's gonna be probably the new norm to get out of s four HANA.

00:02:25 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Yeah.

00:02:27 - [STEVE_WADE]
So as of yesterday, we had 341 s SKU numbers, item numbers on back order that accumulate 44,000 units with 2,900,000. So every time we get a truck and then we run deliveries, we have, you know, at least triple the number of deliveries to deal with. Maybe not a lot of lines and not a lot of dollars because it's always a and c, but it's a hell of a workload.

00:03:07 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
But it takes So That stuff takes time.

00:03:10 - [STEVE_WADE]
Takes time, and and nobody's gonna see it. You know what I mean? You you you can it's not gonna manifest into anything anybody in this company looks at

00:03:18 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Right.

00:03:20 - [STEVE_WADE]
Is the challenge. So had it not been for last week, I was wanting to try to get by with four temps, you know, because order entry wasn't that great. Now we're in a conundrum. We're trying to decide whether we should go ahead and bring somebody else in at least to scan the end of the line. So

00:03:49 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Just feels like you guys are kinda, for lack of a better word, jerked around a lot as far as do you know what mean?

00:03:57 - [STEVE_WADE]
Yeah. I mean, it's out of our control. This is what I this is what I tell you about when I say when we when we had a conversation, what I was telling you about when I say, how do you plan for shit like this?

00:04:08 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Yeah.

00:04:10 - [STEVE_WADE]
How do you plan for the system to go down for the first time ever?

00:04:14 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Man, you don't. And I I don't I I'll be surprised if it's anything related to that, but you never know. So

00:04:22 - [STEVE_WADE]
Oh, I'm not talking about any Amity. I'm just talking about logistics in general. If it's not that, it's something else. And I see Robert's in there pushing some big larger dollar high deliveries. I don't know what he's he's doing the Robert thing, which is cool.

00:04:41 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Where's he been? Do you know?

00:04:43 - [STEVE_WADE]
No idea. No idea. And when he's here I mean, I used to at least start he at least when he first got here in the morning, he'd leave leave his door open for a little while. But now it's like, I don't ever have access to him.

00:05:08 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Yeah. He's well, I'm I've been there a lot lately, and he's not been. So I don't know what's going on there.

00:05:14 - [STEVE_WADE]
Yeah. I don't

00:05:17 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
He's more important than all of us now. So

00:05:19 - [STEVE_WADE]
Well, I mean, our eggs are in his basket, so to speak. All our eggs.

00:05:26 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
True.

00:05:27 - [STEVE_WADE]
When it comes to bonus, we'll see. So, yeah, I'm torn a little bit whether to bring people in or not. We've been running six for a while, plus we lost two full time, so it stands a reason we should need them. Order entry has been high for a couple of days, but that doesn't mean anything. Or do we wait it out, or do we push it a little overtime? It's all stuff we can do.

00:06:01 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Which is better tolerated by the team generally?

00:06:05 - [STEVE_WADE]
Well, Nathan's concern is not that he just doesn't have so the the tips we have now, they all are really good, but they're smaller young ladies. They're not and he's needing somebody to throw boxes at the end of the line. So that's his concern because what he has to do is now is he has to pull a full time picker or packer around the end of the line. So we had that Cromley down there. You met Cromley, but the dude just sent a ton of packages out of here with no freaking label on them and caused a big mess, and we're like, yeah. You get that that's there's no excuse for that. You put one box on a scale, you print a label, you apply it, and you move to the next box. It's not a difficult assignment. I think he just couldn't shut his fucking mouth long enough to

00:07:05 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Yeah. He's always busy. Yeah.

00:07:09 - [STEVE_WADE]
Nice guy. World's full of nice guys. Don't mean they're good employees.

00:07:15 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Yeah. That's the problem. Right? So Yep.

00:07:19 - [STEVE_WADE]
I'd say I'll let Nathan go ahead and bring in we've done this in the past. He you know, he'll tell them it's specifically what he's looking for, somebody they can continually stack boxes. We obviously don't ask for a man or whatever. Yeah. We just describe the job and say, need somebody that is willing to do this.

00:07:43 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Who can help with this. Yeah. Exactly.

00:07:45 - [STEVE_WADE]
Or help with this or whatever. Yeah.

00:07:49 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Okay. Well, I say do what you would think is right because I don't have enough info to to judge it. But

00:07:56 - [STEVE_WADE]
Well, yeah, I don't just didn't know whether Amity was gonna start pushing back on the agency invoices or not. But if she does, she'll push to you first.

00:08:08 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Was gonna say, I mean, if she does, she does. I'll deal with it. Don't worry about that. I think for me, it's more about can we get our shit done and and whatnot. So

00:08:17 - [STEVE_WADE]
I mean, we can go back to six. That would certainly help. But but I think we would end up probably at some point, depending on what happens with sales, we could end up releasing some, but that that's not all bad because you get to keep the top.

00:08:35 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Yeah.

00:08:39 - [STEVE_WADE]
Which is what we did last week. We we purged some people that we just knew we weren't gonna hire.

00:08:46 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
That weren't ideal. Yeah. Yes.

00:08:50 - [STEVE_WADE]
So and then all hell broke loose. We were sending people home, and now we're buried.

00:08:56 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
But That that's the never fails part.

00:09:01 - [STEVE_WADE]
Well Yeah.

00:09:08 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
She's not answering me. I'm trying to get her to answer. Because I wanna know what that because it kinda depends.

00:09:16 - [STEVE_WADE]
I mean, I'll just tell the guys that I'm waiting on an answer from you.

00:09:21 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Well, I don't wanna hold up. Right?

00:09:24 - [STEVE_WADE]
They'll have to recruit somebody anyway, so it's not like it's gonna happen instantly.

00:09:28 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Okay. Ma'am, I guess just tell them we're looking and, yeah, tell them I'm in a meeting for a while or something. So Yeah. Actually, I am with HR here shortly.

00:09:39 - [STEVE_WADE]
With Lisa? Or Yeah. With the Shayla onboard thing?

00:09:44 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
No, Lisa. I have some it it's personal, like, about the family situation and what's going on.

00:09:49 - [STEVE_WADE]
No. I'm not at yeah. I just wondered if you had a one on one with Shiloh yet. That's all. Sorry. Didn't mean No. I'm trying to pry into your business.

00:09:57 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Bro, I share pretty much everything. You know me. So Yeah. I need or what's your afternoon like?

00:10:06 - [STEVE_WADE]
I just have my 0245.

00:10:08 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
What time do you leave there?

00:10:11 - [STEVE_WADE]
Usually, 0330 or after, you know, whenever we closeup and depending on if I have anything else going on.

00:10:19 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Ping me when you get home just from your cell or something and let me give you a call. I wanna walk you through something and ask you your opinion on it. Okay. I won't keep you long. I promise. I mean, as long as we need to talk, but I just wanna run through it. So

00:10:33 - [STEVE_WADE]
That that's fine.

00:10:35 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Alright, bro.

00:10:36 - [STEVE_WADE]
Alright. See you later. See you.