What do you do for a "day job?"

By Plainsman, in X-Wing

I could try to make it sound fancier than it is, going on about how I work in Logistics and all the various things I've done in my time there or I can just call it what it is.

Target Flow Team Member.

When you first hired on with Target, did they make you watch that BS anti-union propaganda video? That video cracks me up! So transparent.

Felt bad for the almost 18,000 people who lost their jobs, but I sure wasn't hurt to see those 133 Canadian Targets go under.

Why not?

I build real spaceships during the day and play with plastic ones at night. It's a good life.

I build real spaceships during the day and play with plastic ones at night. It's a good life.

Any chance you guys could use A+P mechanic. That is the dream job I'm working toward.

I'll PM you.

Commercial Landscaping pays the bills. I also do Game Design and Development on the side occasionally.

I'm seeing lots of game design and development here. I, too, design the occasional game (though it's far from my profession, sadly. Just a hobby for now.) At the moment, stuck as an assistant manager at a local convenience store.

I'm a production designer for a kitchen and housewares company -- check us out at www.talismandesigns.com

Maybe some of you know the iOS and Android game SpiderSquare? Guy next desk to me did it:)

So yea im a mobile games developer :)

Billionaire playboy who dresses up as a bat to fight crime

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I could try to make it sound fancier than it is, going on about how I work in Logistics and all the various things I've done in my time there or I can just call it what it is.

Target Flow Team Member.

Nice. Former Flow Team Leader myself. Non-Target people probably laugh at the use of "flow" for logistics but I feel your pain, literally. Unloading 2000 cases in 45min is not easy.

Dude, corporate America loves the word flow. It's huge for our manufacturing floor (aerospace) and our whole company has to do all the training related to it, even if it doesn't apply to my job at all haha.

In this case, does "flow"basically refer to efficiency? Because in sport/performance psychology, flow is a theoretical concept virtually meaning being "in the zone."

In this case Flow refers to the flow of product from where the store receives it to where it needs to go.

In a basic sense, I am the guy that stocks aisles full of product. In our store we have dedicated areas for stockers. I used to work in Toys (which included the board game aisles). It can be a pretty heavy workload in the Winter season in Toys alone.

KTreu42's got it on mine, it's all about production efficiency.

Yeah what Groggy said. With Target the "Flow" team facilitates the "flow" of product in the back door from the truck, to the sales floor and out the front door in the customer's shopping carts and then restocking as needed in an endless loop.

Groggy you ain't kidding about the Toy area. We used to use the "Biggs" strategy. Several of us would go in there at the same time with one person drawing enemy fire (read as answering customer questions) while the rest of us would focus fire down the Target (read as stock an aisle at a time).

Yep. pallets full of product in the double digits in the busier December weeks... per day. I'm over in Home Improvement now but we all help each other's areas regularly so I still see some time stocking the board game aisles (my favorite part of the store).

I could try to make it sound fancier than it is, going on about how I work in Logistics and all the various things I've done in my time there or I can just call it what it is.

Target Flow Team Member.

When you first hired on with Target, did they make you watch that BS anti-union propaganda video? That video cracks me up! So transparent.

Felt bad for the almost 18,000 people who lost their jobs, but I sure wasn't hurt to see those 133 Canadian Targets go under.

I'm pretty sure every non-unionized business has an anti-union video. I don't even recall what was in ours but I remember the one from my previous job.

PLEASE, stop your dialogue, you are ruining the thread with your endless conservation. One or two answers is ok, but please interact someone else more privately if its going to be a tea party ;)

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It looks like there are more than just two peeps chatting away there IG88E, and we are well off of topic in general.

As for me, I get to try to herd cats all day and threaten to take Facebook Privileges away from slackers. ISP Sales Manager.

Yeah... You can't complain about an off topic thread in an already off topic thread in the wrong spot. Only thing I ask is people, PLEASE PLEASE stop the quote train. Edit the quotes so that it isn't a long list of unneeded back and forth. If I can do it on a phone, you can do it on a computer.

Super secret Ninja squirrel. Dang, now I have to kill all of you.

Student supported by GI Bill, for now.

Former Marine and now I teach freshman comp.

What's a comp?

I could try to make it sound fancier than it is, going on about how I work in Logistics and all the various things I've done in my time there or I can just call it what it is.

Target Flow Team Member.

Nice. Former Flow Team Leader myself. Non-Target people probably laugh at the use of "flow" for logistics but I feel your pain, literally. Unloading 2000 cases in 45min is not easy.

Dude, corporate America loves the word flow. It's huge for our manufacturing floor (aerospace) and our whole company has to do all the training related to it, even if it doesn't apply to my job at all haha.

In this case, does "flow"basically refer to efficiency? Because in sport/performance psychology, flow is a theoretical concept virtually meaning being "in the zone."

In this case Flow refers to the flow of product from where the store receives it to where it needs to go.

In a basic sense, I am the guy that stocks aisles full of product. In our store we have dedicated areas for stockers. I used to work in Toys (which included the board game aisles). It can be a pretty heavy workload in the Winter season in Toys alone.

KTreu42's got it on mine, it's all about production efficiency.

Yeah what Groggy said. With Target the "Flow" team facilitates the "flow" of product in the back door from the truck, to the sales floor and out the front door in the customer's shopping carts and then restocking as needed in an endless loop.

Groggy you ain't kidding about the Toy area. We used to use the "Biggs" strategy. Several of us would go in there at the same time with one person drawing enemy fire (read as answering customer questions) while the rest of us would focus fire down the Target (read as stock an aisle at a time).

Yep. pallets full of product in the double digits in the busier December weeks... per day. I'm over in Home Improvement now but we all help each other's areas regularly so I still see some time stocking the board game aisles (my favorite part of the store).

When you first hired on with Target, did they make you watch that BS anti-union propaganda video? That video cracks me up! So transparent.

Felt bad for the almost 18,000 people who lost their jobs, but I sure wasn't hurt to see those 133 Canadian Targets go under.

I'm pretty sure every non-unionized business has an anti-union video. I don't even recall what was in ours but I remember the one from my previous job.

PLEASE, stop your dialogue, you are ruining the thread with your endless conservation. One or two answers is ok, but please interact someone else more privately if its going to be a tea party ;)

I just wanted to annoy people by quoting all these quotes.

And that is how you get put on ignore lists...

I could try to make it sound fancier than it is, going on about how I work in Logistics and all the various things I've done in my time there or I can just call it what it is.

Target Flow Team Member.

Nice. Former Flow Team Leader myself. Non-Target people probably laugh at the use of "flow" for logistics but I feel your pain, literally. Unloading 2000 cases in 45min is not easy.

Dude, corporate America loves the word flow. It's huge for our manufacturing floor (aerospace) and our whole company has to do all the training related to it, even if it doesn't apply to my job at all haha.

In this case, does "flow"basically refer to efficiency? Because in sport/performance psychology, flow is a theoretical concept virtually meaning being "in the zone."

In this case Flow refers to the flow of product from where the store receives it to where it needs to go.

In a basic sense, I am the guy that stocks aisles full of product. In our store we have dedicated areas for stockers. I used to work in Toys (which included the board game aisles). It can be a pretty heavy workload in the Winter season in Toys alone.

KTreu42's got it on mine, it's all about production efficiency.

Yeah what Groggy said. With Target the "Flow" team facilitates the "flow" of product in the back door from the truck, to the sales floor and out the front door in the customer's shopping carts and then restocking as needed in an endless loop.

Groggy you ain't kidding about the Toy area. We used to use the "Biggs" strategy. Several of us would go in there at the same time with one person drawing enemy fire (read as answering customer questions) while the rest of us would focus fire down the Target (read as stock an aisle at a time).

Yep. pallets full of product in the double digits in the busier December weeks... per day. I'm over in Home Improvement now but we all help each other's areas regularly so I still see some time stocking the board game aisles (my favorite part of the store).

I could try to make it sound fancier than it is, going on about how I work in Logistics and all the various things I've done in my time there or I can just call it what it is.

Target Flow Team Member.

When you first hired on with Target, did they make you watch that BS anti-union propaganda video? That video cracks me up! So transparent.

Felt bad for the almost 18,000 people who lost their jobs, but I sure wasn't hurt to see those 133 Canadian Targets go under.

I'm pretty sure every non-unionized business has an anti-union video. I don't even recall what was in ours but I remember the one from my previous job.

Those videos are a pretty uncommon thing in Canada. Target's was the only I ever heard of, or saw. We use it as an instructional aid in some of our union school courses to help educate our members as to some of the anti-labour tactics udlsed by the "elite".

I could try to make it sound fancier than it is, going on about how I work in Logistics and all the various things I've done in my time there or I can just call it what it is.

Target Flow Team Member.

Nice. Former Flow Team Leader myself. Non-Target people probably laugh at the use of "flow" for logistics but I feel your pain, literally. Unloading 2000 cases in 45min is not easy.

Dude, corporate America loves the word flow. It's huge for our manufacturing floor (aerospace) and our whole company has to do all the training related to it, even if it doesn't apply to my job at all haha.

In this case, does "flow"basically refer to efficiency? Because in sport/performance psychology, flow is a theoretical concept virtually meaning being "in the zone."

In this case Flow refers to the flow of product from where the store receives it to where it needs to go.

In a basic sense, I am the guy that stocks aisles full of product. In our store we have dedicated areas for stockers. I used to work in Toys (which included the board game aisles). It can be a pretty heavy workload in the Winter season in Toys alone.

KTreu42's got it on mine, it's all about production efficiency.

Yeah what Groggy said. With Target the "Flow" team facilitates the "flow" of product in the back door from the truck, to the sales floor and out the front door in the customer's shopping carts and then restocking as needed in an endless loop.

Groggy you ain't kidding about the Toy area. We used to use the "Biggs" strategy. Several of us would go in there at the same time with one person drawing enemy fire (read as answering customer questions) while the rest of us would focus fire down the Target (read as stock an aisle at a time).

Yep. pallets full of product in the double digits in the busier December weeks... per day. I'm over in Home Improvement now but we all help each other's areas regularly so I still see some time stocking the board game aisles (my favorite part of the store).

I could try to make it sound fancier than it is, going on about how I work in Logistics and all the various things I've done in my time there or I can just call it what it is.

Target Flow Team Member.

When you first hired on with Target, did they make you watch that BS anti-union propaganda video? That video cracks me up! So transparent.

Felt bad for the almost 18,000 people who lost their jobs, but I sure wasn't hurt to see those 133 Canadian Targets go under.

I'm pretty sure every non-unionized business has an anti-union video. I don't even recall what was in ours but I remember the one from my previous job.

PLEASE, stop your dialogue, you are ruining the thread with your endless conservation. One or two answers is ok, but please interact someone else more privately if its going to be a tea party ;)

Sorry. Didn't see this before my last quote. I will work on shortening my posts. But to ask us not to discuss details about our jobs, in thread asking about our jobs? Well, son, that just don't make sense.

Translator. Nowhere near 6 million forms of communication though... :-)

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In all seriousness, I'm an AV systems designer and engineer.

I originally worked as a broadcast news writer and producer.

I then worked as an advertising account manager.

I now teach college kids and am about to get my Ph.D. in mass communications.

I'm a Paralegal for landlord and Tenant cases in New York.

Lumberjack. I leap from tree to tree as they float down the mighty rivers of British Columbia.

In all seriousness, I'm an AV systems designer and engineer.

It's Ok to be a lumberjack. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL7n5mEmXJo

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