Inventory sucks: Help cheer up our friends at Parallax today.

Oldbitcollector (Jeff) · 2011-06-29 13:33

While we are blissfully enjoying our forum and toys, our friends at Parallax are busy counting.

Inventory sucks: Let's post some humor to cheer them up a little. I'll start.

Duane Degn · 2011-06-29 13:38

Knock, knock.

Who's there?

Duane.

Duane who?

Duane the bath tub I'm duowning.

mindrobots · 2011-06-29 13:57

"Matt!!!! Time to count the Lion Chargers!!"

erco · 2011-06-29 15:21

Q: How do you stop a LION from charging?

A: Take away his credit card!

Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) · 2011-06-29 15:34

The easiest way to locate missing inventory is to issue another PO.

</supplier humor>

-Phil

iDave · 2011-06-29 16:13

SSteve · 2011-06-29 16:58

SSteve · 2011-06-29 17:06

Martin Hodge · 2011-06-29 18:51

I have soft and supple skin.

Matt Gilliland · 2011-06-29 18:59

Thanks all - keep them comin'

I'll post hard copy posters of this thread for the whole office when we get started early tomorrow morning!

-Matt

Oldbitcollector (Jeff) · 2011-06-29 19:30

Oldbitcollector (Jeff) · 2011-06-29 19:36

Spiral_72 · 2011-06-29 19:41

Need a hand?

Browser · 2011-06-29 19:45

SSteve · 2011-06-29 20:11

Browser! Bad Kitty!

Ravenkallen · 2011-06-29 21:05

This video always makes me laugh... He didn't spill his beer either:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdn8gQkHyHI

Capt. Quirk · 2011-06-30 00:16

A bunch of whining little woosie girls!!

Unless Ken; requires a "hand written" inventory, that he compares against his "personal" computer print out.

And require that all discrepancies must have a paper trail.

You might have an out.

mindrobots · 2011-06-30 02:23

Luckily, you guys can always find the things I order!

LoopyByteloose · 2011-06-30 05:59

The last time I took inventory, it was for Macy*s of California and I had to count all their Bershire-Hathway shirts in stock. Frankly, I don't think they cared if I missed a few as the whole thing was being done just to pay California inventory tax. (hint, hint)

Bershire-Hathaway has certain come a long way since then.

RobotWorkshop · 2011-06-30 08:24

Inventory? How bad could it be???

RobotWorkshop · 2011-06-30 08:33

I wonder if any of these will apply....

http://www.mchumor.com/business_inventory_toons.html

Can you visualize the caption of the second cartoon down between Ken and Matt....

Matt Gilliland · 2011-06-30 09:49

Hey all- thanks for this!

We'll be breaking for lunch around 12 Parallax Standard Time. We'll be projecting this thread for all to see...

Thanks Again!
(where was I, oh yeah...17, 18, 19,...)

erco · 2011-06-30 10:14

You might as well make it fun, Matt. You know, life, lemons, lemonade and all that. Put the INVENT in inventory!

Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) · 2011-06-30 11:44

Cheer up Parallaxians!
Some fiscal years end on December 31st. Imagine doing inventory on New Year's Eve!

-Phil

mindrobots · 2011-06-30 12:24

You could be a software company and just have bits and intellectual property to inventory!

Matt Gilliland · 2011-06-30 12:37

Thanks everybody - it was a great hit!!! - Lunch break is now over

now back to...

87,88,89,90...

From all of us at Parallax

WBA Consulting · 2011-06-30 13:26

In a way, I feel your pain. We are not doing inventory, but rather trying to make sure we close out our fiscal year with a bang, so we are working to ship out anything that isn't nailed down! The good news is that we should have a record month and a record year for revenue for our department, woohoo!

Matt Gilliland · 2011-06-30 18:04

Lunch time entertainment during Cleaning and Inventory Day...
We still haven't got our "BoeBotz" back yet...

Elmo came too! Only for a short while though...

-Matt

wjsteele · 2011-07-01 03:18

mindrobots wrote: »

You could be a software company and just have bits and intellectual property to inventory!

Yeah... working at Microsoft, I know what you mean. I wrote a little sort algorithm to make our inventory easier... left us with just big two piles of 0s and 1s.... lots of 0s and 1s!

Ken Gracey · 2011-07-01 06:41

Thank you very much for the encouragement.

The inventory team finished the job and we have 99.956% inventory accuracy. A higher accuracy is only possible if we overcome the tremendous challenges of reporting minor manufacturing fallout (cut tape, dropped 0402s, etc.). Millions of parts were counted yesterday. Excellent work, team!

I am fairly sure that this level of accuracy is not common, but when it is achieved everything works automatically in regards to planning, procurement, delivery dates, etc.

The inventory crew really earned this holiday.

Ken Gracey

mindrobots · 2011-07-01 06:44

99.956% is amazing!!!

I can't count my socks repeatedly with that kind of accuracy!!

Go Team Parallax!!

Inventory sucks: Help cheer up our friends at Parallax today.

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