Hack it.

Too sucked into Lusternia. Need level eighty please.

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Friggin customer support.

Fafsa Reduction. Ugh.

AHAHAHA.

Sorry. That was just too amusing.

Work your magic, caffeine. It's hard to feel properly excited when I'm crabby from barely getting any sleep. DOUBLEFACED because that little sleepy dude was too cute to pass up

I really want a skunk for a pet.

Maybe you economically minded folks can help me. I manage inventory and ordering at the cupcake shop and my boss is miffed at me because I keep more flour in stock than we typically use from week to week. My reasoning is that it never goes bad before we use it, we have the space to store it without taking up space for other supplies, and it's absolutely critical to the operation. Generally, I order the quantity that we use each week, but I always keep more in stock. And some weeks we DO go through all that flour, and it's not always predictable when we're going to have a big week.

He says it increases food costs to keep a surplus on hand, but I don't see it. None of it goes to waste. I'm sure there's some empirically proven economic principle about capital being tied up in purchased goods or something.

Such a silly thing to get worked up over, I know. But inventory is like the one thing I do for the business that no one else does, so it frustrates me to screw it up.

Am I allowed to put unraves on here? Well, I'm gonna anyways...

Unrave for RL friends that make me come hang out with them instead of letting me get all of the extra Lusternia time on a Friday night since I don't have to get up and go to work on Saturday.

Personally, I'd be inclined to agree with you. Might be better to have extra that you MIGHT need than run out and have to shut down early. I'm sure the conversation would flip if you ran out of flour, and I would say running out and losing however long worth of business would be much much worse than having some extra.

Especially if it doesn't go bad, which means you do end up using it.

I'm glad my boss handed me a stack of cash and the keys to the van, and said, "Go pick up what we need." He got every receipt and every cent of change, and never had any problems with it. I always bought slightly more than I thought we would need.

When I explained my perspective, he said he'd tell me about how it increases food costs when he had time, but for now I have to trust that he knows what he's talking about. I am over ordering and clearly not paying attention to what we actually use.

I get the sense it's just one of those thing I have to do exactly his way. But we'll see what he has to say about the economics of it. He was in a hurry to get to his newly purchased river house so he couldn't talk it through with me today.

In all other respects he's a great boss. I've just got frustrations from several sources making this effect me more than it should!

Do what he asks. You've expressed your opinions and now if if ends up biting him in the later, it's on his head.

Christ, I think my hand's having a very localized hot flush. Protip: playing bass with your hands is a lot more physical than playing guitar. (and less cool)

Gah, I hate it when I suddenly dive in a rant. I feel horrible, especially since I basically yell at my dad, who's done nothing and certainly doesn't need to be yelled at the moment he comes home. Just wish I didn't feel like such a failure right now but then again I am. Seeing as I've got no job, and I really don't want to go to college but should. Ugh, too much pent up frustration at myself and my stupid situation.

He's probably referring to the time value of money: a dollar spent today costs more than the same dollar spent tomorrow, because of the value of accruing interest, or the lack of accruing debt interest, as well as the difficulties of cash flow. On the scale of a few pounds of flour, it's ridiculous to get worked up over the time value of an extra sack of flour bought a week early. However, as a general principle, the most efficient use of money is always to not spend money until the minute you need it -- but not a second later.

Because the time value of money only increases slowly up until the moment you need the flour, and then drops off sharply the moment you end up not having enough of what you need, one generally aims to not get too close to the perfectly optimal solution, because you can't know when that moment will be, and it's far better to err on the side of a little too early. But if you're trying to squeeze every last penny (and in my experience, every single living being that has ever run a restaurant has always been one to squeeze every last penny -- presumably the ones who don't, don't make it), you'll still try to get closer to it whenever possible.

In the case of the flour, it might save a penny a month. If you add up everything he could be doing this with... it might save a quarter a month. Whoopee. For more on this subject, research "Just In Time Distribution Chain" theory.

I think my posting style changed with the avatar change. Huh.

You don't want to go to college. I, on the other hand, am fearing that I won't make it towards graduation. My university is killing me.

I'm so darned scared my GERD is worsening. I can't eat well when I should cause I suddenly dropped to underweight. Please.grant.me.this.one.wish.and.let.me.pass.to.ensure.my.graduation.on.2011.

Good luck ! I think my sister should be graduating this year...I think. I dunno I remember something about how she needed like 1 more credit or something. I dunno lots of hoopla from the university I think.

It's a proven fact that avatars dictate diction.

HUZZAH!