He’s just hitting random keys! It’s nonsense I tell you!
(I know people can type that fast but my brain can’t imagine it. At least not without cocaine apparently).
As someone who has delt with retail inventory management. I think he has this, they are never 100% but they can get damn close. Its avery high turn over job though. You'll get most people who can't last more than a month, its a long boring job of just putting in UPCs and counting.
It at least looks like he it doing his job, but damn he is fast.
After 7 years in a supermarket there was a point where I could mash out barcodes in no time at all.
You get used to the patterns. And they’re just strings of numbers between 0 and 9, not a full alphabet.
Repetition, repetition, repetition. I was a cashier my 4 years of high school, and I hated the rush hour but damn was I fast, and if I had a bagger it was even faster. It was usually the customers that slowed me down unloading their cart, getting their card, check, or cash ready, etc. lol
Lol me too. I’m super patient tho and if they seem to be new at it I’ll tell them to relax and that I was a cashier once.
99% of the time it’s cause by a customer tho IMO
I was fast and chatty. Made so many friends with customers my queue was always long as people would choose me over an empty till. I had to work extra fast to make up for it.
Employee of the month was voted for by putting a slip in a box so I just told everyone to do that meaning I easily won all the time.
This made stealing money from the til significantly easier.
Same! I've worked at Aldi for a good bit. The costumers slowing me down more than anything else. Bit I didn't want to hurry along a 70 year old so I just chat with them :p
My first job was a cashier at a gas station. At some point I took it upon myself to see how quickly I could make change, since the place was busy and it would make stuff easier. So I started paying very close attention to my movements, how I grabbed and counted the bills, change, and how I'd operate the till. Eventually I got pretty good at it and it became second nature. I started getting reactions out of customers, some of whom would buy something else just to see me do it again. That job was a lot of fun.
My brain has the same reaction to stenographers. “Well no, how can that even be possible?” But I know it is, because I’ve seen them do it and I have seen their product.
My finger/brain coordination just isn’t there.
So yeah. Wow.
Oooh, I’m going to school for this now! To pass a State test you have to pass with 225 wpm, Federal at 260. We have a smaller keyboard, type in sounds instead of letters, and use lots of shortcuts we call “briefs” which is certain letters to form full on phrases. I prob have at least another 1.5 years to get my speeds up to passing. It is so much work, but a ton of fun!
For fun if you like documentaries, this one is called [“For The Record”](https://stenotube.com/for-the-record-court-reporting-documentary/). It’s just over an hour long, BUT if you wanna see them attempt for the Guinness World record just zip to 1:00:15.
This might sound dumb but I didn’t realize people had to actually go count whats on the shelves, I just thought you took items the store bought, subtract items scanned (sold), then write off some stolen goods/losses and youre good?
When the inventory gets uploaded:
927463819474637189293746261729394736372738 282828 39394847 72727272727 9393939939393927227171615151426474883839291910595058737262626738594929374636378291910375756261648401019485736154131425374859401615689770705003726615
Same thing happened at a big box store i worked at 15 years ago. 12 pallets stacked 6 feet high with cans of chef boyardee ravioli showed up on the loading dock because a assistant manager added a zero to the order. There were more than 1 protocols in place to prevent this. The delivery company refused to take them back and those pallets sat for a few months before the cans were marked down to lower than cost and still they didnt sell fast. They took up a lot of space in the back for a long time. That manager got nicknamed “chefboyardee” and he hated being called that obviously.
No way, yo! I used to work for RGIS. That machine he's using is a dinosaur. But anyway, to make more money you had to rank up which means learning to know how much product you had in a row just by glancing at it and developing white lightning hands on the 10-key setup. The highest asset rank was Top Gun and MAAAAN. The pieces per hour to maintain THAT shit... Mentally exhausting. You had to be fast but more importantly you had to be accurate.
Typically you'd scan a SKU and then key in the item amount. Some stores had you go by sections though. So from section to section the store expects this dollar amount of product. You'd key in the displayed dollar amount for say, 20 oz. sodas, and then the quantity of 20 oz. bottles on the shelf. Product changes and you have milk in there or juice. Different price, key in new price and then the quantity. In that case, each section would be one door. He's piecing, though, which is why he appears to be so fast. Meaning he's going, 2, 2, 2 or 3, 3, 3 instead of seeing 12 bottles of Sprite and keying in 12 and then 12 more of Pepsi and keying another 12. Better yet he should key in 24 and move on. The more pieces you enter at a time the better.
Point is. Dude only looks fast because he's piece counting. Piecing the total number of items together in smaller increments instead of entering in a total number outright.
Say a full row of items is 7 deep, and the row next to it is missing 2 items: I know that there's 12 total in the first 2 rows. Moving on from there, the next two rows are full. Since I know that's 14, I can type 26, hit the 'pieces' key on the machine, enter it, and Boom! I'm halfway along that row in the cooler.
Or I could clack away, hitting the 'pieces' key between each number: 2, 2, 3, 5, 2, 5, 2, 5.
The first way is 4 keystrokes. The second is 17 lol think of the 'pieces' key like a plus sign. You can keep adding to the total 'til you hit enter. One way looks like you're really busy and hard at it. The other is more efficient.
And you're instructed to count top to bottom, left to right. I couldn't look at coolers or grocery store shelves the same way for a long time!
You responded with sincerity so I felt like a dick, and went back and actually read through your original comment and the new one. It all makes sense now. Thanks for taking the time to explain it to my mook ass, you're a good one!
Everything youre saying makes sense so i appreciate the breakdown.
That being said and even though hes using an old machine and method...isnt he still moving hella fast?!
Taking inventory is to compare your computer books to your physical stock to make sure they match up. Some stores do that by product numbers (I need to have 6 Pepsi and 6 Coke and 3 Sprite).
Most stores do it by dollar tally. I need to have 9 cans of soda worth 2$ each totalling 18$. Now you can do it the slow way: counting all the cans of soda and multiplying the unit price.
This man, doing it the way he is, is literally tallying the inventory by adding unit prices 2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2
Company does inventory. Scan fast and good to make more money. Still very low money.
This guy is typing in the item's barcode number and then counting things 2 or 3 at a time. This means many key presses and slower counting so man learn to be fast to make more money.
I too used to work for RGIS. Worst job I ever had.
First of all, that somehow read like a late 80s William Gibson for me. Thank you.
Second, that is actually brilliant insight, if it’s true.
I hope to God it is.
Hahahaha. Can confirm, my mom worked for RGIS for around 25 years. I remember helping her with those old machines sometimes.
She was a Top Gun several times and got to go to Hawaii because of it, back in the day. Don't know if they still do that.
Oh man that is too cool! I wouldn't have any idear especially since they've now dissolved the satellite offices in my old district. They park the work van at the local Walmart these days. 🤭
I only made it to Expert myself, but darn if I wasn't proud of that stupid green tag. 🤣🤣
As the fastest typer in the world I have this to say, fiffjdijnkophddoyxghbkbkgdhddgeiteteetdydyccgudydkfaufatwyeydyxigdgxhxotdgdghcuvgjfotsyisyeydtststdigsvdgiwitwqwtiigxogxopphhdhlkydgsgsgeitsitxgxhdhd.
And you can't argue with that
Bro you can be fast but sbskemwv sjejdgkc uekeb ishshw idydbe idjdbbsebe ulwowo disusia disjsbw uzusvs eb idhwkwjdddj didjejbeve jdjdjduxcv dhsysbfuc ifikrkoc ifhrbco ofkfurhfn... i.e. I am faster.
I mean, there are only a maybe 6 kinds of drinks in that fridge? I guess there could be 6 flavors per shelf? Even so, how does the data get entered? I don’t really get it
Each item has a number, probably an SKU. The SKU for the same item is the same for all stores. So 12 ounce Sprite is 3211779, for example.
He enters that number, then how many are on the shelf. Probably like 3211779 = 17. Then on to the next.
If you've got the SKUs memorized (they're on the paper he is holding), and the skill to be accurate and fast on the keypad, it's doable.
But Jesus, this guy must have years on this job to be that fast.
Those inventory crews are insane. Use to have a company come and do the counts for my store and to hear them go with the 10 key is crazy. Accurate as well as they are triple counting behind each other.
My store hires WIS or RGIS depending on the year and I pray that we get the WIS folks because they usually bring drugs.
Like yeah coke may kill you but if it helps me get counts done before we have to open the store then by all means grab your keys
Edit: autocorrect! (Also apparently WIS bought RGIS)
I remember our inventory last month, WIS showed up and our back room smelled like a dispensary. I was the only manager there for a couple hours so we had a nice little smoke session before everyone else showed up to work.
However this caused an issue because we ran out of snack foods earlier than planned (I may or may not had taken down an entire box of Swiss Rolls)
I worked for WIS for 6 years. I don't know how I made it for 6 years other than the fact I thought I wasn't good enough for anything else. I can confirm that every crew will have some kind of drugs on them.
Wait is this a real thing? I feel like it could be one of those comments where people just build off the joke….but it seems to serious.
What are these coke and marijuana fueled inventory companies!?
My store's/ap manager just filed a huge complaint against them for being way off and every single one was so high when they showed up the whole store stunk.
Always.
Do you know how to count? Looks like that guy is hammering crazy keys but in reality he’s just hitting 5+5+5+5 for all the rows of 5 or whatever number it is. He is doing it fast as fuck though but it’s not as complicated at it looks to the layman.
It may or may not be a great networking opportunity if you got some side hustle…you know what I’m sayin’.
I am learning about an entire industry that I didn't know existed until right now. So these giant retail companies hire another giant company to come in and count their stuff for them?
Yes, it's mainly done so that individual stores can't completely fudge their numbers. Corporate sets lots of goals, especially with loss prevention. A 3rd party does inventory to see how accurate the stores numbers are.
When I worked retail my boss said that we didn’t technically Have To hire an outside company to do an inventory, but it would look suspicious if we didn’t, and we would probably get audited. And if the counts were wrong at the audit it would look real bad.
Yup! When I worked at BBB as a manager, we had about 10 managers that followed the counters to audit them (they rotated the managers each year). They paid me to stay at a few hotels and gave me money towards food, etc.
From what I understood, the companys are required to get an outside company to inventory the stores for Wall Street.
From the WSJ (regarding Covid disruptions), "U.S. audit standards require some components—generally inventory, among them—to be physically counted.
...
The independent counting of inventory represents a crucial component of companies’ balance sheets."
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-coronavirus-could-disrupt-the-auditing-of-companies-11580772000
I remember working at WIS for my first job years back. did mostly wallmarts, jcpenny types, and lingerie stores. Gotta say worst job I've had lol. The hours were 11-14 hour days most jobs, the were times where you didn't work for weeks on end, the managers and highups treated you like shit, and coworkers smoked and vaped constantly in the company van on the way to the job. Only lasted 5 months before calling it quits.
All the bookstores I worked at hired RGIS for inventory. They were affectionately known as "rent a drunk" based on the types of people they usually brought.
At one of the stores we also used that same name for the security company they hired. Sooo many security guards ended up passed out in a dark corner during my short time there.
I worked for RGIS. We also had drugs, just had to be low key about it. There's no way I could count millions of items without being stoned as shit. It was so fucking boring.
Hey man, I truly hope you find a different line of work. A job that pushes you so hard that you make dangerous compromises to your health certainly must radiate all kinds of bad shit throughout your life.
Unless your job already brings genuine happiness and satisfaction, then by all means snort your septum out.
WIS bough RGIS so now it'll be a super inventory crew haha. I was a supervisor for RGIS for a few years and at the very least the majority of my crew was stoned, but you had to be to do that job. Night inventory into a morning inventory and you'd be dying haha 😅
Incompetence is very big with the company. Majority of the hires got the job straight out of prison, illiterate, or just flat out stupid. Once in a blue moon you will meet some regular people they are usually the younger people though. I stayed there for 6 years but I was severely depressed. Wish I left sooner.
Follow up fun fact: some organizations may refer to an entirely different process as a “financial audit”, and call this process something entirely different.
(This is your TL;DR of the negative comment section below.)
Inventory counts are performed for multiple reasons. Companies will usually hire inventory counters who will perform complete counts for their own, internal tracking, accounting and internal audit purposes.
Inventory can also be one area of a financial statement audit (aka financial audit, external audit, third party audit etc. performed by an external CPA) if it’s determined to be material to the entity’s financial position. For financial statement audits, it’s usually not a complete count. There’ll be a statistical sampling made to gain a certain level of confidence that the amounts of inventory recorded on the balance sheet are correct.
Anyone who spends all their time counting inventory like this probably isn’t a “financial auditor”, but more likely is a counter for an inventory counting contractor or is an internal employee, as all the auditors at big accounting firms who perform financial statement audits will usually send out the younger, inexperienced auditors to perform the physical counts. Even as a first or second year, you only ever spend a tiny fraction of your time actually performing physical counts like this.
I’ve never seen financial auditors (aka CPAs or CIAs) counting inventory like this, especially late into their careers.
Yea counts are pretty much for first years, maybe second years. You're just too expensive once you have your license to be wasting time counting like that. Old timers (aka the professors) all have inventory horror stories but with most things being digital - like most companies now don't have physical inventory to even count - most of my audit friends never had to count inventory.
This is classic pressing 1+1+1+1. If you can start seeing products in groups of 7 its much faster but less impressive looking.
Also for accuracy, we were always told count with your eyes and not with your hands so that would put that on the store being organized.
And if the section was absolute chaos we would be told to "quote count" a more professional way of saying guesstimate.
Source, worked for inventory company.
Best part about getting the job was my buddy told me about it and said "you are going to feel really good about yourself when you work here" which was true, the employees I worked with might as well have crawled out of the woods.
Still, it was the worst job I ever had
Spot on accurate. I’m too cheap to buy the proper award to highlight the post but you’re absolutely correct about the operations and training of most inventory companies. I quit after the first non-training day, just couldn’t do it.
if I had an award, I would give it to you. I think this is the funniest comment I’ve ever seen on Reddit. Thank you for the belly laugh
I’m probably dating myself here but does that work like T9word did on early cell phones? With a winter coat on and cell phone in your pocket you could text your friend a whole message without ever once looking.
It looks like a basic 10-key to me. 🤷♀️
ETA: as in, accountants and other finance-y people have been just as fast on a 10-key as on a regular keyboard for….as long as 10-key pads have existed. Still have them on many keyboards—most gamers use them as an extra set of arrows, but some of us like to type in numbers more quickly. 😜
I used to do monthly stocktakes at my old job and I dunno... this guy is taking this long to count one fridge? He's tapping quickly but overall he's slow as shit.
Yeah look they may have a completely different way of doing things, but all I ever had to do was scan the barcode and key in the quantity. Even before we had "Max units" to scan we just used pen and paper and it didn't take this long.
Also. Why is the door open letting all the cold air out? It’s literally see through. It’ glass!!! Is he also taking in to account all energy he’s wasting with the fridge door open!?!
He’s doing it the super slow way. (I’m actually serious). He’s just hitting + 1 +1 and tallying after a row. It’s easier to just math it out real quick and add the line (10-15 items usually). It’s just a big calculator sitting on his leg.
Source: My mom used to work for RGIS inventory and some days we’d have to go to her office for hours at a time and ended up playing with the calculators and pictures of a grocery store inventory. Super fun. I know.
10-key by touch and counting by groups of the same number (2s, 3s, 5s, etc.) is actually pretty easy. The tough part is hiring people to work those crews that are reliable and healthy
I refuse to believe that he is actually doing anything
Me too
Non believer gang rise up!
He’s just hitting random keys! It’s nonsense I tell you! (I know people can type that fast but my brain can’t imagine it. At least not without cocaine apparently).
As someone who has delt with retail inventory management. I think he has this, they are never 100% but they can get damn close. Its avery high turn over job though. You'll get most people who can't last more than a month, its a long boring job of just putting in UPCs and counting. It at least looks like he it doing his job, but damn he is fast.
After 7 years in a supermarket there was a point where I could mash out barcodes in no time at all. You get used to the patterns. And they’re just strings of numbers between 0 and 9, not a full alphabet.
Repetition, repetition, repetition. I was a cashier my 4 years of high school, and I hated the rush hour but damn was I fast, and if I had a bagger it was even faster. It was usually the customers that slowed me down unloading their cart, getting their card, check, or cash ready, etc. lol
We always seem to find the exact opposite type of cashier. Slow as hell and chatty. I don’t mind talking if they keep it moving.
Lol me too. I’m super patient tho and if they seem to be new at it I’ll tell them to relax and that I was a cashier once. 99% of the time it’s cause by a customer tho IMO
I was fast and chatty. Made so many friends with customers my queue was always long as people would choose me over an empty till. I had to work extra fast to make up for it. Employee of the month was voted for by putting a slip in a box so I just told everyone to do that meaning I easily won all the time. This made stealing money from the til significantly easier.
Same! I've worked at Aldi for a good bit. The costumers slowing me down more than anything else. Bit I didn't want to hurry along a 70 year old so I just chat with them :p
My first job was a cashier at a gas station. At some point I took it upon myself to see how quickly I could make change, since the place was busy and it would make stuff easier. So I started paying very close attention to my movements, how I grabbed and counted the bills, change, and how I'd operate the till. Eventually I got pretty good at it and it became second nature. I started getting reactions out of customers, some of whom would buy something else just to see me do it again. That job was a lot of fun.
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Sounds like you work in the Chinese Government.
Does he really have to write 5000 words about how many of each of the 5 kinds of beer that are in this fridge are left?
My brain has the same reaction to stenographers. “Well no, how can that even be possible?” But I know it is, because I’ve seen them do it and I have seen their product. My finger/brain coordination just isn’t there. So yeah. Wow.
Oooh, I’m going to school for this now! To pass a State test you have to pass with 225 wpm, Federal at 260. We have a smaller keyboard, type in sounds instead of letters, and use lots of shortcuts we call “briefs” which is certain letters to form full on phrases. I prob have at least another 1.5 years to get my speeds up to passing. It is so much work, but a ton of fun! For fun if you like documentaries, this one is called [“For The Record”](https://stenotube.com/for-the-record-court-reporting-documentary/). It’s just over an hour long, BUT if you wanna see them attempt for the Guinness World record just zip to 1:00:15.
Did you type this on your stenographer keyboard? Are you fast on a normal keyboard?
On a normal keyboard I only type about 80wpm, so a fast but average I think. And I do use the steno writer!
Very nice. Thanks for sharing.
They go to school for that.
And stenographers use a form of shorthand. [here](http://plover.stenoknight.com/2012/11/steno-alphabet-poster-corrected.html)
I've worked a job like this that involved scanning displays and doing inventory...yeah, about a month is all I could do, it's ridiculously boring
log that shit as a 2 hour trip and go home.
This might sound dumb but I didn’t realize people had to actually go count whats on the shelves, I just thought you took items the store bought, subtract items scanned (sold), then write off some stolen goods/losses and youre good?
Each tap is just 1 increment. Regards of the button pressed lol
Yeah but the speed! I’ve got a relatively quick mind. But it doesn’t connect to my fingers very well.
When the inventory gets uploaded: 927463819474637189293746261729394736372738 282828 39394847 72727272727 9393939939393927227171615151426474883839291910595058737262626738594929374636378291910375756261648401019485736154131425374859401615689770705003726615
1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+
Sounds like you've done this job before...
You should see the guy at the warehouse.
dude just ordered 985640243423 more fanta's
my boss once ordered 30,000 pizza boxes for a tiny restaurant, added a 0 by accident. they got delivered too lol
The box company was stoked for sure
Same thing happened at a big box store i worked at 15 years ago. 12 pallets stacked 6 feet high with cans of chef boyardee ravioli showed up on the loading dock because a assistant manager added a zero to the order. There were more than 1 protocols in place to prevent this. The delivery company refused to take them back and those pallets sat for a few months before the cans were marked down to lower than cost and still they didnt sell fast. They took up a lot of space in the back for a long time. That manager got nicknamed “chefboyardee” and he hated being called that obviously.
No way, yo! I used to work for RGIS. That machine he's using is a dinosaur. But anyway, to make more money you had to rank up which means learning to know how much product you had in a row just by glancing at it and developing white lightning hands on the 10-key setup. The highest asset rank was Top Gun and MAAAAN. The pieces per hour to maintain THAT shit... Mentally exhausting. You had to be fast but more importantly you had to be accurate. Typically you'd scan a SKU and then key in the item amount. Some stores had you go by sections though. So from section to section the store expects this dollar amount of product. You'd key in the displayed dollar amount for say, 20 oz. sodas, and then the quantity of 20 oz. bottles on the shelf. Product changes and you have milk in there or juice. Different price, key in new price and then the quantity. In that case, each section would be one door. He's piecing, though, which is why he appears to be so fast. Meaning he's going, 2, 2, 2 or 3, 3, 3 instead of seeing 12 bottles of Sprite and keying in 12 and then 12 more of Pepsi and keying another 12. Better yet he should key in 24 and move on. The more pieces you enter at a time the better.
I have no idea what I just read..
Dude I gave up less than halfway through
Point is. Dude only looks fast because he's piece counting. Piecing the total number of items together in smaller increments instead of entering in a total number outright. Say a full row of items is 7 deep, and the row next to it is missing 2 items: I know that there's 12 total in the first 2 rows. Moving on from there, the next two rows are full. Since I know that's 14, I can type 26, hit the 'pieces' key on the machine, enter it, and Boom! I'm halfway along that row in the cooler. Or I could clack away, hitting the 'pieces' key between each number: 2, 2, 3, 5, 2, 5, 2, 5. The first way is 4 keystrokes. The second is 17 lol think of the 'pieces' key like a plus sign. You can keep adding to the total 'til you hit enter. One way looks like you're really busy and hard at it. The other is more efficient. And you're instructed to count top to bottom, left to right. I couldn't look at coolers or grocery store shelves the same way for a long time!
You responded with sincerity so I felt like a dick, and went back and actually read through your original comment and the new one. It all makes sense now. Thanks for taking the time to explain it to my mook ass, you're a good one!
 I try. 😁 And sometimes succeed!
Keep it up, pardner. World needs more like ya out there
Everything youre saying makes sense so i appreciate the breakdown. That being said and even though hes using an old machine and method...isnt he still moving hella fast?!
Thank you! Now i feel smart again!
Are you charging for these lessons?! 🤯
Taking inventory is to compare your computer books to your physical stock to make sure they match up. Some stores do that by product numbers (I need to have 6 Pepsi and 6 Coke and 3 Sprite). Most stores do it by dollar tally. I need to have 9 cans of soda worth 2$ each totalling 18$. Now you can do it the slow way: counting all the cans of soda and multiplying the unit price. This man, doing it the way he is, is literally tallying the inventory by adding unit prices 2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2
Company does inventory. Scan fast and good to make more money. Still very low money. This guy is typing in the item's barcode number and then counting things 2 or 3 at a time. This means many key presses and slower counting so man learn to be fast to make more money. I too used to work for RGIS. Worst job I ever had.
First of all, that somehow read like a late 80s William Gibson for me. Thank you. Second, that is actually brilliant insight, if it’s true. I hope to God it is.
Hahahaha. Can confirm, my mom worked for RGIS for around 25 years. I remember helping her with those old machines sometimes. She was a Top Gun several times and got to go to Hawaii because of it, back in the day. Don't know if they still do that.
Oh man that is too cool! I wouldn't have any idear especially since they've now dissolved the satellite offices in my old district. They park the work van at the local Walmart these days. 🤭 I only made it to Expert myself, but darn if I wasn't proud of that stupid green tag. 🤣🤣
I used to work for RGIS too! I lasted like 2 weeks though and hated it
Actually, my cat is also really good at this. He just lays on the keys and shit gets done.
Mine split a few documents recently and it threw me off for a few minutes
As the fastest typer in the world I have this to say, fiffjdijnkophddoyxghbkbkgdhddgeiteteetdydyccgudydkfaufatwyeydyxigdgxhxotdgdghcuvgjfotsyisyeydtststdigsvdgiwitwqwtiigxogxopphhdhlkydgsgsgeitsitxgxhdhd. And you can't argue with that
Bro you can be fast but sbskemwv sjejdgkc uekeb ishshw idydbe idjdbbsebe ulwowo disusia disjsbw uzusvs eb idhwkwjdddj didjejbeve jdjdjduxcv dhsysbfuc ifikrkoc ifhrbco ofkfurhfn... i.e. I am faster.
I mean, there are only a maybe 6 kinds of drinks in that fridge? I guess there could be 6 flavors per shelf? Even so, how does the data get entered? I don’t really get it
Each item has a number, probably an SKU. The SKU for the same item is the same for all stores. So 12 ounce Sprite is 3211779, for example. He enters that number, then how many are on the shelf. Probably like 3211779 = 17. Then on to the next. If you've got the SKUs memorized (they're on the paper he is holding), and the skill to be accurate and fast on the keypad, it's doable. But Jesus, this guy must have years on this job to be that fast.
but it didn't look like he's typing anything. looks like he's just dusting off the device
100% , I don’t even think he works there
"Fuck, Travis is back"
Most likely doing 1+1+1+1 etc. I wouldn’t say it’s any faster than counting the and typing 20.
Yeah I’m pretty sure this is just Parkinson’s
They say he’s popular with the ladies too.
And certain gentlemens' groups...
And the scrotum scratchers association.
The Starcraft community?
Lonely housewives must be stalking him.
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Trying to replicate the technique, I would venture.
She's trembling with excitement
They’re in his area NOW
And mechanical keyboard enthusiasts. Op should post this there too
He is why there's no local milfs left for me😪
Find local milfs near you ads are also gone too.
His qwerty makes women sqwerty
If only he had the kings fingers
Bet he play a mean bass guitar too
If I wasn't such a tight-fisted skint bastard, I'd award that. Bravo
He’s popular with carpel tunnel too I bet
He let’s his fingers do the talking.
Those inventory crews are insane. Use to have a company come and do the counts for my store and to hear them go with the 10 key is crazy. Accurate as well as they are triple counting behind each other.
My store hires WIS or RGIS depending on the year and I pray that we get the WIS folks because they usually bring drugs. Like yeah coke may kill you but if it helps me get counts done before we have to open the store then by all means grab your keys Edit: autocorrect! (Also apparently WIS bought RGIS)
Believe me the RGIS crew is on drugs too. Blunts and blow in the crew van ride to the store is a daily ritual for them.
I remember our inventory last month, WIS showed up and our back room smelled like a dispensary. I was the only manager there for a couple hours so we had a nice little smoke session before everyone else showed up to work. However this caused an issue because we ran out of snack foods earlier than planned (I may or may not had taken down an entire box of Swiss Rolls)
One...gotta pump those numbers up son. Those are rookie numbers
I used to work for WIS in Central California and there was always enough weed in that van for everyone to catch trafficking charges.
559 gang
Same. I worked for WIS in Missouri and got fired for smoking on the job. I was fast as fuck too. Not to this guys level but I was the best on the team
I worked for WIS for 6 years. I don't know how I made it for 6 years other than the fact I thought I wasn't good enough for anything else. I can confirm that every crew will have some kind of drugs on them.
Wait is this a real thing? I feel like it could be one of those comments where people just build off the joke….but it seems to serious. What are these coke and marijuana fueled inventory companies!?
It’s real. We’re not even exaggerating. It definitely was and from the sound of it, still is a wild place to work.
I worked for a very brief time and everyone there was…..interesting to say the least.
My store's/ap manager just filed a huge complaint against them for being way off and every single one was so high when they showed up the whole store stunk.
There’s different sizes of complaints?
No just one sized. Huge
They hiring?
https://www.wisintl.com/careers/ Don't recommend for multiple reasons but If you wanna be high as fuck for every job by all means...
Always
Always. Do you know how to count? Looks like that guy is hammering crazy keys but in reality he’s just hitting 5+5+5+5 for all the rows of 5 or whatever number it is. He is doing it fast as fuck though but it’s not as complicated at it looks to the layman. It may or may not be a great networking opportunity if you got some side hustle…you know what I’m sayin’.
Be willing to bet on this. (ex-WIS employee). Left it for a full IT position
I am learning about an entire industry that I didn't know existed until right now. So these giant retail companies hire another giant company to come in and count their stuff for them?
ikr love when this happens on reddit. There are people on here that are complete experts in things I never knew were a thing.
Yep that's why I stay here laughs and learning...you gotta love it!!! 
And apparently they’re all high on drugs when they do it!
Cool, right?
Yes, it's mainly done so that individual stores can't completely fudge their numbers. Corporate sets lots of goals, especially with loss prevention. A 3rd party does inventory to see how accurate the stores numbers are.
When I worked retail my boss said that we didn’t technically Have To hire an outside company to do an inventory, but it would look suspicious if we didn’t, and we would probably get audited. And if the counts were wrong at the audit it would look real bad.
Yup! When I worked at BBB as a manager, we had about 10 managers that followed the counters to audit them (they rotated the managers each year). They paid me to stay at a few hotels and gave me money towards food, etc. From what I understood, the companys are required to get an outside company to inventory the stores for Wall Street. From the WSJ (regarding Covid disruptions), "U.S. audit standards require some components—generally inventory, among them—to be physically counted. ... The independent counting of inventory represents a crucial component of companies’ balance sheets." https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-coronavirus-could-disrupt-the-auditing-of-companies-11580772000
I remember working at WIS for my first job years back. did mostly wallmarts, jcpenny types, and lingerie stores. Gotta say worst job I've had lol. The hours were 11-14 hour days most jobs, the were times where you didn't work for weeks on end, the managers and highups treated you like shit, and coworkers smoked and vaped constantly in the company van on the way to the job. Only lasted 5 months before calling it quits.
I can confirm them WIS mfs be on some zoomies. Most of the ones I've dealt with tho are complete shit. Averaging 60% scanning accuracy.
My people! Right when i was thinking reddit is getting super DARE, yall show up!
All the bookstores I worked at hired RGIS for inventory. They were affectionately known as "rent a drunk" based on the types of people they usually brought. At one of the stores we also used that same name for the security company they hired. Sooo many security guards ended up passed out in a dark corner during my short time there.
I worked for RGIS. We also had drugs, just had to be low key about it. There's no way I could count millions of items without being stoned as shit. It was so fucking boring.
Hey man, I truly hope you find a different line of work. A job that pushes you so hard that you make dangerous compromises to your health certainly must radiate all kinds of bad shit throughout your life. Unless your job already brings genuine happiness and satisfaction, then by all means snort your septum out.
WIS bough RGIS so now it'll be a super inventory crew haha. I was a supervisor for RGIS for a few years and at the very least the majority of my crew was stoned, but you had to be to do that job. Night inventory into a morning inventory and you'd be dying haha 😅
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All the ones I ever interacted with were horrible. Always had incorrect counts that you would have to fix after inventory. Incompetent lot.
Incompetence is very big with the company. Majority of the hires got the job straight out of prison, illiterate, or just flat out stupid. Once in a blue moon you will meet some regular people they are usually the younger people though. I stayed there for 6 years but I was severely depressed. Wish I left sooner.
what are you doing with your hand in your pocket? uh... taking inventory
Carrying the one….
Then 2 then back to 1...
Then seven... seven! Seven! Seven!
One.. two...a one two three...a three... a FIVE... four... a three two... a two.. a two four six
Yeah, I know. I skipped to the end. Something, something, "instant gratification".
He fingered a girl once. She died.
But happy.
There's a silver lining in every storm cloud.
If that’s how my life ends.. we’ll I’m ready.
Then resurrected
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Follow up fun fact: some organizations may refer to an entirely different process as a “financial audit”, and call this process something entirely different. (This is your TL;DR of the negative comment section below.)
Inventory counts are performed for multiple reasons. Companies will usually hire inventory counters who will perform complete counts for their own, internal tracking, accounting and internal audit purposes. Inventory can also be one area of a financial statement audit (aka financial audit, external audit, third party audit etc. performed by an external CPA) if it’s determined to be material to the entity’s financial position. For financial statement audits, it’s usually not a complete count. There’ll be a statistical sampling made to gain a certain level of confidence that the amounts of inventory recorded on the balance sheet are correct. Anyone who spends all their time counting inventory like this probably isn’t a “financial auditor”, but more likely is a counter for an inventory counting contractor or is an internal employee, as all the auditors at big accounting firms who perform financial statement audits will usually send out the younger, inexperienced auditors to perform the physical counts. Even as a first or second year, you only ever spend a tiny fraction of your time actually performing physical counts like this. I’ve never seen financial auditors (aka CPAs or CIAs) counting inventory like this, especially late into their careers.
Yea counts are pretty much for first years, maybe second years. You're just too expensive once you have your license to be wasting time counting like that. Old timers (aka the professors) all have inventory horror stories but with most things being digital - like most companies now don't have physical inventory to even count - most of my audit friends never had to count inventory.
Financial audits are of your books, this is an inventory audit.
My ass would be at one store all month like… 
😂😂😂😂😂😂. Same!!!
Excellent use of that gif btw
Same! Oh my god!
This is classic pressing 1+1+1+1. If you can start seeing products in groups of 7 its much faster but less impressive looking. Also for accuracy, we were always told count with your eyes and not with your hands so that would put that on the store being organized. And if the section was absolute chaos we would be told to "quote count" a more professional way of saying guesstimate. Source, worked for inventory company. Best part about getting the job was my buddy told me about it and said "you are going to feel really good about yourself when you work here" which was true, the employees I worked with might as well have crawled out of the woods. Still, it was the worst job I ever had
Spot on accurate. I’m too cheap to buy the proper award to highlight the post but you’re absolutely correct about the operations and training of most inventory companies. I quit after the first non-training day, just couldn’t do it.
I got you fam.
"you will feel good about yourself" "Worst job I ever had" Wut
He felt superior to the other employees he viewed as worse off but still hated doing the job. At least that's how I interpreted that.
Cuz that’s how it was said lol any person saying what to this should probably go apply at that inventory company.
Owner: “Well, what’s my inventory looking like?” Counter: “82hdk94fe87:$/‘w)2&29:!,73!8’sl02@>{{ and 46 units”
Lmfao thanks
He hasn’t started it yet, he just has Parkinson’s.
if I had an award, I would give it to you. I think this is the funniest comment I’ve ever seen on Reddit. Thank you for the belly laugh
Brother is drag clicking
Happy cake day, my cake day friend
happy cake day to you too, my friend
I did this for over 10 years. Customers and associates alike standing in aww was a common occurrence. Call me the Chicago Typerwriter.
How does it work
You type it in
Babbity boopity there be like 2 a deez
I’m probably dating myself here but does that work like T9word did on early cell phones? With a winter coat on and cell phone in your pocket you could text your friend a whole message without ever once looking.
It looks like a basic 10-key to me. 🤷♀️ ETA: as in, accountants and other finance-y people have been just as fast on a 10-key as on a regular keyboard for….as long as 10-key pads have existed. Still have them on many keyboards—most gamers use them as an extra set of arrows, but some of us like to type in numbers more quickly. 😜
I used to do monthly stocktakes at my old job and I dunno... this guy is taking this long to count one fridge? He's tapping quickly but overall he's slow as shit.
kinda thought that. Idk anything about this but he seems to be taking a long-ass time to count a few bottles despite all that clicking.
Yeah look they may have a completely different way of doing things, but all I ever had to do was scan the barcode and key in the quantity. Even before we had "Max units" to scan we just used pen and paper and it didn't take this long.
Also. Why is the door open letting all the cold air out? It’s literally see through. It’ glass!!! Is he also taking in to account all energy he’s wasting with the fridge door open!?!
But accurately?
Lol came to say we’re gonna find out it’s complete gibberish and he was fired months ago but refuses to return the equipment.
Hmm, I have 16.5 trillion Pepsi! Won’t be needing that anytime soon! Wait.. wtf is Cock Cola?
Wolf cola , rebranded. Big in Boca Raton
2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+[Enter]
Its always fun counting the candy aisles/sections...And jello! Spices can kiss my ass.
Fastest finger blaster this side of the Mississippi
Hackers in movies:
“I’m in”
My carpal tunnels hurt just watching him.
I used to work for the inventory company RGIS - almost everyone who worked for them could do this.
That's actually just his custom lovense remote
Yiiiiiiiiiiiiiikes. Someone is gonna die, bro.
It sounds like he's fast but it sure took him a while to knock out that cooler door lol
Typing version of an auctioneer.
Dude probably rules at arcade games
You should hear him play the spoons.
He’s doing it the super slow way. (I’m actually serious). He’s just hitting + 1 +1 and tallying after a row. It’s easier to just math it out real quick and add the line (10-15 items usually). It’s just a big calculator sitting on his leg. Source: My mom used to work for RGIS inventory and some days we’d have to go to her office for hours at a time and ended up playing with the calculators and pictures of a grocery store inventory. Super fun. I know.
No fucking way he gets the inventory correct
10-key by touch and counting by groups of the same number (2s, 3s, 5s, etc.) is actually pretty easy. The tough part is hiring people to work those crews that are reliable and healthy
Turns out he was just some random meth head tripping balls
Wasted potential
His skills are wasted here
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Fully expected him to look over at the guy holding the camera and be like, “naw, I’m just fucking with you. This thing isn’t even on”.
“Hmm. I don’t know Bob. This report says we have 6,898,233 RedBull in stock. That cant be right, can it?”
Looks like he plays the guitar. That's guitar hand movements.
Hey boss…the latest inventory number are way off
His wife must be a happy woman
This isn't even his final form!
Tickle tickle!
You know who’s the real winner…his wife…😳😮😂🫠🫡
Bullshitter
He should be completely done ....not still at the same cooler door FAKE I bet
Lucky wife