[frgeek-michiana] Thursday WH Report 05-06-2010

From: Mike Cook <mikecook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 10:52:40 -0400 (EDT)
I opened the warehouse at about 6:00PM

Attending: Dale N, Tom Br, Phil, Kelsey

Of course, since I changed the scheduled opening time to 6:30PM I was able to 
make it at 6:00PM. Dale and I were alone for the first 1/2 hr or so. Dale 
dropped of the proceeds of his trip to Winer's with circuit boards and wire. I 
testes the Spanish language box and found that the updates Tom had done did not 
take so I put the box aside to take home and set up over the weekend. Dale 
clipped the ends off scrap cables while I demaned scrap cases and did a little 
cleanup on the bench. 

When Tom arrived he came to discuss with Dale how to get our metal recycling 
over to Gertrude without access to a lift truck. It was decided that they would 
attempt to move the materials May, 15th. Tom is going to see if he can borrow a 
lift truck from RBHS to load the material. In the future Tom would like to have 
the recycling stored in smaller containers to facilitate hand loading.

Tom also stated that the receipts we get from Winer's are insufficiently 
detailed and largely illegible and do not meet our reporting requirements for 
IDEM. Tom says we need to keep close account of the weights and the types of 
material we are presenting for recycling. Tom left after we completed our 
discussion and Dale and I continued our work.

When Phil and Kelsey arrived Phil took over cleaning up the deman station and 
putting away and organizing our tools. He noted that a number of tools have 
gone missing. I began moving some filled gaylords of scrap metal to the staging 
area for shipment to Gertrude. We also have a couple of gaylords of plastic 
scrap that needs to find a home. We have several empty gaylords so I began the 
process of breaking down the excess to save space until they are needed.

At the end of the night everyone got dirty and a lot of material was sorted and 
consolidated. Thanks for everybody's hard work and I hope to see everybody next 
week.

We closed the warehouse at about 8:45 - 9:00PM

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The plan for the coming weeks:

The Spanish language box WILL be completed this weekend and I will try to 
return it by Tuesday so that both of the Title 1 test boxes can be turned over 
to Carol for evaluation. Tom was concerned about final quality control and 
wants to have Adrian look the Spanish install over before Carol picks up the 
boxes.  

I would like to begin building shelving to store our "good" stock in the secure 
area and leave the cold storage area for materials waiting to be scrapped and 
perhaps a small amount of lower value overflow items. I think we have 
progressed sufficiently that we can start to ready items for distribution or 
sale. I will need to get the FGM debit card to buy materials as I do not have 
funds available to cover them. I will post a bill of materials and a cost 
estimate before hand. 

I would also like to make sure that ANYTHING brought in and put on the shelves 
be THOROUGHLY tested, cleaned and wrapped in a plastic garbage bag (or 
something) to make sure it stays clean until we are ready to use or sell it. I 
want to be able to walk to a shelf pick up a monitor, keyboard, mouse and 
system unit and have a WORKING system. We can stage SOME untested items 
temporarily until we are able to test them, but I'd like to keep this to a 
minimum. 

Other than that It will be more of the same. 
 
Live long and prosper,

Mike

"The perfect is the enemy of the good" - Voltaire

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