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GENERAL HOUSEKEEPING take out trash vaccum or sweep up clean the windows pick up trash in front put up tools and "stuff" straighten up work area
SHOP MAINTENANCE replace dull blades in Olfa & Exacto's sharpen Stabillo's change air filters in heating/cooling system degrease silk screens refill your Rapid Tac & Rapid Remover bottles order materials shred any old documents or invoices sitting around wash the vehicles get oil changed and tires rotated if needed do spackling & touch up painting organize vinyls throw away any vinyl that's been sitting for 1 yr.
EQUIPMENT clean gunk off plotter rollers perform maintenance needed on Edge or large format take inventory make a list of needs from hardware store or builders supply - go get it
COMPUTERS wash keyboards, monitors, mouse, scanner & phones organize CD's and DVD's back-up computer files do disk cleanup and defrag computers
MARKETING take care of any callbacks or redo's go over accounts receivable return calls update your website call prospects redo your phone message write thank you cards address Christmas cards pull marketing reports (owner/mgr)
-------------------- Ricky Jackson Signs Now 614 Russell Parkway Warner Robins, GA (478) 923-7722 signpimp50@hotmail.com
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Sir Issac Newton Posts: 3528 | From: Warner Robins, GA | Registered: Oct 2004
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-back to the kitchen again ,but this time the cupboard
-make sandwich
-eBay
-IM friends at work
-Youtube
I think I may be leaving something out...
-------------------- Larry Ware Warehouse 360 Studios LLC Washington DC - Savannah, GA Posts: 53 | From: Washington, DC | Registered: Feb 2007
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However, Letterville is a good place to spend some time!
Ricky has a great list. We should all print it out and hang it up. I do some of that while waiting for clients to show up...my computers & printers are at my house for now, so I don't do design or print at the shop, so I have a great list like that too.
I actually tear out pages of interest from the sign mags and put them in the clear page protectors and organize them by topic or method. I have quite a few 2" binders at the shop to show clients, plus my own portfolio. So that fills in a bit of time too. I love doing that. It's almost a hobby in itself, considering I have articles and projects in there since I began 17 years ago.
-------------------- Nikki Goral Image Advantage Signs 4050 Champeau Road New Franken, WI 54229 920-465-4500 "Finish every day and be done with it. Tomorrow is a new day."-Ralph Waldo Emerson Posts: 928 | From: New Franken, WI (East Green Bay) | Registered: Jun 2007
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This list is good advice and following through will help your business.
Now, I'll just print it out and...
Wait, I think I'll import it into my graphics program, change the fonts and spiff it up a bit. Then, I'll download a good photographic background. Now, I need to get some really cool bullets on that list. Drat, the publishing program messed up the formatting. Spend two hours trying to fix spacing. The computer crashed... should have bought the Mac. Oh, man. I didn’t save. Four hours of effort down the drain. I remember how I did it and the formatting work around, redo it in an hour. I'll print and laminate this list. The print heads need cleaning. I'm out of Cyan. I should have ordered the internet special last week, now I've gotta go to OfficeDEPOT and pay three times as much. Got the cyan. Where's the laminator? Found the laminator, need to go back to OfficeDEPOT for sleeves. Burned hand on laminator. Out of bandages. Go to pharmacy next door to OfficeDEPOT and buy bandages. Try to feed list through laminator left handed. Accidently destroy list. Reprint list. Just a minute here, I can do better graphics than that. Why'd I ever use that font? It just doesn't work. Buy cool font pack set for $159.95. Play with fonts for three hours. Redo list with new fonts. Print and laminate list. Proof read list after lamination to find cool font did not have complete character set and substituted random glyphs. Give up, copy to clipboard and hit "Print".
Whaddya mean "Nothing to do?" I'm way too far behind to spend time to do all the blankety blank stuff on this list! I've got a business to run!!!
quote: For once, I’ll be serious.
You knew it wouldn’t last!
-------------------- David Harding A Sign of Excellence Carrollton, TX Posts: 5092 | From: Carrollton, TX, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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quote:Originally posted by Kissymatina: Scour boss' computer for porn
Isn't that the #1 item on the list for Ricky's employees?
Kissy sweety, if they got a glimpse of the freaky stuff on Ricky's puter...they would not only quit...they would report him ( to local,national and international police)
wait a minute ...I bet thats what all the hub bub is about at the border! He didn't have a gun! he just had a box of beastality porn! Sick man Sick.....
-------------------- Snow's Sign Works 865-908-0076 snowman@planetc.com www.snowsigns.com
I'm out of my mind, but feel free to leave a message... Posts: 1640 | From: Sevierville, TN | Registered: Jul 2005
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Ricky, do you have that printed out on a 24x36 and hanging in your employees lounge? That is an excellent idea to have a list like that.
Our guys will mess around here sometimes when they get back early etc. and act like there's nothing to do, when in truth there are quite a few small things that need to be done. Sometimes we're too busy to try to think of 4 or 5 of these things off the top of our head when they're lounging around, but if the list was already made..... hmmmm... like I said, good idea.
-------------------- Jon Jantz Snappysign.com jjantz21@gmail.com http://www.allcw.com Posts: 3395 | From: Atmore, AL | Registered: Nov 2005
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you have too much time on your hands or you can type REALLY FAST!!!!!
-------------------- Nikki Goral Image Advantage Signs 4050 Champeau Road New Franken, WI 54229 920-465-4500 "Finish every day and be done with it. Tomorrow is a new day."-Ralph Waldo Emerson Posts: 928 | From: New Franken, WI (East Green Bay) | Registered: Jun 2007
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Ricky, great list! Back in the day of an employee around, Kari was a wonderful organizer and she'd do all those little extras on a very regular basis. I miss that.
When I have nothing to do, I go shovel the snow that never falls here.
[ February 05, 2008, 10:55 PM: Message edited by: Donna in BC ]
quote:Originally posted by Nikki Goral: NOTHING TO DO????
Come visit my shop...I'll put you to work!
yeah, no kidding...I got trash to take out and floors to sweep...
No, seriously...My week just got a lot busier. I sold a set of channel letters, and the permiting just went through, so I gotta get them on order.
I just sold a Monument sign, so I gotta get that on order (as well as the HDU panel that goes in it). And they tightened the deadline from end of April to March 6 (installed).
And I have a 6 x 10 church sign that they now want a "Topper" on so I gotta get that figured up. And get that on order...
I sold more this last 2 weeks than I did all last year. (but considering I just moved from doing only sub contract work for other sign companys to a full service sign shop, I think I'm doing pretty darn good)...
-------------------- Mark Kottwitz Kottwitz Graphics Ridgely, MD www.SeeMySignWork.com -------------------------- Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein Posts: 746 | From: Ridgely, MD | Registered: Oct 2000
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quote:Originally posted by Jon Jantz: Ricky, do you have that printed out on a 24x36 and hanging in your employees lounge?
Yes Jon, I have a 2 x 3 foot printed out in Letterheads Fonts on a beautifully designed David Butler panel, laminated and hanging in the employees lounge right between the weight room and the swimming pool.
Kris and Jake, I smell a conspiracy here. Any man that would let a woman paint his toenails PINK - with One Shot, well you just can't believe anything he says. Behold, I give you Kris and Jake at the Dixie meet:
-------------------- Ricky Jackson Signs Now 614 Russell Parkway Warner Robins, GA (478) 923-7722 signpimp50@hotmail.com
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Sir Issac Newton Posts: 3528 | From: Warner Robins, GA | Registered: Oct 2004
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...I bet thats what all the hub bub is about at the border! He didn't have a gun! he just had a box of beastality porn! Sick man Sick..... ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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(but considering I just moved from doing only sub contract work for other sign companys to a full service sign shop, I think I'm doing pretty darn good)...
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