Slow at manual job-Anyone here ever at RGIS?

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Funny story-In June 08, I’d just been diagnosed (at age 39) and applied for a job to practice disclosing my condition at an interview. Was hired WO/ a real interview, so I started showing up and still haven’t practiced interview disclosure.

The job is an inventory service. Basically we go through diffrent stores and scan merchandise's bar codes into our machines.

After being there a year, I’ve noticed that I am often a bit slower at it than others, even some almost new auditors. Wondering if that’s an AS thing or just me?

At one old job, Taco Bell, I eventually got real fast at assembling orders on the food line. I liked that self image and stayed years, because that job became a special interest. But I basically worked on the same line all the time, where here I have different racks/shelves/tables.

Just would appreciate any community insight on this.

I was consistently given grief about being slow on my cleaning job and then they started noticing my clients were happy while others were having to go back out to fix a rushed job.

I've had similar problems with manual type jobs.

I know people who have worked in the inventory business, and they say the important thing is to learn the 10 key by touch. It's something that just takes practice, I guess.

I've heard that RGIS is generally happy if people just show up and don't cause trouble, so hopefully you will be okay. I've known people who have really enjoyed working there, people who didn't "fit in" at a lot of other jobs.

I did part-time RGIS one summer when I was in college. I learned the 10-key by touch and I was pretty fast, but it sucked so bad to be stuck with the other employees, generally scary people, on the long rides to the stores and at lunch. The manager drove us all around in a big van.

I don't think I was very accurate though, because at places like hardware stores they told us to estimate a lot, rather than count everything in bins, and I guess I wasn't as good at that as others, so combined with being generally socially awkward and scared, I didn't get many assignments.

Yeah, forgot to mention that, the guy I knew said that a lot of what they do involves making estimates, while giving the appearance that they're counting every single item.

I don't think I ever did RGIS, but I get your point.

As a rule, it's always better to be slower and accurate than rush and make errors. Depends on what the employer values.

I work at RGIS- have for some years.
Some folks thrive at it seem to have AS tendies, but some who flounder
also seem to have as tendencis ( one poor fellow who is both slo and socially inept
seems very apsie like).

Like someone said above- learn to touch-count. That is- learn the keyboard.
You can practice on the same computer that your using right now- the number
section on the right hand part of the keyboard of your computer is identical to
the keyboard on your audit machine.

Learn to see objects in groups. That is - look at the rows of pill bottles and notice
how they clump into groups of and two and three- then key them into the machine-

Two and three and two..

Touch counting combined with seeing groups- is the key to multi quantity.

When doing auto quanity- you can batch- just dont be ret*d about it.

If you got a stack of 25 blue jeans - an idiot will take the firts sku tag and scan it
25 times.

If you have a few brain cells you pull out five sku tags - and then scan each of those
tags in turn until you reach 25. Its faster than scanning all 25 tags, but not as dumb s
scanning just one- because its not as obvious that your batching.
Also- the nielson ratings are based on 3000 households- only 3000- to findout what
300 million Americans watch on TV. If you sample five out of 25 pieces of merchandise
you're probably not distorting the inventory very much.

I had an interview at RGIS, but they didn't hire me....