What do *only you* do?

[Scottya21]

Well, what's the task at work that is *just* for you? By this I mean, something that everyone is *supposed* to do, but noone ever does?

In my case, I'm about the only person that keeps the lottery poster that shows all the winning numbers updated, though it's really something everyone should do.

[Broomjockey]

I would dust on top of things. Being the tallest person, I would be the only one who could see/reach the tops of most things without a stool of some sort, so no one else would ever bother.

In fact, I think I was the first person to clean some things in that theatre, even though it had been open a couple years at that point. *shudder*

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

For me it's bailing cardboard. Many nights the unload crew will just leave their softlines boxes in a domestics bin and I have to throw it all away so we have the bin for our cardboard.

I also usually end up redoing the furniture backstocks every so often, because the unloaders don't backstock the furniture properly and just throw it wherever.

Also, checking the furniture pull tags every weekend and making sure they match up to the number of pieces we have in backstock is a job that's supposed to be rotated among us, but I am the only one who ever does it because I made the mistake of doing a good job on it and nobody else wants to do it.

[powerboy]

I am the only one that actully cleans, around there. Hell, I am the only one that does anything, unless I am off, then someone else runs the register. And to think I am a GM of the store .

[Department stores *sigh*]

when i was a steward (stock guy, master of drudgery chores) i was the only one who would clean up crap and such. The ones now refuse to do it even though thats the job they signed up for. yah it sucks but they have to do it.

[Ree]

When I was on cash, there were so many jobs where I was the only one who looked after them.
Nobody ever noticed or appreciated it.

Now that I am no longer in that department, they are finding it pretty stressful at times, because they all now have to pick up the slack and do the jobs that they always took for granted. Every time they complain to me about added pressures, and the fact that the HC won't do them and expects them to handle it, I just shrug and say, "Yeah, I always looked after that when I was on cash."

Now that I am management, there are basic housecleaning jobs that only I think about when it comes to assigning jobs, and when I'm off, the guys filling in never bother, so when I come back, I just assign them to my staff to get done.
I still seem to be the only one who ever thinks to check the supplies and refill empty boxes and hooks with bags, header cards, string tags and labels, etc., or check the tape guns/dispensers and staplers.

[Primer]

Let's see...at my current job, I'm the only one that organizes/straightens the colored copy paper in the duplication/mail room. Did I ever tell y'all that I'm a math teacher? At a college? That has a full-time duplication clerk (the college, not me)?

When I worked in the learning lab, I was the only one to keep the staplers filled and unjammed, and I fixed the electric pencil sharpeners whenever they went belly up. I was a math and accounting tutor there, not a clerk.

At the animal hospital, I kept the exam rooms stocked, even though I worked only 2 days a week. Everything would always be empty when I came in on Saturday mornings. I was also the only one to clean out behind the main desk. Have you ever seen how big a dust bunny can get in a week? The first time I did it, I filled (packed) a standard office sized waste basket!

[Imogene]

Chesterfield: Being the only one out front working a lot of the time on Tuesday mornings, I would be the only one to update our Now Coming board, back when we had it.

Chesterfield/West County: I was the only one who would do the porn movie pulls. No idea why it made everyone else squirm, but it would usually get left until I came in for a shift. I'd have it done in a half hour or so. Of course, what made it extremely difficult was the section was never, ever, EVER, alphabetized, no matter how hard I lobbied to get the manager to let me do it.

Target( the whole three weeks I was there...): Baling trash. The flow team would load up shopping carts with trash from stocking shelves, and leave them in the trailer until I had nothing else to do, apparently, and they'd have me do a whole trailer full of trash, on my own, forced to listen to country music (because the loudest assh*le on the eam apparently got to 'choose' the radio station every morning, and it never was turned off.

McD's? : Wiping the walls behind the counter. Seriously. I was the only one who could reach high enough to get the entire wall.

[lordlundar]

Wreck stuff. No joke there.

At my company, when certain items have been on the shelf too long or we're getting updated versions (software mainly) the old stuff is what's called Destroy In Field, or DIF.

For my store this is my task. I gather the items on the list, double check the counts, have a manager move them to variance, then I get to be creative.

I had a tub of strategy guides that were DIF, so I took the tub into the janitor's room and soaked them! If the water didn't trash them, then the freezing temperatures sure did.

[AFpheonix]

Others have been better about doing stuff that it seemed like I was doing all by myself, but there's still some stuff that it seems like only I and one night pharmacist ever handle, like pulling the outdated drugs.

To someone's credit, it looks like someone went through and marked and pulled SOME stuff ahead of me, but they weren't very thorough, so I still had a lot to do. Also, no one ever calibrated the scales except for myself and the evening pharmacist.

I appear to be the only one that handles the prescriptions that have no refills and go to doctors with no fax numbers. I've seen those go for DAYS if I don't handle it, despite me hollering at the newer techs about it. I also have a very small time window in which to do it too, since my shift doesn't start til 3 or 3:30 most days, and most offices close at 5. When the lazy overnight pharmacist is on, I'm pretty much the only one who refaxes correspondence to doctors on anything, be it needing refills or changes or questions on stuff. I also seem to be the only one who goes through the Third Party queue thoroughly, and fix stuff that should have been patently obvious. Same story on stuff that had been ordered and not shown up. Hello morning shifters, you handle the primary order of the day and are in when Cardinal is open, why should I always have to check to see what's going on, leave a note in the computer and a slip of paper to remind you to call? I don't get it.

When we got the new Yuyama machine, we pulled out the old Baker cells and pretty much had to do a complete reset of the pharmacy because the Yuyama holds about 200 drugs compared to the Baker's 60. (I still miss the Baker cells though. God, so much less drama and fewer calls to tech support with those things). We also had to take out an entire set of shelving to make room for it. Guess who did the reset, almost entirely by herself? Yep. I did get some help redoing the fast rack over the filling counter, but that was about it. The nice overnight guy redid the liquids and reconstitutibles, but he must have been pretty tired when he did it because stuff was all over the place, so I reset that too.

For a long time, I was the only one filing the hardcopies for completed prescriptions, or going through to reconcile the prescriptions that had been entered but not yet filled. Now someone else might do it occasionally, mostly because there's more scripts ending up in there that haven't been typed (sigh....new interns that haven't been taught how to be extremely OCD, although I SHOW them my method to keep that very thing from happening, and I guess that just never sinks in)

With the exception of the nice overnight pharmacist, I am the only one who will put gobacks away. Anytime I don't close and the lazy overnight is working, I notice that there's twice as much crap in the basket next to the door. Why this doesn't drive other people nuts is beyond me.

I am the only one who checks outdates on stuff like diabetic test strips. When we had all the cold meds, I set up the shelving and arranged the meds in numerical order according to the cards. Some well-meaning sims guy tried to come back and do it according to the official plano, but I stopped him. Honestly, it's not like the customers could see that rack anyways, might as well make it so we can find the damn drugs quickly and easily. I was also the only one who ever stocked those or pulled outdates on them.

[Discourtesy Clerk]

I am the only one to ever clean out the sink in the utility room. That's where we dump all the liquid items that are no longer fit to sell. Only problem...people just leave the containers in there, full, rather than dumping them out and tossing the container. Takes all of 30 seconds. Yet every time I come in, there's about five gallons of warm, leaky milk and the occasional busted six-pack of sticky-ass soda festering in there. One time I came in, and there were (I'm not kidding, I counted) THIRTEEN different items sitting in there waiting to be dumped. Other things I've found in there: hair in the drain, rotten food, solid garbage, broken glass...and the infamous Sludge Monster. Imagine a huge 3'x3'x1' sink filled to the top with black sludge, held in by a gigantic clump of hair and soggy rotten produce in the drain.

Remind me again why I volunteer to do this?