Agaric Anarchy
You thought I'd update yesterday? Haha, April Fools!
Okay, seriously, it's been a busy week. It appears that we also have retards on the other side of the supply chain. One of our distributors was scheduled to send a couple of trucks over to pick up a huge shipment of mushrooms Tuesday morning. As you'd expect, not a single driver came that day.
So what happens when you're running a mushroom farm that churns out a thousand cases of fresh picked mushrooms a day, and none of it is going out the shipping dock? It's like the Apocalypse, only mushroomier.
Our coolers are already filled up, so we had to line up all 32 pallets of mushrooms along the main hallway. The owner/president of the farm, the Mushroom Monarch himself, saw what was happening and was pretty pissed off at the distributor for not dispatching their trucks as scheduled. Never had I seen so many fresh mushrooms lined up to the horizon.
We phoned the crap out of the distributor, and found out that they had only two trucks scheduled to be available that day. Two. And they were both tied up on hours-long trips to pick up smaller shipments of mushrooms from far-away farms. They were too dumb to look at our harvesting forecast, a copy of which they have, and see that we're scheduled to pick a big load for them. (I'd call them incompetent, but I'd be giving them too much credit by implying that they have intelligence, but not aptitude.) They were too dumb to figure out that they should put their priority on us, the bigger and closer supplier, so that they can get all the mushrooms they need to sell sooner, with time being of the essence on a perishable product.
At the end of the day, the trucks finally came, and we made a thorough check through the whole mushroom shipment to see if they were still fresh. Luckily, it was a cold day, so the mushrooms were still in surprisingly good condition. We knew if this was summer, all the mushrooms would be trashed, and the distributor would have to compensate us for the screw-up as per the contract. Although we were financially covered for any loss, it would still be heartbreaking to see so many fresh delicious mushrooms go to the garbage, when they would have been feeding many starving, poor suburbanites.
So that's the latest episode, from this hectic week in the ultradynamic, cutthroat world of the mushroom industry. I'm glad I could cap it off with a trip to the gym, and to afterwards make up for all that healthy exercise I did, some all-you-can-eat pizza with one of my best buddies at the Flying Wedge Pizza down the mountain (CAD$10 plus bottomless drink? How the hell are they making any money!?!?).
I was certainly relieved that my pizza wasn't short on mushrooms.
Okay, seriously, it's been a busy week. It appears that we also have retards on the other side of the supply chain. One of our distributors was scheduled to send a couple of trucks over to pick up a huge shipment of mushrooms Tuesday morning. As you'd expect, not a single driver came that day.
So what happens when you're running a mushroom farm that churns out a thousand cases of fresh picked mushrooms a day, and none of it is going out the shipping dock? It's like the Apocalypse, only mushroomier.
Our coolers are already filled up, so we had to line up all 32 pallets of mushrooms along the main hallway. The owner/president of the farm, the Mushroom Monarch himself, saw what was happening and was pretty pissed off at the distributor for not dispatching their trucks as scheduled. Never had I seen so many fresh mushrooms lined up to the horizon.
We phoned the crap out of the distributor, and found out that they had only two trucks scheduled to be available that day. Two. And they were both tied up on hours-long trips to pick up smaller shipments of mushrooms from far-away farms. They were too dumb to look at our harvesting forecast, a copy of which they have, and see that we're scheduled to pick a big load for them. (I'd call them incompetent, but I'd be giving them too much credit by implying that they have intelligence, but not aptitude.) They were too dumb to figure out that they should put their priority on us, the bigger and closer supplier, so that they can get all the mushrooms they need to sell sooner, with time being of the essence on a perishable product.
At the end of the day, the trucks finally came, and we made a thorough check through the whole mushroom shipment to see if they were still fresh. Luckily, it was a cold day, so the mushrooms were still in surprisingly good condition. We knew if this was summer, all the mushrooms would be trashed, and the distributor would have to compensate us for the screw-up as per the contract. Although we were financially covered for any loss, it would still be heartbreaking to see so many fresh delicious mushrooms go to the garbage, when they would have been feeding many starving, poor suburbanites.
So that's the latest episode, from this hectic week in the ultradynamic, cutthroat world of the mushroom industry. I'm glad I could cap it off with a trip to the gym, and to afterwards make up for all that healthy exercise I did, some all-you-can-eat pizza with one of my best buddies at the Flying Wedge Pizza down the mountain (CAD$10 plus bottomless drink? How the hell are they making any money!?!?).
I was certainly relieved that my pizza wasn't short on mushrooms.
posted by Cosmic Ocean at 10:55 PM
4 Comments:
Dammit! You keep mentioning this Flying Wedge all-you-can-eat deal! Now I'm gonna HAVE TO buy a plane ticket to go home just for pizza! You'll pig out with me, right?
At any occasion, my gluttonous comrade.
'This hectic week in the ultradynamic, cutthroat world of the mushroom industry'. I love that.
Haha, thanks. It's unbelievable how crazy everything is when you start a business. I've found a new appreciation for entrepreneurs.
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