And it expects to double the number of warehouses in Britain in the next three years. In the past two weeks, it has taken on an extra 15,000 agency staff in Britain. Christmas is its Vietnam – a test of its corporate mettle and the kind of challenge that would make even the most experienced distribution supply manager break down and weep. Amazon took 3.5m orders on a single day last year. And this is just one of eight warehouses across the country. Tomorrow, 2 December – the busiest online shopping day of the year – that figure will be closer to 450,000. On my second day, the manager tells us that we alone have picked and packed 155,000 items in the past 24 hours. I work mostly in the outsize "non-conveyable" section, the home of diabetic dog food, and bio-organic vegetarian dog food, and obese dog food of 52in TVs, and six-packs of water shipped in from Fiji, and oversized sex toys – the 18in double dong (regular-sized sex toys are shelved in the sortables section). To spend 10½ hours a day picking items off the shelves is to contemplate the darkest recesses of our consumerist desires, the wilder reaches of stuff, the things that money can buy: a One Direction charm bracelet, a dog onesie, a cat scratching post designed to look like a DJ's record deck, a banana slicer, a fake twig. And if you can't possibly imagine it, well, Amazon sells it too. ![]() There is space, it turns out, for an awful lot of crap.īut then there are more than 100m items on its UK website: if you can possibly imagine it, Amazon sells it. It is a quarter of a mile from end to end. The warehouse is 800,000 square feet, or, in what is Amazon's standard unit of measurement, the size of 11 football pitches (its Dunfermline warehouse, the UK's largest, is 14 football pitches). The second is a massive pink plastic dildo. Your Windows version is in English but by setting your Region and Language format to Dutch, the names of the days will be displayed in Dutch as well.īy setting the language to an English format (and possibly additionally changing the formatting options in Control Panel), you can maintain a fully English working environment and use the options in Outlook to match the week numbering system of your region.įor detailed instructions about how to alter the Region and Language format in Windows see: Change language of calendar (days and months).T he first item I see in Amazon's Swansea warehouse is a package of dog nappies. In those cases the names of the days will be translated to the language that is set in your regional settings, creating a mixed language environment which often is not desired. This method is useful when you are using a language of Windows that doesn’t match with the language of your regional settings. You can then use the settings in Outlook to overrule the week numbering system. You can change your regional settings (language, location, date notation, etc…) in the Windows Control Panel or the “Time & Language” section of the Settings App in Windows 10. The initial settings for Outlook are determined by the regional settings of your Windows version. Whether or not you should select the corresponding option depends on the level of acceptance of that standard in your sector/area. Note: In the UK, as of 2004, according to the British Standards, the official first day of the week is Monday. If you live in Europe or want to follow the ISO standards, you most likely need to set these options to: If you live in the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand or the UK, you most likely need to set these options to: Verify that your “First day of week” and “First week of year” settings are correct. Tools-> Options…-> button Calendar Options… You can configure these settings by going to: There are 2 settings that determine the week numbers that are listed in the calendar: The week numbering system of Outlook can be modified to match the week numbering system which is used by your country or region. There are several week numbering systems in use for the normal (Gregorian) calendar. ![]() ![]() How can this be and how can I correct this? I’ve added week numbers to my Calendar but they don’t seem to match with my desk calendar which I believe is correct.
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