Pick, Pack & Panic

Welcome to Night Factory Novelty Distribution. Congratulations on your new position. This is a normal job. You will work nights, you will fill orders, and your workplace is completely safe. Please read the following before your first shift.Section 1 — Stock intake Stock is delivered through the ceiling. Open the valve and thousands of products arrive on the floor, every one of them physically simulated. They form a pile, and the pile behaves like sand: it slopes, it slides, and pulling a unit from the bottom has consequences for the units above it. If the floor fills, the pipe will clog. This is not a malfunction. Clear the floor.Section 2 — Orders and measurement The machine prints a slip; you hang it on the board. Each customer specifies a length, a silhouette and a colour, and each customer is important to us. Locate the matching unit in the pile. Do not guess. Size matters: lay the unit in the bench, pull the tape, read the number. Measure every unit before it is packed.Section 3 — Packing and dispatch Select a carton. Add padding. Close the lid. Tape it. Attach the slip. Every order ships in discreet packaging. Always. Then feed the carton to the scanner: green means paid, yellow means paid less, red means take it back and think about what you did.Section 4 — Product handling Please handle every product with care. Our products are completely normal. Some have features: a propeller, confetti, music, a rocket. Products are inert and do not move on their own, except when they do. There is a hoop in the corner; throwing product into it is permitted and compensated.Section 5 — Facilities and advancement Between shifts you may rearrange the warehouse: shelves, sorting racks, carts, bins, lighting. Walking distance is measured. The pile's footprint is not available for construction. Cartons, padding and tape are your responsibility; emergency supplies are available at emergency prices. Perform well and the company will provide bulk shipments by truck, a VIP stand, a workshop in which to produce your own, and a vending machine. Gold units occasionally appear in the pile. Report them to no one. Ship them.Streamer Mode For colleagues who work with an audience, one switch replaces every unit with a stand-in of identical measurements: teddy bears, zucchinis, microphones. Orders, numbers and duties are unchanged.Keep the products' morale high. Good luck.