Talk:Merit Badges (Thrift Store)
I made this Luiz 21:40, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
Pre-pre-beta categories
(This is the ongoing repository for tasks we want the merit badge system to explicitly cover)
- Wrapping (making stuff available for sale)
- Outbox (taking stuff out of the store; trash, recycling, adv testing, receiving, extra boxes, free table)
- Presort (simple sort)
- Sort (more advanced)
- Putting stuff away
- Pricing
- Cash Handling and Till
- Sales
- Dealing with crappy situations
- Answering the phone (?)
- Restocking
- Cleaning, tidying, and makin' pretty
we shouldn't forget to rewrite "running the store" if this gets anywhere
Task Dump
(Sorting above tasks into bins representing the level of difficultly)
Easy Tasks
- Wrapping
- Greeting
- Sweeping
- Neatening
Medium Tasks
- Sorting
- Stocking
- Selling Gizmos (not computers
- Customer service
Hard Tasks
- Pricing
- Answering the phone
- Cashiering
- Selling Computers
Putting out brush fires
(its own task, category, and merit badge w/ yoda)
Animals for Merit Badges
- Tobacco Hornworm Pupate
- Brine shrimp
- Banana Slug
- Gopher
- Armadillo
- Bobcat
- Lemur
- Wolverine
- Bonobo
- Yoda
Tony's Thoughts
I envision a similar system to this, but I've been thinking about it a bit differently.
I see this as a four-tiered path, based on the cub scouts' tiers of
- cub
- wolf
- bear
- weeblo
What we call them is irrelevant, really, but for time being I've been thinking of the tiers in terms of inanimate objects:
- mouse ball
- basic tasks and general support of store operations
- basic stuff (volunteer agreement, get on email list, etc.)
- triage of incoming stuff
- putting away triaged stuff
- very basic pricing
- neatening
- taking stuff from the store to receiving/AT
- gathering basic items from areas in FG (keyboards, mice, monitors, cards, power supplies)
- stocking materials such as paper, labels, tape, shrink-wrap
- basic tasks and general support of store operations
- price gun
- intoduction to customer service, till operations
- pricing more items
- printing from dead trees
- basic till/cc operations
- basic customer service training
- stocking systems and tardis items
- intoduction to customer service, till operations
- abacus
- continuation of training in same areas
- pricing systems
- researching oddballs
- advanced till operations and closing procedures
- advanced cust. service (selling systems, handling difficult customers, phone)
- continuation of training in same areas
- The Whistle
- the equivalent of knighting someone. Someone with a whistle can be scheduled to work a shift, solo.
- Needs to demonstrate diplomacy,
- project management
- system-level improvements
- documentation, etc.
- the equivalent of knighting someone. Someone with a whistle can be scheduled to work a shift, solo.
Each tier would involve earning a set of merit badges, each representative of an area of training.
There would be required badges, and a set of elective badges at each tier. To advance to the next tier, the volunteer would need to receive all of the required (duh) and a set number of electives.
Electives could include things such helpful, but non-critical tasks as:
- making ethernet cables
- burning distro cds
- pckging mouse balls, etc.
implementation
Each trainee would have a sheet posted in a public place to display their progress.
The details of specific badges/requirments would live on the wiki.
each merit badge and tier earned would be recorded on the paper sheet, via applying a sticker.
advancements of tier levels would involve a ceremony and a trinket. Woo-Hoo!