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

• 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

• 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)

• 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.

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!