Tobias Dorian
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There’s always this strange tension right before the result loads. Even when I know it’s just a game and the outcome is random, my heart still skips a beat. Win or lose, that second of suspense kind of pulls you in — like flipping a coin, but with a digital drumroll.
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Totally hear you. I relocated from Santa Cruz to Brooklyn last fall, and it was one of those “this might be a disaster or the best thing I’ve ever done” situations. At first I was determined to cut costs and do most of it myself—rented a U-Haul, started packing weeks in advance, got boxes from grocery stores. But somewhere between realizing I couldn’t fit my bed frame through my apartment door and misjudging how long it would take to cross Nevada, I gave up. I ended up hiring pros halfway through the process. What helped me a lot was doing some research and finding companies that actually specialize in long-distance moves. I came across this link about moving from california to new york and it broke down the process way better than any blog post I’d read. They had tips on when to schedule the move (avoid peak season if you can!), how to deal with insurance stuff, and even what to do if your delivery’s delayed. I also learned to ask the movers about shuttle fees ahead of time—turns out getting your stuff to a walk-up in Brooklyn is not as straightforward as you’d think. Just having someone else handle the logistics took so much stress off my shoulders.
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Hi! I understand your situation very well, because we had almost the same thing – a cafe at a fitness center, 12 people, all with different modes. Personally, I was looking for a normal system for quite a long time, because Excel just couldn’t handle it – they get confused, forget, overlap, and if someone asks to replace it in two days – that’s it, it’s all chaos. We implemented https://shifton.com/shift-scheduling last fall and I still think it’s one of the best decisions we’ve made all year. Now about the schedule generator work: it doesn’t work perfectly, but it’s definitely better than I expected. The main thing is to set up the input data correctly. There you can actually set a bunch of parameters: desired working hours, number of hours per week, whether the employee has other shifts, breaks, days off, and even wishes like “don’t put me next to Vasya” (a real case, by the way). It takes all this into account, and the coolest thing is that you can make several generation options if you don’t like the first one. At first, yes, there were some oddities: for example, the system somehow assigned a person four night shifts in a row, although he had a limit of “no more than two in a row”. But this can be solved – you just fine-tune it a little more and recreate it. In two or three weeks, we completely adapted, now I just need to enter changes once a week – who is on vacation, who is sick – and update the schedule. The system itself shows conflicts if someone is overloaded or not getting enough hours, and offers solutions. Sometimes we manually correct if we need to assign someone specific, but in general, the generator does 80% of the work for us.