I use to work fast food, and I did it for about 6 years. The thing that was the biggest pain in the butt was scheduling. Every fast food place that I worked in did their Restaurant scheduling with paper and pencil. That is a pain. We would have to give the managers a piece of paper every time we wanted off or when we wanted to switch shifts. The other thing that was a huge pain was that people would be constantly calling to find out their schedules, or they would stop in over rush hour to get their schedule. Sometimes, a shift would change hands so many times, you had no idea who was coming in. Plus, it was super easy to manipulate the schedule since it was in pencil.

It has been a while, but I am glad to see that somebody was that there was a need that needed to be filled here. Schedulefly allows managers to create and edit schedules online. The schedule is then emailed or text messaged to the employees. Employees can also check their schedule over at Facebook too! People who need to trade shifts can do so online too! This is software that is desperately needed in the fast food industry where the majority of your employees are online and have cell phones. There is a 30 day free trial for companies to try it out, so they have nothing to lose. After the free trial, there is no contract to sign and you pay month to month. The cost depends on the number of employees you have.

If you are running a business (and it doesn’t have to be fast food either), this is software that you should definitely look into. I can see it definitely saving you time and money.

I wrote about this wonderful item over at My Thoughts, Ideas, and Ramblings too, but my new Simmons Beautyrest Mattress rocks. If you are in the market for a new mattress, definitely look at these. I did not realize how badly we needed new mattress. I was constantly waking up with a backache from our other bed. I was wondering if I need to take some diet pills to help lose some weight. However, our other mattress was about seven and a half years old. Since we have gotten the new mattress, I have not had a backache since. You literally just melt right into the mattress. It is so soft and so comfortable. I wish I was laying there right now. Oh wait, I have a laptop — I can be laying there right now!

Aquaphor Baby Healing Ointment is one of those products that you must have when you have kids. Not only does it work for them, it works for you too. This is a product that is suppose to help dry skin which it works great on. However, there are a couple of extra uses for it also. My son right now is teething and drooling something fierce. The saliva is constantly running down his chin causing his skin to break out. Before he goes to bed at night, a dab a bit of this on his chin, and it clears up most of his break out by morning. I don’t know exactly why it works, but it does. This also works great on windburn on cheeks and dry skin anywhere on your body (for adults and kids). It is a little more expensive than regular lotion, but is definitely worth it. I just wish they made a PMS relief product that works just as well.