Walt Croft
Owner
Runs the place the way his father did, with a memory for every customer's account and no patience for excuses. He will also drive an order out himself at nine at night if it matters to someone.
Croft & Sons Feed Supply · Elder Valley
Croft & Sons Feed Supply
Croft & Sons sits at the crossroads: fuel stop on one side, feed store on the other. You work the counter, the yard and the van, sometimes all three before lunch. Orders come in by phone, by note pinned to the board, or by someone leaning through the hatch saying what they always get. The job is half lifting and half listening — getting the right bags on the right pallet for the right farm, on roads too narrow to turn around on if you get it wrong.
- Elder Valley
- Agricultural supply · Yard and counter
- 3 connected Workdays
Team size
3–4 people on a normal day
Coverage
One driver, one counter, forty miles of road
Pace
Quiet mornings, tight delivery windows
Who you work with
The same people, shift after shift. Nobody here is the villain and nobody is always right.
Denny
Yard lead
Been loading trucks here nineteen years and can eyeball a pallet weight to the pound. Cuts corners on the safety stuff he's decided doesn't apply to him, and expects you to keep up without being told twice.
Arla
Counter and orders
Runs the phone, the register and the bulletin board, and knows which regulars mean exactly what they say and which ones don't. Quietly keeps a second job doing books for two other businesses in the valley.
Reuben
Driver
Delivers to farms up single-track roads most people wouldn't take a car down, let alone a loaded van. Easygoing until something on the load isn't right, and then suddenly very exact.
The Workdays
In order. What you decide early comes back later. Accuracy · Reliability · Teamwork
- 01The Wrong LoadPlayableMonday · 7:52 AMReuben calls from forty minutes out. The order you loaded isn't the order on the ticket. Someone at Marsh Farm is waiting on feed that won't grow the right calves.AccuracyAccountabilityProblem-solving
- 02A Slow MorningPlayableTuesday · 8:10 AMNobody's called in an order in an hour. An older customer wants to talk more than he wants feed, and the bulletin board needs sorting. None of it feels like real work, and all of it is.AttentivenessTime managementProfessionalism
- 03Grab That EndPlayableWednesday · 6:40 AMDenny wants a heavy pallet moved by hand instead of using the loader, and he's already halfway through doing it. Reuben's still thinking about the Marsh Farm mix-up, and Fenn's neighbor came in asking about the driving scheme.Safety judgmentSpeaking upWeighing pressure