August 21, 2011

• let me bore you with stalag problems...

  once again, due to a heavy thunderstorm, the cab floor carpet on the passenger side of my shrimpy truck is soaked.

  a couple things about the stalag; first, more rumors about changing to an 8 hour shift (maybe because of the guy who lost his leg, or they aren't able to keep and hold peeps on 12'ers...or both?), secant;  we have a person who is supposed to handle everything (let's call her 'second in command') including production handling, yet it's common place to run out of supplies due to her being busy with 'first and last piece' test parts, and chasing alarms, leaving the next thing down the line starved, etc.. I suggest to our line support that if she's too burdened with everything else under the sun, that we should, at least, have one person who's offline make sure everyone is well stocked the first and last hour of the day.  she simply reiterates that it's her baby, and leaves it at that.  meanwhile, I can't put out more product, so I clean for the rest of the hour.  the same thing happens the last hour of the day, but instead of cleaning, I take it upon myself to restock every work station, so B crew doesn't have the same hassles. I think I'll do this everyday that I'm offline and run out of stock...and thirdly; we have a rotation.  everyone rotates to the next station every hour, on the hour, but sometimes when they change to a different part number online some of the work stations aren't required, bumping someone offline to clean (or whatever).  Ohmar got nasty today because he wasn't in a cleaning mood for an hour and insisted on being at a station when it wasn't his turn.  he pissed some peeps off, including line support, who now threatens that we may have to be assigned to a work station and be there the whole twelve hours. she has no idea how this will destroy morale. thanks Ohmar, for being the uncooperative dickweed that you are and ruining things for the rest of us.  it's gonna piss certain peeps off if they get assigned a station, say, that has a broken fan (there's a couple of those), or is simply a harder station to run...anyway, enough garbage about work.

  after work, a quick pooperdog walk, some beers, "that Mitchell and Webb look" comedy sketch show on Netflix, then a couple of good bad movies.  first, "the good, the bad, and the weird" (a subtitled Chinese modern day cowboy movie), and a Rutger Hower movie called "a hobo with a shotgun".  both entertaining B movies, although, I fell asleep during the end of the second one, so I'll revisit that on another night, right now, I'm too sleepy to re-watch it.

  must sleep. I have to be alive and awake for tomorrow nights shift *fart*

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