Morning, Gents! All's well on my end. I start my new temp job tomorrow. You know, while I'm happy to be getting out of the house and working, I'm actually not looking forward to giving up all my free time....not that I've done a whole lot, but I've done it well and will miss it.
At least I'm working. Outside that things are going well. Still trying to plan a trip to the World, though I know the Mrs. won't want to take a trip because we can't afford it, which, right now I'll agree with, but that can't stop me from planning, now does it?
I love planning trips.
Survived the first night. The machinery/ technology is absolutely amazing. The terminology & training, not so much. Basically, I watch and try to memorize everything. I've greased the machines, loaded some of the product, cleared some of the jams, and know how to disengage the safety alarms.
So far, everyone is nice and says it takes awhile to learn everything.
Congrats on surviving the first night. And it usually does take a while to learn everything, so give it time.
Maybe. Where there is smoke, there's fire? Who knows.
Sorry to hear it. Hope it works out.
Thanks.
I typed that wrong - 19/2. Yes, they are working 19 straight days with 2 days off, which means OT and double pay OT after so many consecutive days. The 2,2,3 is designed to prevent that, and keep the line running. 2 days on, 2 days off, 3 days on, 2 days off, etc for 12 hour shifts. Basically, you get every other weekend off. I wouldn't imagine they will pay OT to train me, but who knows. I'll stick with it a while, but not for long working that many days.
I kind of thought that's what those numbers meant, but had to ask. 19 days on? Wow! Hey, if you can do it, just think of the pay checks. I know, that would be a tough schedule for anyone to pull. Not sure I could pull that.
She's been home since COVID, and said she was way more productive at home than the office. She said the biggest difficulty was not having a permanent place, and moving stuff around the house to different work areas.
My friend says the same thing about being more productive at home. As for the permanent place to work, that is tough.
Probably. I'm not worried about it. She's an adult and I've done the best I could do raising her. I might think they are too young, but that's there decision.
That's all you can do, raise them right and let them make the decisions and hope it's the right one.
A good friend dated his girlfriend in high school, thru college, and got married after grad school. So, maybe 7 years? They divorced 2 years into their marriage. I worked with my wife for 2 months after she was hired. We dated for 9 months before I proposed, married 5 months after that, and it's been 20 years. Who knows what is the right way.
Exactly! One never knows the right path. Though they say that you know who that person is when you see/meet them. I knew with my wife. We dated two years in college and one year after college before I asked her to marry me, and then one year of being engaged. We've been married now 15 years.
I know, right?! So T'd off when I found out that I had been kicked off the insurance, especially after I was told I'd have it.
Yep...though I don't use that card all that often, only when I really need it.
You put that in writing? Won't they kick you out of the country? Or force you to get a gun?
I know, don't know what I was doing when I put that in writing. However, I do support the right to bear arms, and will defend that right. I do need to get one, though. Not sure if the Mrs. will approve of me dropping a few hundred on a gun when I'm trying to drop a few hundred on a new camera lens. Decision! Decisions!
Happy Wednesday. Most of the machines were running yesterday, so I was able to run them and learn quite a bit. I can't guess how much sauce I ran, but conservative estimate is in the 10 thousand jar range. Downside is the repetition. Perhaps the money will change my mind, but I don't see this as a long term career option.
Are you in a position to listen to some music? Get some headphones, plug in and listen to some tunes, or an audio book...maybe that'll help with the repetition. Machines are loud, so maybe there's some headphones that you can get that are blue tooth enabled and noise cancelling.
It's supposed to work that way. A herd of jars are automatically loaded into the tray. A jam may be that a jar is turned sideways or upside down, then I have to stop the machine and manually fix the jar. The challenge is the longer the stop, then the more time/ money is lost vs not stopping & losing product to breakage based on orientation.
I can see how that can be challenging.
You could come visit me and run my neighborhood. I'll even give you a morocycle escort.
Now there's an incentive.
Thanks man. Unfortunately as I joined through my DVC profile page to get the discount, they just refunded me, so I'm out the race as an international, as it seems to be beyond the wit of Disney to ship something over to me. Apart from my dues bill, that seems to turn up just fine. I haven't cancelled my flight yet,
its just if the missus will cover the whole kids thing for me to go on a a jolly. I don't think your motorcycle goes that slow
. If I build up enough good boy points between now and Jan, who knows. It was always a long shot to get to FL in Jan, but we'll see.
I'm hoping my wife tells me to grab the DD and head down without her at some point...though I'm not holding my breath.
Morning folks.
Bad/scary news yesterday, and I only learned about it by sheer luck. Was browsing headlines and came across an article. I stopped... "wait a minute... could that be..." Yup. My company is laying off 14% of its workforce and closing stations across the country. The two biggest are the Halifax one and the Winnipeg one. (Luckily, there are two separate business functions/buildings and only one is closing... and not mine.) So for now, I'm safe, but I also know it wouldn't take too much more of a push to close my division down and amalgamate it into another city's division. Keeping fingers crossed and holding breath.
Dude! That's not a cool way to find out. Glad to hear you still have a job.
. Thanks Mark for all your help.
