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[Jul. 18th, 2008|03:30 pm] |
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Hell must have frozen over as well, I'm posting. Guess i've been a bit busy in the past six months, hasn't really felt that long, but the LJ doesn't lie and it appear i've updated twice since I started working. Well let me recap the long and twisted road and maybe attempt to justify why i've just been "too busy" to post.
Well January 21st I started in the inserting department with about 6 crazy women, not that all women are crazy these women literally are crazy, which made for very colourful and adventurous days of putting together flyers and papers.
Some time about 2 months back now I guess, I was promoted to floor captain, a sort of shift leader role, though as luck would have it, the bindery operator smashed his hand in the machine two days later, and i was moved to bindery to fill in for him. Luckily for him, i'm a quick learner and well he was really lazy so I was effectively doing his job for him in under a week and well he just sat on his ass. While this was going on, he was demanding more money for a wage, and well was throwing all sorts of fits, as managment still expected him to do some work, while his "soft tissue" damage healed. Well it was so stressful that he left on vacation and they brought in a pressman to be supervisor in bindery, I was left to run the bindery as Supervisor and operator 2 where unable to keep the machine going. come on people this is not rocket science.
During that week, new supervisor guy, changed many things, most good, in order to make the department better, like cleaning out the place, as the paper dust tends to pile up quickly, making the department clock out for lunch, and going so far as to turn off the internet except for e-mail in the department. Well all of this was too much for mr crushed hand, so he quickly quit.... a week later, bindery minion number 2 quit as it was the first time in a year that he had a full 80 hours plus 2 hours of over time on his check and this was just too much. So he quit, leaving new supervisor and myself to run it, no problem... well a big job, about 150 thousand books came in, in addition to our regular stuff, so 12 and 13 hour days were needed, well new Sup, just couldn't handle the stress put on him, so he quit a week or so later. Leaving me all alone in the department with only about 2 months of working on the machine. Lets just say the next month or so was, very stressful, so much that i lost about 10lbs and started to have nightmares about work.
Well after talking with bossman, he brought in an operator from another bindery to work part time and educate me, (or rather he laughed at bossman when he was shown the wage and instead opted for part time as he has an expensive car to pay for) well the clouds parted and the flood gates of knowledge opened and the machine was running like i had only imagined. And ever since I've been dealing with a back logg of work, hence the 12-18 hour days i've been working, coupled with spending a few thousand dollars on new parts to rehibalitate the poor machine, the last operator didn't believe in maintenance or lubrication, not good things for machinary or for husbands.
So now after all of this excitement in the fast paced world of printing and publishing I'm finally able to keep my head above the water and maybe have enough time to check my email more then once a week, and my body has adapted so that I don't just eat and sleep in addition to work, hell I've lost 50lbs since the start of the year. And broken into the world of lower level management, as soon as the paper work goes through, with the damn government, i'm officially a supervisor, hell it may even get me a shirt with my name on it, if that doesn't scream ego trip I don't know what does.
So thats about whats been going on with me, in addition to some more home renovations here and there, some auto repair, our one year wedding anniversary, a few holidays, and well i think that about sums it up, I promise dear LJ that I will attempt to update you more often, and not fall off the face of the planet, well maybe just once a week.
Ohhh on a total geeky side note, Tim introduced me to the soap opera that is Babylon 5, omg I'm so sucked in.... thats it. |
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