October 19, 2013
The second week is OVER – only 9
weeks to go!!! This was our first full
40 hour week over a 4 day period. That
standing, squatting, scanning, bending, lifting, carrying, pushing for 10 hours
a day gets pretty wearing long about 4 pm in the afternoon. But we survived it. Treated ourselves to pints out and some
jalapeno cheese fries at the Frontier Fun Center which happens to be right next
door to our RV park.
We muse about the differences in
this type of work – private industry where every minute that an employee works
is counted and measured – versus government industry which we both used to work
in.
Back then, nobody ever counted the
minutes of your break or how many times you went to the bathroom. Oh yeah, they expected production but it
wasn’t fedback to you every day in terms of a percentage. You could actually “relax” at times, have a
conversation with your co-workers.
Shoot the shit.
At the Big A, its run-run-run from
the time you punch the clock. First its
morning “stand up” – a meeting of your department where they remind you of
safety factors, show you yesterday’s (or the current days) production
percentages, how many products are coming in that day,and generally give you
the “rah, rah, go get ‘em” speech. Then
we stretch. Yes, someone up on a
catwalk leads the stretching – we move our heads to the left, to the right, bend
our hands and fingers in unnatural ways, circle our hips, squat, etc. This is to limber us up for what’s to
come. Believe me, by the end of the
day, you are wanting to stretch you’re so sore and bound up!
What kind of people work at
A? Apparently all kinds. Big, small, tall, short, fat, thin, young,
old, middle aged, women, men, probably transsexuals too, blondes, redheads,
bluehairs, purple hairs, shocking pink hairs, blacks, Hispanics, Asians, One of our supervisors is from
Argentina! There are a lot of work
campers right now – mostly older folks who want to supplement their incomes –
but there’s also a lot of younger people, some who have been with the company
up to 10 years. We wonder WHY do people
work here when they could work…..hmmm, at a casino, fast food, gas
station??? OK, I get it – this is one
of the best employment ops around this area and it actually pays about 1/3
more than minimum wage.
If you think of it as someone
paying you to get in shape….well, it’s a good deal.
9 more weeks to go. This next week we are going to do a day of
OVERTIME!
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