11-05-2012, 09:30 PM
i dont think anyone has it in for me at work. i think they are a pretty decent bunch of guys.
i was second senior guy at my last job (which i still work) at about thirteen years. thats chump change here with guys pushing forty+ years. i took a couple pennies an hour cut in pay to chance a seven raise if i can make the team.
today was a weird day. its not like i talk to anyone at work about the topic of this thread but the production manager kinda oddly out of nowhere that the guy the had me paired with was "no ball of fire."
then i noticed the president out on the floor and i was thinking i cant believe he is actually picking up garbage off the floor, which i thought was rather cool. then he was headed back to the office and saw me and rather went out of his way to come over and he tells me i hear from so and so youre doing well. i tell him that i know i need to do better (which i do, not because my trainer says so but because i think i should be to.)
im sure im to blame in my learning curve but more and more im looking at someone else. i mean he is a good guy and he is not playing boss he is just not a teacher like im not a teacher.
i was abandoning my running machine all day today, once i was in the can and my trainer was there and i asked him as a joke "who was watching the machines? " he said "you're running them?" "yes, just like you told me to."
he balked on that and said he never told me that. i just walked away, as he constantly tells me i need to have something in the machine while im away doing other stuff. i think its dumb on a machine without stops, i think its dumb on a machine with stops....matter of fact when they were showing me around the shop before i was hired i made that comment about this guy running his machine and being away.
i dont believe a factory is my life's calling, maybe i dont have one. im curious though if i can make the cut. it doesnt matter to me if i dont as im giving it all i got and you cant do more than that.
one good thing about it is that this new job has upped my interests in machining on my own equipment!
THIS IS LIKE A DEAR DIARY THREAD, I DONT EXPECT ANYONE TO ACTUALLY HELP ME SOLVE THE RIDDLE.
i was second senior guy at my last job (which i still work) at about thirteen years. thats chump change here with guys pushing forty+ years. i took a couple pennies an hour cut in pay to chance a seven raise if i can make the team.
today was a weird day. its not like i talk to anyone at work about the topic of this thread but the production manager kinda oddly out of nowhere that the guy the had me paired with was "no ball of fire."
then i noticed the president out on the floor and i was thinking i cant believe he is actually picking up garbage off the floor, which i thought was rather cool. then he was headed back to the office and saw me and rather went out of his way to come over and he tells me i hear from so and so youre doing well. i tell him that i know i need to do better (which i do, not because my trainer says so but because i think i should be to.)
im sure im to blame in my learning curve but more and more im looking at someone else. i mean he is a good guy and he is not playing boss he is just not a teacher like im not a teacher.
i was abandoning my running machine all day today, once i was in the can and my trainer was there and i asked him as a joke "who was watching the machines? " he said "you're running them?" "yes, just like you told me to."
he balked on that and said he never told me that. i just walked away, as he constantly tells me i need to have something in the machine while im away doing other stuff. i think its dumb on a machine without stops, i think its dumb on a machine with stops....matter of fact when they were showing me around the shop before i was hired i made that comment about this guy running his machine and being away.
i dont believe a factory is my life's calling, maybe i dont have one. im curious though if i can make the cut. it doesnt matter to me if i dont as im giving it all i got and you cant do more than that.
one good thing about it is that this new job has upped my interests in machining on my own equipment!
THIS IS LIKE A DEAR DIARY THREAD, I DONT EXPECT ANYONE TO ACTUALLY HELP ME SOLVE THE RIDDLE.
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