Make it two please....
Here we are on Friday the 13th. It's a beautiful sunny day outside although hot and humid with a heat index into the 100 degree mark. I took today off to use up some PTO.
Everyday there is tension. On the surface having to deal with the day to day BS of manufacturing and maintaining a commitment to quality and on-time delivery to our customers. Under the surface, the tension of the personnel. Both vaxxed and unvaxxed have to wear masks now unless you can "maintain" six feet. The vaxxed are pissed so they complain that the unvaxxed are under six feet sometimes without masks. This is a constant baby-sitting cycle.
Next up is the posturing for trying to climb the ladder and throwing others under the bus.
There is no trust, minimal team work and most just watch for the clock to hit end shift.
You have to watch every word that you utter to make sure it's not misconstrued or can be used against you with HR.
A large percentage are not fans of the current CoC in office. This alone adds to the day to day subconscious thoughts of WTF am I going to wake up to today?
I believe a lot of the underlying tension has to do with the current climate of world events.
That being said, there are some good guys ( can't use that noun) , employees, that make things happen but they are not the norm.
Most 10 hour days feel like a lifetime.
Enjoy the day.
I might be working in the same factory as you.
ReplyDeleteCase in point, I'm going to the cafeteria for a coffee, nobody in sight. Then my boss pops up behind yelling 'bout "where's your mask?"
Temps dropped to the low 80's and humidity is down.
Fucker ruined a perfectly good day.
-LG
Good mornin back at ya Irish. Poured my first coffee just now and saw yer double shot. Quite fitting. I'm off too today, in fact, been off for the past 3 weeks and will be off for another week before going back to my 4 12hr grind. (Training accident with a pew pew:( My current workplace is quite satisfactory in all aspects considering the Rona an all but when I worked for a major bottling co. back in the early nineties, it was just like you described. Looking back, I still don't know how I got through 18 years of that crap. Anyhoo, lookin' forward to what the day brings and buyin' some steak at the local grocer sos I can Tune in to FFF with a full belly! Enjoy and stay cool today. Ohio Guy
ReplyDeleteThankfully, there's only one Friday the 13th this year. Enjoy! Nemo
ReplyDeletedude, its like your living my life... Lather, rinse, repeat... stay well my friend and enjoy the PTO!
ReplyDeleteLiberals have the Midass touch - everything they get their grubby, greedy paws on is rendered unto feces.
ReplyDeleteI just tell them to keep making it easier for me to do what's going to have to be done, suckers.
I've always called that kind of touch the government touch.
DeleteIrish,
ReplyDeleteI am in Michigan. We had the masks until mid June, and our plants are hot. Since then, no masks. We pay $100.00 to anyone who gets the vax, but don't mandate it. I agree about the tension, but in the office where I work, pretty much everyone, who has an opinion, dislikes the current admin, and can't believe the election results. I am sorry you are having tension at work, our only issue is we can't hire enough people, so we are late with all of our customers. When customers call to complain, I tell them that the Govt. is competing with us for workers, and while our employees can make $1,000.00 per week, with OT, $600.00 per week on the couch, in the AC, sounds better. So, we are f'd.
EVERY customer that I explain that to says it's the same where they are. The inflation that is going to show up in the first quarter will be so bad, it will make all the young peoples head spin. Please enjoy your day off.
The lying dogfaced pony soldier is now going to "help" Newsom by lending his stature to his fight against recall.
ReplyDeleteThis just keeps getting better.
It was 18 months ago on Friday March 13, 2020 that I walked into Kroger and found the meat case empty, as well as eggs, milk, bread, frozen meats & meals, paper goods, disinfectants, pasta, beans and rice all nearly or completely gone. I had never seen anything like that before in my life.
ReplyDeleteAs far as the pressure, VP Biden's administration keeps dialing up the pressure on everyone and I feel an eruption is way past due. Keep your larders full, armory stocked and your eyes open.
Stay prepared it will happen again. Read today 3rd largest port in the world, in China, shut down so BOHICA on many fronts.
DeleteAll the stories are every where. Can't find help seems to be the biggest. Not enough pay but they won't admit it. Pay got to go up before I go back to work voluntarily. Been over 6 years and I'm not going to slave in those environments.
www.investmentwatchblog.com/farewell-to-yet-another-failed-monetary-system/
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Synopsis:
* over the past twenty-four months, national bankers inflated the currency supply by an annual rate of 126% (a hundred and twenty-six percent)
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'Hyper-inflation' is mentioned, as is a 'continuing-to-completion collapse of manufacturing, transportation, and service industries.
Another talking head LM. Yes going off the gold standard accelerated the issue but he says nothing about Wilson in 1913 allowing the creation of the federal reserve, AGAIN, after Andrew Jackson killed the previous one. Kennedy tried but we know how that ended.
DeleteForgot to add this. PBS frontline on the Fed. Frontline quite politically correct but they did a good job here. Also if you want more info on the Fed read the book Creature From Jekyl Island.
Deletehttps://www.pbs.org/video/the-power-of-the-fed-zzeu12/
I'm out at the end of a 40 year career and went remote in March 2020 and am not going back. Telecommuting has turned off a lot of the poisonous elements of working in the office. The only thing that matters is work content and all the gossip and back stabbing has really been dialed down. I've noticed that the people who did the most gossiping, back stabbing, and complaining to HR are the ones who are really against telecommuting.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad I retired in 2013. Most work environments seem to be filled to overflowing with Kens and Karens, and they're acting like spoiled 15 year olds....
ReplyDeleteI have not had to deal with that in 15 years or so now.
ReplyDeleteHaving been in charge I dealt with little political crap, nor allowed it.
But 10 weeks into retirement I am finding a bad retirement day still beats a good working day!
I always advised, "head down, mouth shut, cash checks" for most of my guys. But we had tat kinda job.
Corporate hell. That's why I retired 10 years early just before the plandemic and don't regret it.
ReplyDeleteJust found this and it'll cheer everyone up. Good dose of funnies.
http://www.hideoutnow.com/2021/08/someone-in-colorado-is-putting-funniest.html?m=1
Sorry, Irish - that stinks. And sadly, it seems to the same in so many other spots too. Bad days...
ReplyDelete--ExpatGuy