FFB
work has been getting me down this entire week. ive finally coming to realize what all my friends have been telling me for the last two years…i dont really belong in this environment. its not that im smarter than this or dont have anything to learn here, because reality is quite the opposite. what it comes down to, is that my work ethic is soo much better than this place, and its finally starting to frustrate me beyond belief.
one of the other two people on my line is all about taking his breaks. these come before anything extra that he is asked to do in a shift, and when we are talking about breaks we arent talking about an hour lunch with a couple 10 minute smoke breaks. we are talking about 3 one hour breaks. yes, folks, thats 3 one hour breaks in an 8 hour shift. when he and i are alternating breaks in a night, and im the first one to start, he will usually shove me out the door onto my first break after ive only been here 30 minutes (which by the way is barely enough time to get the bare minimum done at the start of my shift). you see, the reason he wants to start so early, is so that he can get an extra 10 minute smoke break in at the end of the night, even though he doesnt smoke.
this example with the breaks is just one of many that i could pull out to show how lazy people are here. instead of fixing a problem with a piece of machinery to make sure that the quality of the ends is good, people will just choose not to run that particular machine and ignore the fact that there is any kind of problem. this way, you dont have to do any extra work…in fact you can do less, because now you are running less than the full line. cracks me up really.
what i really need, is to find some kind of work situation, where its with a small group of people that i get along with and all share the same work values. people that actually care that they put out an effort and do a good job…even if it is just making the tops of beer cans.
-b
good things
- Curb Your Enthusiasm (especially the episode where larry uses his recently deceased mother as an excuse to get sex from his wife)
- Free Diamonds - There Should be More Dancing (the first album of 2006 that ive purchased, and on the way to being my album of the year)
- Silver Three Sound Recordings - a label created by some of my old buddies from tower records in the dc days. nice website and some good bands on board already. my personal recommendation would be to check out the new one by Mock Orange.
- sleeping at night - do i ever appreciate sleeping on fridays and saturdays because those are my two days a week that i get to sleep without that silly face mask covering my eyes.
- snow
- 69 degrees fahrenheit
- kishore and eileen just had a baby girl
- winning the lottery (or so ive heard)
- the one year anniversary of the frankenfinger (not really a good thing, but its good that i can look back on it and laugh)
- the new smoking ban law in colorado
