Oct 27

Nothing interesting happened before 8:30 today. The ash work is still slow but the descum has a lot of work today. I usually only get 10 lots a day and so far have done 9 lots and have 8 lined up in queue and it’s only 9 pm.
Left a letter on the desk of the day shift…hopefully I will get a call by the end of November, I may need a new notebook for work as I keep using it to make letters for the supers if I miss the chance to talk to them in the lab and letters for the other shifts supers for overtime and notes on what I’m going to say in the blog while I remember it. Arg! Only 19 pages left from a book of 100.
Skunk gross!
We have a filtered air system that is supposed to help us with particles, but whenever a skunk sprays in the area the air system picks it up and spreads it through the lab and it smells like purified skunk spray. I wonder if it still has particles, it must or else your nose shouldn’t be able to pick it up, right?

Oct 26

The day started slow D1 shift said it was busy for them…they must have it slower than we do if our slow is “busy”. Again no more than 10 lots an hour and the day has just begun…**yawn**!
Coworker from Bay 2A was standing behind me with a priority 1 (P1) lot but didn’t say anything. I had my back to the opening of the bay so I didn’t know that he was there. As I was humming to myself I turned around to check a lot and jumped out of my skin. He laughed. I laughed terrified. He gave me the P1 and an hour later he saw on his machine that it was coming back to him so he came to retrieve it and pretended to jump when he entered my bay as I was leaving to deliver it back. He laughed again (I didn’t jump that time).
That was the most exciting part of the day and it all happened before 8:30pm… the day was going to be long.
Priority 1 (P1) lots are the only product lots that have to be hand delivered to the next tool. For nearly a hour and a half there was no work dispatched to my bay. Hour and a half! I thought the system crashed. Then just before 10:30, two, I repeat, two lots were dispatched. Then again, nothing. Waiting sucks.
I went to another bay in my department to see if there was any work to do there. Nope. Guess for now the work is stuck in another department.
My lead saw that my coworker and I were bored because we get our work down quicker and were waiting on work to be dispatched to us. So, we were sitting and talking. I was reading a spec about the holiday shut down so she trained him on 36sink and I trained on 28sink. So now when we have nothing to do she’ll probably pull on one of us to do the sink that has the most backed up work.
On a side note, I’ve basically begged for the last two months to get overtime on a N2 shift… I think I’m going to break down and ask the D2 supervisor. (Future note, I did end up asking D2 super, and still haven’t gotten a call for overtime.  )