Dec 13
72 was down when we came in. It failed it's PC qual. The PC is supposed to read <50 particles on a clean, non-printed wafer. I was told the 1st PC read 1400 and the 2nd 400+. After 2 fails it needs to be put down to maintenance. No Maintenance guy from our shift worked on it. Not much more happened. I was working ash but it is sooo slooow. When I got hired I was doing 250 + track-outs a night. Even more if I was helping sink plus scope. I didn't even hit 100 this night.
Dec 14
Today when I scanned into the building before work, I was walking in the front doors past security, the security guy asked if I got my new badge. I say "New badge"? We got our new company badges early, but they are not active yet. So we basically have them to test our the new log in/out system. Just after I got handed my new badge, a tall man I've NEVER seen before is WAY too excited. He says, in no general direction, "Did you getcha new badge?" Since I've never seen him, I was sure he wasn't talking to me. So I walked into the locker room. When I got out, he was still there. He looked at me and asked again, this time I just replied "Yes" and kept on my way.
So far, so good. MMT seems to have stopped calling my name. Which is good, he was beginning to wear it out. Today my lead asked me to run 29sink. While I was relocating a cassette to a new shelf, I put down a second lot near me because I needed to do the same relocation to it and didn’t' want to walk all the way back to the back of the bay to get the second lot. A lady, the same that yelled at me about the priority lots a few weeks ago, was standing in the main hallway... watching me... The second I put the lot down the lot, she yelled at me again. This time it was for putting the second lot on a table. She yells "You can't use that table! Can't you see the red and white tape, you can't use it!" I said "Oh, I didn’t' know, no one told me. Thanks." I don't even know this lady name and she's yelled at me twice now, what the heck?! Either way, I thought maybe I did something to her. Maybe it's because I'm pale white and she's pitch black. Maybe she's got a stick surgically implanted in her butt? I talked to B5AN. He said It's the last one with the stick, he said she's always mad. FUN.
1/2 of 72 was still down. I guess maintenance doesn't know what's wrong and they just keep passing it to the next shift.
Dec 15
72 still down! At least the next shift is D2/N2. Maybe they'll either fix it or fix it with a hammer and throw it out back. Our sink is acting up today. It keeps giving off, "tank not full" or not filling in programmed time errors. It was down for nearly 3 hours. Work for it piled up! (update: 1/29/16, the sink no longer has these errors, for now. I guess they did actually look into the error of the shutdown and fixed it) Work in general really doesn't feel slower, it feels busy. But for sure it is slowing down a lot. I guess this is the final dash to get everything out by the end of the week before shut down. I sent a message to the D2 Super requesting overtime again. But I don't think I'll hear anything so I've started making plans for this weekend. I'll have to let the people know that I may have to cancel last minute if I get called in to work. I really hope I get called! (update: 1/29/16, I didnt get called). I would really like the money because I'm not getting paid for the 2 week shut down because I'm still temp status. I did get an official email saying the temps are being kept and transferred to the new company, so one less thing to worry about. Yay! Today my Super asked me to join the start up team on Jan 2nd, so I'm getting a full shift of overtime! That first week back is my shifts long week so 12 hours overtime! Heck yea! (update: 1/29/16) it turned out to only be 6 more hours of overtime because sat from 5:40p-12a ends up on one check and 12:01a-6a ends up on the other).
It's nearly 2:30am and 3 more tools went down . 72 is back down, it was up for less than an hour. 24 went down and 36 ash went down. Fortunately unlike the sink, none of them have alarms that BLARE until maintenance comes by.
I'm pretty sure everyone knows by now how awesome I am. I found a lot that was misplaced and lost for over 100 hours! It only took me 5 minute of research to figure out what that person was thinking. It was on the shelf I would have put it on if I was following the same logically as the person who misplaced it. They just didn't relocate it. Another temp got fired on Sunday and I found his notebook today. Finders keepers...he's not using it anymore. :)
Sunday, January 31, 2016
Friday, January 29, 2016
Dec 6, Dec 7, Dec 8, Dec 9
Things are a-changing Dec 6
When we start to come in to the fab, also known as the clean room, we have to go through two rooms. The pre-gowning room and gowning room. In the pre-gowning room you need to put a hair net, face mask, gloves and a beard net if needed. This room is also where you get your new clean room suit if yours is dirty/smelly or if you just want to change it. Our hair nets when we left last week looked like the traditional lunch lady hair net.
. Today they were compacted and more snake-like
and you had to pull apart the middle to open it into the hairnet. It was interesting. The face masks smell like Iodine which goes away, or you get used to it, with 15 minutes. And the last new thing is, to me at least, the gloves feel thicker. Like the thickness of wearing two gloves, which since the gloves are large on me, and I already wear the smallest size, i wear two, so it felt like wearing three. It kept my hands warm. (Update 1/26/16- I think this week it was just a rouge batch of thicker gloves. they've gone back down to normal thickness, and the lunch lady hairnets only show up when the new ones are all gone and the next order isnt in yet)
Today while going through the pre-gowning room, I didn't notice anything different with the packaged uniforms, because I didn't look at them. I already had a suit hanging up in the gowning room. I got on my pre-gowning stuff and walked thru the next set of doors. When I got into the fab and at my bay, my passdown bay coworker from D1 said that on their shift at around 4:30p, they had a fire alarm go off and all had to evacuate. When the alarm goes off everyone has to leave the building with suit and all, which contaminates the suit and it cannot be worn back into the fab. No longer able to be used, It needs to be sent off to be cleaned. Since before i was hired, there has always been a shortage of suits available so a bunch of people had to take maintenance suits until the fab tech suits were cleaned. Maintenance wears blue, fab techs wear white. So there were a lot of blue suits walking about the lab, it was different. Sucks for those who dropped off their suits last week to be washed but didn't grab news one to hang before shift end, because they were wearing blue too. I did drop off my suit to be cleaned last week but grabbed a new one before leaving and hung it up because when they are freshly opened from the package, they smell like the chemicals used to clean them. So I let mine air out over the weekend.
Dec 7
Getting annoyed at most of the human population, going on day 12. I asked someone for a favor and so far as of today, after they promised to get it done that day... Than within that week, 12 days later they are maybe only 8% done with it. I don't know what they are doing all day as 'no' job is had by them. I do recall asking once why it wasn't being worked on and they answer was something along the lines of needing to mentally prepare themselves.
I got two write-ups that are not write-ups this day. They are called "Quality Awareness" forms. which when i explained what that meant i understood it as they are just forms that basically say "Hey. Pay attention. Slow down. Check yourself before you wreak yourself," and that they do not official go on record unless you do the same mistake again and get an official write-up, and they do no go to the board that reviews you for full time (from temp), promotions, bonuses and so on. I understood this as not effecting my chances of getting offered a full time, non-temp position. One Quality Awareness was for tracking out a product lot before the tool was completed. Which the tool is deceiving, because it says it is done with the product before it puts all the wafers back into the cassette. The second was for not noticing that our promise system said a cassette was only suppose to have 24 wafers, and the cassette had 25 in it. I was the only one that got in trouble on this one even tho there was three other steps before mine that no one noticed this mistake on either... But for some reason the company only punishes the one who last tracked out the product before it is caught. Lucky me.
In the last hour of shift, 72etch went down for a cooling plate error and in the last possible moment the maintenance man came to look at it. They fixed the problem and determined it need to be qualed before returning to production. Which I felt bad that we had to leave that for next shift.
Dec 8
At start of shift we came into 72etch working just fine. Just after passdown, it had a cooling plate error again. Once that was fixed it was back up for a few more hours than went down for a aborted recipe error because one of the wafers wouldn't process correctly. After that was fixed and our engineer processed the wafer, it was back up again... But when certain tools go down with product inside, they need their interface reset. But only sometimes. Apparently this was that time. The next 2 lots that were attempted to be tracked out, failed due to needing arbitrary 'data collection' because of the interfacing issue. Once that was fixed the engineer left for less than a minute and it went down again due to an endpoint not being reached in the recipe. We were done with it this sift and just left it to the next shift. It is getting closer and closer to shut down and less (if any) product is being started. If there are no starts than the new product doesn't go through ash or sink or anything. Less and less work is needing to be done each day. We made goals yesterday but I don't think we'll make goal tonight.
The ash work slowed to almost nothing at around 3 am. There were 18 lots between 3 - 6 am. The 34sink in Bay 4A was at a stop from 2-5:30a. Then 8 lots that came off the ash were able to run on 34sink. Other than 72etch giving us issues, the day was really slow.
Dec 9
For passdown D1 coworker said that he was running the bay alone, which is really really hard to do. Bu he also said it was easy for him because there was hardly any work to be done. My lead is out today and the step-in lead asked me to assist with running 28sink and 29sink because there was so little work to be done.
B4AG didn't show to work yesterday but didn't tell me or B4AT that he wasn't coming in. Which is fine. Everyone can keep secrets, it would have just been nice to know. We were told by our lead to found out at 6:30 he was off that day. When he came in today I said, "oh we didn't know you were going to be off yesterday". His response "well the Super knew". Helpful because the Super didn't tell us either.
Because of my recent maintenance man issues my lead let me know they were not going to be in on wed night shift and gave me the ext # of my super's desk in case the Super was not in the fab. I don't think the lead told anyone else except the Super and back up lead that they would be out the shift.
My super came up to me yesterday and just let me know that he was concerned and if I felt threatened or harassed, or if it got worse, to let my Super, my Super's boss or HR know. I said if it gets more aggressive to the point where it starts to bother me or if it continues after the shut down, I will be doing that. But right now it doesn't bother me. It's weird but easily ignored. I think the maintenance guy has stopped for now because he sees that I still don't acknowledge him.
Since Sunday I haven't had anymore issues with MMT. On Sunday every time he walked by he would shout "AJ!". Nothing Monday, nothing Tuesday, I thought he was done because during those days he didn't even look at me. Nope, started shouting "AJ!" again today near midshift. However he has been wearing his mask correctly. So maybe he did actually get in trouble or written up because a fabtech reported him??
One of my super nice coworkers from Bay 2A (B2aD) showed me a misaligned wafer print today. The numbers looked like they were ghosting one another
He said depending on how far back in layers it is it can either be scrubbed off and reworked or it needs to be scraped and restarted.
B4AG I think he needs to be taken off the ashers because he does not pay enough attention when unloading the cassettes from the ashers to the correct boxes. I was helping out 29sink again, so was not in my bay a lot. But 29sink from Bay 5A and 24sink from Bay 11D get most of their work from 4A ashers.
The B11DC came up to 4A to get work and dropped off 2 cassettes on his way past 5A. Then he came back 3 minutes later and said he had the wrong cassette in his box. This happened 2 more times during the night and the last time before we took work for the sinks, I checked the boxes because I noticed that there was a product cassette outside a box that should not have been. 6 boxes and cassettes were mixed up in this last switch up. It was a mess! I couldn’t even imagine what would happen if they went on and misprocessed.
3 more days till shut down.
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Slowing down- Nov 29, Nov 30, Dec 1
Nov 29
I was in bed way too long. On my days off I try to keep the same sleep schedule but I'm not always able to. This past week I know I wasn't because my whole family was off on Thursday and we had stuff to do. I was up most of the morning and took a short sleep from 12 to 4, got up and had turkey day dinner and ended up staying awake until the next morning. I was awake most of Friday as well because my Dad was working on my car before the rain came in.
I usually have a thing scheduled Saturday mornings but I haven't gone the last few weeks because I had no car. This past Saturday was fortunately a day the scheduled thing was "not needed" so i canceled it again, which gave my Dad the rest of the time he needed to finish putting my car back together.
Then it was done. We had to special order new tires and when those come in, I'll have to get a wheel alignment as well.
Nov 30
About an hour into shift my Super comes into the fab and calls a department meeting into to Bay 3B because it has the widest opening for us to gather round. He wanted to let us know, as the official start date with new company got closer, we would be getting the offer letters tomorrow. Which we should sign and return tomorrow as they are due Monday and our next work day is on Sunday.
Again everyone is getting an offer letter. One employee that already has a position with the company asked "What about the temps?", to which the supervisor answered, as he has been answering since the start of the buy out is "I don't know". I'm a temp still and unsure about my job. All I know for sure is one of two things will happen, come January 4th.
o My badge to get into the building works and I have a job.
o It doesn't and I go home to apply to the new company.
I have to email my temp agency and see if they have any info on what is going to happen on their end with the contract in place. Will I even have a job thru the temp company with the new company, or would the temp place offer to look for a new job for me.?
Dec 1
There was a meeting today on day shift and the same meeting is going to happen on our shift. Not a typical meeting, we are going out in a group of people 5-8 at a time, are going out to get their offer letters and sign up for benefits with the new company... Not me
B4aT asked when my time was and I said "time"? Which led to an exchange where we both figured out he got a letter and I did not. I was SO VERY hoping that I would be getting one but nope. My near fears are upon me...well shit.
2 weeks left until shut down and company switch. 2 weeks of shut down with no pay, the more I think of how fast this is happening the more it frightens me. What am I going to do?! If I would have thought of this sooner I could have been smarter about my choices in which semester to apply to, to go back to college. Deadline was Nov 15th to go to Spring and I applied Nov 18th so I got forced into Fall. But I'll see if I can contact someone.
Since Sunday, 29 sink has been down for "facility failure". Maintenance would bring it up, it would stay up for a max of 5 minutes before going down again. It did this 5 times in a row on Monday. Maintenance left it down the rest of the shift. I guess either day shift didn't know what to do with it or didn't bother to look at it because it was still down at the start of shift today.
Yesterday and today I have been covering 28 sink for the majority of the day. It's not bad because I love doing the sink work but it's lonely because the other 3 people in bay 7D are in a different department so they don't talk to me :(. However I can get a ton of work done, not as much as if I was on the ashers but enough to make a dent in the sulfuric sink work.
-back story- Last Wednesday I reported that maintenance man (MM-T) from the post (told ya it would come up again--still a few more times) to my lead who told my super who told me to report to his boss. I did, as you know. All this week when he has passed me by in the main hall of the fab he has said things that usually are nice small-talk openers... Usually. MM-T has never spoke to me in all the months I've worked here. Whenever one of our tools has gone down that he works on, he always waits for B4AT to get back into the bay and the maintenance man tells B4AT what was fixed and if a qual needs to be done. So for this week is has been out of character for MM-T to walk by (without stopping) and say things like"Hey Aaaa-jay" "What's up Aaaa-jay?" "How are you Aaaa-jay?". He doesn't care what the answer is, because he keeps walking by, but the tone is very passive aggressive. So again I told my lead who told the Super, they advised me to write an email to my super to 'document' the events in case something comes of it. I don't think anything aggressive will come of it, but I wrote the note anyway. I also wrote my final note to the N2 Super requesting overtime. I guess I could ask the D2 Super one final time. But they both suck. We give their people overtime every week and they don't allow overtime for us. We should be denying their people, we get more done than them anyway… (update 1/26/16, they may not be calling because like I said in the last post our head count starts at 13, and all other shifts have 17 or more. I don't take back what I said here, they still suck.. Everyone could always use one more hand to keep the work moving.)
I was in bed way too long. On my days off I try to keep the same sleep schedule but I'm not always able to. This past week I know I wasn't because my whole family was off on Thursday and we had stuff to do. I was up most of the morning and took a short sleep from 12 to 4, got up and had turkey day dinner and ended up staying awake until the next morning. I was awake most of Friday as well because my Dad was working on my car before the rain came in.
I usually have a thing scheduled Saturday mornings but I haven't gone the last few weeks because I had no car. This past Saturday was fortunately a day the scheduled thing was "not needed" so i canceled it again, which gave my Dad the rest of the time he needed to finish putting my car back together.
Then it was done. We had to special order new tires and when those come in, I'll have to get a wheel alignment as well.
Nov 30
About an hour into shift my Super comes into the fab and calls a department meeting into to Bay 3B because it has the widest opening for us to gather round. He wanted to let us know, as the official start date with new company got closer, we would be getting the offer letters tomorrow. Which we should sign and return tomorrow as they are due Monday and our next work day is on Sunday.
Again everyone is getting an offer letter. One employee that already has a position with the company asked "What about the temps?", to which the supervisor answered, as he has been answering since the start of the buy out is "I don't know". I'm a temp still and unsure about my job. All I know for sure is one of two things will happen, come January 4th.
o My badge to get into the building works and I have a job.
o It doesn't and I go home to apply to the new company.
I have to email my temp agency and see if they have any info on what is going to happen on their end with the contract in place. Will I even have a job thru the temp company with the new company, or would the temp place offer to look for a new job for me.?
Dec 1
There was a meeting today on day shift and the same meeting is going to happen on our shift. Not a typical meeting, we are going out in a group of people 5-8 at a time, are going out to get their offer letters and sign up for benefits with the new company... Not me
B4aT asked when my time was and I said "time"? Which led to an exchange where we both figured out he got a letter and I did not. I was SO VERY hoping that I would be getting one but nope. My near fears are upon me...well shit.
2 weeks left until shut down and company switch. 2 weeks of shut down with no pay, the more I think of how fast this is happening the more it frightens me. What am I going to do?! If I would have thought of this sooner I could have been smarter about my choices in which semester to apply to, to go back to college. Deadline was Nov 15th to go to Spring and I applied Nov 18th so I got forced into Fall. But I'll see if I can contact someone.
Since Sunday, 29 sink has been down for "facility failure". Maintenance would bring it up, it would stay up for a max of 5 minutes before going down again. It did this 5 times in a row on Monday. Maintenance left it down the rest of the shift. I guess either day shift didn't know what to do with it or didn't bother to look at it because it was still down at the start of shift today.
Yesterday and today I have been covering 28 sink for the majority of the day. It's not bad because I love doing the sink work but it's lonely because the other 3 people in bay 7D are in a different department so they don't talk to me :(. However I can get a ton of work done, not as much as if I was on the ashers but enough to make a dent in the sulfuric sink work.
-back story- Last Wednesday I reported that maintenance man (MM-T) from the post (told ya it would come up again--still a few more times) to my lead who told my super who told me to report to his boss. I did, as you know. All this week when he has passed me by in the main hall of the fab he has said things that usually are nice small-talk openers... Usually. MM-T has never spoke to me in all the months I've worked here. Whenever one of our tools has gone down that he works on, he always waits for B4AT to get back into the bay and the maintenance man tells B4AT what was fixed and if a qual needs to be done. So for this week is has been out of character for MM-T to walk by (without stopping) and say things like"Hey Aaaa-jay" "What's up Aaaa-jay?" "How are you Aaaa-jay?". He doesn't care what the answer is, because he keeps walking by, but the tone is very passive aggressive. So again I told my lead who told the Super, they advised me to write an email to my super to 'document' the events in case something comes of it. I don't think anything aggressive will come of it, but I wrote the note anyway. I also wrote my final note to the N2 Super requesting overtime. I guess I could ask the D2 Super one final time. But they both suck. We give their people overtime every week and they don't allow overtime for us. We should be denying their people, we get more done than them anyway… (update 1/26/16, they may not be calling because like I said in the last post our head count starts at 13, and all other shifts have 17 or more. I don't take back what I said here, they still suck.. Everyone could always use one more hand to keep the work moving.)
Monday, January 4, 2016
Nov 24, Nov 25- its a doosy
Nov 24th
The ash was fairly busy today, I was back running them because B4aG got a call around 7:40p and went home for the day. I guess something happened with childcare for his kid, either way he left. Before he left, he informed the lead that he was not coming in tomorrow which I found out from a guy who used to work in my bay. Not even my bay coworkers! So I wanted to make sure it wasn't hearsay and asked B4aT if B4aG was in fact not coming in B4aT said it was true and B4aG was not. So both of my Bay coworkers are calling in tomorrow (B4aT told me he wasn't coming in the day before Thanksgiving break over a month ago), but now that leaves leaves me to run the busiest Bay in my department alone... Alone! I think tomorrow will be tiresome...
Nov 25th
Well I was hoping B4aG was going to change his mind and show, he did not. I bet he would have shown if today was a double points day (points go on a record and after so many points, "action, up to termination" can be taken). But awesome, an old Coworker who went to Bay 5a/6a was my helper for the day, since both of my coworkers were out! Super glad to have him back. I love working with him, he makes the day enjoyable. My lead took over Bay 5/6, leaving Coworker from B7C to run 7C and 7D, lots of people are doing double duty.
At the start of shift change there are 10-25 minutes that the two shift are both on. During the time the shifts are together there is this protocol that takes place called 'passdown.' Passdown is when the current shift passes down to next shift the going-ons of the Bay. What tools went down, why, are they up, do they need Qual, how busy the day was, what tools had the most P1 lots, are there any P1's in the tools currently, the counts on the descum (or Bay specific counter tools) and any other questions that are day specific if something different happened that day). Well this is the day before Thanksgiving and a lot of people called in or no showed. So passdown was crazy with all the work that needed to be done.
During passdown the Day 1 guy said that 7 people in the department were not at work for his shift. Leaving his shift with only 13 people in the department. I must have given a dumbfounded look from, what can be seen of the eyes anyway, because the next thing he said was "what?" i wanted to make sure he said that he only had 13 people in that day out of how many normally? 17 normally, and 13 that day... I explained my look because on my shift we start out with only having 13 people in that department, and for this day at least 2 are calling in (the two from my bay). I don't think I've worked a day with everyone there let alone today being a day where people are going to no-show. So that is what I told him, he 'only' had 13 people this day and we 'only' have 13 people, 4 ended up being out from our department and by end of shift were still able to make and exceed both goals for the department and the fab as a whole. Our department goal was 2,000 and we hit 3,200. The fab goal was 98,000 and we hit 103,000. Day shift with it's more people, doesn't make goal often.
And the day is not over...it was very eventful.
Next, just after shift change our department maintenance guy was working on a tool in Bay 3A, but he was in the in between Bay called a chase. It is where the back of the tools are. My sink has a glass around the loading end and you can see into the chase.
He was working on the tool with his back towards me and he had a slight cough. Not a big deal... Until he turned around and I could see his facemask was not over his nose and mouth. It wasn't even over his mouth. It was down under his chin! This is SUPER against protocol, so I told my lead and she told my supervisor. My super said that we've been having a problem with this maintenance man for awhile even when he is in the bays because he feels like since he doesn't directly work with the product, he doesn't need to cover his nose or mouth with the mask, even though both nose and mouth are the biggest sources of contaminants inside a clean room (when wearing protective items properly). My super told my lead to tell me to write an email to the maintenance man's boss because maybe he might finally do something about it. My lead took me to a back corner of a different bay, sat me at the computer and directed me to where I could send the message. ---- (Update: 1/26/16, remember this it comes up again. it a few times)
When we find the bosses message box a pop up comes up that says 'user not allowed. Fab techs can only send messages to supervisors'. So I sent the message to my Super, starting it off as "Supper please forward. Dear [MM Boss]..." When done, I thanked MM Boss in advance for any help he could offer to correct the issue.
At shift change from N1 to D2, the step in coworker (from 5a/6a) went to get water from the gowning room and said there was no one in there changing for the next shift yet. Just around 5:45/5:47, people started trickling in, they were going to be working on a skeleton crew. That sucks.
The ash was fairly busy today, I was back running them because B4aG got a call around 7:40p and went home for the day. I guess something happened with childcare for his kid, either way he left. Before he left, he informed the lead that he was not coming in tomorrow which I found out from a guy who used to work in my bay. Not even my bay coworkers! So I wanted to make sure it wasn't hearsay and asked B4aT if B4aG was in fact not coming in B4aT said it was true and B4aG was not. So both of my Bay coworkers are calling in tomorrow (B4aT told me he wasn't coming in the day before Thanksgiving break over a month ago), but now that leaves leaves me to run the busiest Bay in my department alone... Alone! I think tomorrow will be tiresome...
Nov 25th
Well I was hoping B4aG was going to change his mind and show, he did not. I bet he would have shown if today was a double points day (points go on a record and after so many points, "action, up to termination" can be taken). But awesome, an old Coworker who went to Bay 5a/6a was my helper for the day, since both of my coworkers were out! Super glad to have him back. I love working with him, he makes the day enjoyable. My lead took over Bay 5/6, leaving Coworker from B7C to run 7C and 7D, lots of people are doing double duty.
At the start of shift change there are 10-25 minutes that the two shift are both on. During the time the shifts are together there is this protocol that takes place called 'passdown.' Passdown is when the current shift passes down to next shift the going-ons of the Bay. What tools went down, why, are they up, do they need Qual, how busy the day was, what tools had the most P1 lots, are there any P1's in the tools currently, the counts on the descum (or Bay specific counter tools) and any other questions that are day specific if something different happened that day). Well this is the day before Thanksgiving and a lot of people called in or no showed. So passdown was crazy with all the work that needed to be done.
During passdown the Day 1 guy said that 7 people in the department were not at work for his shift. Leaving his shift with only 13 people in the department. I must have given a dumbfounded look from, what can be seen of the eyes anyway, because the next thing he said was "what?" i wanted to make sure he said that he only had 13 people in that day out of how many normally? 17 normally, and 13 that day... I explained my look because on my shift we start out with only having 13 people in that department, and for this day at least 2 are calling in (the two from my bay). I don't think I've worked a day with everyone there let alone today being a day where people are going to no-show. So that is what I told him, he 'only' had 13 people this day and we 'only' have 13 people, 4 ended up being out from our department and by end of shift were still able to make and exceed both goals for the department and the fab as a whole. Our department goal was 2,000 and we hit 3,200. The fab goal was 98,000 and we hit 103,000. Day shift with it's more people, doesn't make goal often.
And the day is not over...it was very eventful.
Next, just after shift change our department maintenance guy was working on a tool in Bay 3A, but he was in the in between Bay called a chase. It is where the back of the tools are. My sink has a glass around the loading end and you can see into the chase.
He was working on the tool with his back towards me and he had a slight cough. Not a big deal... Until he turned around and I could see his facemask was not over his nose and mouth. It wasn't even over his mouth. It was down under his chin! This is SUPER against protocol, so I told my lead and she told my supervisor. My super said that we've been having a problem with this maintenance man for awhile even when he is in the bays because he feels like since he doesn't directly work with the product, he doesn't need to cover his nose or mouth with the mask, even though both nose and mouth are the biggest sources of contaminants inside a clean room (when wearing protective items properly). My super told my lead to tell me to write an email to the maintenance man's boss because maybe he might finally do something about it. My lead took me to a back corner of a different bay, sat me at the computer and directed me to where I could send the message. ---- (Update: 1/26/16, remember this it comes up again. it a few times)
When we find the bosses message box a pop up comes up that says 'user not allowed. Fab techs can only send messages to supervisors'. So I sent the message to my Super, starting it off as "Supper please forward. Dear [MM Boss]..." When done, I thanked MM Boss in advance for any help he could offer to correct the issue.
At shift change from N1 to D2, the step in coworker (from 5a/6a) went to get water from the gowning room and said there was no one in there changing for the next shift yet. Just around 5:45/5:47, people started trickling in, they were going to be working on a skeleton crew. That sucks.
Sunday, January 3, 2016
Nov 22, Nov 23
Nov 22
B4aG finally showed up today. No tools went down during our shift this day. However, when we came to shift 72 etch Chamber 2 was already down. It ended up being down all day. Maintenance looked at it 40 minutes before shift change and the next shift did not look at it as it was still down on the 23rd. I know this because I'm psychic. No, I wrote this post on the 23rd... That's how boring the 22nd was.
Nov 23
When we came in today, there was a sign that said 'meeting at 5:45, go to lunch room, pizza will be served. The sign didn't lie, pizza was there, yum. The meeting was informing us that the contract was signed and my company was officially sold. But, the changes don't take effect until Jan 4th. Since I don't technically work for my company I'm still unsure if I'll have a job. The people in management are unsure if I'll have a job. They just know that every current (not temp) employee will be given a offer letter. I'm temp. They all say that the new company will keep the temps but unsure for how long. They said int he meeting they would keep them as long as the position needed filling, which means they could keep me until they hire me or hire a permanent replacement that is not me...fun...still not as much to worry about as my last job.
After getting back into the fab...
Today is a day for P1 lots.
I thought yesterday had a lot of P1's...today so far has already passed the total we had yesterday...and it's only 10pm.
We've had one at least every 1.25 hours. I had two in 30 minutes and both went down to 11C, which is a bay I rarely go into. I delivered one to 11C, went back to my bay and had another waiting (which is a NO, NO! Priority One lots need to be hand delivered to a person, not left in a bay because had they put it in a place i never look at it could have waited for hours). But lucky them we have an open space that it was put on and was easily spotted). I ran that on, when it was done it also went to 11C, so went to go deliver it. When I got down there, the lady running the tool it went on, who I've never talked at that moment decided to chew me out. She said, "Each lot takes 25 minutes, just because you bring them to me doesn't me they'll run faster!" I just said okay, who I'm to tell her that according to her tool dispatch, she has 6 lots not dispatched to her, incorrectly staged at her tool. Had she had the correct lots, it wouldn't take an extra 25 minutes (because her tool can run 6 lots at a time). P1 doesn't mean run faster, it means runs 1st, run now. Both P1 were dispatched to her. if she wants to take them to a different tool that can run them fine by me, I just take them out of my name. Oh they would be in my name because instead of being placed on a shelf at track out for someone to pick it up, they are 'placed' on my person and moved to the next location. Ex, if i were to track out a normal lot on my screen it says take to "04A1_O" or ""04A_O" which the program has all ready assigned it and the next persons tool that it runs on their screen tells them which shelf it will be located on. With P1 lots my screen says take it to "[name of person tracking it out]" and where it goes instead of saying where to find it, it also shows them the name of the person who tracked it out.
For the rest of the night we got 1-2 P1 lots an hour, I guess since the sale of the company is final the old company wants to get it's products out fast so it upgraded a bunch to P1s instead of normal production.
B4aG finally showed up today. No tools went down during our shift this day. However, when we came to shift 72 etch Chamber 2 was already down. It ended up being down all day. Maintenance looked at it 40 minutes before shift change and the next shift did not look at it as it was still down on the 23rd. I know this because I'm psychic. No, I wrote this post on the 23rd... That's how boring the 22nd was.
Nov 23
When we came in today, there was a sign that said 'meeting at 5:45, go to lunch room, pizza will be served. The sign didn't lie, pizza was there, yum. The meeting was informing us that the contract was signed and my company was officially sold. But, the changes don't take effect until Jan 4th. Since I don't technically work for my company I'm still unsure if I'll have a job. The people in management are unsure if I'll have a job. They just know that every current (not temp) employee will be given a offer letter. I'm temp. They all say that the new company will keep the temps but unsure for how long. They said int he meeting they would keep them as long as the position needed filling, which means they could keep me until they hire me or hire a permanent replacement that is not me...fun...still not as much to worry about as my last job.
After getting back into the fab...
Today is a day for P1 lots.
I thought yesterday had a lot of P1's...today so far has already passed the total we had yesterday...and it's only 10pm.
We've had one at least every 1.25 hours. I had two in 30 minutes and both went down to 11C, which is a bay I rarely go into. I delivered one to 11C, went back to my bay and had another waiting (which is a NO, NO! Priority One lots need to be hand delivered to a person, not left in a bay because had they put it in a place i never look at it could have waited for hours). But lucky them we have an open space that it was put on and was easily spotted). I ran that on, when it was done it also went to 11C, so went to go deliver it. When I got down there, the lady running the tool it went on, who I've never talked at that moment decided to chew me out. She said, "Each lot takes 25 minutes, just because you bring them to me doesn't me they'll run faster!" I just said okay, who I'm to tell her that according to her tool dispatch, she has 6 lots not dispatched to her, incorrectly staged at her tool. Had she had the correct lots, it wouldn't take an extra 25 minutes (because her tool can run 6 lots at a time). P1 doesn't mean run faster, it means runs 1st, run now. Both P1 were dispatched to her. if she wants to take them to a different tool that can run them fine by me, I just take them out of my name. Oh they would be in my name because instead of being placed on a shelf at track out for someone to pick it up, they are 'placed' on my person and moved to the next location. Ex, if i were to track out a normal lot on my screen it says take to "04A1_O" or ""04A_O" which the program has all ready assigned it and the next persons tool that it runs on their screen tells them which shelf it will be located on. With P1 lots my screen says take it to "[name of person tracking it out]" and where it goes instead of saying where to find it, it also shows them the name of the person who tracked it out.
For the rest of the night we got 1-2 P1 lots an hour, I guess since the sale of the company is final the old company wants to get it's products out fast so it upgraded a bunch to P1s instead of normal production.
Friday, January 1, 2016
Nov 16, Nov 17.
Nov 16th
Outta whack from the weekend today at start of shift, 53 was down for preventative maintenance, so since that takes a lot of time it may be down for 2-4 days or longer if it isn't consistently worked on... Might be longer because at the time of making this note it is 8 pm and no one from our maintenance group has even come to look at the progress. Also 34 sink was down, due to a tank not draining in scheduled time 3rd time in 3 days and each time the maintenance man comes, it has drained and filled itself...so they can't figure out the issue. Fun.
There used to be a guy who worked in building 4 and would bring lots over to building 1 (the building my fab is in) and place them in a section called the "E-Fab". Today he was supposed to be transferred to Building 1 and start training in my bay. Around 6:20 we found out he called in. Great way to re-start your first day back in Building 1. If he shows tomorrow instead of learning easy ash, he has to start the day with a qual.
Around 9pm can you guess what happened? 34sink went down for ...you probably guessed it 'tank didn't drain in programmed time'. Followed by 54ash going down for shuttle failure, 28sink in 5A going down for a chem change which happens every 2 days at midnight, its usually down for 3 hours because 3 tanks need to drain, one at a time. And 18sink in 11D going down basically the sinks decided to say "fuck this day" at the some time.
34sink also has chem changes but it goes down at 8am.
Nov 17th
New guy didn't show again, today and all the tools were back up. Nothing went down this day however at the end of the end of the day Bay 4A coworker (who is Now going to be called B4aT, since i will have two, "new guy" is now B4aG) said that 3 escope slots were missing. Where they should have been: 1234 should have been on rack 11D, 4321 on 11C2, 6214 on 11c3. Where they were: 1234 was on 11D But it was not in a normal black box, it was in a white box that usually the fabtechs don't use, so most probably didn't even notice it (like Prisoner Zero). 4341 was on 11C3, not in a box at all and 6214 was on 12D which is inside a bay not in the hallway like the other shelves, which people weren't looking for it to be on the wrong shelf... Took me five minutes to find them, all they had been missing between 3-10 hours. I should have gotten a prize :) , but I didn't get anything.
Outta whack from the weekend today at start of shift, 53 was down for preventative maintenance, so since that takes a lot of time it may be down for 2-4 days or longer if it isn't consistently worked on... Might be longer because at the time of making this note it is 8 pm and no one from our maintenance group has even come to look at the progress. Also 34 sink was down, due to a tank not draining in scheduled time 3rd time in 3 days and each time the maintenance man comes, it has drained and filled itself...so they can't figure out the issue. Fun.
There used to be a guy who worked in building 4 and would bring lots over to building 1 (the building my fab is in) and place them in a section called the "E-Fab". Today he was supposed to be transferred to Building 1 and start training in my bay. Around 6:20 we found out he called in. Great way to re-start your first day back in Building 1. If he shows tomorrow instead of learning easy ash, he has to start the day with a qual.
Around 9pm can you guess what happened? 34sink went down for ...you probably guessed it 'tank didn't drain in programmed time'. Followed by 54ash going down for shuttle failure, 28sink in 5A going down for a chem change which happens every 2 days at midnight, its usually down for 3 hours because 3 tanks need to drain, one at a time. And 18sink in 11D going down basically the sinks decided to say "fuck this day" at the some time.
34sink also has chem changes but it goes down at 8am.
Nov 17th
New guy didn't show again, today and all the tools were back up. Nothing went down this day however at the end of the end of the day Bay 4A coworker (who is Now going to be called B4aT, since i will have two, "new guy" is now B4aG) said that 3 escope slots were missing. Where they should have been: 1234 should have been on rack 11D, 4321 on 11C2, 6214 on 11c3. Where they were: 1234 was on 11D But it was not in a normal black box, it was in a white box that usually the fabtechs don't use, so most probably didn't even notice it (like Prisoner Zero). 4341 was on 11C3, not in a box at all and 6214 was on 12D which is inside a bay not in the hallway like the other shelves, which people weren't looking for it to be on the wrong shelf... Took me five minutes to find them, all they had been missing between 3-10 hours. I should have gotten a prize :) , but I didn't get anything.
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