Jan 4, Jan 5, Jan 6

Forgot to mention that over the two week shutdown I asked my temp rep how I needed to do my overtime shift. Because the extra day was on Sat and my normal shift starts on Sunday. She forwarded the email to the director of payroll who informed me that Because the shift was overnight sat to Sunday morning, they needed to be split between the two days. So i needed to submit time on Saturday from 5:40p-12a. and submit the time card with just those hours. Them submit the other time card with the added hours during that next week. I tried to add them to Sunday but because I don't break up the hours on my time sheet they system wouldn't allow me to because it thought there were double hours on one day. Usually instead of putting 5:40p-12a on Sunday then 12:50a-6 on Monday morning and so on for the week, I put them in as 5:40p-6a and add hours to the break section as 12a-12:50a. So it would let me add another 12:50a-6a on the same day. I had to add them to a day I didn't work on this week like Friday.. This is how I only ended up getting an extra 6 hours of overtime vs 12. My Super tried to change it by changing my hours to say I worked 11.5 hours Saturday for the one check and my normal shift during the long week, but the payroll director at my temp place I guess remembered our email and paid me like I put my hours in, not the way my Super did it.



So I tried to enter the hours split between the top line and bottom line but it wouldne let me because in the second line I put 5:40p and 6a with 12a and 12:50a being my break. So the hours from 12a-6a were conflicting with the group hours i entered as working.



Jan 4th

B5/6aN left. The last few days have been boring without him. He was the first person to talk to me . My current bay coworkers don't talk to me anymore. They talk to each other a lot. It is starting to bother me. It makes me feel like they don't like me for some reason. So I'm trying to branch out and talk to other people in my department but two things.

o I have to walk to their bays.
o I feel like I spend too much time there and awkwardly leave to go back to working.

Today was insane. My work pen is dying and I just got a new one...so I don't want to burden my Super and ask for another new one. B4aG did lose my extra pen. Maybe I can tell my Super B4aG he lost the good one? Work picked up a lot. Near the start of the day my lead said if I had time could I help them out with B7D - Sink 29 and B5A - Sink 28. I didn't even tell my Bay coworkers, I just left them to go run the sinks. I also don't really like being in the Bay with them because of the above mentioned reason of them not talking to me. Even when I would try to join thier conversations, they would stop talking to each other when I got near. Rude. :(

All shifts work for the same company but the way each shift is ran, no one would believe that. We all seem like our own clock gear pieces of separate companies that have to be in the same timepiece to make it tick. My shift is already following new company time keeping even though we are not official, but we need to work out the timing with our coworkers and Bay peeps.

D1 shift is still following old rules. Which is going to be crazy for them next week, if we switch to the new company. We are already on Day 2 of the new timekeeping and it is still a hard transition. Figuring out the breaks has also been difficult. We were told that we had to take 15-60-15, but could not combine any breaks unlike before when we had 25-60-25. We used to combine to 60-50 or 110. Today we were told from a TOP dog that we will after all be allowed to combine to 60-30 but our first break HAD to be taken before 11:30pm, even if we clocked out at 11:30p for our first break.

So B4aT left at 10 and B4aG left at 10:30 leaving me alone. B4aG said he was only going to take 30 but still wasn't back by 11:27 so I had to leave which is bullshit because they both know my break is at 11! Has been for 6 months! I barely clocked out in time at 11:29! Then I thought I'll be smart and take 45 minutes just to see if I could or if I'd get in trouble, so I did.

At my lunch break I went to the lunchroom to heat up my leftovers and two coworkers offered me handmade enchiladas. I said yes because free food. They were delish!! I put my leftovers back in my bag for tomorrow.

When I got back in, I went back to the bays I was working in to avoid my coworkers. I needed to go back to 4A for something and checked Navigo to see if 72etch was up yet (this was around 3a.m), it was signed up to "Full Quals" at 11pm! And B4aT didn't check on it. I went to ask the Lead how to do it because B4aT informed me at that time that he didn't know how to do the full qual. Yet he is certified on it and so am I. So my Lead said she was deactivating our certifacations because to be certified meant we knew the qual. And then she got a person who had some time come by and teach me the qual steps. She said if that person watched me do it and felt good about my learning and writing down the steps, I'd keep my certifaction.

I started getting the needed test wafers in the order they needed to be in. I had 2 cassettes that needed 5 wafers each in a certain order to be read in the correct parts of the machine and another 2 cassettes with 3 wafers each. Then they all needed to be pre-read on 3 different machines/6 different recipes. This took me 2 hours! Just to pre-read. Remember that "I'll be smart and only take 45" minutes on my first break? Well now it's 5am, and all breaks have to be DONE by 5:30, no one can be out of the fab past that time. So I lost 15 minutes of break time. This, this I may actually get in trouble for.. (update: 1/29/16, i did not)

I asked my Lead if she gets told if temps are going to be offered full time. She said she gives input and has been asked about me. She is not told time frames and thinks it will be after the new company takes over which is not until January 11th now, pending government approval. (update: 1/29/16, the new company didnt take over on the 11th, it was pushed back again with a TBD date)

I did not get 72etch qual started in time before shift change, so I wrote down ALL the names and pre-read and apologized to the D1 lady. She has been working the Bay alone this week and it has been busy. I apologized for leaving her with another Full Qual to do because Sunday B4aT let 24etch sit all day and didn't even attempt to do it. And D1 got in trouble for it not being done. So I felt bad that she had to do another.

Difference, pre-readings were done. For a qual that takes 3-4 hours for a pre-read, qual, post-read, enter data. He did nothing for a qual that takes nearly 6hrs, if nothing fails on the first attempt. He didn't even stay for passdown and I didn't work that Bay! So I said sorry for that as well and suggested she read the notes on the tools to see if anything went down for that day. Had i known he wasnt going to give passdown i would have tried to get that info so D1M didnt have to figure it out. Rude?! I told my Lead That B4aT didnt stay and hasnt been involved in giving passdown and She said she would talk to D1M To see how B4aT is giving passdown, just to make sure I'm not being deciving.

Jan 5th

As the days go on B4aT is getting more and more complacent. He is fulltime and is getting the benefits from it, but has settled into being more lazy because of it. I didn't think it was possible but it happened in front of my eyes. Sitting for nearly the entire shift. With B4aT and B4aG talking more with each other and I'm starting to feel more isolated which is a sucky feeling amungst coworkers.

I asked my lead if I could start training on other tools in a new bay. She said yes. But I'd have to wait for the person that would train me to come back from vacation. She starts vacation on the 7th. My Lead also said they were not going to waste any more time on B4aT because gossip has spread that he is leaving as soon as he gets his tax return. And it is rumored that B4aG might stat a week, 2 tops after that. So neither of them are going to be trained anywhere else. B3aY said she'd train me on the optimas, B6aR said she train me on those sinks and the tools in 5B and my lead said she'd train me on the sink in 7C. It sounds like because she knows B4aT and B4aG are planning on leaving, she is just going to leave them in the bay until a new trainee comes in. I might be able to train the new person.

Jan 6th

B4aG was off this day but did not inform us the day before...again. He is not a very good team player. Today was busy but all went well and B4aT and I didn't talk the whole shift. Not even to let the other know that we were going on break. We just left at the times we wanted even if the other wasnt back yet.

two weeks off. Jan 2, Jan 3

I had so many things planned for my two weeks off, and didn't do any of them. :) It was so awesome. Although it hurts my own bottom line so a few days before going back to work when I needed to switch up my schedule back to night shift and I did do a lot of work on my kind of side online business. I was able to meet up with 2 of the 3 I do credentialing for to get paid up on what I had completed and see if they needed me to check up on anything else. The third person I sent them a few texts to meet up and they said they'd get back to me on Dec 21st, and never did. They actually haven't texted me since and owe me around $200, So I should probably check up with them in the next coming weeks. I had a new person send me a message on Facebook asking if I do credentialing, and I told them I do, but I don't call the companies anymore because of my schedule. I sleep during the normal business hours and waiting up to call someone is not something I'm willing to do from now on. I said if she was still interested in me doing the applications and faxing them in I would. But nothing after. She never got back to me. So I guess that's not something that interested her. Oh well, I don't want to continue to do that on top of everything else I task myself with.

Jan 2

Back to work today. I was asked to come in a day early which I said yes to! Hopefully this shift will see that I'm amazing and will continue to ask me to come in. So I come in, had to get a new suit because the end of our shift on Dec 16th we had to put our suits in a bin to be cleaned outside the fab.

The gowning room was empty coming back in. no suits hanging, was a weird sight to see. Walking into the fab about 1/4 of the computers are locked out and no one knows the passwords because the computers never turn off. Our main system "promise" isn't working on any computers that are logged in. Basically, from 5:40 to 7:10 we are standing around talking because we cannot qual the tools for start up. Even if promise was up the 3 tools needed 9UV, 3tenCore and the SP1 machines, and so far they are not qualed or turned on yet. N2 of my department took a vote to leave the fab and gather in the lunch room until promise came back up. We were there 7:15 to 7:50.

Promise is up, but those 3 machines still are not. Now we are back in the fab waiting on maintenance to turn on the needed machines… All of the needed machines came up b 8:30 and we had 36ash and 52ash handed over for their quals. 52ash passed in the 1st run. 36ash failed 2 times and passed on the 3rd PC run. Then 49ash and 50ash were handed over at 12am and they both passed first run. Then 54ash, 53ash, 11ash, 12ash, and 13ash were handed over at 12:30. As I was doing 11 - 13 the guy on this shift in this bay with the unfortunate nickname of 'Salmon-Man', somehow managed to take down both 54ash and 53ash, back to maintenance at the same time around 1:15. 34sink was handed over at 3 am, 54ash and 53ash are still down and I cannot find the test wafers needed to qual 34sink. They are supposed to be in Bay 11D but have all been used. The guy in 11D said there is another batch in the cage. I walked over to the cage and it is a mess. Nothing was in the place it was suppose to be in, and i wasted enough time looking. So I walked away. Salmon-man said he would look for them when he got back from break...and if he couldn't find them he would either leave it for Day shift or ask someone to look. I think he is going ot leave it for day shift...he seems like a lazy kid. Also the sink is currently blaring an alarm that I cannot turn off because the screen froze so he wouldn't be able to load the test wafers anyway.

Jan 3

The sink did go up on Day 1 shift. They were able to find the needed test wafers. They were also able to start running product again! Yay!

I bring lunch to work ever working day because I don't want to drive somewhere, wait, drive back and eat. That takes all the precious time. Oh , and I don't want to spend money on that. Today I almost didn't bring lunch because the new company was supposedly having a mandatory party with food to celebrate working for the new company. Came into shift to find out the mandatory party has been moved to January 11th. I'm glad I brought food or I would have had to go home and put something together.

On my way to my car after the end of the day the lead on N2 called me over to her car. Well she called Adrianna, but I went over anyway. She thanked me for coming in and I said no problem. I also told her I've been trying to get overtime on N2 for nearly 4 months. She suggested I tell the N2 supervisor. I let her know I've told him 4 times and he has never called me. So she took down my name and number in her phone and said she'd talk to her super and give him a call. Yay! I might get some gorram overtime. Finally! (update: 1/29/16, nope still hasn't called me in for overtime... Maybe the are waiting for my temp status to be employee as well?)
Since today was the first day back to full production we had super small goals . By 9:30pm we had already passed our goal. By 12:30 we passed our goal double, by 4:30 triple.