Feb 1st
No tools went down today, we had a ton of work for 72. It was full all day. There was also a lot of work for the descum tools. I would go and collect 15 lots (which would all be done in about 5 hours if the next lot is loaded as soon as the last is done). When there were 3 lots left, I checked to see if any more were out waiting and there were over 20! So I collected more to fill the rack. D1 said it was that busy for them as well. 11 Ash is getting close to a maintenance qual. It's about 800 away. I predict it will go down on Wednesday at about 1000 away. Today was not as eventful as yesterday.
Feb 2nd
Passdown told us descum and 72 were the same amount busy, fully loaded all day with a lot of product still waiting to be ran. Been talking to MMJ on ways to hang out outside of work and we have a mutual love for "I Love Lucy". I have the box set and so now we just need to find nights where our schedules are free to binge watch.
Tuesday, I was in my Bay alone and started hearing a beeping sound. I checked all my tools and none had alarms going off on them. So I left the Bay thinking it was the sink on 5A. As soon as I left the bay, I didn't hear it anymore. I thought it was done. I went back into my bay and there it was again. I paged MMT and asked if they could check the subfab under my bay for an alarm. An hour later, the alarm stops. MMT finds me and asks if it was stopped. "Yep . Thanks!".
Sandy walked in to use the computer and I asked if she could hear the beep. She looked at me and said what beep? She waited a few seconds and then said, "Nah, I hear it." I think she wanted me to think I was crazy.
I was told today that the paperwork has been submitted for me to train the new person starting Sunday. Yay!
72 finally went down today, it was running with no errors for 2 days straight. Chamber 2 went down for an endpoint error. It use to do this a lot. It hasn't had an endpoint error for a while. It took the engineer another couple of hours to come look at it. The second time it went down, it went straight to maintenance, which is also for the engineer. The issue with the second time was because I ran a sign/wafer and the machine did not have a second wafer to compare it to. So it thought there was a issue and shut itself down. The engineer said he is going to have to change the chart in the tool so it doesn't do that again if there is only one wafer in the lot.
24 went down as well but I didn't know it was running or that it was down until MMT came up and said he signed back over to me and continued to process the lot. There ended up being more work for 24 as the night went on.
Near the end of shift our engineer needed to borrow 24 to run some test wafers because they are wanting to add some more recipes to it, and covert it for the new company. Now like Descum, 24 etch is qualed on a counter, unlike Descum, it isn't by wafer count, it is by hours the tool has ran with wafers, 24 etch's qual count is 2 etching hours. If there is a lot of work and it runs back to back that can be as little as 2 days, but if there is no work for weeks or months, then it doesn't need to be done. One thing our engineer did was use up the last remaining hour before Qual. So when he was done, it went down. I was on break and David wasn't paying attention to it so we didn't notice until 5:30 am. We apologized for passing down Qual, but oh well.
The next thing our engineer did after he was done using 24 etch was tell us that for the descum, Qual, we no longer needed to use the tencor to pre/post read PCs just the SP1s. We have the at passdown.
Feb 3
Today started our with a lot of broken down machines. 52 ash was down, I don't know what the initial problem was but the Maintenance man on D1 decided to put it down to P.Maint and left it down all shift. As I predicted, because I'm awesome, 11 Ash went down for preventive maintenance.
Funny story the MM signed it back up because they didn't have the needed parts in stock that needed to be changed out. Said, "on order" unknown time of arrival. I'm thinking they ordered this morning...
As day shift did the Qual for 24 etch, they realized a new task was added to 24 that needed to be done twice daily. Twice daily?! 24 is hardly used, and a lot of full product takes nearly 2.5 hours.
Tuesday, after the engineer told me that tencor is not needed for Quals, I let him know I had concerns about the SP1. I had a task Qual due for 53 ash Wednesday and said I could show him my concern. He agreed.
On top of my task for 53, 52 was already down and 54 was less than 50 away from going down to it's preventive maintenance. Down 3 ashers is NEVER fun and a new task yay! Okay I do 2.5/3 of the task for 53, page the engineer to come by so I can show him my issue with SP1. I then start the task for 24 while waiting, over an hour and a half goes by and the engineer has not stopped by. By this time I've completed the task in 24 and 54 went down. I really needed to bring up my working asher so I decided not to wait any longer. I was walking down the main hall, I saw the engineer talking to someone about a game. I stood next to him until they stopped talking and looked at me. I asked if he got my page and I was going to post read now, he looked at his pager and said "Oh, there it is..."
Either way, we got to the SP1, I started post reading and said "I'll be very mad if this doesn't mess up like it usually does..." Fortunately, it did. He noticed my concern and said he would figure out why that is happening. Either way it's still going to be the only pre/post reader we use.
He took this moment to tell me that he added the new task to 24. I told him I knew and already completed it. He looked shocked and amazed. 54 was down for another 3 hours before maintenance added a comment asking for an extension on the P.Maint because they didn't have the manpower to have two department MM working on P.Maint tools. Since 52 was already down. 54 came back up, 52 was down the rest of the night.
On Sunday, I have the exciting opportunity of training a new temp. I also hope I get the paperwork to get hired with benefits...I for reals need to go to doctor. My neck and shoulder still hurt. But I have no insurance, so nope.
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
Monday, June 13, 2016
Jan 28-31
Jan 28
Yup. I definitely did something to my back and neck. Woke up today and it hurt to breathe, move my right arm, and move my head in any direction. I took something for it, got in a super hot bath and that helped for a few hours. My sister picked up a heating pad for me and that kinda worked but it's still very painful to move my neck. I think I need a massage therapist and a chiropractor to relieve the tension in my back. Ouch.
Jan 29
Tomorrow is going to be a long day. I'm going out with friends to get more product for my online side business. My goal is to have everything that is not posted yet, online before we head out. Going to be a long night, I'm hopeful. Here is to a busy night.
Jan 31
Well...not much got done yesterday. i like being busy on the weekends way too much. But it was still a long day!
Friday night I woke up at 7 p.m and stayed up to start my product run at 10am but I didn't get done till 2p. Then we went out to eat and didn't get home until nearly 3:30p, then I went to sleep. I wanted to wake up at 10pm and stay up because I had another long day planned for Sunday. Well I didn't get u, I ended up sleeping until my body woke me up with pain at 9am. I got up, dressed and waited for my bestie to come over. She, my Mom, my Dad, and I have season tickets to Broadway plays. The play was scheduled to show at 2pm but we left early to have lunch. After the play let out, we went back to my house and I had to get ready for work. I'm already tired, tonight was going to be interesting.
So far, as I'm writing, it's 2am. I have been up 17 hours and still have another 4 to go until shift is done. When I got into work, I missed pass down, but I did tell my Super and Lead that I might be up to a hour late just in case. Thankfully, I ended up only 20 minutes late.
Over the weekend, I got a email from my temp place that new company would officially be taking over Monday at Midnight. Well it was finally true, we all had to leave the fab at 11:30 pm and could not return until after midnight, however this was going to be considered time from our break. Thankfully, they provided not-very-good food. I ate anyway because it was free. It was Mediterranean but it wasn't warm. B2aD, my new Bay 4 coworker, said it looked gross and didn't eat any of it. We were told not to go back into the fab until 12:30a but he went back in at 12:05.
Other than the midnight "celebration", the day was good. No tools went down and work was -all-over-the-place busy. It was nice and steady, a day like today is what I wish for every "Friday" or last day of my work week. We did have a meting that David told me about with the timekeeper, a lady in HR that keeps track of all the punch ins and punch outs. She is the lady that plays no favorites with anyone and assigns points to those who do not follow rules. She was telling us about the new time system that the company is having us use. There is a mobile app for it. The main three things I got out of the meeting were.
-It has ALL personal info in the app and online. So do not stay logged in if you are away.
-You can take your breaks as you please, as long as the total break time doesn't exceed ninety minutes, no points will be assigned.
-Temps are not in this system yet, unknown when they will be added.
I figure I'll take my breaks 45/45, that way I'm not rushed at 30 minutes and not bored at 60 minutes. I told B2aD, he didn't care, he just told me to tell Super. I told Lead, she didn't mind and she told me to tell Super. I told Super and he told Lead no, not me, the Lead. So I had to got find him and ask why. He said his boss says we can only take our breaks 15-60-15 or 60-30. No other combo, so I mentioned the meeting we just had, that Super was not at, and he said the Timekeeper was wrong. Super and the Timekeeper don't have the same boss. So I relayed this info to Lead and she said she'd remind Super to ask his boss again with the new Timekeeper info.
After the meeting, I went to get water and during that time, Lead talked to B2aD and asked why he told me about the Timekeepers meeting as I was not included, because I'm a temp. He told her one of two things will happen.
-They'll add the temps to the system and she'll need to know the info.
-She'll be hired on as a employee and she'll need to know the system.
As of right now, I try to log in and I get 'user not found'. So I wonder if my breaks are even being timed? Hmmm?
72etch ran all night, fully loaded and all day.
Yup. I definitely did something to my back and neck. Woke up today and it hurt to breathe, move my right arm, and move my head in any direction. I took something for it, got in a super hot bath and that helped for a few hours. My sister picked up a heating pad for me and that kinda worked but it's still very painful to move my neck. I think I need a massage therapist and a chiropractor to relieve the tension in my back. Ouch.
Jan 29
Tomorrow is going to be a long day. I'm going out with friends to get more product for my online side business. My goal is to have everything that is not posted yet, online before we head out. Going to be a long night, I'm hopeful. Here is to a busy night.
Jan 31
Well...not much got done yesterday. i like being busy on the weekends way too much. But it was still a long day!
Friday night I woke up at 7 p.m and stayed up to start my product run at 10am but I didn't get done till 2p. Then we went out to eat and didn't get home until nearly 3:30p, then I went to sleep. I wanted to wake up at 10pm and stay up because I had another long day planned for Sunday. Well I didn't get u, I ended up sleeping until my body woke me up with pain at 9am. I got up, dressed and waited for my bestie to come over. She, my Mom, my Dad, and I have season tickets to Broadway plays. The play was scheduled to show at 2pm but we left early to have lunch. After the play let out, we went back to my house and I had to get ready for work. I'm already tired, tonight was going to be interesting.
So far, as I'm writing, it's 2am. I have been up 17 hours and still have another 4 to go until shift is done. When I got into work, I missed pass down, but I did tell my Super and Lead that I might be up to a hour late just in case. Thankfully, I ended up only 20 minutes late.
Over the weekend, I got a email from my temp place that new company would officially be taking over Monday at Midnight. Well it was finally true, we all had to leave the fab at 11:30 pm and could not return until after midnight, however this was going to be considered time from our break. Thankfully, they provided not-very-good food. I ate anyway because it was free. It was Mediterranean but it wasn't warm. B2aD, my new Bay 4 coworker, said it looked gross and didn't eat any of it. We were told not to go back into the fab until 12:30a but he went back in at 12:05.
Other than the midnight "celebration", the day was good. No tools went down and work was -all-over-the-place busy. It was nice and steady, a day like today is what I wish for every "Friday" or last day of my work week. We did have a meting that David told me about with the timekeeper, a lady in HR that keeps track of all the punch ins and punch outs. She is the lady that plays no favorites with anyone and assigns points to those who do not follow rules. She was telling us about the new time system that the company is having us use. There is a mobile app for it. The main three things I got out of the meeting were.
-It has ALL personal info in the app and online. So do not stay logged in if you are away.
-You can take your breaks as you please, as long as the total break time doesn't exceed ninety minutes, no points will be assigned.
-Temps are not in this system yet, unknown when they will be added.
I figure I'll take my breaks 45/45, that way I'm not rushed at 30 minutes and not bored at 60 minutes. I told B2aD, he didn't care, he just told me to tell Super. I told Lead, she didn't mind and she told me to tell Super. I told Super and he told Lead no, not me, the Lead. So I had to got find him and ask why. He said his boss says we can only take our breaks 15-60-15 or 60-30. No other combo, so I mentioned the meeting we just had, that Super was not at, and he said the Timekeeper was wrong. Super and the Timekeeper don't have the same boss. So I relayed this info to Lead and she said she'd remind Super to ask his boss again with the new Timekeeper info.
After the meeting, I went to get water and during that time, Lead talked to B2aD and asked why he told me about the Timekeepers meeting as I was not included, because I'm a temp. He told her one of two things will happen.
-They'll add the temps to the system and she'll need to know the info.
-She'll be hired on as a employee and she'll need to know the system.
As of right now, I try to log in and I get 'user not found'. So I wonder if my breaks are even being timed? Hmmm?
72etch ran all night, fully loaded and all day.
Sunday, June 12, 2016
Jan 22-26
Jan 22
Today is my brother's birthday! He is now 25! Since the break changes, I've been wanting to get a watch to better time my breaks. My Dad had offered to go with me when I woke up at my usual time of 6-6:30 (on my days off). My Dad was home but my Mom was not, so I asked if he wanted to go get re-dressed (out of PJ's) and go watch and go shopping. Our first stop was H-E-B to look for a frosting spreader. The old one broke weeks ago and was thrown away, unfortunately I we didn't have a replacement on hand. Next stop was Target for the watch and more spatulas. I looked at cheap brands because I like to save money and spend the most of my money on my debt, not getting more. My Dad said I was looking at crap watches and refused to let me get anything outside the Timex-Ironman brand. So he said he would buy it. Of course I don't say no, but I don't ask him for much or I try not too and try not to make them expensive things. I walked out of the store with this one ((watch image)).
Next we weren't to Walmart for junk food! My Dad says he likes going shopping with me because I let him buy what he wants. I replied, 'I get to eat the junk food as well, why would I say no?'
Jan 23
Today my Mom and I were supposed to cook the next week's worth of food and put it in the fridge but she let me sleep all day, so I guess instead of just telling me she wasn't interested in that idea, she let me think we were going to do this plan all week. She even asked me to print out recipes for her. Then she let me sleep the day away until it was time to go out for my brother's birthday dinner. How lame. I think I'm going to ask her for some cash and just do it myself.
After dinner I noticed that the light up part to show the time in the dark didn't work. I told my Dad and he seemed more disappointed that I was. He even sent me two link for other watches to already replace this one. He also brought me a new shirt clip for my badge. It's awesome, be jealous.
Jan 24th
The guard did not call me over the rest of the week. However the boss that was mentioned was at the desk so I asked him about the locker. He let me know that it had not been cleaned out yet because they had not received the termination paperwork for Tyler yet. But, they still had my name and number on the desk to let me know when I could collect any belongings Tyler possibly left. Really home he left them!
Pass down was awesome today and went smoothly. Was told Ash had lots of work. Descum had LOTS of work. Usually it gets 0-15 lots during day shift. However it had over 25 and still had lots waiting. The numbers were really high though, in the 850-925 range at 1001 wafers. The tool signs itself down for Qual, just to make sure it is still running without dropping to many particles. 24 was down and needed a Qual done, which I don't know how to do. David has now found a "home" in my bay until Grant comes back or maybe Grant will be moved, as he prefers to work alone. Bay 7C is a single person bay. I watched David to the Qual for 24 etch. But I think I'll need to watch him do it again before being able to run it alone.
Went through the day and not a single tool went down. The work was steady, didn't have any problems or questions. So much 30 at the end of the day whom my lead came into the bay to get her passdown written down for D1 Lead she came up tot me and said she missed talking to me because I didn't need her that day. I told her my day was just that, awesome. Descum did end up needing to be Qualed around 2am for reaching the canter limit.
At the star of the day, we got more word that the new company is still waiting for the government to sign whatever needs to be done for the buy out to be completed. So we are still not technically sold. Which means my Super is still waiting to hire me on until after the transition is final. The new company is hopeful that it will be Feb 1st.
When hearing of this news at passdown, I asked D1M if she got the paper that explained how to log into the app that is provided by our time clock keeper. She said she did and I wanted to know if I could have a copy, she said she'd bring it in the morning.
I have a new lunch buddy. She is the only female maintenance worker, but she was not hear today so eating alone was boring.
Jan 25
I'm needing to remember to cover up my watch with the glove. It's still a new thing but I like the watch. Keeping track of time is much easier when you can't have your phone consistently. It is sad that the wrist watch is a dying thing. It is also sad that phone companies are trying to make it come back with your phone being in a watch. Dumb idea. I only use my phone for games and I can't use the watch for games.
Next, on day shift, 34 sink scanner finally died. The laser has been going dim for a few weeks now and it finally gave out and was replaced today. During passdown I told D1 that 72 only had the two lots dispatched to it all day and I loaded them both. Maria then asked why it wasn't using chamber 3. I hadn't noticed. We looked at Navigo because the FPS dispatch had not been on 72 etch for 2 weeks because it kept crashing. On Navigo apparently Chamber 3 went down on Jan 21st and neither Day 2 or Night 2 had noticed. Probably for the same reason we didn't.
When you get used to FPS showing you the work and the status of the tool, you forget Navigo can show you tool status. On Navigo the chambers are so tiny they are hard to tell what color they are for a status report. Maria also followed through and brought my copy of the directions to navigate the time keeping app. I hope I am able to log in even thought I'm still a temp. I will find out once my weekend starts. Other things that happened on Day shift, they had the robots fail in 50 ash and 53 ash. Also, the 72 chamber 3 came back needing a full Qual on the whole tool 30 minutes before shift change.
They didn't want to start it that close to the end. I said I would take care of it. I needed the practice anyway. 50 and 53 came up and didn't go back down for the rest of shift. When D1 gave passdown their Descum numbers were 325, at the end of my shift they were 650. If each lot had 25 wafers, that's 13 lots for each of the 3 Descum. We still had another 10 lots waiting. Descum hasn't been this busy since October.
72 etch, I needed to wait until our overtime helper came in so she could cover the Ashers while I slowly work my way through the Qual again. First time it took me 2 hours to just get the pre reading info done and I wasn't able to run the Qual. 2nd time took me 6 hours from start to finish. Need to get faster. This time took me 5 hours to get to finish but the tool also went down two times during the Qual. I did have to re-run one test wafer for failing to pass. After all that, it took me still a total of 6 hours. Would have been faster if not for the issues. After, all were up and ran fine. I asked my Super if he could try to load the FPS dispatcher for 72 again to see if that crashing problem was fixed. Seemed to work fine the rest of the day. Rest of the week will be the real test. My lunch buddy was back today, she said she was going to buy me lunch tomorrow. Cool :)
With 30 minutes left in shift the cart person decides that is the best time to bring 11 lots from building 4 to the e-fab. The e-fab is a pain in my butt! But since I was a crap worker today, being held up by 72 etch, I decided to go get the lots. Took me 25 minutes. Came back to Bay with the e-fab lots just after the Day shift got there. David talked to them while I loaded the e-fab lots into the ashers then I gave them the passdown.
Jan 26
Today a memo was going around in my department, that needed to be signed by everyone in acknowledgment of reading it. The memo started out with the new company is providing our insurance for those on it. I'm not, but because we are still not yet owned technically by the new company they are not able to take out the premiums from the checks. They wanted to let us know that when we transfer over to the new company, that they will be taking extra money from each check until the past month of insurance is caught up.
That is bad news for people who live paycheck to paycheck and are not budgeting for the extra money. Next they wanted to remind everyone that the breaks will be one hour and 30 minutes, not one hour and 50 minutes. Our department decided to start the new break times in the beginning of January because we thought the new company was going to take over that first week. When we didn't switch, I started taking my breaks the old way but everyone else took them the new way. I feel like the break switch reminder was for me...if so and I get talked to about it, I think I'll play dumb. Nah, I'll tell them the truth. We are still the old company, old breaks apply, and I'll start the new shorter time if we ever switch. Hopefully, I don't get fired :/ As far as I know, my Super is still holding off my permanent position for when we officially change over.
This week has been crap. My back and neck hurt so bad and I've been such a shit worker because I've been doing Quals everyday and have been leaving David to run the Bay. I hope he sees that I'm not doing it on purpose.
My new lunch buddy MMJ got food for us today. It was super nice and yummy. I asked the security guard again about B4aTs locker. They said they still haven't received termination papers but they'll hold the items for me. B5bB told me that 35 new temps are being hired in the next two weeks. I hope my shift gets some. A coworker from another department wanted to tell me a secret and started out with "He'll never date a coworker, but I know someone who likes you." Naturally I say "Who?" to which I got, "I can't tell you." Wouldn't it be better to just not say any of the secret? The work day was really busy. I don't like the last day of the work week to be busy.
Jan 10, 11, 12 / 17, 18, 19, 20- good week!
Jan 10
I get to attempt to do the Qual on 72etch. It looks like today I'll be able to run it as well. Today seems like it will actually be busy. I am running 29 sink and 34 sink. 28 is down. When B4aT tried to track something out after passdown, his badge failed. It gave the error "Security UAF-W-logfail, user authorization failure, privileges removed." Hehe. He told the Lead and Super and they are trying to figure out what to do. I guess they didn't fire him, so they don't know why "privileges removed."
Jan 11
I found out a girl who borrowed one of my pens two weeks ago was fired last week… Now I'm down an extra pen. But B4aT was not fired, turns out he left some of his certifications expire yesterday during the busy he was useless because he couldn't do anything with his badge and left mid day to go take his tests. Today, since his badge works again, I did everything I could to not be in my bay again. I can't wait for the day when he just stops showing up to work. With his lazier and lazier attitude, I feel like it will be soon. When we were on the shut down, he went to visit his mom, who bought a new house and he was helping her move in. While there, his girlfriend applied for jobs up there and he talked to some old bosses. When he came back, he said he was going to leave us soon as his girlfriend heard from where she applied or when his tax return came in. sounds like this week his girlfriend heard back from a few places...I hop he is moving sooner rather than later.
Jan 12
Today is Friday-ish! Last day of this work week. B4aT is officially on the radar of my lead and Super because of his lazy attitude and slower work ethic. They are watching him and not in the good way. Unfortunately but fortunately for B4aT, he doesn't mess up the work that he does. He always checks the IDs of the wafers, loads and unloads in timely manners and does enough work to keep work flowing. But sits when his tools are running and doesn't go get more until needed.
17, 18, 19, 20- good week!
Jan 17
Is this week the week?! If it is, I'm way too excited way too early! It's two days too early to tell. I show up a minute late to passdown and B4aT is not there. I get my passdown and B4aT is still not in the bay. At 6:10, neither is B4aG. Are they both late? Nope. Amber the backup lead comes in to my bay and says 7 people called in today. B4aG, B4aT, B5bB, B6aR, B3aY, B11dT, and Lead. Since B11dT didn't come in, neither did her partner Test Wafer Room Operator C.
Around 11pm, B3aY and B5bB showed up. This day was busy for Ash. At passdown the two on the bay said they've been able to keep Ash down to 20-30. And at that time, it was at 25. It didn't take long for that 25 to become 40. When I went on my first break at 11:30, it was at 50. When I got back, it was in the 80's. It got as high as 104. Then I was able to maintain 85-95 for the rest of the night. Descum was fairly busy as well. It takes Descum one hour to complete a lot of 25. And among all the as work, there were 20 lots for Descum which I could easily finish during my shift. If more were not dispatched out, and if one of my machines didn't go down to Qual in the middle of doing a lot. Fortunately, the machine finishes the lot, but will not let you load the next until the Qual is done. 24 also went down due to an arm failure. So the lot it was working on needed to be split because the completed wafers cannot wait more than 4 hours after being done before the next step needs to be started. This is because gasses used in 24etch and 72etch, are corrosive and start to corrode pits into the wafers. 72 went down today for a cooling plate error but was brought back up quickly and completed its lot without further issue. Other than being busy, today was good.
New Company has still not fully taken over. But they have already taken over as the insurance carrier. So when they do take over, they are taking back insurance dues from the first check. I'm glad I'm not fulltime yet, that back pay would be no fun if they take much longer to take over payroll.
I asked Super for help to split lot. He told B12dA to do it. I didn't want to ask B12dA because she was covering everyone due to the amount of people gone. Two people said to take my time because the next day no one will care that I was alone, they'll care if I mess up.
Jan 18
B4aT and B4aG are no shows again today. Fortunately, everyone else showed so B2aD was able to help and stay in my bay with me. Looks like I will not be learning the optimas real soon like I'd hoped but B4aT's missing. He has one more day before it is considered "job abandonment" and is automatically terminated. One of the benefits to fulltime is "time bank" where you get hours from each paycheck for vacation. Under some circumstances, Old Company allows employees to "borrow" time bank to cover events like the shutdown for those who do not have enough but still need the normal paycheck. B4aT borrowed over 40 hours, and last I knew, still owes 20 hours of pay back to Old Company. I asked my lead today "when his locker is cleaned out tomorrow, can I have his notebook, pen, and safety glasses." She laughed and said, "I don't see why not."
50ash went down twice today for "cassette on sensor one". Maintenance signed it back up the first time, but opened up the machine and cleaned the sensors the second time. He told me to run PC's and I took the opportunity to run the full Qual so I didn't have to rush to get it down when we get back in tonight. 24 was down when we got in but as soon as it was up it was running wonderfully and didn't go down again for the rest of the shift. It ran 4 lots fully w/o issue! 2 of the lots had been waiting to run for 30+ hours. Good thing there were not P1's. 24 is the only one of it's kind so when it is down, the lots just wait. 49 went down an hour before shift change due to RF failure, it happens frequently to the Ash but I don't know what it is. Maintenance didn't look at it by the end of shift. Ash was steady today but picked up near the end of the day getting to 45 lots by the end. I almost left the gowning room with my hood on. Two people saw me, not one told me. Only noticed because I didn't put my safety glasses on my smock as I usually do and touched my face and felt my hood. I turned around and called out Yolanda for not telling me, turns out she's losing her voice because she got sick on her vacation. So I probably didn't hear her.
Two people told me if I get too excited I will be extremely disappointed if B4aT shows up on Tuesday. On Tuesday, weekly Qual can be started as early as 4 am. The day it is due I've never been able to do it early because B4aT wouldn't help while I was on break, he wasn't here today so I did it. Now to see if the system allows the Qual as early as early as it says it does.
Jan 19
B4aG showed up today. He informed me that he had not being in because he was supposed to have surgery but was scheduled with the wrong doctor and it was rescheduled to Thursday. He also told me that he was not going to be in on Wednesday.
Day 3- No B4aT! This is exciting news form me, because as of today he is terminated for 'job abandonment'. Which means he can't come in tomorrow or ever, even if he wanted to.
B2aD says he feels like a ping pong ball because he keeps being bounced around from bay to bay covering. he said "I have no home" Me: "You can live in Bay 4A with me, I'll give you a home." For the next 4-6 weeks while B4aG is out. Maybe even after that."
This slow guy, Sloth, has a major problem walking around and not doing work, so he was put in a bay and told to stay and work. B2aD didn't help him while he was covering people that were going to lunch. When I went to find lunch at 4 am. B2aD was covering Lead's pager and got a page from Sloth that said he was going home early. B2aD laughed and said "All that actual working must have made him tired."
Today B2aD came up to me and he says he said "the mountain ceder is Killing me" Which made me laugh because that is NOT what i heard. I heard "The mouse in heater is killing me" when i repeated this he laughed at me.
50 ash did go down, claiming Qual needed to be done. I just tasked it out. B4aG left early saying he didn't feel well. Hope his hernia surgery goes well. I told MMT that B4aT was most likely terminated. MMT said, "That's not a good way to end things. Hope he doesn't try to use Old Company as a reference in the future." Then he said, "Oh now you get to deal with me." Hopefully whatever problem he had is done with because he is the department maintenance guy and can no longer only talk to the males of the bay as it is now my bay.
I think the termination is an automatic system thing because has soon as B4aT didn't clock in, B4aG tried to track product into the ashers and got a message saying his certification for the asher expired. But B4aG was never certified, at least not yet on the ashers. He was however certified on the sink so he had to run the sink for today and when he returns to work I'll be his new trainer to retrain him correctly on the tools. I do still have to learn the Qual for 24. B4aT took that Qual with him. He said I'd never have to worry about it… now B4aT is not here, yes! But I don't know how to fix it if I need to.
Also found out today Old Company is trying to hire people off Craigslist but they are proving to be unreliable. They had 3 interviews set up this week and not one showed. I hope someone shows up soon. I'd like to start training so I know how to refine my skills and teaching methods.
Jan 20
Read in Teresa's notes that New Company still waiting for the government to approve the buyout. How complicated is it? We were told it would be much worse if we actually made chips for the government. Since the start of the year, those with health care through work have been covered by New Company but we are still being paid by Old Company, meaning that the premiums for the insurance is building up because Old Company doesn't have an agreement with New Company to collect the health care money. In Teresa's notes, she let everyone know that they should put aside the money that is not being taken out because New Company plans to take ALL back pay insurance premiums out on the first New Company check issued. So far it is two payments.
Latest update is that New Company is hopeful that the Government will approve the buyout and the transition will be completed on Feb 1st. Which would be 3 health care payments. I don't have to worry about it because I don't have their health insurance because I'm not full time with them yet. Super seems to be waiting until the buy out is official.
I'm glad B4aT gave back my ((see notebook)). Had them less than 4 months and have never watched them.
At the start of shift, 24 was down and needed a Qual. Fortunately, B2aD is going to be in my bay until someone else comes down. He also knows the Quals to 24. I asked if he could teach me next time the Qual needs to be done. 49 went down for a preventive maintenance task that was rescheduled for another time…
Someone stole my boots! I came in gowned then noticed my boots missing. The fuck?! There are cameras! Annoying. The pathetic part is when I went to break at 11:15 my boots were hanging on the hanger NEXT to mine. Someone from D1 took my boots instead of getting new ones, again the fuck? The door is not far away to get your own new pair. The new pair I grabbed sucked because the elastic to keep the boot up with, stretched out. So I took my boots back and gave them the shit pair I got that day. From now on I'm keeping my boots IN my gown.
The day was fairly slow. Ash wasn't busy as it was Sunday today. It got as high as 60 lots because no one was running ash for an hour and a half. I went to break at 11:15 and just after I left, B2aD got a P1 New Company lot that had specific instructions that only B2aD could run it. And at 12 the other person who run the optimas goes on break. I got back late from break at 12:30 instead of 12:15. It doesn't seem like long but 30 minutes with no one at all running any kind of ashers really lets the lots build up. I've also got a big influx of lots from building 4 to the E-fab. I hate gathering lots from the E-fab so I let them sit longer. When I did finally go, I had a whole cart full. The cart for my bay holds 12 lots.
The rest of the night went quickly. Before I knew it, we were giving passdown to D2 people and I was going home. I asked the security guard if they had cleaned out B4aTs's locker. He said he wasn't sure because they only clean out lockers of the badges that get turned in. I told him he wasn't getting the badge back because B4aT most likely moved. But if they do clean out his locker, I asked if I could have his bay work items if allowed. He said he'd ask his boss and would have to give me a call.
I get to attempt to do the Qual on 72etch. It looks like today I'll be able to run it as well. Today seems like it will actually be busy. I am running 29 sink and 34 sink. 28 is down. When B4aT tried to track something out after passdown, his badge failed. It gave the error "Security UAF-W-logfail, user authorization failure, privileges removed." Hehe. He told the Lead and Super and they are trying to figure out what to do. I guess they didn't fire him, so they don't know why "privileges removed."
Jan 11
I found out a girl who borrowed one of my pens two weeks ago was fired last week… Now I'm down an extra pen. But B4aT was not fired, turns out he left some of his certifications expire yesterday during the busy he was useless because he couldn't do anything with his badge and left mid day to go take his tests. Today, since his badge works again, I did everything I could to not be in my bay again. I can't wait for the day when he just stops showing up to work. With his lazier and lazier attitude, I feel like it will be soon. When we were on the shut down, he went to visit his mom, who bought a new house and he was helping her move in. While there, his girlfriend applied for jobs up there and he talked to some old bosses. When he came back, he said he was going to leave us soon as his girlfriend heard from where she applied or when his tax return came in. sounds like this week his girlfriend heard back from a few places...I hop he is moving sooner rather than later.
Jan 12
Today is Friday-ish! Last day of this work week. B4aT is officially on the radar of my lead and Super because of his lazy attitude and slower work ethic. They are watching him and not in the good way. Unfortunately but fortunately for B4aT, he doesn't mess up the work that he does. He always checks the IDs of the wafers, loads and unloads in timely manners and does enough work to keep work flowing. But sits when his tools are running and doesn't go get more until needed.
17, 18, 19, 20- good week!
Jan 17
Is this week the week?! If it is, I'm way too excited way too early! It's two days too early to tell. I show up a minute late to passdown and B4aT is not there. I get my passdown and B4aT is still not in the bay. At 6:10, neither is B4aG. Are they both late? Nope. Amber the backup lead comes in to my bay and says 7 people called in today. B4aG, B4aT, B5bB, B6aR, B3aY, B11dT, and Lead. Since B11dT didn't come in, neither did her partner Test Wafer Room Operator C.
Around 11pm, B3aY and B5bB showed up. This day was busy for Ash. At passdown the two on the bay said they've been able to keep Ash down to 20-30. And at that time, it was at 25. It didn't take long for that 25 to become 40. When I went on my first break at 11:30, it was at 50. When I got back, it was in the 80's. It got as high as 104. Then I was able to maintain 85-95 for the rest of the night. Descum was fairly busy as well. It takes Descum one hour to complete a lot of 25. And among all the as work, there were 20 lots for Descum which I could easily finish during my shift. If more were not dispatched out, and if one of my machines didn't go down to Qual in the middle of doing a lot. Fortunately, the machine finishes the lot, but will not let you load the next until the Qual is done. 24 also went down due to an arm failure. So the lot it was working on needed to be split because the completed wafers cannot wait more than 4 hours after being done before the next step needs to be started. This is because gasses used in 24etch and 72etch, are corrosive and start to corrode pits into the wafers. 72 went down today for a cooling plate error but was brought back up quickly and completed its lot without further issue. Other than being busy, today was good.
New Company has still not fully taken over. But they have already taken over as the insurance carrier. So when they do take over, they are taking back insurance dues from the first check. I'm glad I'm not fulltime yet, that back pay would be no fun if they take much longer to take over payroll.
I asked Super for help to split lot. He told B12dA to do it. I didn't want to ask B12dA because she was covering everyone due to the amount of people gone. Two people said to take my time because the next day no one will care that I was alone, they'll care if I mess up.
Jan 18
B4aT and B4aG are no shows again today. Fortunately, everyone else showed so B2aD was able to help and stay in my bay with me. Looks like I will not be learning the optimas real soon like I'd hoped but B4aT's missing. He has one more day before it is considered "job abandonment" and is automatically terminated. One of the benefits to fulltime is "time bank" where you get hours from each paycheck for vacation. Under some circumstances, Old Company allows employees to "borrow" time bank to cover events like the shutdown for those who do not have enough but still need the normal paycheck. B4aT borrowed over 40 hours, and last I knew, still owes 20 hours of pay back to Old Company. I asked my lead today "when his locker is cleaned out tomorrow, can I have his notebook, pen, and safety glasses." She laughed and said, "I don't see why not."
50ash went down twice today for "cassette on sensor one". Maintenance signed it back up the first time, but opened up the machine and cleaned the sensors the second time. He told me to run PC's and I took the opportunity to run the full Qual so I didn't have to rush to get it down when we get back in tonight. 24 was down when we got in but as soon as it was up it was running wonderfully and didn't go down again for the rest of the shift. It ran 4 lots fully w/o issue! 2 of the lots had been waiting to run for 30+ hours. Good thing there were not P1's. 24 is the only one of it's kind so when it is down, the lots just wait. 49 went down an hour before shift change due to RF failure, it happens frequently to the Ash but I don't know what it is. Maintenance didn't look at it by the end of shift. Ash was steady today but picked up near the end of the day getting to 45 lots by the end. I almost left the gowning room with my hood on. Two people saw me, not one told me. Only noticed because I didn't put my safety glasses on my smock as I usually do and touched my face and felt my hood. I turned around and called out Yolanda for not telling me, turns out she's losing her voice because she got sick on her vacation. So I probably didn't hear her.
Two people told me if I get too excited I will be extremely disappointed if B4aT shows up on Tuesday. On Tuesday, weekly Qual can be started as early as 4 am. The day it is due I've never been able to do it early because B4aT wouldn't help while I was on break, he wasn't here today so I did it. Now to see if the system allows the Qual as early as early as it says it does.
Jan 19
B4aG showed up today. He informed me that he had not being in because he was supposed to have surgery but was scheduled with the wrong doctor and it was rescheduled to Thursday. He also told me that he was not going to be in on Wednesday.
Day 3- No B4aT! This is exciting news form me, because as of today he is terminated for 'job abandonment'. Which means he can't come in tomorrow or ever, even if he wanted to.
B2aD says he feels like a ping pong ball because he keeps being bounced around from bay to bay covering. he said "I have no home" Me: "You can live in Bay 4A with me, I'll give you a home." For the next 4-6 weeks while B4aG is out. Maybe even after that."
This slow guy, Sloth, has a major problem walking around and not doing work, so he was put in a bay and told to stay and work. B2aD didn't help him while he was covering people that were going to lunch. When I went to find lunch at 4 am. B2aD was covering Lead's pager and got a page from Sloth that said he was going home early. B2aD laughed and said "All that actual working must have made him tired."
Today B2aD came up to me and he says he said "the mountain ceder is Killing me" Which made me laugh because that is NOT what i heard. I heard "The mouse in heater is killing me" when i repeated this he laughed at me.
50 ash did go down, claiming Qual needed to be done. I just tasked it out. B4aG left early saying he didn't feel well. Hope his hernia surgery goes well. I told MMT that B4aT was most likely terminated. MMT said, "That's not a good way to end things. Hope he doesn't try to use Old Company as a reference in the future." Then he said, "Oh now you get to deal with me." Hopefully whatever problem he had is done with because he is the department maintenance guy and can no longer only talk to the males of the bay as it is now my bay.
I think the termination is an automatic system thing because has soon as B4aT didn't clock in, B4aG tried to track product into the ashers and got a message saying his certification for the asher expired. But B4aG was never certified, at least not yet on the ashers. He was however certified on the sink so he had to run the sink for today and when he returns to work I'll be his new trainer to retrain him correctly on the tools. I do still have to learn the Qual for 24. B4aT took that Qual with him. He said I'd never have to worry about it… now B4aT is not here, yes! But I don't know how to fix it if I need to.
Also found out today Old Company is trying to hire people off Craigslist but they are proving to be unreliable. They had 3 interviews set up this week and not one showed. I hope someone shows up soon. I'd like to start training so I know how to refine my skills and teaching methods.
Jan 20
Read in Teresa's notes that New Company still waiting for the government to approve the buyout. How complicated is it? We were told it would be much worse if we actually made chips for the government. Since the start of the year, those with health care through work have been covered by New Company but we are still being paid by Old Company, meaning that the premiums for the insurance is building up because Old Company doesn't have an agreement with New Company to collect the health care money. In Teresa's notes, she let everyone know that they should put aside the money that is not being taken out because New Company plans to take ALL back pay insurance premiums out on the first New Company check issued. So far it is two payments.
Latest update is that New Company is hopeful that the Government will approve the buyout and the transition will be completed on Feb 1st. Which would be 3 health care payments. I don't have to worry about it because I don't have their health insurance because I'm not full time with them yet. Super seems to be waiting until the buy out is official.
I'm glad B4aT gave back my ((see notebook)). Had them less than 4 months and have never watched them.
At the start of shift, 24 was down and needed a Qual. Fortunately, B2aD is going to be in my bay until someone else comes down. He also knows the Quals to 24. I asked if he could teach me next time the Qual needs to be done. 49 went down for a preventive maintenance task that was rescheduled for another time…
Someone stole my boots! I came in gowned then noticed my boots missing. The fuck?! There are cameras! Annoying. The pathetic part is when I went to break at 11:15 my boots were hanging on the hanger NEXT to mine. Someone from D1 took my boots instead of getting new ones, again the fuck? The door is not far away to get your own new pair. The new pair I grabbed sucked because the elastic to keep the boot up with, stretched out. So I took my boots back and gave them the shit pair I got that day. From now on I'm keeping my boots IN my gown.
The day was fairly slow. Ash wasn't busy as it was Sunday today. It got as high as 60 lots because no one was running ash for an hour and a half. I went to break at 11:15 and just after I left, B2aD got a P1 New Company lot that had specific instructions that only B2aD could run it. And at 12 the other person who run the optimas goes on break. I got back late from break at 12:30 instead of 12:15. It doesn't seem like long but 30 minutes with no one at all running any kind of ashers really lets the lots build up. I've also got a big influx of lots from building 4 to the E-fab. I hate gathering lots from the E-fab so I let them sit longer. When I did finally go, I had a whole cart full. The cart for my bay holds 12 lots.
The rest of the night went quickly. Before I knew it, we were giving passdown to D2 people and I was going home. I asked the security guard if they had cleaned out B4aTs's locker. He said he wasn't sure because they only clean out lockers of the badges that get turned in. I told him he wasn't getting the badge back because B4aT most likely moved. But if they do clean out his locker, I asked if I could have his bay work items if allowed. He said he'd ask his boss and would have to give me a call.
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