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.