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.