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.)
