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115 hours, 14 minutes, and 46 seconds until 25 Ony / 25 Ulduar!
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Captain's Blog, Stardate 1012071706
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10/12/07 6:06pm
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I'm so fucking sick of this job in so many ways. In fact, I've lost count, so I'm going to list them:
- The work is boring as shit, and in no way requires the BSME degree I bring to it. A fucking high school dropout with a frontal lobotomy and down syndrome could do it just as well as me.
- While the pay is good for what I'm actually doing (See 1), its bottom-of-the-barrel for a MechE, and raises are nonexistant from what I understand. I certainly haven't seen a raise in pay (save for overtime pay, yeah, great, see 4) since I started here, including the goddamn shift differential I was promised when I got shoved on this goddamn shift (See 3)
- Evening Shift. Give me the goddamn midnight to 8 shift already, its a lot more appealing. Not only does it give a minimal increase in shift differential (not that I see it), but it actually lets you have free time at the SAME TIME AS THE REST OF THE GODDAMN WORLD. My only social interaction is with extreme night owls in guild. Oh, and the weekend. In theory. Except. . .
- Mandatory weekend shifts. Yeah, when I took this job I was told there was no mandatory overtime. Of course, I was also told this was an engineering job (See 1). And lucky me, Trison (The contracting firm I work for) doesn't actually hold contracts with their employees, so they can change the rules whenever the fuck they want. So I have to work at least 3 weekend shifts a month if asked or they'll give me the boot. Mind you, only certain areas have this problem, but lucky me I'm in one.
- General Motors Engineers are pricks. Trison managers are always trying to feed us a line of crap about how we're just as important as the GM people. Which in a way is true, but that doesn't mean we dont get treated like the uneducated buffoons that actually SHOULD be doing these jobs (See 1).
- Wuts Training? It doesn't exist around here. Know what Trison thinks training is? Throwing you in a room with the person doing what will be your job for a few hours and watching them. Which is all fine and dandy if you're, say, an assembly person on a production line, doing the same repetitive tasks all day every day, but we actually have to do many different (if equally mundane) tasks at various times. No instruction manuals to help us find out how to, say, load a special calibration file into the computers to run a test, so I have to constantly beg General Pricks (See 5) to show me how to do things (Which turn out to be about 4 clicks of the mouse, usually, but things I'd never figure out on my own nonetheless).
- Too much downtime. Yeah, to some that may sound silly, but my brain is wired. I have to constantly be active or I go nuts, eat constantly out of boredom/depression, etcetera. All I really have to do for at least half of my night every night is surfing the internet, but there isn't much interesting there, especially as they add more and more crap to their internet filters.
- Super-redundant data logging. Every test I run has to be documented, with the same information, in at least 6 different places:
- A data entry prompt at the end of each recorded data file.
- An entry in the logbook for the particular test article.
- An entry into a "master" database of all test locations.
- A detailed account of everything I do in my personal timesheets.
- An entry in each test request document.
- An entry in a job request database (which also gets referenced by the timesheet).
- Loneliness. When I was hired here, I was told this was a team focused operation (More lies, who knew?). Even when I was on the day shift I pretty much flew solo (Unless you count what I said in point 6). And now on night shift, If I see 3 people all day, I've seen every goddamn person in the plant. Now, I've never been a social butterfly, per se, but even I have needs for minimal social interaction.
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