This will probably be my last DADC post since I no longer work there. Unfortunatly, unlike Walmart, DADC enforces their point system. Anyways, that is the short, read on for the long.
I should be at work right now. - EverQuest - Site News - DADC
Posted on: 2006-11-20 20:36:21[ More - 3 comments ]I decided today, actually minutes ago, that I hate my job. I hate it in a way that has nothing to do with where I work, who I work with, or what I do. Anyways, totally unrelated, I should be there right now. I, uh, kinda slept in. And since showing 1 minute late yields the same number of points as showing up 4 hours late, I am doing the 4 hours thing. I don't really feel well anyways, but I am hoping that it passes by the time I have to be there. I can't wait until the end of the year. No more DADC, no more night shift, back in school, and seeing the wife more regularly. I can't wait.
...and its all my doing. - DADC
Posted on: 2006-09-23 06:13:02[ More - 4 comments ]I slept in and then would stay up later on my three days off. Normally I am passed out on the couch by 9am, but I was pushing way back the last few days. Hell, Thursday, I was up until around 1pm then got up again around 4:30 to pick the wife up from work. Then slept until 5am. Basically in a couple of days I switched my sleep schedule back to what most people think is somewhat normal. I think tried like hell from around 11am to 3:30pm to get back to sleep because I had to work that night...last night. I did not make it, so as I am writing this, I have been up for 26 hours, 12 of the more recent of those were at work.
My toe suxors. - DADC
Posted on: 2006-09-19 09:27:39[ More - 5 comments ]I have decided that I am accident prone. I don't remember ever having a problem with this before. I mean, sure, accidents happen, but they never really happened to me all that frequently...until I started at DADC. Now I seem to always have at least one bandage on my person all the time I am working. Most recently it has been my big toe on the left foot. I stubbed it bad enough that I have had this perpetual dried puss and blood crusty growth along the inside of my toe nail. And what is worse, is it is on the side by the rest of my toes so depending on what angle I step down or turn my foot I get the added pressure from those toes. I am going on about a week like this, but the last couple of days walking has been a real chore. I took a couple of days off of work to let it help heal (that and a combination of the wife being sick and sorta catching that along with lack of sleep). Sadly, it did not quite heal all the way, and last night at work was not as smooth as it could have been. It was not horrible, but it could have been better.
Comparing Wal-Mart Stories. - DADC
Posted on: 2006-09-13 06:20:53[ More - 3 comments ]I had my overtime night of the week last night (not even been home an hour yet). I worked on a hand packing line, which I have decided are the most social of all the lines because two of the people work directly together. Most other lines can be worked for an entire shift without ever really having the opportunity of talking to anyone. So the entire night I work with this guy who also works at Wal-Mart in addition to his current job. Inevitably, amoung the other stuff we talked about over the 11 hours, we talked about Wal-Mart. I worked there for almost five years and he is pushing seven, so we both have a lot of experience there. Only difference, is he is a gearhead, so he works in the auto shop, and I am a geek so I worked in electronics.
Work, work, work. - DADC
Posted on: 2006-09-09 07:09:42[ More - 1 comment ]Work is going swimmingly. I am still working on the ghetto line, but for the past week or so it has been getting slowly better...the last two night especially. So good in fact, that our supervisor is kicking us to another line. The numbers on this other line have been really bad lately...at least on our shift...and he is wanting to know if it is the line or the people running it. That being said, there has been at least one tech camped out on that line because of problems so I really can't see how he can think it is not the lines fault.
Working in spurts. - DADC
Posted on: 2006-09-01 07:50:19[ More - 3 comments ]On a PS2 line, you have two positions: the operator who loads books and title pages the bulk of the evening but also handles paperwork, and the other position which does everything else. Now the everything else position is rather busy, that is what I have been doing for the past couple of weeks. Now, to give you a descirption of the work in times. The only part of the assembly process I have is loading cases. They comes packages 30 to a bundle and we put these bundles onto the case buffer. The case buffer holds 390 cases on the conveyor and up to 60 on the slope. If the converyor gets down to 60 for more than a few seconds, the assembler stops. So, 330 is the magic number here. The assembler makes 80-82 pieces a minute, so it can eat through those cases in roughly 4 minutes (I will toss out some details that shorten this time for brevity). 4 minutes seems like a long time, doesn't it? Now lets see what 4 minutes allows me to do.
Kaplow, it's a post! - DADC - Computer - Misc
Posted on: 2006-08-11 07:05:12[ More - 1 comment ]A couple of catch up things since I have not been posting much recently. My life has become so boring that my posting life is slipping from 2-3 times a week to just once. So here is my just once:
I think it's called job security. - DADC
Posted on: 2006-07-23 06:17:39[ More - 3 comments ]Ok, so the night before last was a horrid night at work. I made two glaring errors, both of which caused a lot of rework and wasted time. First one was the first order of the day. We always start off checking the first few off the line, and I guess I was so ready to get going since the night before had been fairly mediocre that I just assumed that the day people had totally set up the order and just checked to make sure everything looked ok...well, it wasn't. We ran a couple of hundred piece before noticing, and each piece had to be reworked which took about 30-45 minutes. Since it was a small order, we had to reuse the title pages, which had two creases in the middle because that is what happens when you put them in a DVD case. The pages took an extreme amount of work to get to run. We are talking tech time, lots of frustration, and a good deal of cursing. Ok, so on to error nmber 2. Later on in the night, we had three identical orders back to back..well, almost identical. The order in the middle did not get a street date on the box, while the other two did. A few thousand pieces in, the other guy comes over to me and points it out. We had to get the receiving crew to go digging around for the first two skids we had sent out, then we got to rebox it all...there goes another half hour of rework. All-in-all I guess it was not that big of a deal. No pieces left the building and everything was taken care of, but it did add to the amount of downtime for the night...which sucked.
I want to sleep. - Misc - RCM - DADC
Posted on: 2006-07-13 06:38:15[ More - Add comment ]I am exceptionally tired right now. I just got off of work, which is probably why. Everything was fine until around 2 am, then one of the machines on the line started acting up, and we only did around 5000 pieces after that...should have been more like 15-20,000. We also got out overtime schedule. Assuming we work every day on it (which is more and more likely the closer to the end of the year we get) that adds 21 days to my work term between now and the end of the year. That also means I only have 63 non-holiday days off before the end of the year as well. But with the number of debts and projects we have in mind, 60 hours a week is looking really good. Speaking of which, if I am ever off of work for more than a month again, please, start sending hit squads and make sure I understand that they keep coming until I get employed. I really hate myself for being off for a year and a half. I don't care that was in school for 9 months of that, I should have worked, quit for school, then worked again. Oh well, no need to beat myself up about the past. I should just use it to fuel myself to do better at my current job which should put us in a good place within the month.
