Emo cat is Emo

[kaitou]

Really, I'm not trying to be whiny or emo, so please don't feel like you have to read this for ANY reason. But in case you were wondering what was prompting the Rabbid screaming... (And that link is the EXACT process my brain goes through at work) it can be found, bad words and all,

Me: Today was another day of teh suck
flidgetjerome: *HUG*
Flidget: yeah
Flidget: I was going to ask about that
Flidget: what happened?
Me: mostly it's been a continuation of a clusterfuck from Friday and Monday
Me: some people have so little common sense that I wonder how they dress themselves
Flidget: >.<
Flidget: what happened?
Me: OK
Me: so there's a part we make which is basically a ball joint on a stick
Me: inside the little cup of the bal ljoint there is a spring that fits over the top of the ball stud and keeps it from coming off
Me: but first they have to weld the ball joint to the stick
Flidget: *nod*
Me: there's a jig set up on a tray. The operator takes a ball joint and a stick, locks them in place so that the inside of the cup is protected. When the robot welds, no spatter can get inside the cup or burn the spring
Flidget: *nod*
Me: the operator apparently decided it was too much work to take one ball joint and one stick and assemble them
Me: so he took a handful of balljoints, and put them on the tray. Put one in the jig and left the other 11 or so sitting on the tray...which then went inside the welding machine and got spatter all over them
Flidget: . . wuh?
Flidget: why?
Flidget: WUH?
Me: then he'd take one of those and weld that one
Flidget: . . .
Flidget: I. . .wait
Me: so by the time he got to the end of the handful, the last part had about 11 times the weld spatter posisble on it
Flidget: I don't even get what. ..
Flidget: what the hell?
Flidget: how does that even save time?
Me: EXACTLY
Me: then he taught his new trick to the guy standing next to him
Flidget: wait
Flidget: dude
Flidget: I don't even get what he's doing
Flidget: he still needs to put them
Flidget: individually
Me: yes
Flidget: into the jig
Flidget: so they can be welded
Me: it just means he doesn't have to reach into the box
Flidget: there's absolutely no reason to put them lose. . .
Flidget: WHAT
Me: which is placed at an ergonomic height even
Me: so they're both doing that, and I find out what they're doing on Friday and do a big STOP STOP STOP STOP
Me: luckily it's easy to fix. They just need to not do that anymore
Me: but we had to sort through about 40 boxes of finished parts to make sure we didn't ship any. And also hire people to do the same thing for our customer
Me: On Monday, first thing I do is give the welding people green paper tags to put in their finished boxes. Because they're not doing teh stupid anymore, these parts will be fine. The tags let the material handler know that these are good parts and we don't need to sort them
Me: EXCEPT
Me: then they found another bad part
Me: because it turns out that on Monday, there were still some parts left over from Friday. And they put a green tag in those too
Me: The supervisor gives me a 'so what' look and says, "But it was only one box."
Me: I point at the 40 boxes of parts made that day and say, "Ok, which box is it?"
Me: "There's no way to know, which means we need to sort everything again."
Flidget: holy fucking shit
Me: and our sorters are shit
Me: they keep passing bad parts and we have to have them start over
Flidget: >.>
Flidget: >.<
Me: so today I cracked down and I fired one guy before lunch
Flidget: Holy shit
Me: because not only was he passing bad parts, he was mixing right hand and left hand
Flidget: (You can do that?)
Flidget: (awesome)
Me: hahaha
Me: I'm basically in charge of the sorting department
Flidget: oooh
Me: oh and also, the boxes they tagged in green....they also put in a tag that they stamp with today's date, so we know what day they were made
Me: except that the guy never updated his stamper. And it still said last Thursday. so there was a lot of, "Ok, when WERE these made" because that made all the difference between whether they were probably bad or definately good
Me: and Friday my boss was gone so I had to handle all of it
Me: and I had to perform ISO audits yesterday and today
Flidget: GAAAAAH
Flidget: FUCKSHIT
Flidget: *HUG*
Me: and the plant is on shutdown next week, so in addition to that part, I have about 110 boxes of other assorted parts that need to be prepped for shipping in addition to what's getting shipped this week
Flidget: gack
Flidget: fucking gack
Flidget: *HUG*
Me: so I'm a little twitchy this week
Flidget: *nod*
Me: Tomorrow I go in for sexual harrassment training
Me: but there are no audits
Flidget: X D

Now I make up for being emo with some funny clips and awesome clips from You Tube that you may or may not have seen.

Comments

[soranokumo.livejournal.com]

>0_o< ... >_< ...

*HUG* ...hope this week gets much, much better for you, hon, and SOON.

[kaitou1412.livejournal.com]

So far today we're not having as many problems with abject stupidity. We have whiny and conniving...but I believe I have effectively countered that. Mwa. Ha. Ha. I am evil.

[velithya]

what a day :( *hugs*

[kaitou1412.livejournal.com]

Thanks. It'll all be ok. Today is shaping up to be better already. No audits to do, just some sexual harrassment training. I dressed in an extra girly outfit just for the occasion.

[rlanto.livejournal.com]

Oh god, I read that (and heard your voice in my head) and I'm sooooo sorry. **hugs**

[kaitou1412.livejournal.com]

Did I ramp up into incoherent squirrel speed, when you imagined it? Days like this usually end in me sounding a little like Tweak from South Park.

[rlanto.livejournal.com]

Yeah, actually you did. There was also sudden bursts of your snorty ridiculous laugh. :D That laugh you get when something is just tooo ridiculous and tiresome to actually be laughed at properly!

I've had days like that. Here recently, I"ve had a client who has actually driven me to come home and drink when I get there...at 730 in the morning!!

[kaitou1412.livejournal.com]

Ugh. Yeah, I can't even imagine. At the end of the day I'm dealing with auto parts, while you and my friend Ideographer are dealing with people. I salute you both.

[twigcollins.livejournal.com]

*gnaw*

Man, I hope today goes better for you.