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canesisters
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More work drama.... because I get upset over sudden change (unless it's my idea)... and there has been too much sudden change lately.
I never check the posted weekly schedule, no point. But for some reason when I got to the breakroom tonight I went right over there & checked it out.
It's ALL jacked up. After this weekend, almost everyone is on days!
Just the 2 night supervisors & 1 man from each night crew still on nights... impossible to run, no Beamer operators. 
Turns out that we're going on a temp shutdown. Running out of the regular fiber that we use to make the fabric.
The new - and greatly expanded - day shift will be running a series of trial orders. That means there will be A LOT of reconfiguring the machine and taking half-used rolls off & putting others on the creel. Also, some cross-training in other areas of the plant. I imagine that it'll be us Beamer operators sent around to cross-train since there is no point in having 5 of us at the Beamer at one time. That, or - if there's an opening - some of us will be in the creel. I DO NOT want to learn the upstairs lab stuff. It's super chaotic up there... and dangerous. Things have been known to BLOW UP, or catch FIRE.
I'm upset because I rarely make any plans... but I had a lunch planned with a couple of 'homesteader' neighbors this Tues. But that's the day my new day schedule starts. I'm going out with my sister next weekend & my best friend the Thurs after that. IF I'm still on the same schedule, just days instead of nights, I can keep the plans with Sis & Tracy. IF they're changing us to ALL working M-F to compact the workforce & not have to come up with 24/7 busy work for weeks on end, then I have to cancel with Tracy too. But I won't know that until they post next week's schedule. They only post 1 week at a time.
I'm hoping that once this is over & they are ready to split all the shifts back out.... maybe they'll let me stay on days.
It's just all up in the air... and I hate that.
It's not helping that I haven't slept well & the machine has been a BUGGER tonight... Better tomorrow after some sleep..... and chocolate.
I never check the posted weekly schedule, no point. But for some reason when I got to the breakroom tonight I went right over there & checked it out.
It's ALL jacked up. After this weekend, almost everyone is on days!
Just the 2 night supervisors & 1 man from each night crew still on nights... impossible to run, no Beamer operators. Turns out that we're going on a temp shutdown. Running out of the regular fiber that we use to make the fabric.
The new - and greatly expanded - day shift will be running a series of trial orders. That means there will be A LOT of reconfiguring the machine and taking half-used rolls off & putting others on the creel. Also, some cross-training in other areas of the plant. I imagine that it'll be us Beamer operators sent around to cross-train since there is no point in having 5 of us at the Beamer at one time. That, or - if there's an opening - some of us will be in the creel. I DO NOT want to learn the upstairs lab stuff. It's super chaotic up there... and dangerous. Things have been known to BLOW UP, or catch FIRE.
I'm upset because I rarely make any plans... but I had a lunch planned with a couple of 'homesteader' neighbors this Tues. But that's the day my new day schedule starts. I'm going out with my sister next weekend & my best friend the Thurs after that. IF I'm still on the same schedule, just days instead of nights, I can keep the plans with Sis & Tracy. IF they're changing us to ALL working M-F to compact the workforce & not have to come up with 24/7 busy work for weeks on end, then I have to cancel with Tracy too. But I won't know that until they post next week's schedule. They only post 1 week at a time.
I'm hoping that once this is over & they are ready to split all the shifts back out.... maybe they'll let me stay on days.
It's just all up in the air... and I hate that.
It's not helping that I haven't slept well & the machine has been a BUGGER tonight... Better tomorrow after some sleep..... and chocolate.
