Post by Nth on Sept 28, 2021 15:00:15 GMT
Unprecedented poor Friday, Saturday and Sunday shifts at work on the weekend.
On average the plant will usually have 3 to 5 people call in sick each shift. Friday night 15 people called in, Saturday night 12 people called in and Sunday night 17 people called in. Amazingly we had no people in our shop call in sick, but the shops that make our product were barely able to run. Saturday night they were sending people in our shop home early and the only reason I didn't leave early is because I was hoping to leave early Sunday night. They didn't let anyone go home early Sunday even though most of our shop was down, but on the bright side my name is now bumped up to the top of the go home list for next time.
Two guys in our shop on light duties. One guy does have a legitimate hip problem, the other guy has a sore arm. Fucking pathetic. So they aren't allowed to do any work. I've been there 9 years and have never been on light duties once for an injury, even when I've had them.
Saturday night they wandered into the break room on lunch break bitching about how bored they were sitting in a conference room watching movies all night. They got bitched out pretty hard from those of us in the break room trying to struggle through the shift and one lady yelled at them 'Why are you even here if you can't work?' It was a workers comp reason they had to come in, but needless to say Sunday night they were smart enough to stay in the conference room and watch movies and avoid the break rooms and bitch about how hard their night was going.
One of these two dildos once tried to pass off a 'light duties' job to me once. It's a boring temperature checking job where all the heated cutting blades and hotboxes in our shop get temperature checked to make sure they are within shop standard. He wandered up to me out of the blue one shift and said the shop line leader wanted me to do temperature checks. I looked at him weirdly and said 'I don't do temp checks, I've never been on light duties before.' He asked 'What does that have to do with anything?' I said only people on light duties get trained to do temperature checks to give them something to do during the shift. He said the shop line leader told me to do them. I told him to go get the shop line leader to come tell himself then, and I'll tell him I've never been on light duties and never been trained to do the temp checks. *Hint hint* the shop line leader never told him to get me to do them, he just didn't want to do them.
Suddenly he starts backpedaling the story now and tells me, if you don't want to do them just hand them off to the girl working with you on your machine. I told him no, I told him he can go ask her if he wanted. I'm no ones boss there and I don't give orders to anyone. So he says he'll leave the check list and temp measuring probe and one of us can do it. I didn't do it and I never even mentioned it to the girl I was working with because she's not on light duties either.
At the end of the shift he asks me if those temp checks got done as we were walking out. I told him I wasn't doing them and never even brought them up for the other girl to do them because A: I'm not her boss and B: not her job and C: I heard first hand from another employee who was in the room that the line leader never asked for me to even do them at all and he was just trying to pass off the job to someone who he thought would say yes.
We also had our yearly company surveys to do. I think the higher ups are going to see some startling results with employee moral at an all time low and for the first time in this branch's history people are saying 'Pass' when offered jobs here. The survey is all checkbox stuff except where you have one portion where you can write in anything you want. My first 8 years I wrote literal essays on the abuse of the call in system and nothing changed. This year I just flat out said if the call-in system isn't reigned in and put under some semblance of control, come 2022 I will be using my sick days to call in on days when I am on call as a lot of other people in the plant do when they don't want to work their call-in shift. In 9 years I've called in sick once and that was only because I showed up to work so sick I was told by my line leader to call in sick if I wasn't better by next shift. I've earned my days off and I plan on taking them and it's pretty apparent the company is so desperate for workers they aren't holding regularly absent people accountable and I've got 20 some odd more years to go, my back doesn't need to be doing my lifting and someone else's.
On average the plant will usually have 3 to 5 people call in sick each shift. Friday night 15 people called in, Saturday night 12 people called in and Sunday night 17 people called in. Amazingly we had no people in our shop call in sick, but the shops that make our product were barely able to run. Saturday night they were sending people in our shop home early and the only reason I didn't leave early is because I was hoping to leave early Sunday night. They didn't let anyone go home early Sunday even though most of our shop was down, but on the bright side my name is now bumped up to the top of the go home list for next time.
Two guys in our shop on light duties. One guy does have a legitimate hip problem, the other guy has a sore arm. Fucking pathetic. So they aren't allowed to do any work. I've been there 9 years and have never been on light duties once for an injury, even when I've had them.
Saturday night they wandered into the break room on lunch break bitching about how bored they were sitting in a conference room watching movies all night. They got bitched out pretty hard from those of us in the break room trying to struggle through the shift and one lady yelled at them 'Why are you even here if you can't work?' It was a workers comp reason they had to come in, but needless to say Sunday night they were smart enough to stay in the conference room and watch movies and avoid the break rooms and bitch about how hard their night was going.
One of these two dildos once tried to pass off a 'light duties' job to me once. It's a boring temperature checking job where all the heated cutting blades and hotboxes in our shop get temperature checked to make sure they are within shop standard. He wandered up to me out of the blue one shift and said the shop line leader wanted me to do temperature checks. I looked at him weirdly and said 'I don't do temp checks, I've never been on light duties before.' He asked 'What does that have to do with anything?' I said only people on light duties get trained to do temperature checks to give them something to do during the shift. He said the shop line leader told me to do them. I told him to go get the shop line leader to come tell himself then, and I'll tell him I've never been on light duties and never been trained to do the temp checks. *Hint hint* the shop line leader never told him to get me to do them, he just didn't want to do them.
Suddenly he starts backpedaling the story now and tells me, if you don't want to do them just hand them off to the girl working with you on your machine. I told him no, I told him he can go ask her if he wanted. I'm no ones boss there and I don't give orders to anyone. So he says he'll leave the check list and temp measuring probe and one of us can do it. I didn't do it and I never even mentioned it to the girl I was working with because she's not on light duties either.
At the end of the shift he asks me if those temp checks got done as we were walking out. I told him I wasn't doing them and never even brought them up for the other girl to do them because A: I'm not her boss and B: not her job and C: I heard first hand from another employee who was in the room that the line leader never asked for me to even do them at all and he was just trying to pass off the job to someone who he thought would say yes.
We also had our yearly company surveys to do. I think the higher ups are going to see some startling results with employee moral at an all time low and for the first time in this branch's history people are saying 'Pass' when offered jobs here. The survey is all checkbox stuff except where you have one portion where you can write in anything you want. My first 8 years I wrote literal essays on the abuse of the call in system and nothing changed. This year I just flat out said if the call-in system isn't reigned in and put under some semblance of control, come 2022 I will be using my sick days to call in on days when I am on call as a lot of other people in the plant do when they don't want to work their call-in shift. In 9 years I've called in sick once and that was only because I showed up to work so sick I was told by my line leader to call in sick if I wasn't better by next shift. I've earned my days off and I plan on taking them and it's pretty apparent the company is so desperate for workers they aren't holding regularly absent people accountable and I've got 20 some odd more years to go, my back doesn't need to be doing my lifting and someone else's.
