I did not sleep well at all last night. I don't know if I ate something that didn't agree with me, or if I'd picked up some sort of bug, but let's just say my night consisted of brief naps between mad dashes to the bathroom. I almost called in this morning and stayed home, but I remembered how usually when I do that, I start to feel better within an hour or two. Then I regret calling in, wasting a point, and blowing a day's pay when I wasn't really sick, so I got out of bed and went on in to work.
Sure enough, by about 7:30 I was feeling much better. After lunch, I felt even better and was glad I'd gone in. Now, I feel OK, just very sleepy. As if that weren't enough, we're back to going in at 4:00 in the morning. I knew those late mornings wouldn't last long.
Word is, the plant had run out of steel, so they weren't loading any orders into the schedule. That's why we were standing around with nothing to do for most of last week. Now, they've gotten the steel in, and are loading the schedule again. The lines are all ready to go, only the component areas are so far behind. I don't mind. It's more money in my paycheck, and I don't have to walk through that ridiculous metal detector. What's more, if I forget something in my car, I can just walk out to the parking lot to get it. Without signing the stupid clipboard!
Guess what else I found out? We had a supervisor quit a few weeks ago, so they'd posted the position. Well, the rumor is we will soon be calling Group Leader Shark Supervisor Shark. We're all wondering how that's going to work, because she gets flustered so easily. We all hate to ask her for anything because we never know if we're going to get help, a shrug, or get our heads bitten off. I guess we'll find out.
Last Friday, the plant had their annual tailgate party out at work. I'd originally thought I might run up there and at least get my pulled pork sandwich, but after Cody texted, I got so busy I completely forgot. Monday, one of the brazers told me that the line for the chicken -- we had three options we could order, hamburger, pulled pork, or chicken wings -- stretched all the way across the parking lot. She said that they were cooking the wings to order, meaning when the person got to the front of the line and ordered whichever flavor they wanted, that's when they started cooking them, instead of having them made up ahead of time. This other brazer said that when she left at 2:00 PM, there were still people waiting in line who hadn't gotten their food, and the tailgate started at noon. Makes me glad I missed it.
But that's how they are. Things are so unorganized out there, even with the parties they throw. Even with the Thanksgiving dinners they give us. We only have 30 minutes for lunch, and we don't have time to stand there while they serve us cafeteria style and someone is up there hemming and hawing trying to decide if they want green beans or not. I don't want to spend half of my lunch break waiting in line, then not even have time to eat. It's happened before...
They didn't do anything to recognize veterans this year, and I think that's because The Warden is no longer there. They didn't start until he was made plant manager, so now that he's gone, they don't love us any more. One of the brazers is Air National Guard, and she went up to HR and said, "You don't love us veterans this year." HR said, "What do you mean?" And Zoomie said, "Today is Veteran's day!" HR said, "It is?"
Zoomie came back and said she'd just go get her free stake, "I know Chili's appreciates me!"
And finally, I uploaded the image at the bottom of the page to Chat GPT and asked it to decorate the turkey based on what it knows about me. This is what it gave me.
Then I asked Grok the same thing.
And finally Gemini.
Gemini did better than Grok, but this time ChatGPT beat them all. Here is the original outline if you want to try it yourself.
Be sure to post what you get!
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