It's going to feel even weirder Monday when I get back, because they're rearranging the whole plant. Not all at once, you know, but a little at a time. They were supposed to do this last year, but another Lennox plant got hit by a tornado. They had to use our funding to rebuild that one.
Anyway, they're in the process of changing everything around right now. They're going to completely change the way we produce coils. They're moving all the assembly lines into what is now the warehouse, and the current production area is going to be for components. Supposedly, it'll be like going to the grocery store. The Boss Hoss explained it like this:
When you want to bake a cake, you don't go to the farmer and ask him to plant wheat, or to the dairy and ask them to milk a cow. You go to the grocery store where the flour and milk is all ready for you to use. That's what we're going to have. We will be making all the different components, and when they need some, they'll be there in a storage area waiting for them.
We used to have something like that in tubing. We had large bins of parts on shelves, and when you needed -- say a header-- you went to the bin and got out how many you needed. We still do that to a much smaller extent with some adapter tubes. When nearly every part we used was pre-made, we called it the Kanban system. I thought it worked really well, but we had one boss who just hated that system. He'd tried to get rid of it since the moment the company implemented it. He finally got his chance, and the Kanban system was gone.
We've been scrambling and scraping to keep up with the lines ever since.
All that to say, this weekend is when they're going to move the sub-brazing department. Oh, we've known it was going to happen for a while. We've even known it was going to be this weekend for at least a week. Back on Monday, our Group Leader cautioned us to take all our tools and stuff with us when we left today, so they wouldn't get lost in the move.
Right before time to go, Stalker walks around telling everyone if there's anything we need, be sure to take it with us, because they're moving us this weekend.
Like we hadn't already known that for a week.
The more he tries to be important, the more irrelevant he proves himself to be. A month or so ago, he went around and told all of us he was going to bring all of us a little notebook, and we were going to have to write down all the orders we braze and which line they are for. Sounds like a good idea, right? It was.
It was such a good idea, we were all already doing it. One of the brazers told him, "We've been doing that for 20 years!"
I just wish he'd go away, me.
So, there I was walking out in the back yard, when I saw it.
Since my last trap never arrived, I hopped on Amazon and ordered another one. This one:
I wanted a live trap in case a bird or squirrel gets into it. I don't want to accidentally kill a dove or something.
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