It would seem my reputation is preceding me.
A couple of days ago, a coworker messaged me a photo of a knit hat she'd bought, and the pom pom had come off.
"Can you fix it?" she asked.
I told her to bring it by my stand and I'd look at it and see. Basically, what I needed to know is if there was enough of the string left to thread it back through the hat and tie it off. If you're a knitter, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
When she brought the hat over and I was able to see what I'd be dealing with, I could tell it would be an easy fix for someone who has attached as many pom poms as I have.
I brought the hat home, and after just a couple of minutes with a crochet hook, the pom pom was firmly re-attached. When I took the hat back to her, she said, "You were the first person I thought of!" Well...all right then. I guess I'm getting quite the reputation.
There was something else I was going to tell you about, but right now I can't remember what it was....Oh, well.
Heh, one of my other coworkers asked me if I ever grew tomatoes. I said no. "I'd tried once, but they didn't do so well....I think it was because my dog kept peeing on them." I have thought about trying tomatoes again, now that I no longer have a dog to pee on them. We'll see.
So, today was a bit of a rough day at work, and let's just say I had to do a lot of repenting when I got home. I won't go into all the gory details, but I got so frustrated when I was setting up on an order and discovered that in one set of adapter tubes, nearly half of them were smashed flat. Nearly HALF.
I couldn't use those, and she had to have known they were bad, so why did she toss them into the bin and send them on down the line? In a word -- laziness. They're all just so lazy over in tubing. Ain't but one person in that entire department that's worth a flip.
I showed the smashed tubes to Substitute Supervisor -- Uncle Supervisor wasn't there today-- and he just shrugged and walked off, which is exactly why we can't get anything done out there! If we can't even get the support from management that we need to do our jobs, then it's no wonder we can't meet our production quotas.
This isn't just an every so often thing either. It's every single day. Like Monday, I had an order that called for 8 different adapter tubes, and two of the 8 were bent wrong. The whole order. And I mean wayyyy wrong, and it was the same operator that messed up the ones today. But nobody, and I mean nobody, will go to that operator and tell her, "Hey, you're messing too much stuff up. You need to start checking your parts!"
Why they don't make them do a first piece inspection just blows my mind. But they don't. They say they're not required to check their parts -- or count them either. It should be a job requirement, not an "if you want to" thing.
That place is starved for leadership, I'm telling you. For example, the leader who is making us work 60 hour weeks and come in over Christmas, but refuses to open up a full second shift...
Starved for leadership...
After all that, the day finally ended and I came home and saw that Andre had made biscuits and gravy! He did a great job, even if he did forget to flour his hands before working the dough...
And finally, today's advent addition is the shepherd.
In that region, there were shepherds living in the fields. Luke 2;8
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