7 months it's been.

a lot has happened in 7 months.

I wish I hadn't taken that job. I like having one and the pay is decent but a couple weeks later i got a call from the union for some work and had to turn it down.....

job started out ok. nice and shiny like a new car. after a bit the workload kept piling on and piling on. what started out as a maintenance position became the head of facilities maintenance, and after doing well issues with quality control and such are being thrown at me. if something is broke i fix it, you have production supervisors and plant managers for QC.

It's also a sweatshop. the workers are great, we don't understand each other but they are all nice and helpful as they can be. I hear refugee services helps pay some of their wages, similar to business that get kickbacks for hiring physically disabled people. they work crappy hours (4-6 hours 6 days a week depending on the job) for crappy pay, no raises, and nearly every job in there is miserable. on top of that the management treats them like less than humans. if someone doesnt like it they quit and along comes another one. it's so sad to see.

i lost part of a finger, but thats a minimal thing.

the prick of an IT guy would get his own entry. he includes throwing people under the bus in job progress flowcharts

I haven't stopped applying elsewhere, so this would make it almost 2 years activley looking for a job with 3 interviews.

the thing i like about this job is the eye opening to other cultures. coming from the union for the last decade all anyone ever heard is people griping about chinese and japanese and iraqui and so forth. pretty much anything other than american was the embodiment of the devil. i never bought into it much, kind of a pointless debate since i am from ovid, which is largely redneckville. I feel bad for the people i work with. I wish I could help out. I know that they are not the problem, but the tyrants and bean counters from the office. I have dubbed them office dwellers as an homage to HG wells time machine.

currently I have a few places to send resumes too but need ink for the printer. still hoping the Facility for rare isotope beams takes off at msu. that will be a long lasting job with decent pay. when i think its getting close i'll keep all my uniforms and b.s in the car with a spare change of clothes and then just set everything on the office dwellers desk and walk out. they love re-counting stories of shouting matches and walk outs. i'll do so quietly.