Saturday, January 06, 2007

Patches

Sometimes people forget things. For the most part, many of the people, including my boss in the factory forget's that I'm into my first month in the job. You should look at the guys faces when I mention this to them. It's as though they never realised it.

Got a text message from Muthu, one of the team leaders at 0148 am early friday morning. Message read about his line people receiving something that's not instructed. After a few long messages from him, I got kinda pissed. It does seem as though he wants me there to confirm the spec but at the same time, he's not willing to say it. Don't get me wrong, he's a nice guy and all, but sometimes I wish people would be more direct with their words. Avoids alot of miscommunication this way.

Anyway, was back in the mill at 330 am. As usual, there were surprised looks and the usual questions, but I figure they know why I'm back. The thing is, the guy before me, never once was asked to come back. And he didn't. There were very nice distractions the time I was there. Production guys thought I was on OJT till another one said "You think he PT like us ah?! He sit office one you know!". But on the whole, they guys were pretty co-operative and nice. One Q-Tech thought I was there to please my boss. I didn't say a word. I think it's sometimes better to let people find out what I'm doing themselves. Maybe then they'll realise that some people work for the money, and some do it for other reasons.

Took me 2 hours to give the go-ahead to use the material on the line this morning. My plan was to stay till 8 - 0830 am, when the machine is running in full swing. Unfortunately, the robot had other ideas. Waited till 11 am when I decided to call it a day. My eyes were already blood-shot and I've not eaten since 6pm the night before. My stomach's growling now while I'm writing this.

It's a nice experience to be in the decision making process. Probably that's why I like this job so much. I get to make decisions in the economically & logistically. I determine whether the factory's gonna reject or accept a certain product or raw material. I do take pride in my work. And I've a strong team behind me (well... at least for most of the time). But I think I should lay low for a bit.

Because of some process issues 2 weeks ago, there's a need to have contract workers. In my tel-con with Muthu yesterday afteroon, he mentioned that my department should pick up the slack for the cost. I refused. But I did mention that it's not for me to say, but my recommendation would be a flat no. Somehow, I don't think he took it really well. But I couldn't give a rats' ass about it. But heck... we've a common objective to meet. As long as we don't take it personally, it's all right. We're still friends. We still need to work together. I think this situation is extremely unique to me because I've never been put in a situation where I need to be tactful to someone to accept my position. They usually have no choice, or, what they want does not matter much to me. Insya Allah, I will not step on too many toes.

Sorry darling for neglecting you because of work & travel. Love you...

jahwsl
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06 Jan 07'

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