Working in a plant.

Life is the constant change that happens. This past work week was hard in many different levels. The month of August is ending so it brings the company that much closer to the closure of the plant. The company has one less month to produce twelve thousand boxes of product. Twelve thousand. That is a lot of product to produce from September to April. It might as well be infinite.

Sometimes, the monkey wonders what all the other animals in the company are thinking. Do they really think that making products is this easy? Don't they know that we tried all these things before and we could not pull it off? Life is never perfect. Orders don't come in as predicted. Materials are dropped. Equipment break down. Life happens.

Early Monday morning, we were given a breakdown for our production schedule. The first four months, we will make a thousand kits. The next four months we will make two thousand kits. Twelve thousand. It might as well be infite.

How can you make product at this rate when things are not organized? That is one of the complaints at the manufacturing farm. They get their orders to work at eleven o'clock in the morning. Fully four hours after sitting around and doing nothing. They then proceed to work until nightfall to finish everything. If the plant manager could just get his shit together and actually schedule for the DAY, it would be better. Mind you, the company used to create these nice little schedules that lasted for two months. It took me about two weeks to figure out that they could not hold their schedules.

Hell, even with an engineer acting as plant manager, the schedule always had its wheels fall off. And was anyone ever sorry that the schedule fell off or that we are no longer staying on schedule? Nope. It's never upper management's fault. It is always the fault of the plant workers.

How can you produce twelve thousand when people are leaving? The inventory supervisor left. It took them nearly a month to find a replacement. Did they find someone who is competent? The jury is still out.

But from the looks of it, inventory is not as easy as it sounds. I would have thought that you just count things and write them down. Apparently, when you use this old software that was never updated, it is not as easy. The interface takes a while to learn. The system is antiquated so stuff that makes sense to do should not be done. I thought about becoming inventory. But I realized that I would have to deal with difficult people who like to run things in a different way than a QUALITY way. So I skipped that job.

The facilities supervisor left in April. When did they find a replacement? August. Can you believe that? Meanwhile, all sorts of equipment begin breaking down. The water system needed a sanitization. A contract company came to do that. Guess what. After three weeks, the water system had a contamination. What great work! I won't even discuss the current problems just because I am afraid something will break down over the weekend.