The Dragon's Keep

buenos dias

("good morning," for those who are lingually challenged ;P )

hey look, an update! let's poke it with a stick and see what happens!

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right. i promised to rant about work awhile back, did i not? well, to begin with, that smiley i just posted pretty much sums up how i feel right now. i just got back from work about half an hour ago, if you can believe it. yes, i worked from midnight to 8 am. fun times, eh? i'm really tired but i have to make some phone calls so i can hopefully have a job set up for when i go back up to Idaho for college in a few weeks (and they seem to be dwindling faster and faster *sigh* ). anyways, i'll talk about school later. this is about work, so back to that. i work for a company called Pactiv, which used to be called Tenneco, which used to be Mobil Technology or something like that. Pactiv makes all kinds of products, with their main client being Hefty. it would take too long to list everything our compnay makes, but suffice it to say that my specific plant makes different types of foam products, and not just for Hefty. i would describe the machines and how the foam goes from gigantic rolls of plain sheets to being various sizes of plates, bowls, and trays, but then i'd have to kill you. ;D besides, i don't deal much with the main machines. my job is to take stacks of product that has already been counted (and sometimes already bagged as well) and put it in boxes or on flats. boring, easy, and not very much fun. the only cool part is that i am starting to learn about the machines and how to fix it when problems arise, so it's not ALL just foam packing. the biggest thing is that it's shift work, which means i work a different shift every week, instead of just working 8-4 Monday through Friday. this week, i work the graveyard shift, which is midngiht to 8. last week i worked from 4 pm to midnight, and next week i work from 8 am to 4 pm. weird, huh? the other weird part is that i never get a full two days off, so the day i start changes. when i first started working this summer, i was working Tuesday through Saturday, but this week it's Sunday through Thursday. so yeah, that's my job.

now, off to bed.

posted by Erin Duncan @ 9:59 AM