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6 years ago
~Welcome to my Journal of Randomness!~
~*♥*❤*♥~ Started Last Week.
Work at an Assembly Line type Factory that makes Cleaner stuff ranging from Hand Cleaners to Car Wash, To Heavy Duty Degreaser, To even Bathroom Cleaner. We make quite abit of stuff. haha
And Funny enough the cleaning supplies we make is called Purple Power! The place I work at is called Aikens.
It's a pretty chill job. I'm not use to going from a fast pace job to a job that allows you to bring a chair and sit down.
Only downside to this job is that some of the assembly lines is so slow that I tend to doze off and fall asleep.
Luckly I was told I was not the only one who does this or had done it.
Though I was told the best solution to stay awake is to talk to your work mates....
Would like to if they spoke English or knew English.
Yeah half the people here are Mexicans. Sweet as they can be! I love a few of them already!
But it's hard to talk to them with they only speak Spanish. XP
Though I have one lady that speaks both Spanish and English and had talked to her abit.
And she's trying to teach me some Spanish so that I can talk to the other girls that I am with. ;w;
I got afew words down besides the Basic ones that I already know haha
Also another thing I am thrown for a loop is that we girls can't lift anything to heavy. Even if it's light to me.
I got yelled at for picking up a good size box with empty bottles in it. Was not heavy at all. But apparently I have to leave all the lifting to the guys... I've tried to tell them I am use to it. I use to work at a Goodwill that didn't really give two shits if you have back problems (Not saying I have a Back Issue) and makes you lift Couches, Tables, Heavy shit all the time.
Here? Nope the guys do all the lifting. haha
And I am here wanting to help. Wanting to move some so that
A) I can stay awake. And B) So that my ADHD don't start kicking in.
Some of my workers figured out about my ADHD as I sit down my leg starts to bounce. Woop...
But besides that. We rotate every 2 hours. So 2 hours you are putting Empty Bottles on the Line. Next 2 Hours you are either filling the empty Bottles or watching to be sure the Machines is working and everything is going well. Another 2 Hours putting on caps to the now filled bottles (Which I hate the Spray Bottle ones... Those hurts my hands and makes my Carpal Tunnel Act up REAL BAD) and the Last 2 Hours you're packing.
So it's a Good Steady job. Some lines is Fast Pace. Those I like. But then there's some lines that is slow pace and I hate those.. Then there's one line that I hate cause of Multitasking and I screwed up so many times on it cause my brain just can't keep up with the Switch Up, Fill the Bottle that didn't get filled all the way. Switch down, Put on Caps on Four Bottles and Switch back up to do the next four bottles and repeat the process. x.x
So the job is abit of a Mixture. But I am enjoying it. Monday to Thurday. 6am-4pm Friday 6am-3:30pm Saturdays is Optional only if Production has been caught up but can work Saturdays for Overtime and work from 7am-12pm. Sundays and ALL Holidays is off. :3
Great Benefits. Gotta wait 6 Months til I get my Insurance with this place. XP
Paid Vacation Time. Paid Holidays. And after 6 Months I get a Raise. So yeah. :D
Another Downside is.. And now trying to work my Art Schedule around work. It should be easy... But giving my friend who I work is To and From work. Kinda makes it hard as everytime we get off he's getting me to take him to Places and by time I get him home and myself home I am going to bed.. x.x
I've already told him multiple times that I just want to go straight home so I can work on Commissions I owe.
But something always seems to come up that delays that plans or puts it on hold...
And half the time it's my Truck Overheating where it forces me to stay at his house for almost two hours. x.x
After telling my friend the extra drives and driving to his house almost to the NC Boarder is killing my truck that I can't really do this type of driving anymore. He offered to fix my truck and pay for the Repairs... Mind you this friend has money that he does not know what to do with.. So he's been paying me to take him to and from work during the time I was out of work (And was not getting Commissions) Paid my Bills, Put Gas in my Car. Offered to get me Stuff that I really want and need (Hadn't really took this offer). However him offering to do a full repairs on my car... Eh.. I might as well let him right?
So now my Vehicle is in the Shop. I am waiting for the call to see what all needs to be fixed and see what the price gonna be. Cause see.. My truck has been overheating to the point I have to pull over on the side of the road to let it cool. At first was my Water Pump cause it was Leaking quite heavily. Got that fixed. No more leaking. Car still overheats. Turns out it was a little $5 part that was not releasing pressure. Got it fixed. But car still overheats. My dad as fixed and worked on my engine that he just can't seem to find the issue of it's overheating. Other then my Temp Gage is sticking and getting stuck and telling me my car is overheating when it's not or not telling me it's overheating until I stop and my Raditor be whistling and the overflow be bubbling.
Wasn't til I got a second mechanic look to my car and tell me that I am about to lose a Head Gasket.
Apparently the Bubbling in the Overflow is air being shot into it instead of the water going in to cool the engine down or something like that. And now I have a steady stream of Bubbles in my Overflow that when I got my dad to look at it. He even said the same thing.. x.x
Here's hoping that I caught this issue early and that I didn't blew a Head Gasket and or Cracked the Head.. I already paid fixes like this on my old truck and damn was it expensive x.x
Then again old truck was 1996 S10 Chevy... It was hard to find that part as I was told..
While the car I have now is a 2001 Chevy Blazer... And finding parts for it seems alot easier then my trucks ever were haha
But hey. If I get these full repairs rolling and get my Blazer fixed up to where it CAN make these long ass drives. I plan to go to Anthro Southeast in October. This job being as laid back as it is. I should be able to go to cons more freely now then ever. Which won't be many cons as it as to be Cons either in my Area or in the Next State over. But should in theory go to alittle more cons now. ;w;
So here's hoping haha
Gonna end it here... Do have alot more to say.
But I think this is quite enough lol
Your friend sounds like he should get his own car if he already has enough money to pay you for rides and repairs.
I hope you settle into your new job nicely~