Working Girl..

Well, I officially began my job today. I was really nervous when I drove there today.. well I was either nervous or sleep deprived haha.. I had to get up at 5am.. eww..

Anyway, when I got to the plant I had to wait for my supervisor to take me out to the floor. So, the HR department called her and she said, "I'll be right there." So, I wait and I wait and I wait. The shift started at 7am and by the time I was done waiting it was quarter til 8. I got to know the HR ladies pretty well haha..

So, my supervisor takes me out to the floor and introduces me to all the ladies working in the department. On the particular machine I was helping with there were 7 ladies. Don't ask me their names because I can't remember haha.

My supervisor puts me with a woman named Patti, and she shows me how to do the different stations. There were five different stations to work. The first one was taking the label of the five star note book (you know the one that is hooked in the spiral part) and flip it to the back of the notebook. Then stack them on the appropriate table. The next stage was folding cardboad trays to stack the five star note books in. Also at this station you have to put the trays in a conveyer belt. The third station was stacking said notebooks into said trays on said conveyer belt lol. Two of the station do this because there are two different kinds of notebooks. One is the bold colors (red, black blue) and the other is the bright colors (light blue, purple, red). When the books are on conveyer belt they go through a shrink wrap machine. At the last station, the person there catches the shrink wrapped notebooks and puts them in display boxes.

I know I know.. how can I handle such excitment and complex doings. It will take me MONTHS to catch on! haha.. WRONG! A monkey could do this job, but you know what I'm getting paid 12.57 an hour to do monkey's work, and I'm happy with it.

Tonight my feet ache, I'm covered in scratches, and my hands are all dry. I'm sure it will get worse, and I'll probably have man hands when I'm finished haha. But again I'm getting paid! haha

It all starts again tomorrow at 5am. Pray for me that I continue to like it!