I don't really fell like writing tonight, but I bugged April to update so I figured I should too.
I'm still working 3rd shift at Mead. We've been on 10 hour days for 5 weeks now. Needless to say, I'm burning out. My day consists of... Leaving for work at 8:10pm, working until 7am, getting home at 7:45am, sleeping until 3:30pm, and doing school work until I leave again. It is just getting really tiring very quickly!
Unfortunately, my adjuster's mom died on Thursday morning. I feel so bad for him, but we are now working 8 hours for a couple of days. We can't work in my department without an adjuster present. So, I've been going in at the normal time now, 11pm, and we've been handpacking for 4 hours. Another adjuster, who is on 1st shift, comes it at 3am. We then go over to our department and work like normal. It's a sappy moment. (An adjuster is the person that runs the machine. He does all the maintenance and adjusting, hence the name!)
I kind of explain what I've been doing: I work in a department called HS1. I'm not sure what it stands for, but that's the name. We have a 4 man crew consisting of three laborers and an adjuster. The three laborers are Elycia (another college student), Michelle, and I. We rotate between three different stations throughout the night. We do different project depending on what is "hot". Currently, we are working on manila drawing pads that are 12x18. We have two people at the beginning of the machine by a convayer belt. They separate the manila and feed them into the convayer belt, which is usually moving at a high rate of speed. The third person is at the end of belt catching the newly packaged drawing pads, putting them in boxes, and putting them through the taping machine.
Handpacking is something completely different and a hundred times more boring. Handpacking is basically fixing stuff that other people messed up. Friday we took 8 five subject notebooks out of boxes, reordered them, put 12 in another box, put it through a tape machine, and stacked it on a skid. I know! It is so exciting, and I got to do it for four hours!
Well, it is 10:30pm, and my sleep is so messed up. I'm so tired all the time! I'm going to bed.
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Do you ever get to take home "rejects?" I'd go crazy there, 'cause I have this weird attraction to school supplies, etc!
Sorry you're so tired. I could not do what you are doing. Hang in there and just count down the days. :)
Actually, Mead has a store that is open twice a week. They sell all the rejects and overflow stuff. It's really super cheap in there. I do have to keep myself from buying the whole store lol
I totally know what you mean about being attracted to school supplies, haha. I'm sad that this year I'll be teaching and won't need to go crazy buying things for classes! :(
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