Courage My Love - January 7, 2011

Like most people, when someone does not understand what I just said to them, I figure it's their fault. Usually it is, communication is not my weak spot. Today though, I had to question myself, either that or the universe just had a major dump of stupid on my work crew....

At the start of the shift, I told the guys "You are doing blah, blah on boat 5182 only" Then I repeated it, not the new boat, but boat 5182. Pretty clear. What ever  you are doing, it should be off of boat 5182.

About an hour into the shift, this guy comes to me and says "I can't find these blah blahs, so I went to another location and took some off the boat that just arrived". I asked if he actually went to the actual location and looked for these blah, blahs. He said , no actually, he hadn't because he knew they weren't there because that location was full of completely different blah blahs. So I sent him out to look and guess what, there they were! So stop working on the new boat and finish freakin boat 5182.

Later on, another guy was working off a list of blah blahs and came to the end of the list and asked for the next assignment, which I give to him. I run a completion list and he missed one. Well he didn't miss it, he brought it into the shop and took it back out again but did not enter any completion in the computer. I tell him and then say "I need the serial number of the installation" so he goes out and brings me back the serial number of the blah blah, not the item we installed. Freakin Jesus, I want to slap them! It looked like they were playing stupid again, and stupid was winning. You know what they say about "assume".

I cannot believe they pay people this much to do work like this, which I can't tell you what it is because I would have to kill you. It is simple but repetitive work, and yet they try to turn it into rocket science, which it is so clearly NOT.

Oh well, poor them, they just have to put up with me when they piss me off. Most of them, heck all of them are really great people and they are either working over or under their capabilities, which makes for a challenge any way you look at it. So to cheer myself up, I will share a picture with you.

This is my best, most famous picture. It is called "Morgan and the world upside down". It is Morgan the dog standing at the edge of the mighty Fraser River, what you see at the top of the picture is the trees on the other side of the river reflecting into the river. Lucky shot, but a prize winner none the less....

Somedays, being me takes courage my love...