Well, another week of 12hour shifts is done. Next week, night shift, after which supposedly it returns to normal 8hours 1st-2nd shift pattern. That'd be nice!
Friday was weird. We started working on one brand and it was going awfully slow. There were rumors it is going to be an 8-hour day.
Then, suddenly, the assembly area of our line got sent to the social room while we battled with their production for the next few hours. See, sets of this brand need to go through a rather long (2 hours) burning in/aging stage (where the set it turned on for that period of time to see if it'll still work/display everything correctly after a certain amount of operating time) so everything arrived over there two hours late. Not only that, pretty much HALF of the sets were pulled off the line for various defects. Total mess!
Rumors started to circulate we might be sent home as early as 10am.
Well, the line director wasn't one to give up so we got a different model from a different brand (let's call it Brand B ) to work on. Except htat we didn't as the magazine was missing certain parts necessary to do so. Thus, the freshly hanged work instruction manuals got taken down in an instant only to be replaced with manuals of another model from the same brand.
This time they managed to get most of the required materials but they STILL missed something. We ended up taking down the manuals, hanging them up again, and finally taking them down for good, meanwhile all the freshly brought in parts and tools were all packed onto one pallette and brought into the Returns area (where they dump leftover materials for coordinators to write that down and cart it off to the so-called "supermarket" where they put back stuff into storage).
And we stood there, hopeful of being sent home. But then a bunch of broken sets were fixed and put back on the production line, so we had to test and package these. By then it was already Noon, where we got to stand some more… aaand finally they have decided to make the same model as at the beginning of the day… WITH THE SAME TECHNICAL PROBLEMS!
Out of the first 70 sets assembled, 20 fell due to various faults like gaps between the panel and the front cover, bent metal parts… and that was BEFORE testing. Testing took down another bunch of these.
We're ALWAYS faster on this brand than the assembly (to the point where the sets arriving in the testing area were less than 2 hours in the burning/aging mode so we have to wait for them to finish before we can proceed, at that point we're as slow as the assembly) so it was really strange to see that the numbers were so off. At the end of the day assembly managed to make something about 600 sets whereas only 250 or so were packed. If they were all made well, about 400 should have made to the end (considering the two hour delay) so imagine, about 150 of 400 was faulty.
The reason for this whole mess? There was a truck waiting outside for sets. ANY tv sets! Anything to take to a different location. Why such a problem? The trucks standing on the outside cost them a small fortune, something that goes into hundreds of Euros for every day the driver has to sit around waiting for stuff. In a way it pays off more for them to assemble any faulty shit they can (and empty the magazines from old parts) and have them return to them a month or so later for corrections, than to have the truck waiting a week or so.
As far as I know the night shift that came after us was meant to finish the whole model. I wonder if they managed to do so.
Nice thing: I have the Saturday, Sunday and pretty much most of Monday off (since we start 10pm). NEAT!
Edit: things turning smileys without my desire piss me off!!!
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Rant, Moan and Rave - 2010 edition
We just got ridiculous new dog toys at work.
Pahaha. For whatever reason(I hate to think) they've been selling quite well and I have a hard time keeping a straight face every time a customer brings one up to the counter. I'm positive that these were a joke somewhere between being designed and coming to our store.
By the way. For the sceptical. I am same.Have to get Kyo in to examine this disinformation… :)
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sagaWow… there's a comic in all that ;)
We just got ridiculous new dog toys at work.I love how the name in the link is "willie" ^_^
It's a great gag! Even more-so because those pointy ears, tail and the legs make it unsuitable for… something else.
Brilliant!
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Ugh, woken up at 4am on a Sunday by my cat… Chattering away constantly in his little, high pitched cat voice.
"ahrrow,ahhhrrrowow,aarrow,arroowow…" and so on- The cat equivalent of "hello" which is the one word I find most of them try and learn to say.
Anyway, he wouldn't stop, he went all through the house. So I responded to try and make him give it up… So he came back to my bedroom and dropped a freshly killed rat on my bedroom floor.
Apparently that's he'd been wanting to show it to me all along… But because i wouldn't get out of bed he couldn't. Hence the reason for the non-stop chatter.
I just carried it outside and put it outside the back door. Too early! Of course it was covered in flies by the time I got up for eal around 9.30am and I had to go and bury it, but that's another story…
He came back again at 5am to wake me up to feed him. Awful Sunday morning!!!!!!!!!! >.<
Broken sleep…
\We just got ridiculous new dog toys at work.I love how the name in the link is "willie" ^_^
It's a great gag! Even more-so because those pointy ears, tail and the legs make it unsuitable for… something else.
Brilliant!
Did I mention that they're called "Megalast LongDogs"?
Ugh, woken up at 4am on a Sunday by my cat… Chattering away constantly in his little, high pitched cat voice.We've had two cats that use to make similar sounds when they'd inside a screened window. I always thought they were "flirting" with the birds to lure them over.
"ahrrow,ahhhrrrowow,aarrow,arroowow…" and so on-
Anyway, he wouldn't stop, he went all through the house. So I responded to try and make him give it up… So he came back to my bedroom and dropped a freshly killed rat on my bedroom floor.Aaawww. He Loves you.
— (pre-dawn wildebeests)
This morning around five I was wakened by some alarm in the neighborhood. Ah!! I Was So Tired. Three high pitched tones, repeated and repeated. Finally I pulled on some jeans and threw on a jacket and started walking down the street. I got close to the source when I realized: Idiot! you have no flashlight, you don't even have a club just in case there is something to club, and you're in your jammies, for God's sake.
I turned around to go home when a cop car came up with its search lights on. I'm not even sure what he asked me (I Was So Tired!) but I pointed at my house and I pointed at the noise source, and that seemed to satisfy him. (I guess when you only walk like a zombie but don't look or smell like one the cops don't consider you a threat). Went home and got into bed. The noise stopped within another 20 mins or so. Wonder if I'll ever find out what that was.
Those porn ads 4chan has now are freaking me out. The airbrushing in them is some of the worst I've ever seen. Everytime i visit i'm reminded why i stopped going.
My cat is getting more grey hairs and white whisker *sigh* She's only got 10 years left, and that's if she's lucky. I wish they'd advance on cloning, i mean technology has improved so much in the past decade, maybe we'll have something where you clone the body and transplant the brain of the old body into it…or robo-cats.
Yeeeeesssssss
since returning home Friday evening I have filled 36 pages with random doodles and sketches… it's Monday morning right now and I'm expecting to be at around 40-45 range by the evening when I have to leave for work.
The best thing? I can draw good hands again, came up with a nice character design (that's very "70's heroic fantasy scantily clad female warrior" styled, haha) which inspired me to do a bunch of similar designs for another project I had on hold for ages now.
So, hooray for creativity.
Plan for today: 1) go get some icecream, 2) watch a movie, 3) go pay internet bills, 4) take a bath, 5) have a few hours nap, 6) go to work (night shift). Insert some drawing time between these all :D
Too bad I didn't do any actual comics though. Oh well. Keeping actively drawing is good enough for now (otherwise I'd get all rusty)!
I wasn't supposed to work any long shifts. But I'm still there at 9am and figuring I'll stay because they don't always tell me when I'm staying. So I called dispatch to confirm my twelve hours and I'm told I was supposed to be relieved at 8am. Typical. SNAFU
I got two extra hours so I really don't care but I was running out of things to do and the dizziness was setting in. That's Autumn for you. I get dizzy spells and the car's "Check engine" light comes on. It's Errant moisture in the chilly temperate climate.
It seeps into an engine gets something wet so that light comes on and you have to go to the garage to get it read and to get it turned off because it doesn't go off by itself. And that same moisture gets into messed up sinuses and cause headaches and dizzy spells in people with FUBAR heads.
I couldn't work on the comic during the extra hours because the executive director was in and I didn't want her to look over the security guard's shoulder (That's me)and see him running Photo Shop and putting together pages of nekkid pictures with inane, profane captions. Call me self-conscious. But I'm a little sensitive after getting fired for some stupid misunderstandings.
Yeah, the site editor and ourselves didn't find out about it til earlier today. It is supposed to be there for two weeks. I guess if you wanted a Maxim subscription now is the time. :]
My wife got me a subscription to Maxim for free when she renewed People. What an empty, vacuous waste of paper. It should be named Minimum.
Shutup and take yer dose of boobies!
I was initially appalled at the idea of Maxim sponsoring us because it's so fatuous and softcore. But the black borders on the front page look so cool! …and what harm can boobies do anyway? I say MORE to Maxim ads all over the site! ^_^
And I think they should syndicate Pinky TA in all their publications, I think it would boost their sales at least 5 bajillion million 100 to the power of infinity percent.
I'm sure most people would agree with me on that.
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I have a headache and I'm dead in the first night of the mafia game.. so bugger that -_-
Haha, I have a headache too, for some reason my allergies are acting up. It's late november and everything is dead, what's up with that? Anyway I am not getting much work done today.
You young male main webcomic audience should all be pro-boobies. Actually the timing of the ad isn't bad, being the big american shopping weekend and all. I'm withholding judgment anyway, at least it's just on the one page. :]
i'm not a big fan of boobies. i should clarify. i don't like boobies in magazines that are nigh on unattainable. tho you can do anything if you put your mind to it.
luckily i'm in a country that doesn't allow boobification of websites. and i'll i have are advertisements for the zombie movie.
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interesting fun filled facts about my day, in numbered list order:
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Maxim isn't boobies; its cleavage. With All that training in photo editing I can see where they airbrushed out the nipples if they do manage a peak. Just ruins it for me. Sports Illustrated shows more. &*^%$
Here's hoping that as a subscriber I get the free graphic novel of Cowboys and Aliens.
Yeah the magazines I subscribe to: Maxim, Free Inquiry and Skepical Enquirer. So I'm a skeptical atheist who likes inane "guy" jokes and teasing shoots of unnaked women. Come on, their pictorials are barely two pages. The girl on the cover usually has one shot maybe three shots inside. The last one that had more was Lindsey Lohan. Now if we could just get that bimbo clean and sober and back to her original hair color! There aren't enough redheads in the world.
Can you tell I have to work tonight and all through the Thanksgiving weekend? And I just lost a client.
I need a little Christmas right this very minute.
Maxim is a huge waste of time, considering you have to go out, buy the magazine, come back and look at tits. If I want to see some hooters, I'll search for ta-tas on a streaming porn site and get my daily dose of dirty pillows. Breasts.
So my trip to visit family is off. our flight was late getting into vegas, making us miss our connecting flight in LAX. LAX (which is of course ran by a full squadron of idiots) lost our luggage. So now I pretty much don't have a third to half the clothes I own. Since we also went through three goddamn airlines (one to get there, a different one to connect to that we missed, and United to fly all the way back to Vegas the same night to solidify the trip as a massive waste of time and money), I seriously doubt they'll ever ship it. I'm sure it can be found, but lost forever thanks to airport bureaucracy.
I, for one, welcome our new Maxim overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a regular forum poster, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground soft-softcore porn photography studios.
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On a completely unrelated note, after attending the con this last weekend and seeing fellow artists selling their wares, I'm thinking about doing the same thing. I have to figure out some info before this is possible, but I can say that if it makes me more money or nets more exposure, I'll go for it.
Getting started on battlestar galactica. I have the first season and… 2.0? Weird. Anyways I really like it aside from the disgustingly awkward sex scenes every episode. The doctor has zero chemistry with any of the female cast and i don't find the walking-autopsy that lives in his brain sexy.
…i hope they don't pull a lost and everyone turns out to be a cylon.
There's some "interactive advertisement" for scented candles or something that is playing almost every time I open a new page in the forums. Urgh. Makes it very irritating to be here.Please describe it in full or even make a screenshot of it.
I miss when the ads used to be for lupus and fatherhood.
Intrusive ads drive people away so they are not appropriate to the site.
The more I know about it, the easier it is to complain about it to Wowio :)
Please describe it in full or even make a screenshot of it.Right now when I came to the site but before I logged in, I heard the trailer for the little fockers movie. like for the 8th time today?
Intrusive ads drive people away so they are not appropriate to the site.
The more I know about it, the easier it is to complain about it to Wowio :)
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arg! and now one for mucinex
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