Yes DDD I do. It is one of my favs.........although most of them are. LOL
Believe it or not..............it actually does get like that with people who are having a hard time catching on or keeping up. Our system is set up that there is a person(s) stationed at the end of the line to load the end product onto skids.........they will also grab an unfinished product and set them aside to be reworked, but that is of course frowned upon if it is too much. So we'll have people start grabbing product off the line (if possible) and set it aside if they start seriously falling behind. If it really becomes an issue the belt is shut down. A bigger no no. But this can happen for a variety of reasons........not just that people are falling behind. Our equipment is literally ancient (not computerized......at least not any I've seen) and most of the work is done via people, unlike most other factories these days. These days many candles are produced with plastic lids to prevent debris from getting on the candle until you get it home. Our machines are not made to work with lids........so the lids tend to gum up and otherwise fairly smooth operation.
Four to six people went down tonight from heat exhaustion. I think we also lost about half our newbies, including those that started wed........they either walked off the line or left at break and never came back.
I do see something that bothers me and I don't understand it unless it is because we've become such a lazy society. This is a factory. End product is everything. Productivity is everything. The pace is fast because it has to be to keep production up.......to fill orders in time. But we have people (and not just young people by any means) who act like they have all the time in the world to spare and move like turtles regardless at how much they're told / explained they have GOT to SPEED it up because their pace is preventing everyone else on the line from doing their own jobs and killing productivity.
I'm all for yakking or joking or even singing or whatever as long as you can do your job the right way while doing it. We had 2 ladies (whom I normally like quite well) my age opening sleeves tonight. You have to be really fast with this because without sleeves the line can NOT move. They just would not pick up the pace, would not listen to how to properly do it so they opened right.......and would not shut up which was just slowing them down more. I'm not one who likes to get others into trouble but darn it I can't load glass without sleeves to go on the glass.......and if I'm not loading glass the belt has to be shut down. Know what I mean?? Then we ALL get into trouble because we're not working. Uh, no. We had to talk to the bosses, no choice. Not that them talking to these 2 did much good either.......but they did finally manage to hunt down a few other people to come help them that could do the job. omg These 2 ladies, while they started with me on monday........I've not seen them since until today. But geez louise, when the boss tells you that you've got to get your rear into gear.......you might want to at least TRY to go a little faster. I literally wanted to rip out my hair at one point. Boss man had to tell me to slow down my loading pace 3 times because of them..........The last time I told him if I slowed it down any more I might as well freakin go to lunch. geez!
