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Rep Retirement Lodge #174: Spring Cleaning

Rep Retirement Lodge #174: Spring Cleaning

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*breathes deep*

Must maintain positive outlook. Must maintain positive outlook. Do not curse at company president.


Good morning Lodge. Looks like now that our purchasing person was fired I get to be the new person that gets asked questions I have no answer to and talked down to for it. I'll gladly tell you how the quality issue was resolved, but if you want to know the build schedule, ask production, not me. :mad:
 
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Morning.

Finally got our Japan trip info packet today. Only 10 days before we leave! Pretty excited to get going.
 
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I had to deal with an Indian at 7:00 AM CT this morning; he was supposed to run a job for us at 6:15AM. It's been my experience that they make technology jobs much more cumbersome, it's not just their Dell phone support.
 
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Howdy Lodge. Fun day today. Long day today. It was sunny but pretty chilly and it snowed overnight here. This morning the folks on this trip had a business meeting which I thankfully did not have to be at, except for the part where we brought in an Olympian to talk to them. That's me - athlete babysitter. :) He left at 11, we headed out around 12:15 to the Olympic Training Center for lunch and a tour. I ran to the ladies room before we got on the bus to go to the biathlon shooting range and the bus wound up leaving without me. D'oh! I did have them come back to get me.

The biathlon shooting range was pretty cool. I impressed myself and some of the others by hitting all five targets on five shots, while lying on my stomach. I may have been pretty good at biathlon if I didn't have to do that cross country skiing, because no. Then we went to the bobsled track and got to get in a 4-man bobsled for a race down the track. That was awesome. It was totally like a ride at Disney. I wish they would've let me videotape it on my phone during the ride. But noooooooooo. Safety. Psssh.
 
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So, HeadBoss' boss was here today. Had a meeting/Q&A (without the other bosses there) with him. It was like a cross between the Airing Of Grievances/Office Space: we don't have incentives to want to achieve higher performance numbers, we don't get lunches anymore if we hit our goals for the building, etc etc. A couple people were really blunt about it, too. Personally, I have enough company-logoed-gear. I don't need more (I even donated about 5 jackets to charity this past fall; tags were still on them). My incentive is to just have little/no OT, and I'm satisfied.

Should be interesting to see what happens, as THE Boss was rather surprised to hear a general lack of morale amongst the group.
 
Brenthoven said:
So, HeadBoss' boss was here today. Had a meeting/Q&A (without the other bosses there) with him. It was like a cross between the Airing Of Grievances/Office Space: we don't have incentives to want to achieve higher performance numbers, we don't get lunches anymore if we hit our goals for the building, etc etc. A couple people were really blunt about it, too. Personally, I have enough company-logoed-gear. I don't need more (I even donated about 5 jackets to charity this past fall; tags were still on them). My incentive is to just have little/no OT, and I'm satisfied.

Should be interesting to see what happens, as THE Boss was rather surprised to hear a general lack of morale amongst the group.
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Ugh, I wish I could get one of these. The management at my job can be very boneheaded at times. They usually resort to tactics of forcing asinine rules on everybody in an effort to be able to punish a select few they really want to punish. Or forcing asinine rules because they've *ed up and they need to fix it. In the process PO'ing everybody else.

Case in point today. They're upset at a couple of guys because they're late a lot. And when they're not late, they're wasting time getting ready. So instead of punishing them through the established process and letting that work, because they don't want to seem like they're targeting them, they now are forcing everyone to be at the "pre-work" meetings dressed in full gear. Which sounds ok until you realize that you have stand inside for 5-10 minutes dressed to work in 0° weather. It's very uncomfortable. And all because they're PO'd at 2-3 people.
 
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Scarlet said:
The biathlon shooting range was pretty cool. I impressed myself and some of the others by hitting all five targets on five shots, while lying on my stomach. I may have been pretty good at biathlon if I didn't have to do that cross country skiing, because no. Then we went to the bobsled track and got to get in a 4-man bobsled for a race down the track. That was awesome. It was totally like a ride at Disney. I wish they would've let me videotape it on my phone during the ride. But noooooooooo. Safety. Psssh.
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That's a solid job, nice work! While that position is the easiest in shooting, I couldn't even tell you how many new(er) people to shooting have been all over the place, in my experience.

As for the Disney comparison, Lake Placid is a pretty magical little town in its own right. I've always fully enjoyed my time spent there, although I've never been down Van Hoevenberg, only Whiteface a couple times.

Had a pretty solid time over at Copperhead Golf Course today. Followed Daly for the morning, which was fun even though he played horribly. Typical JD behavior, lighting up cigs and drinking diet coke all round. Then followed Kuchar/Snedeker/Rose for the afternoon group, and I've already seen myself on TV a couple times in watching today's replayed coverage.
 
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Jimjamesak said:
Ugh, I wish I could get one of these. The management at my job can be very boneheaded at times. They usually resort to tactics of forcing asinine rules on everybody in an effort to be able to punish a select few they really want to punish. Or forcing asinine rules because they've *ed up and they need to fix it. In the process PO'ing everybody else.

Case in point today. They're upset at a couple of guys because they're late a lot. And when they're not late, they're wasting time getting ready. So instead of punishing them through the established process and letting that work, because they don't want to seem like they're targeting them, they now are forcing everyone to be at the "pre-work" meetings dressed in full gear. Which sounds ok until you realize that you have stand inside for 5-10 minutes dressed to work in 0° weather. It's very uncomfortable. And all because they're PO'd at 2-3 people.
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DHead Boss (shift boss) follows Management 101 Textbook. Head Boss is actually changing things, but he's still fairly new (2 years or so now, came up from KC). DHead has been there for about 10 (although in Boss role for about 8). Head Boss has NO clue on how it used to be. DHead Boss does. Hm.
 
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DHead Boss (shift boss) follows Management 101 Textbook. Head Boss is actually changing things, but he's still fairly new (2 years or so now, came up from KC). DHead has been there for about 10 (although in Boss role for about 8). Head Boss has NO clue on how it used to be. DHead Boss does. Hm.
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4 levels of management here.

Part-time supervisors: These are the dregs that do the actual work like supervising the loading of planes, sorts, etc. I have no idea why anyone would want this position. The money isn't good, the benefits suck, if you're an *hole everyone working for you will treat like crap and ensure nothing ever gets done quickly, if you're not an *hole then you'll never get promoted because "you're too friendly with the hourly employees."

Full-time supervisors: The people in charge of basically everything. Staffing, discipline, training etc. Problem is, there's waaaaaaay too many. All it does is create inconsistencies on what's allowed and what's not. And, because they rarely promote the good part-time sups, they're *holes. And to top it off, they love to "cross train", i.e. putting somebody who's never worked outside on an air ramp in charge of the air ramp!

Managers: Office dwellers in charge of operations who almost never see operations except from a window. Also they're in charge of setting shifts, which we bid on, and time off, which we also bid on. To top it off, we have two different ones, one for AM and one for PM. Meaning, again, two different sets of rules.

Division Manager: Don't know much about him. I know not to make him mad and he seemed pretty happy when we beat FedEx in that hockey game.

Basically, I have that "8 different bosses" thing from Office Space. Just worse.
 
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4 levels of management here.

Part-time supervisors: These are the dregs that do the actual work like supervising the loading of planes, sorts, etc. I have no idea why anyone would want this position. The money isn't good, the benefits suck, if you're an *hole everyone working for you will treat like crap and ensure nothing ever gets done quickly, if you're not an *hole then you'll never get promoted because "you're too friendly with the hourly employees."

Full-time supervisors: The people in charge of basically everything. Staffing, discipline, training etc. Problem is, there's waaaaaaay too many. All it does is create inconsistencies on what's allowed and what's not. And, because they rarely promote the good part-time sups, they're *holes. And to top it off, they love to "cross train", i.e. putting somebody who's never worked outside on an air ramp in charge of the air ramp!

Managers: Office dwellers in charge of operations who almost never see operations except from a window. Also they're in charge of setting shifts, which we bid on, and time off, which we also bid on. To top it off, we have two different ones, one for AM and one for PM. Meaning, again, two different sets of rules.

Division Manager: Don't know much about him. I know not to make him mad and he seemed pretty happy when we beat FedEx in that hockey game.

Basically, I have that "8 different bosses" thing from Office Space. Just worse.
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We have two "team" leads. They run the everyday stuff, work along side us.
One shift boss: oversees, gets us to reach the numbers, works along side us when needed (with all the new hires, expected to be less often).
One building boss: the shift boss on steroids. Runs more numbers, works along side us when REALLY needed.

FTR: the "work along side us" is more often than other buildings of our level. Others are legit shocked that the bosses actually "lower" themselves and work along side us. That is part of the reason we are the best at our level of buildings for the past 15 years. Work ethic.
 
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We have two "team" leads. They run the everyday stuff, work along side us.
One shift boss: oversees, gets us to reach the numbers, works along side us when needed (with all the new hires, expected to be less often).
One building boss: the shift boss on steroids. Runs more numbers, works along side us when REALLY needed.

FTR: the "work along side us" is more often than other buildings of our level. Others are legit shocked that the bosses actually "lower" themselves and work along side us. That is part of the reason we are the best at our level of buildings for the past 15 years. Work ethic.
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By contract, our management is not allowed to do any of our work. Essentially, they're supposed to be supervising and keeping track of the paperwork and, if we're short people, they're supposed to call people in. It's a union thing.

I'm actually glad they're not supposed to, most of them wouldn't know what to do and be in the way. I do wish they'd switch from part-time sups to leads though. It would make operations run significantly better.
 
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It's supposed to be 70 when we land back in Minneapolis on Sunday.. That should help make the transition back easier at least!
 
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