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Day 1.4 Death of a little bird
May. 7th, 2009 11:36 pm
I was so frustrated last night that I didn't make my lunch until this morning. Nor have I adjusted the length of the second pair of pants they have lent me. Went to bed late last night, got up especially early this morning (to catch up on making lunch and stuff). I cried all the way on the bus. I even had an excuse ready in case SHE noticed my swollen eyes and said anything (she didn't).
I just wanted to actually have an enjoyable birthday and mulling over all the crap in my head wasn't helping. How could I be twenty-three years old yet be treated like a high school kid? Age doesn't make a difference, but I sometimes wonder how old SHE is, if she thinks she's so smart and so knowledgeable. She looks about my age and had mentioned something about being in or just finishing college.
I lost my name tag somewhere between my flat and the LRT and the bus, but I emailed my boss about it and he said not to worry about it. We have to get stickers from the security guard every day anyway. She was super-bored (what guard isn't bored?) and wrote on mine:
Today was more tolerable because I worked with Anthony for the entire time. We've sort of worked out a system to get things done faster.
*****
It was also 'tell us something we don't know yet' day:
We had a whole stack of boxes for the same item but in different colours.
Her: "When you take out one of those two-box items, make sure you get the #1 and #2 boxes of the same colour."
Me: "Yeah it's not really such a big deal." [that you need to come over and tell us that in a tone of voice that says 'you don't know this']
Her: "Uh, YES IT IS."
Me: "I mean, it's not that hard to check that."
Her: "Wow, we've built so many of this model that we just did one without looking at the instructions, in 28 minutes."
Me: "You TIMED it?"
Anthony: "Way ahead of ya. We've already built TWO without looking at the instructions."
*****
Near the end of the day, there are two items left in our 'to do' pile. One's one that we've already made quite a few of, and one new one. The new one is at the bottom of the pile. Anthony and I were still working on one thing and the other two were moving something out into the store. We agree that we can expect them to take the next one in the pile, so that we will end up having something new to do. The boxes are pretty heavy, so it's non-trivial to lift them. They come back in. They decide to pick up the top item, put it aside, and take out the bottom item of the pile to put together, well, because it's something new. I was going to say something mean but,
"Curses! Foiled again!"
*****
I can't think that she's done managing/leading at a job before. Today I decided to stick one of my coffee breaks next to my lunch so that I could have a 45-minute lunch (the boss mentioned this at orientation on Monday), and trying to get permission from that was a bit scary (I told you so, that she wasn't going to let that idea fly). In the end we worked out a reasonable compromise. I used the extra time to pick up the drinks that I wanted to buy, as well as some chocolate. SHE didn't notice that Anthony and I came back after lunch at different times, because she was taking lunch then.
At the end of the day she's like "you should write down that you had a 45-minute lunch on the timesheet", like she doesn't know that breaks are paid and lunches aren't, and that's WHY lunches are kept on the timesheet.
Items assembled
I just wanted to actually have an enjoyable birthday and mulling over all the crap in my head wasn't helping. How could I be twenty-three years old yet be treated like a high school kid? Age doesn't make a difference, but I sometimes wonder how old SHE is, if she thinks she's so smart and so knowledgeable. She looks about my age and had mentioned something about being in or just finishing college.
I lost my name tag somewhere between my flat and the LRT and the bus, but I emailed my boss about it and he said not to worry about it. We have to get stickers from the security guard every day anyway. She was super-bored (what guard isn't bored?) and wrote on mine:
Today was more tolerable because I worked with Anthony for the entire time. We've sort of worked out a system to get things done faster.
It was also 'tell us something we don't know yet' day:
We had a whole stack of boxes for the same item but in different colours.
Her: "When you take out one of those two-box items, make sure you get the #1 and #2 boxes of the same colour."
Me: "Yeah it's not really such a big deal." [that you need to come over and tell us that in a tone of voice that says 'you don't know this']
Her: "Uh, YES IT IS."
Me: "I mean, it's not that hard to check that."
Her: "Wow, we've built so many of this model that we just did one without looking at the instructions, in 28 minutes."
Me: "You TIMED it?"
Anthony: "Way ahead of ya. We've already built TWO without looking at the instructions."
Near the end of the day, there are two items left in our 'to do' pile. One's one that we've already made quite a few of, and one new one. The new one is at the bottom of the pile. Anthony and I were still working on one thing and the other two were moving something out into the store. We agree that we can expect them to take the next one in the pile, so that we will end up having something new to do. The boxes are pretty heavy, so it's non-trivial to lift them. They come back in. They decide to pick up the top item, put it aside, and take out the bottom item of the pile to put together, well, because it's something new. I was going to say something mean but,
"Curses! Foiled again!"
I can't think that she's done managing/leading at a job before. Today I decided to stick one of my coffee breaks next to my lunch so that I could have a 45-minute lunch (the boss mentioned this at orientation on Monday), and trying to get permission from that was a bit scary (I told you so, that she wasn't going to let that idea fly). In the end we worked out a reasonable compromise. I used the extra time to pick up the drinks that I wanted to buy, as well as some chocolate. SHE didn't notice that Anthony and I came back after lunch at different times, because she was taking lunch then.
At the end of the day she's like "you should write down that you had a 45-minute lunch on the timesheet", like she doesn't know that breaks are paid and lunches aren't, and that's WHY lunches are kept on the timesheet.
Items assembled
