Day 5.1 Brains versus brawn
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kyrasantae
On Friday, when the missing parts showed up, SHE immediately stopped what she was doing and went to sort out the parts into their appropriate places. Since I had just finished putting something together, I was asked to finish the thing SHE had been building. >_< It's not like I don't know how to sort parts either, and it certainly wasn't like PE-Guy (being in charge) was sorting them last week (it was me and Rich).
Finish what you start (and especially so when you are able). Like even on the phone with my boss last night with an update about my wrist, I stressed to him that before doing anything else I was going to finish the cabinets I was working on on Friday. The set of cabinets took me until lunch today.
I was wearing my braces on both of my hands, so I had taken off my watch, and working alone in the cabinet area. Eventually I looked at what time it was and it was already 9:45, and I wondered why no one had come to get me for break/breakfast (we normally go at 9:30). Next thing I knew, I saw a couple of the guys walking by... on the way back.
When I had a spare moment:
"We looked for you everywhere," Artsy Guy said. "We didn't find you, so we figured we'd just go ahead since you know we go at 9:30 and stuff."
SHE brings in the new guys, and tells them that if they have any questions they can come to me because I've been building this stuff for a few days. They set themselves up with a box of cabinet stuff each and start building. I make note that it's best if one finds the package for the base of the modular cabinet and build that first, then work upwards from there. SHE insists that "not all of the bases are here yet" (nearly all of the parts are here now) and so they should just put together the modular parts and then get a buddy to help lift and stack them onto the bases later.
This was what we had been doing last Thursday, and when I had to go install the cabinets onto the bases (once the bases arrived), it was awkward and a slip or slightly-off placement would lead to damage to the veneer finish. Maybe I'm just a wimp, but the placement still isn't trivial even with people who can lift them more easily. Especially when you're trying to lift the filing cabinets, each of which has a massive ~20 lb. counterweight in the back of it.
I recommended looking for a base kit first, then, if failing to find one, then do the above. It takes less effort to look for a box with a number on it than it does to a) find a buddy to help, and then b) lift and place the thing. It's much easier to build upwards and there are some instances in which screw holes get covered up by the hardware installed inside the cabinet part, which means you'd have to unscrew something anyway just to screw the cabinet to the base.
SHE continues to insist on just building all of the parts first and then popping them onto the bases. Whatever.
I notice that the bases that the guys needed right then at the time had arrived and were available, so I just brought them over and gave it to them.
Whenever the new guys had any trouble with how something went together or how to interpret the parts list/diagrams, they came to me. I had to show one of them how to build one of the bases because it was missing an instruction book.
PE-Guy called in sick this morning. After afternoon break, SHE was trying to chat things up with me and casually remarked, "Guess what I told [PE-Guy] when he called in this morning? ...'you having a hangover?"
I was not amused. I said that I really don't want to hear all this talk about alcohol around me, and it's something that really fires me up.
"But you come out for drinks with us after work on Friday"
"I'm not saying that I don't drink, it's just that I don't want to hear about people's excesses because it makes me really angry and want to strangle people"
"I'm not excessive about it"
"All this 'oh I was at this party and there were really cheap drinks' or 'oh I was so drunk last night' and how many drinks you had, etc"
"I don't drink to excess"
"Sure you do"
"You haven't seen how much I drink"
"I don't need to. It's what you say about it"
"You haven't seen it"
"..."
Just can't reason with these people, ya know.
The boss brought in a box of new screwdriver bits he bought at a hardware store, i.e. they're made of actual cast steel and are durable. This actually relieved quite a bit of the stress on my wrists, because I'm not pushing on the screwdriver to force a stripped bit into and turn each screw. Still gonna take things slow and steady though, despite the tradesmen having caught back up and us being behind now.
Finish what you start (and especially so when you are able). Like even on the phone with my boss last night with an update about my wrist, I stressed to him that before doing anything else I was going to finish the cabinets I was working on on Friday. The set of cabinets took me until lunch today.
I was wearing my braces on both of my hands, so I had taken off my watch, and working alone in the cabinet area. Eventually I looked at what time it was and it was already 9:45, and I wondered why no one had come to get me for break/breakfast (we normally go at 9:30). Next thing I knew, I saw a couple of the guys walking by... on the way back.
When I had a spare moment:
"We looked for you everywhere," Artsy Guy said. "We didn't find you, so we figured we'd just go ahead since you know we go at 9:30 and stuff."
SHE brings in the new guys, and tells them that if they have any questions they can come to me because I've been building this stuff for a few days. They set themselves up with a box of cabinet stuff each and start building. I make note that it's best if one finds the package for the base of the modular cabinet and build that first, then work upwards from there. SHE insists that "not all of the bases are here yet" (nearly all of the parts are here now) and so they should just put together the modular parts and then get a buddy to help lift and stack them onto the bases later.
This was what we had been doing last Thursday, and when I had to go install the cabinets onto the bases (once the bases arrived), it was awkward and a slip or slightly-off placement would lead to damage to the veneer finish. Maybe I'm just a wimp, but the placement still isn't trivial even with people who can lift them more easily. Especially when you're trying to lift the filing cabinets, each of which has a massive ~20 lb. counterweight in the back of it.
I recommended looking for a base kit first, then, if failing to find one, then do the above. It takes less effort to look for a box with a number on it than it does to a) find a buddy to help, and then b) lift and place the thing. It's much easier to build upwards and there are some instances in which screw holes get covered up by the hardware installed inside the cabinet part, which means you'd have to unscrew something anyway just to screw the cabinet to the base.
SHE continues to insist on just building all of the parts first and then popping them onto the bases. Whatever.
I notice that the bases that the guys needed right then at the time had arrived and were available, so I just brought them over and gave it to them.
Whenever the new guys had any trouble with how something went together or how to interpret the parts list/diagrams, they came to me. I had to show one of them how to build one of the bases because it was missing an instruction book.
PE-Guy called in sick this morning. After afternoon break, SHE was trying to chat things up with me and casually remarked, "Guess what I told [PE-Guy] when he called in this morning? ...'you having a hangover?"
I was not amused. I said that I really don't want to hear all this talk about alcohol around me, and it's something that really fires me up.
"But you come out for drinks with us after work on Friday"
"I'm not saying that I don't drink, it's just that I don't want to hear about people's excesses because it makes me really angry and want to strangle people"
"I'm not excessive about it"
"All this 'oh I was at this party and there were really cheap drinks' or 'oh I was so drunk last night' and how many drinks you had, etc"
"I don't drink to excess"
"Sure you do"
"You haven't seen how much I drink"
"I don't need to. It's what you say about it"
"You haven't seen it"
"..."
Just can't reason with these people, ya know.
The boss brought in a box of new screwdriver bits he bought at a hardware store, i.e. they're made of actual cast steel and are durable. This actually relieved quite a bit of the stress on my wrists, because I'm not pushing on the screwdriver to force a stripped bit into and turn each screw. Still gonna take things slow and steady though, despite the tradesmen having caught back up and us being behind now.
