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December 11-25, 2004
EAP Entertainment: Young Buck ft. T.I. & Ludacris - "Stomp!"
"The truth in this booth, ain't no doubts when I'm rappin'. If I say it, I've either done it or it's about to happen."
- Ludacris
Welcome back to where the magic happens. Before I proceed any further, I'd like to congratulate Terence on his one year anniversary of the RAW columns. You do a good job over there. Have they ever been as good as the Extended AIM Profile? Hell no bitch, but they've been consistent - so I guess that counts for something. Anywhoo, enough of him - back to Piddy. I got a full plate of stuff I wanna "touch base" on. I'm gonna hit it hard, hit it strong, and hit it fast. Hold tight, this one could get long.
Work & The Real World
"Death gotta be easy, cause life is hard. It'll leave you physically, mentally, and emotionally scarred." - 50 Cent
Maybe this will begin to validate my away messages on how _________ (place negative adjective here) the company I work for is…
Subject: RE: CCF News this Week
Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. A special THANKS to all of you who
worked this Holiday weekend.This type of effort is what will contribute to
our continued sucsess.
"Sucsess is a journey, not a destination"
We will be continueing 2004 with a challenging schedual. It is imperative
that we meet or exceed all our thru-puts and yields for every run on every
line. For this to happen we must "Do It Right The First Time".
Thanks to eveyone for great test runs on Kraft sausage, XXXXXX, and XXXXXXX
projects.We also sucsessfully started up new Perdue wing products.
Next Thur. and Fri. we will have a Advance Food Co.Quality audit. Everyones
best efforts must be put forward, especially in GMP's and Housekeeping.
Our Safety audit was completed and the results were disapointig. We are
hoping to have another oportunity to reaudit to show that our good Safety
Record is a reflction of our good safety practices.
" NO PERSON FALLS WHO DOES THEIR BEST"
I really WISH I could say that I made this up. This is an email I got in my inbox at work the day after Thanksgiving. From the Assistant Plant Manager. Yes, the NUMBER TWO guy in the company wrote this pile of crap. I'd be ashamed if it wasn't so damn funny. After reading this I finally understand what all the talk was about in college. All I heard for the past few years was that employers and recruiters were pleased with new graduates, but that in order for them to take the next step they need to work on improving their written and verbal communication skills. Now it makes sense. You wind up looking really stupid if you take "the next step" (or in the email writer's case, a few steps) and you can't write a simple email. I've said it once, and I'll say it again, I work with idiots. And for those of you guys who know about how brilliant the people I work with are, this guy is Don's boss (he's also Mike's boss (who's my boss), but Mike is a smart guy - so he's excused from being associated with all this).
"We want fun and we wanna get wasted!!!" - Andrew W.K.
Want a recipe for disaster? Take three of your best supervisors. Have them work 13 out of 14 nights. Keep in mind that these nights average anywhere from 9.5 hours to 13 hours. Then tell them they have to work a Saturday. Did I mention that none of these supervisors are older than 25? Somewhere in all that mess, the "College Football Saturday" mindset kicks in and all they wanna do is drink. Lemme tell you something, when you get off of work at 3 and decide to get a cold one, that's normal. But when you drink from 3am to 11:30am the next morning when you have to work that same day - nothing good can come from that. On that day, something very sitcom-ish happened. Out of the 4 supervisors on the schedule that day, 3 were drunk/hungover. The other? An ordained minister. Toss in the "Guatemalan Boy Toy," 20,000 lbs of processed veal, and a schizophrenic maintenance guy and you have something worthy of being on "Must See TV."
"IT'S ELECTRIC…BOOGIE WOOGIE WOOGIE" - Marcia Griffiths
Now many of ya'll have heard the stories of "The Don." Don is the guy who runs 1st shift at my plant, and truth be told he's a decent guy. Thing is, some of his decisions aren't the brightest. Here's a quick story that I'm gonna share with you guys ONLY because there was potential death involved; to be more specific, my death.
There's a machine at work that tenderizes the filets so they hold more marinade, which increases yield. Uppermost management wants this machine running at all times, yet they won't provide us with full time staffing for it or a permanent location for it. So in a nutshell, this machine gets moved around A LOT. Anyways, we were running chicken nuggets the other day (which ALWAYS creates a mess on the RAWside) and some genius ran the power cord for this machine under the Formax (machine which forms the nuggets). Bad thing is the Formax leaks water something fierce, so there was at least a couple of inches of standing water around this thing. So we have a power cord, going underneath a machine that's sitting in a couple inches of water. Recipe for disaster? Yes.
Well I'm over by Line 3 helping the team leader get things situated for a changeover when the guy running the Formax comes up to me and told me that he had to unplug the Tenderpress. I asked him why and he said, "there were sparks coming from it." Deciding that a little downtime is better than people dying, I sent the two guys running the machine to break. While they were on break, I noticed the wires were good and soaked. Considering the RAWside is pretty damn hot, I wrapped up the wires near another warm machine and decided they could sit there for a half an hour to dry. Well Don does his normal rounds and this is the conversation what happens next…
Don (over the radio): Terence, could you come to the Tenderpress?
Terence: Sure, gimme a sec. (walks toward Tenderpress)
Don: Why isn't this thing running?
Terence: Teddy said he saw sparks coming from it. We turned it off and sent the guys to break so the wires could dry off.
Don: How long has it been off?
Terence: About 8 mins or so.
Don: Turn it back on, it should be dry.
Terence: Um…I don't think so. If you want it turned on, be my guest, but I'm not touching it for now.
Don: (plugs machine back in and turns it on)
The tenderpress runs for about 3 seconds, at which point there are two loud pops, lots of sparks, wires jumping around, and lots of smoke.
Terence: (who is standing (well jumping around…) in a puddle of water beside (...trying to avoid) said wires, QUICKLY turns machine off)
Don: (laughing) Why diidn't you tell me it was still wet?
T_Piddy: (not laughing) No, why the fuck didn't you listen to me when I told you it was wet?!?!? I'm not touching this thing the rest of the day. If you want it run, YOU staff it, I'm going to run burgers.
(throws wires at Don and walks off)
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