Well, pretty good. Our new mgr is 20 years retired from USAF as SMsgt, and he’s OK. He knows how to lead people in a general way, has been with “the company” for a while. He’s pretty green as far as how we roll in our department, especially in terms of by-the-book SOP and “Standard Work” and all that, but as long as he sticks by the book, he’ll be OK.
About 80% of our new hires, even the good ones, we had on since xmas “season” (Advent, really, at best), still have barely caught on, so I suppose that’s average.
But, I’ll give him propers (as well as the dude who had his current shift, who is training him, sort of hands-off, while he ascends to…what’s that movie…whatever…into Operations) for not giving me shtuff when I actually said some really sarcastic stuff over the 2-way about an unnamed contracted company. Man, that person…main stick over at that … company … she was hovering like a flesh golem.
Heck with it, I made the right call, and they (barely) made it out on time. 22 minute load out, not bad for them, even with the mishegas about our stock company of idiots hampering efforts at every step.
He doesn’t know about the subliminal cues and the habits of each company, but he’ll learn soon enough. It is hilarious when he tried to assert his authority, though. We did let the previous company lollygag a bit, but he didn’t know that the next one would never be in on time, and that total load-out, and his metrics, don’t actually relate to the kind of performance and accuracy we need.
Oh, but most importantly, my gal actually finished my sentence with the word “bank” when we were joking about if this other gal was there today, one of the drivers. Yes, everyone knows about whatever, and it is actually a pretty funny joke.
Dammit, she actually said out loud what I was thinking but decided not to say? Tcheh.
I think everything’s going to mellow out in about a month: some major major major people came by two days ago, so we had been doing 5S type BS, like some poor sods had to retape various areas of the station and our custodial staff were whirling around like maniacs on those Zamboni-type floor buffers about every hour.
Also, ZOMG, for once I went by the break room during break, because there were supposed to be free pretzels. ZOMG, my team are incredibly lazy. Now I know what their problem is and why they’d be late to their own funerals.
No, I usually avoid that pit of heck when possible, but I don’t know what’s wrong with some of these people. That’s the reason we have to scan in/out for coffee breaks, and that’s the reason we get fifteen instead of twenty with a nod and a wink.
Unbelievable. Our team used to be “yeah, whatever, no mention needed,” and, nobody watching the clock. Now because of loudmouth and her short bus, everyone seems to have become reduced to her orbit. She’s intolerable. Dumb, loud, complains always, negative contributor to tasks, unpleasant, dogmatic, lazy, slow.
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