I told the GM yesterday I was looking for new work he said "good luck with that " but then he told me I'm supposed to start a off site job fixing pillars at some Walmart a hour and a half a way I told him not if I gotta drive my truck there I barely can afford the gas just to make it to the shop let alone another hour and half farther. He told me he's getting me a rental and it's a $5hr increase while on that job and it's supposed to last a week possibly two. I'll put my job search on hold till this job is done and make some bank in the mean time.
And I didn't necessarily mean I wanted a management job when I had this talk with him but just to know there is room for advancing even if it's like a foreman or something as the company grows. We used to do 30k a month in sales and shipping now we pull 100-250k a WEEK in shipping and sales we are buried in orders and the shop is to small for the amount of stuff we're taking orders for. The potential with the company is there but they seem to do a lot of talking about making it better for the empoyees like better ventilation, pay, profit sharing, better health plan, bonuses. Instead the building got painted and the drive way paved oh and they put a dish washer in the break room because people are dirty slobs and leave dirty dishes around.
I think the other day when me and the GM had it out a little was also in part to me sticking up for myself and proving him and another person there wrong. Normally people just take it but not me not when it affects my paycheck and ability to put food on the table.
When I said the new bonus structure created a hostile work environment so to speak it's because it went from a group bonus we ship our goal everyone gets $125 extra in their check even if they did nothing but screw off all week and relied on others to carry the work load. Now it's "individual" you show up on time have a good attitude and get your list done and out the door you get a $100 bonus every week. HOWEVER if some one finds some thing wrong with your part you loose the bonus and it has caused people to sabotage your work or when you leave they take over the work area, hide tools, move and break the product your working on. It's basically become a popularity contest because some stuff that ships looks like garbage but passes QC and we charge several thousand dollars for it. Other stuff gets rejected for I kid you not a spec of dust in the gel coat or clear coat and it's a $200 fiberglass sports bench some kid in football pads in gonna scratch all up. Because of who makes it they nit pick it and keep rejecting it so it don't ship costing you $100 and once Thursday shipping comes and goes and you loose your numbers it becomes ok on Friday or Monday and ships but doesn't count towards your numbers.
I understand the need to put out good product but when one persons hack job is acceptable and another persons hard work and honestly the best your gonna get and probably some of the best looking parts in the place is not just because you don't like the guy is not is extremely messed up. It's been called out by so many people the favoriting in the place and it's obvious. I got lucky I build and repair molds now I don't really do to much production except when train parts come threw but they owe us a huge bill and I'm not making more parts till they pay it. Guys will pick apart my train parts trying to get stuff rejected but luckily for me the company that we sell them to sends a guy from Italy to inspect my parts when I get a whole car set done and he's always thrilled and praising my work so I don't sweat it often and it's the hardest most difficult production line to get out the door or at least used to be. Since I took it over and did the lay up machining and finish work all myself start to finish it's been better because I took what I knew from finishing them and the problem areas and changed the lay up pattern and now there are no issues.
The other week I had to put a second coat of paint on a box that was built and got chewed out I did a poor job and was gonna loose my bonus and I lost it. I knew the issues they were pointing out weren't caused by me and then I proceeded to prove it with picture documentation like they did to me when I came in. They said I had runs all over in my paint and I knew it was impossible that it was there and he argued it wasn't and showed me pictures of these runs. I argued they were there and it was runs in resin because they never ground down the box before painting it. He said he looked it over when he went over it with me showing me what to paint and what not to I seen the runs then but when the GM is saying put a second coat on this it's good to go I assumed that it was "good to go" after all he put the first coat on it and prepped it. Well after being accused and being told some one else had to fix my screw up I accepted it said won't happen again even though I know I didn't do it. I then went and looked at said box and seen all the runs in fact weren't fixed and also what direction they ran which was up opposite of gravity. Which when o painted it I had it on the legs not flipped over. So I took pictures then sanded it took more pictures showing it was resin not paint that was running then repainted it again and took finished photos. They didn't like that when I brought that to them but said I should have taken the initiative to see it was wrong and fix it but because I was told t was good to go so I did not.
Ok rant over sorry it's a pain to read my thumb fury posting on the forums from a phone isn't always the best.
Oh and the vasectomy comment way ahead of ya the women got snipped and I'm still trying to grow the courage to let the VA handle that they arnt exactly the best on health care they would end up cutting the wrong thing........but I am done having kids three I fathered one I adopted and now a step son pretty much yup done done done but I wouldn't trade them for the world....ok maybe the bratty 6 year old for like a boat but that's it haha joking.
