Not looking good...

[forthemoments]

So this week and next week, all the union hourly workers are laid off, well almost all of them for the company I work for. Monday and Tuesday I worked at our parts warehouse in Brownstown and kept pretty busy. The days went by fast. But now I'm back at the plant because the other supervisors that were here are all taking some lean manufacturing class in Ann Arbor. So I'm pretty much sitting here getting paid to babysit the couple material guys that are here cleaning up around the plant and doing various random projects. I also was just asked if I wanted to work 12 hours a day for the rest of the week. We have no engines on the assembly lines but there are a handful that are completed just need a couple repairs and paint jobs, and they have to be done by Friday. So I'll be here from 6 to 6 for the rest of the week trying not to go crazy in this ghost town of a plant. It's kind of weird now that I think about it. Half the lights are turned off to save energy, not a single engine on the line, and probably only two people per department scrounging around for whatever little work to do is left. I guess I should consider myself lucky that I'm working 12 hours a day and getting paid overtime that I rarely get offered. But seeing places like this and watching on the news and hearing about all these business going under really makes me uneasy. I am still currently going to college, but it's hard for me because I really have no interest. I'm mainly there because I have to be to support my internship until I get hired on permanently. I do still want a degree, it's just lack of motivation and that I'm much more interested in making money. Well this is starting to turn in to a mess of a post and I'm not going nowhere so I'll drive around my little cart and find something to do. Maybe crack the whip… haha yeah right.
Hope everyone is doing all right during these hard times.