damn, maybe i am a douchebag
I feel like i should be updating in here. its been awhile since i've visited my dad's.
Long story short, we've had a very rocky history from about grade 8 onwards. I might elaborate on this at some point when its more topical.
My biggest concern as of today, is that i might actually be projecting a 'bad attitude' without realizing it.
I came back to the ford plant today via Kelly's, and my contact said he was surprised i was back because he thought i didn't like the work. That seems kinda silly considering the last time i worked there, i went home after 2 hours. This time i got a nice fat 11hr shift, punctuated by ACTUAL BREAKS (up yours taxi place) and reading the next book in my queue, "World War Z".
The conveyor belt for the cars is very slow, so if there's no complications and no stoppages of the belt, it takes about 30seconds or so to pass by you. My particular job doesn't take more than about 10. Add to this, that i do basically every other car, and i have alot of standing around time. Most of the others use this time to socialize, some read. I actually managed to get 2/3 of my way though the book lastnight/thismorning.
The question of my 'attitude' came up again today with one of the full-time workers working across from me. Out of ignorance, i was getting into the car at roughly the same time as him so we could both do our respective checks on the car. I didn't think we got in each other's way, but a few hours into the shift he basically tells me to either way until he's done or do my first. I had no idea i was doing anything wrong to begin with, and apparently my trying to explain myself got taken as a 'bad attitude'. A co-worker informed me about 10min later that he was still mad, so i went to apologize to him - i'm sorry i didn't mean to piss you off, its my first day, i didn't know i was doing anything wrong, my job to listen to you - at some point the apologize SOMEHOW goes a little awry, because he says something like "you need to take a socialism class". Now, what i can only assume what he meant was a "social ettiquette" class, which is only slightly less amusing.
Nevertheless, i started to wonder if i was projecting a negative 'vibe' to the other workers. Once again, i wasn't all that social. Something i did got blown out of proportion, and something i said to try and help, may or may not have made things worse.
Maybe i just have an angry neutral face, i was reading about zombies and was barely paying attention to the work i was doing once i fell into a nice rythym.
Temp life is looking slightly less appealing right now. I'm starting to lean towards getting a placeholder regular job, and holding out for a data entry, or office position with as little customer service as possible.
either way, dad and joan are waking up, so its about time for me to start heading back to my mom's.
Long story short, we've had a very rocky history from about grade 8 onwards. I might elaborate on this at some point when its more topical.
My biggest concern as of today, is that i might actually be projecting a 'bad attitude' without realizing it.
I came back to the ford plant today via Kelly's, and my contact said he was surprised i was back because he thought i didn't like the work. That seems kinda silly considering the last time i worked there, i went home after 2 hours. This time i got a nice fat 11hr shift, punctuated by ACTUAL BREAKS (up yours taxi place) and reading the next book in my queue, "World War Z".
The conveyor belt for the cars is very slow, so if there's no complications and no stoppages of the belt, it takes about 30seconds or so to pass by you. My particular job doesn't take more than about 10. Add to this, that i do basically every other car, and i have alot of standing around time. Most of the others use this time to socialize, some read. I actually managed to get 2/3 of my way though the book lastnight/thismorning.
The question of my 'attitude' came up again today with one of the full-time workers working across from me. Out of ignorance, i was getting into the car at roughly the same time as him so we could both do our respective checks on the car. I didn't think we got in each other's way, but a few hours into the shift he basically tells me to either way until he's done or do my first. I had no idea i was doing anything wrong to begin with, and apparently my trying to explain myself got taken as a 'bad attitude'. A co-worker informed me about 10min later that he was still mad, so i went to apologize to him - i'm sorry i didn't mean to piss you off, its my first day, i didn't know i was doing anything wrong, my job to listen to you - at some point the apologize SOMEHOW goes a little awry, because he says something like "you need to take a socialism class". Now, what i can only assume what he meant was a "social ettiquette" class, which is only slightly less amusing.
Nevertheless, i started to wonder if i was projecting a negative 'vibe' to the other workers. Once again, i wasn't all that social. Something i did got blown out of proportion, and something i said to try and help, may or may not have made things worse.
Maybe i just have an angry neutral face, i was reading about zombies and was barely paying attention to the work i was doing once i fell into a nice rythym.
Temp life is looking slightly less appealing right now. I'm starting to lean towards getting a placeholder regular job, and holding out for a data entry, or office position with as little customer service as possible.
either way, dad and joan are waking up, so its about time for me to start heading back to my mom's.