So it’s around 10:00am and the tall guy walks by and flicks out his tongue. Is everyone here a reptoid?
Anyway, Hoan and I had one hour of break because the system was going through maintenance from 9:00am to 10:00am. In the meantime, we talked to three assembly folks, who were eating their food in the lunchroom downstairs.
Two of them gave us a tour of the place. We saw the finished goods area and the four doors for the trucks to come by almost daily at the shipping and receiving area. They don’t pick-up during weekends or holidays, though.
A few years ago, the place downstairs was packed full of people – around 600 – and lots of machines. Now it’s just four people working the machines. Only a few are maintenance who clean the machines, too. We learned of one who was a supervisor but he moved upstairs, just like the other guy.
The shifts are nights and graveyards from 4 to 5 or 3 to 4. They get paid regular and noone complains because there are always temporary workers willing to work those hours for the pay. It’s why I’m here, too. I don’t complain even if the boss says to work on weekends.
Then we saw the “queen of the board” working on small one and big ones, too. There used to be three people in her area. One was her sister who got laid-off in November of last year.
This older lady is very cordial and gave us a tour of the machines that test her boards, which she assembles based on the customers requirements and specifications. Some customers are overseas, by the way. Her desk is just behind the lunchroom.
She wished me well to have a full-time job at the place so I could qualify for the stocks in February. I gave a hug for good luck, too.
So the both of us left and I got me a blue smock, too! Hahaha! It’s large in size, compared to the small-sized incentive to slim down so more like a wraith-like model. All I need now is a nice embroidered name tag. The third guy left for the day.
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