things i've recently learned at work...

jonathan showed me that i shouldn't complain about how busy i am...two weeks ago, i heard him say he's working 80 hrs a week (not terribly uncommon at the dana longview plant) and taking 22 hrs at the local community college. he's 40 and has a wife and some kids too...

frank is teaching me that i should be more cheerful...he's always having a good time and always has time to answer a question or help in any way he can. one of his new years' resolutions was to work less than 100 hrs a week. (i wish i was joking, but i'm not.) he's been partially successful. but he is always cheerful.

janet is teaching me that no matter how bored i am or how much the day has sucked, i should still find a way to enjoy myself...i would say she works on the most frustrating section of the assembly line - poa (maybe that stands for parts on assembly? i don't know...). it's at the end, so if any other part of the line goes down, poa stays late to compensate. over the 2-week shutdown, poa was completely changed around, which will make it much more efficent. that is, once they get the cinks worked out. since then, poa has averaged 12-hr days 6-7 days a week. yet i've never seen janet in a bad mood.

last week i was walking out to poa to check on the bar-code label printers and i noticed an operator clapping loudly and singing "halleluia" at the top of her lungs (which didn't actually seem so loud with the line and all of the machinery, etc. working.