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adrian_turtle) wrote2008-06-30 03:31 pm
adrian_turtle) wrote2008-06-30 03:31 pm
shutdown
The company I work for is having a plant shut down this week. It's not quite the kind of shut down where all work stops and everybody goes home (as is customary in the auto industry, the last week of December.) It's not a maintenance shutdown, either (which is kind of a nuisance, because one of the machines I work with is in dire need of an upgrade, and the main stumbling block to getting the upgrade is that they say they can't afford the 2 days of down time.) They would really like to stop all work and send everybody home, but they're keeping one production line running however long it takes to finish a couple of critical orders.
Most of the regular employees have to take 4 of their vacation days this week. (And usually 3 vacation days during the December shutdown.) The manufacturing workers on that production line don't know yet if they'll be working 2 days and taking 2 vacation days, or working 3 days and taking 1 day of vacation, or what. Even though being a temp means all my days off are unpaid, I'm feeling rather lucky not to have a limit on how many days off I can have in a year.
So, here I am, with free time. Wanna do something this week that does not involve fireworks?
Most of the regular employees have to take 4 of their vacation days this week. (And usually 3 vacation days during the December shutdown.) The manufacturing workers on that production line don't know yet if they'll be working 2 days and taking 2 vacation days, or working 3 days and taking 1 day of vacation, or what. Even though being a temp means all my days off are unpaid, I'm feeling rather lucky not to have a limit on how many days off I can have in a year.
So, here I am, with free time. Wanna do something this week that does not involve fireworks?