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I am not, by nature, easy to work with. I'm a perfectionist who procrastinates and overdesigns. I do not 'muck in with the lads'. I am, except under carefully managed allotments of medication, blood sugar and sleep, not a "good person," although I try to be. (Hell, some days I'm barely a 'person' at all.)
My job involves running three physically separated, complex and real-time-attention-needing machines with moving parts. (...)
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@Momentrabbit I also have to manage keeping inventory stocked. I also have to manage and prioritize my own workload. I do not have a desk, a computer, or an email: my manager prefers to yell verbal directions and assume I'll grok context.
I *do* have an assistant, of sorts. I'm training him to do what I do for the soon-to-be-implemented Late Shift.
There are two problems.
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@Momentrabbit I guess the point of this whole ramble is that being real is hard.
Oh well. 37 more years to go.
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@Momentrabbit I have been trained at being a trainer. I know how to create SOPs, I know the difference between 'here's what you need to verify' and 'here's what you need to hold to make sure the verifications will be correct'.
We have no, zero, zilch training programs at work for any job. Who you get placed with is a complete crap shoot, and if their first language isn't yours, then you're gonna have a bad time, and that's assuming that they are capable of training. Some, very bluntly, aren't.
I have been bringing this up for years. We have OIIs and prints that are great for checking the end results, but no documentation on how to get there.
It is INCREDIBLY frustrating.
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@JulieSqveakaroo I suppose I can take some solace in knowing we are achieving excellence in the pursuit of industry-wide standards in information retention, workforce education, and personal growth and development.
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@zx3 @Momentrabbit I don't want to fave this... but, -THIS-.
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@zx3 @Momentrabbit This has been my experience for most of my life, and it's terrible, and you especially don't deserve it. It's sometimes all we can do to try to leave things a little nicer than we found them, fighting against the creeping sands. That nobody has left you that support or given you the chance to leave it for others is a shame, and I want to say now that I see you and I wish you had a better situation.
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@Momentrabbit Problem one is that there is no training program for what I do, or how the company works. I am a Generalist with Delusions of Technicianism.
Problem two is that I don't speak Farsi; he can read English, but spoken comprehension is poor. And it's a loud shop. And orders are constantly changing.
I'm a bit tired. Been here since 4:30 this am to try to get a headstart on work. Already been politely told I'm an idiot by my boss twice.