Update #8 Door Factory Doldrums
I started a new job two weeks ago and I can honestly say it's the most boring thing I have ever done. It's eight hours a day 8am to 4.30pm, generally spending the whole day at the back of a machine putting oak boards in a pile. It's made extra boring by the fact that all I want to do is sit down and have a sleep, as well the fact that I get no responsibility for anything and have to work at someone else's speed. On the back of a power fed belt sander for example, I'll be receiving boards from the sander and putting them in a pile, except I'm also expected to run quality control on them at the same time. Add on the rate that the sanded wood is coming out the back of the machine and you have an uncomfortably fast work rate. Yesterday I spent my entire day on the sander on my own and it was ten times easier just because I could completely mong out in my own thoughts, rather than have to worry about someone telling me off because I didn't notice a non-existent burn mark on the end of a plank. The only time I was bored was when I was awkwardly standing around waiting for more wood to sand. Generally sweeping the floor and picking up scrap wood is the go to when I'm out of work, but when that's not needing done an tension fills the air because the people who boss you around can see you have nothing to do and are yet simultaneously shunning you for standing around like a spare prick.
Another issue I find not relating to the work but the economics of the work is the amount of waist generated by the manufacturing of doors and door related parts. Such nice pieces of oak are discarded due to seemingly small defects and it's a shame because my boss doesn't seem like the sort of guy who would let me take even a few pieces even though there's an entire arctic trailer full of the stuff outside. The question of how much even just the off-cuts of oak are worth is baffling me, considering that a 10ft 2x6 pine board will cost at least a tenner then how much does two hundred of those is oak cost? This wood is all supposedly being used to make doors and door frames for a school. I hope this isn't a public school though because I reckon the entire cost of the doors and frames for this place after shipping and installation is well over one-hundred-thousand pounds, which is way too much to be spending on doors in a school of any type let alone a government funded one.
On a completely separate thread, I get the feeling that my job is going to be mess with my social life even more than my friends prior engagements already have. I get home and I can't be arsed doing anything, including this. And then at the weekends I have the complete all of the menial tasks I would normally do during the week.
Anyway speaking of can't be arsed, I want to go to bed so I'm abandoning this post.
Another issue I find not relating to the work but the economics of the work is the amount of waist generated by the manufacturing of doors and door related parts. Such nice pieces of oak are discarded due to seemingly small defects and it's a shame because my boss doesn't seem like the sort of guy who would let me take even a few pieces even though there's an entire arctic trailer full of the stuff outside. The question of how much even just the off-cuts of oak are worth is baffling me, considering that a 10ft 2x6 pine board will cost at least a tenner then how much does two hundred of those is oak cost? This wood is all supposedly being used to make doors and door frames for a school. I hope this isn't a public school though because I reckon the entire cost of the doors and frames for this place after shipping and installation is well over one-hundred-thousand pounds, which is way too much to be spending on doors in a school of any type let alone a government funded one.
On a completely separate thread, I get the feeling that my job is going to be mess with my social life even more than my friends prior engagements already have. I get home and I can't be arsed doing anything, including this. And then at the weekends I have the complete all of the menial tasks I would normally do during the week.
Anyway speaking of can't be arsed, I want to go to bed so I'm abandoning this post.
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