Time for me to post another gripe on here. We found a problem that caused us to have to make a report to the state of downtime we had. As a result, this week I spent one day putting together a timeline of events since Feburary for that station. Meetings with my boss to try and figure out what went on and why. Next day, had a major critique involving 4 division directors and more than 20 other folks asking questions, looking at everything from the equipment used, who and what took place, to what could we do to prevent this to happening again. Needless to say I had to be front and center for a good portion of the critique ( I hate speaking to groups BTW). On the plus side I had been working with my techs and we had came up with 4 seperate things we can do to prevent and give notice of a problem. That was received very well. This will go on for months until everyone has crossed all the T's and dotted all the i's.
The last 2 days I have been priveledged to attend a Diversity and Inclusion class. Let me tell you that was fun. Primary topic was White Male Privledge. Toward the end of it one guy in the class (which was composed on white men and women, black women, lationo man, and a couple of something in the LBGTQABCDFG group) spoke in a group speak setting of how he had to speak up as to how boiling mad this discussion had made him. Related his upbringing in a broken home, with drugs and alcohol, etc. How he went in the marines and changed his life, came back home and worked his way and took night school to work into a masters degree. He asked how making a descision to better yourself and work hard to make it happen should be considered a privledge. Several of us thanked him for speaking pretty much our minds as well.
And the company thought it was a good idea to pull nearly 60 people away from their work for 2 days for this at the end of our Fiscal Year, which is always more hectic than any other time even if just normal stuff is going on.. And there is going to be 5 more classes coming up for others. Makes me want to put my head thru the wall sometimes.dead horsedead horsedead horsedead horse
God has a plan and it is not ours to know. I don't always like the plans and I don't understand them.
finding out how much fun this actually is.
