random thoughts
Is it wrong that I now use a green pan-scourer soaked in soap to clean my skin?
Today I got a call from the agency who sorted out the govt side of my new job. Apparently they had an audit today, and had to answer 30 mins of questions about why my timesheets weren't there. Why did I get a kick out of being told that? I quite like the company...I just don't like teh Aww-Thora-Taaay. They're being re-visited on Fri, and I've been told that if me timesheets aren't there by tomorrow morning, they'll send someone out to me so I have to fill in new ones. Heh. I posted the other ones this morning, before all this. Hopefully they'll arrive tomorrow.
Bob nearly died at work today. He choked on a sandwich whilst laughing, and, honestly, we thought he was a gonner. Everyone was getting ready to do all sorts of heimlich maneuvers etc. He did survive though, after about ten minutes of red-faced near-death-experience. Which is lucky, cos if any of us had been forced to try and save him, he'd prolly have died.
The job I was on this morning, which was URGENT (so urgent that I was taken off lorry-unloading duties) became non-urgent the second I finished it. Literaly. I was doing my final weld, and could sense someone standing near me, so finished off, lifted my lid, and was told the job wasn't going to the powder coaters until tomorrow at the earliest now. Heh. Makes no difference to me, really, but would have been nice to have been told earlier.
I celebrated by stripping out my MIG plant, checking it's lining, re-doing my tensions, getting a new nozzle and tip, putting compressed air through it to blow out the shit etc. It now works very slightly better, but is still one sick puppy really.
We are all deeply worried about the electrician whose in re-doing the entire system in the workshop. Today he happened to be looking over my bench whilst we were on tea. He looked at my power-inlet for my MIG plant and said to Juju "That's a two phase inlet...or is it a three...well, it's a two or three." So we all looked around in amazement. (these two power inlets don't look the same) and Phil called out "It's a 3"...then the guy didn't know what my Arc plant was...(240v)...then he assigned my MIG plant to the wrong fuse board...so I said "Am I alright to use the MIG?" and he said, looking up at the wrong board, "Yeah, fine." So I pointed to the other board and said "You do know it comes off there, don't you?" And pointed out my 3 switches. He sort of looked perplexed and said "Yeah, that's ok too...er...unless the power goes on it...then it's not okay."
He also doesn't seem to know the difference between an extractor (sucks air out of the building) and a fan (blows air at you)....all very worrying!
Today I got a call from the agency who sorted out the govt side of my new job. Apparently they had an audit today, and had to answer 30 mins of questions about why my timesheets weren't there. Why did I get a kick out of being told that? I quite like the company...I just don't like teh Aww-Thora-Taaay. They're being re-visited on Fri, and I've been told that if me timesheets aren't there by tomorrow morning, they'll send someone out to me so I have to fill in new ones. Heh. I posted the other ones this morning, before all this. Hopefully they'll arrive tomorrow.
Bob nearly died at work today. He choked on a sandwich whilst laughing, and, honestly, we thought he was a gonner. Everyone was getting ready to do all sorts of heimlich maneuvers etc. He did survive though, after about ten minutes of red-faced near-death-experience. Which is lucky, cos if any of us had been forced to try and save him, he'd prolly have died.
The job I was on this morning, which was URGENT (so urgent that I was taken off lorry-unloading duties) became non-urgent the second I finished it. Literaly. I was doing my final weld, and could sense someone standing near me, so finished off, lifted my lid, and was told the job wasn't going to the powder coaters until tomorrow at the earliest now. Heh. Makes no difference to me, really, but would have been nice to have been told earlier.
I celebrated by stripping out my MIG plant, checking it's lining, re-doing my tensions, getting a new nozzle and tip, putting compressed air through it to blow out the shit etc. It now works very slightly better, but is still one sick puppy really.
We are all deeply worried about the electrician whose in re-doing the entire system in the workshop. Today he happened to be looking over my bench whilst we were on tea. He looked at my power-inlet for my MIG plant and said to Juju "That's a two phase inlet...or is it a three...well, it's a two or three." So we all looked around in amazement. (these two power inlets don't look the same) and Phil called out "It's a 3"...then the guy didn't know what my Arc plant was...(240v)...then he assigned my MIG plant to the wrong fuse board...so I said "Am I alright to use the MIG?" and he said, looking up at the wrong board, "Yeah, fine." So I pointed to the other board and said "You do know it comes off there, don't you?" And pointed out my 3 switches. He sort of looked perplexed and said "Yeah, that's ok too...er...unless the power goes on it...then it's not okay."
He also doesn't seem to know the difference between an extractor (sucks air out of the building) and a fan (blows air at you)....all very worrying!