CPI Line Meeting

I just arrived home from work. Today I had to be in the plant by 1:30pm to prepare for our line CPI meeting (Continuous Process Improvement). Overall it went much better that I expected, but not without some hassle and resistance from our day shift people. As a result of their stupidity they tried to fight solutions that our swing shift group had come up with and recommended. Our end goal was to get them to start working. It's extremely frustrating to have to work with a half dozen people that are delibrately trying to avoid doing their jobs. At times during the meeting I felt like they were trying to sabotage my efforts to hold them accountable for the lack of completed work from their shift on a daily basis. To my surprise, our supervisior came to the rescue and backed me up. I wasn't counting on her to do that. I have to assume she really got her ass handed to her by the rest of our management team because our day shift is so blatantly screwed up. Otherwise she'd probably continue her non-involvement style of running things.

The boss is going to hold them to the changes we are making so we will see what happens. If she goes back to not paying attention, and that is highly likely, the day shift slobs will go right back to doing practically nothing. My expectation is that she will start watching them like a hawk and call them on every dumb thing they do from now on. She needs to motivate them to do the work they should have been doing this whole time or get rid of them. It's really not that hard to figure out. Her employees either want to be here and earn a paycheck, or they don't. Why this is so difficult for some managers to comprehend amazes me.

It was a very slow day production wise today, so I ended up working on special projects all evening. I'm very tired now. I spent the bulk of the shift weeding out old documentation for PC boards that we no longer build. It's usually due to obsolescence of the particular board, or the instruments the boards went into were phased out. Either way all that excess paperwork in our files makes it difficult to call up the right board drawings quickly. There was so much outdated stuff that I filled up all the garbage cans in our area. I was constantly emptying them elsewhere on our floor and then I filled up the two big rolling dumpsters and all the big garbage cans around. I looked all over for other places to get rid of the bags. I didn't have too much luck and I even had one of our janitors bring the stuff back to me because he thought the papers we were throwing out was a mistake. Our custodial team is a little too helpful at times.