9.25.1996

Today at work we had scheduled a special training session for packaging all our gear and equipment for the trip back to California. Everyone on our line was supposed to attend the demonstration. Almost no one showed up. They all left early for the day even though they knew about the meeting. Our main contractor for doing these kinds of moves between divisions is Bekins. The Bekins guys expect everything on the shop floor to be ready to go into their trucks when they get here. We have to secure all the equipment in wooden carts with heavy shrink wrap and pack up all our tooling and supplies. The worst part of the whole deal is breaking down our techincal and engineering workbenches for transport. I'm not looking forward to this part of the move because we have to remove overhead booms on each bench and then secure them to the tabletop somehow.

Most of the California employees were hung over from last night's company paid for cruise on lake Coeur d' Alene. I heard a few stories from the Spokane guys today that our California folks overdid it on the drinking. Don told me they "got stupid". Don doesn't know they were already extremely stupid, alcohol just makes it more obvious. Slobbering Mouth Kid triumphantly told me how some of our people threw up in various places on the boat as the evening wore on. I hate him. Once again I'm glad I chose not to go along to the company party. These people are total junk.