Line Attrition

People have been leaving our area as fast as possible. Each employee who came on the Spokane transfer committed to working a minimum of 18 months before being eligible to look for another job inside the company. Management was afraid that if they spent the time and money to train us up on these products, employees would split whenever they felt like it and waste the tremendous investment they made in each of us. Some of them discovered a loophole though. Bill and Dave's cannot prevent them from taking a job in a higher position, that is a promotion. Since they discovered this some of our more unreliable and useless workers have been bullshitting their way into higher level jobs. And there's nothing our supervisors can do about it.

On one hand I'm glad to see some of these people leave because I personally don't like most of them and I'm happy to be rid of them. On the other hand I'm worried because the replacements they've brought in so far are pretty fucked up. Some of them are brand new to the company and got hired in straight out of school, others seem to be deadbeats that were problem employees in other areas. Now we've got a dangerous mix of green technicians, problem employees, and lingering weirdos from the Spokane days.

Swingshift and Graveyard on my line has become much more colorful. By that, I mean confrontational and explosive. The new technicians we got at night are Dung, and Musclehead. Musclehead is a young redneck that recently finished up his technical degree in electronics at a local junior college and Dung came from some other part of the company. I forget where. Both of them are real green as technicians. We unfortunately are stuck with J1, but he's moved to Graveyard shift. Supertech and I are getting along great, and the two of us are sitting back and watching all the mayhem between these guys. There's also some interaction on swingshift now with the Precision Group next door which probably won't be good for us. Too many losers, goofballs, and freaks on that line.