No not like a woman scorned but liek a plant that is planning to go down for a week. Ok so here is the situation. It is the week before the week before Christmas (ya still with me?) and this is when production decides to really up the numbers to get through before the end of the year. Now this means that we have stuff being made that needs to be sliced on my side of the plant and there is no stopping it or extending anything as expiration dates won’t allow it and the plant WILL shut down Saturday night. Now by Murphy’s Law what do you think happens. The plant, as it usually does before any major shutdown, systematically breaks down. It was as if the machines were taunting maintenance and saying “Oooh that’s too bad, you almost had us running to the end of the year but we thought we would take the vacation early.” To say the least I traveled well through Dantes Inferno over the past week. Now I have to work the week that everyone else is off. Me and a plant full of mechanics and contractors. It doesn’t sound that bad except that I planned to work first shift all week so that I could get off early on Thursday to head up to my Grandparents and help them get ready for the family coming into town. I arrived at work today for first shift and was greeted by my boss saying in what could have basically been a line from Office Space: “Yeah, I probably should have told you guys before you scheduled everyone on first shift, but some of you guys have to stay into the evening so that the contractors are not left alone in the plant.” So as I am the second shift supervisor I knew I had to stay, it was getting some of the guys to work a 12 and possibly more hour shift. Luckily it is the holiday season and they know they will get good money for working over this week so a few of them stayed on. So I will probably be working, much like my buddy Doug, a 13+ hour shift. And to add on top of that I just found out that the contractors who are treating the floors somehow do not know that a door is supposed to open all the way and they have put compound in front of a certain door, so now I have to wait for the compound to dry, get all of my guys and remove this huge freakin door before we can leave. Yeah for fairness!! I guess tomorrow I will come in a little later just in case any of this crap happens again. But the rest of the week….yes the rest of the week I will work first!! (that last part sounds best if put in terms of monty pythons “swamp castle” bit).

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