| Howdy Mark,
Thanks for the kind words. As for finding the time, I just kinda got lucky.....well sorta lucky anyway. I got put on 12 hr shifts 7 to 7 and when I work the dayshift, its really hectic, but when we chamge shifts and I go to nights (every other month) its only me and an electrician covering the entire plant instead of the normal 8 mechanics and 3 electricians on dayshift.
The way my boss ecplained it to me...."As long as the machines are running in the factory, I dont care what you do." So, I have recently become a movie buff and started building models at work. Like I said, it makes the evenings go by abit faster. However, the interruptions are abit annoying, especially for me to walk out to the machines only to find out that they called me first and then fixed their problem themselves before I could walk the distance to their machine lol.
Anyway, I still get some build time in lol.
The plant manager mentioned to my boss a few months back "I notice the maint. guys sitting around not doing anything........ shouldnt they be doing something?" to which my boss replied. "When the maint. guys are sitting around, the machines are running and your plant is making money, when you dont see the maint. guys here in the shop and they are working on a machine, that means a machine is "down" and you ARENT making money!" Needless to say, the plant manager has not complained about us since then.
Have a good evening,
Greg |