My Work Experience, My efforts

I put a lot of effort into my job.

This one work cell, had a row of shelves full of instruction manuals for the products made at the work cell.

I always got all the instruction manuals first, because it was the most time consuming. Sometimes I had to go to other value stream locations.

Sometimes there were no manuals, and couldn't wait until the vendor come in at 6:30 am. to restock. What if the vendor didn't come or didn't have any? The job would be incomplete. Unable to run.

It was good to get the manuals at the beginning of the shift, so my team leader could print emergency copies of the manuals.

Sometimes my team leader would leave work without saying anything. Or I was too engrossed in my work to hear it. One day, I was asked to leave this cell for later. That was a big mistake, I found out I needed manuals to be printed. No team leader, no printed materials, no jobs ready to go in the morning.

Some orders required 4 different manuals and I had up to 14 orders to prep.

I made some changes to keep me from running around. There were some open shelves. I moved the manuals I ran for the most, in the open slots.

It wasn't easy organizing all the parts. Lots of people got frustrated, I didn't.

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Bean No Snacks

I bought these fake Cheetos, cheese puffs made from white bean and rice.

What made them attractive to me was the Mac N' Cheese flavor.

They look appetizing and would satisfy the craving for good Mac N' Cheese. Needs cheesy buttery flavor.

Blaaa pat tooy, (me spitting)  terrible. Where's the cheese? All I taste is bean and rice. The crunch was the only thing right and satisfying.

Job Search Activities

10/2/2018

I went through my email. Found some old ideas. I deleted some old emails and I lost the emails that gave me the ideas.

Poof! Mind was a blank for about 3 hours.

Read some articles on LinkedIn.

I checked my other email address. I found a reply to a resume I sent out 2 weeks ago.

This company wants me to take this test to get a certificate, through Job Center of Wisconsin reemployment program.

I followed the instructions how to set up an account. Practiced taking the tests.

Then I got 2 calls for prescreening interviews, for 2 jobs I sent resumes to.

Bracelets I completed.

My Work Experience, My Work Load

I'm a good worker. I came in to work every day, I was never late. I enjoyed my work. My job was 40 miles away, or 1 hour drive. I made it through all kinds of weather, road conditions, and car issues. Nothing stopped me from getting to work.

I am chief income provider. Family survival is at stake.

I enjoyed my co-workers. I supported my co-workers. I joked with my coworkers. I got along with everyone.

My last role

I set up 1 to 4 work cells with 8 hours of work, for 1st shift assemblers.

First part of my job

I gathered fasteners and other components stored in floor locations, using a hand cart. There were 4 different value streams and many different locations, sometimes the bill of material and parts would make me go to other locations to find the required parts.

I used bins and labels to organize and identify. I audited the locations, labels, and parts before I proceeded to pick the parts to make sure everything was correct. I double counted. I audited my parts as I set the parts in the swimlane and before the end of the shift.

Second part my job

I organized components for faucets, kitchen, bath, and plumbing accessories, for 1 to 14 jobs, for 1 to 4 work cells. Parts would come to swimlanes, I had to move skids full of parts and match parts with correct bill of materials, in the order on the manifest.

For this one cell.

Some parts were huge, heavy, and take up lots of room. Some jobs were small, and I was able to condense jobs on to hand carts. Sometimes the huge jobs were up to 200 pieces of everything. I had to figure out how to organize skids full of parts with a pallet jack, and arrange for easy access, in a very small space or swimlane. Sometimes I run out of room in this cell's swimlane and move the excess to a nearby swimlane. Sometimes this cell had 14 jobs, and I had 3 other cells to prep as well.

I went home satisfied with my work. I liked the satisfaction of everything coming together.

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Bracelets Progress

I'm exploring, experimenting with making bracelets.

Here's my progress...

Job Search Activities

10/1/ 2018

I went to the Workforce Development Center.


Did my  unemployment requirements.
Updated Glassdoor profile.
Write post on LinkedIn.
Checked my Indeed job search.
Checked all job search alerts in my email.
Submitted resumes.