Not the Far Side

"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile) 04/13/2018 at 11:11 • Filed to: None

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I am apparently no longer in the automotive OEM industry. As of this morning, they decided to shuffle some personnel around, and I am therefore un-temped. Back to full-timing at my other job. Boo/Yay.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 04/13/2018 at 11:41

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To clarify: I was working at an OEM supplier of carpets and sound deadening, in the pre-prototype parts “Trim Engineering” department. Took it on full time as a temp, cut my normal job back to part time. Hand-producing and running molds of pieces for early production prototypes (GM T1XX, etc.) before the actual production machinery is ready to go. Since that process works a year or more in advance, but is in a rush more or less in a normal cycle, that means fall-early spring is by far the busiest - just for 2019 parts instead of 2018 and so on.

Slow time in the middle of the year, and without using me extensively as they’d planned for what they (in theory) hired me for, running a Motoman robot, I was just “spare pair of hands”... and they have some guys off in the CAD department who also have hands. Such is temping.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 04/13/2018 at 11:49

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bummer man. At least you are still employed right?

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 04/13/2018 at 11:55

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Yep... and full time at that. More or less. Now with extra (good) resume fodder. The “Boo” is that it was extra money, the “Yay” is that it wasn’t *that* much more, particularly on marginal effort (much harder work for only a little more), and I was starting to detest getting up at six.

I’d say I learned about all I was going to be able to learn there, too. So, now it’s back to the “something at least a little better” search - the search I hadn’t even started, but this thing threw itself in my lap in December and made me think about trying to do better.

Die-Trying > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 04/13/2018 at 12:53

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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Die-Trying 04/13/2018 at 13:06

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Well chosen.

Die-Trying > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 04/13/2018 at 13:12

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i had this one in mind too.....

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Die-Trying 04/13/2018 at 13:14

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I fear this one is more accurate than I’d like.

dogisbadob > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 04/13/2018 at 14:11

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at least you have another job to fall back on

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > dogisbadob 04/13/2018 at 14:20

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Yep. Funny thing is, I held onto the other job partly out of loyalty, partly because I *could* (shift vs. normal hours left two hours open), but also partly because the auto OEM job wasn’t looking to pay as well or fulfill aims quite like it had tried to sell itself. Signs of things to come.