Wednesday, February 08, 2006

Random comments

So I've learned a couple things so far:

If you leave your coffee mug in the car over night, the coffee will freeze.
I remember why I had the huge scraper sitting in my car for a couple years before I threw it away....I bought another one tonight after using my hand to wipe snow off the car after work.
Work is about what I expected so far, I'm overwhelmed with information, but it is very different from the plant. Most projects in the plant are urgent and must get done before you go home. My first assignment here my boss estimated would take about 6 months.
I learned about the different between lunch table revolts and expansions today. Apparently a revolt is when table sitters leave as a group of 2 or more and don't invite current table sitters to join. This can get bitter and cause permanent political and career fallout. An expansion is simply growing to another table because there are too many people to fit - in this case anyone is welcome at either table.

I'm heading to Tennessee (the plant by Nashville), Missouri, and Iowa over the next couple weeks to visit plants where our stuff is built. Sometime within the next month I will be spending a week in Missouri, yeah! I'll let you know all about how fun that is!




Check out this picture outside my place - it is in night mode and my hand was shaking, but it looks really scary! That is the cemetary that I can see from my bedroom and living room, I'll take another picture when it is more clear.

OK, thats all for now - oh! But I did watch lost! I'm heading over to that blog maybe tomorrow sometime.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yeah I had three inches of snow on my windshield this morning, and I don't own an ice scrapper, so I had to use the sleeve of my jacket to get the stuff off. Then it was caked on to my sleeves, and melted, dripping on my pants on the drive to work so it looked like I had wet my pants on the sides when I got there. Oh well.

And cemetaries, old ones, are the coolest place to take pictures. Although I'm all artsy and whatnot, picture-taking may not be your forte, but oh well. There's a slight plan to take a trip to Chicago later in the year, how far are you from there? Because it it's within good distance, I am SOO there.

How's the unpacking going?

J said...

Sarah - and anyone else heading up this way... you BETTER let me know if you are in Chicago...its only about 70 miles from Racine, I would definitely come meet you if I'm in town!