Work stuff.
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gridloreToday was good, especially when I had a few minutes to visit my sister and Kylie the Wonder Baby (who can now sit up all on her own! Yay!!!!)
The day started way too early with a meeting. Evidently, we are going to hire three new drivers, and go to a four day week, with ten-hour days. This is workable for me, since when you're driving the day goes quickly anyway. The newbies would be driving Saturdays, meaning that I'd have weekends again. Three day weekends, at that! This a Good Thing.
Also in the Good Thing category, we've won the Lunch War.
A few weeks ago, it was announced that we had to take a half hour lunch. An unpaid lunch. Ladies and gents, I'm in a big-ass truck all day. The list of places I can stop for a half-hour is limited at best. Also, the schedules tend to be so tight that stopping would put me behind. So what happened is that drivers would finish their days, and sit around the warehouse for 30 minutes before clocking out. Since I have a tough enough commute as it is without waiting for rush hour to really get going, this annoyed me no end.
I checked the law on lunch breaks (we were told that this was a legal requirement) and found that I could opt out in writing. I mentioned this to several of the people up the chain of command. Today, we find out that we're now getting paid for lunch. Basically, the higher-ups realized that there was no way for us to track breaks, and it was easier to tacitly admit that we were not going to sit around for 30 minutes twiddling thumbs.
We're also getting at least one new truck to go with the new drivers. More coming, and these are different models. Air brakes and air ride, so my days of being a human ping-pong ball in the cab may be coming to an end (Seriously, on some of these roads I'm hitting my head on the cab ceiling. Not just annoying, but dangerous.)
KPIG really needs to get a reliable transmitter in the Santa Clara Valley. I lose the 107.5 FM signal when I come back over the mountain from Santa Cruz, and the AM signal is pretty weak down here.
The day started way too early with a meeting. Evidently, we are going to hire three new drivers, and go to a four day week, with ten-hour days. This is workable for me, since when you're driving the day goes quickly anyway. The newbies would be driving Saturdays, meaning that I'd have weekends again. Three day weekends, at that! This a Good Thing.
Also in the Good Thing category, we've won the Lunch War.
A few weeks ago, it was announced that we had to take a half hour lunch. An unpaid lunch. Ladies and gents, I'm in a big-ass truck all day. The list of places I can stop for a half-hour is limited at best. Also, the schedules tend to be so tight that stopping would put me behind. So what happened is that drivers would finish their days, and sit around the warehouse for 30 minutes before clocking out. Since I have a tough enough commute as it is without waiting for rush hour to really get going, this annoyed me no end.
I checked the law on lunch breaks (we were told that this was a legal requirement) and found that I could opt out in writing. I mentioned this to several of the people up the chain of command. Today, we find out that we're now getting paid for lunch. Basically, the higher-ups realized that there was no way for us to track breaks, and it was easier to tacitly admit that we were not going to sit around for 30 minutes twiddling thumbs.
We're also getting at least one new truck to go with the new drivers. More coming, and these are different models. Air brakes and air ride, so my days of being a human ping-pong ball in the cab may be coming to an end (Seriously, on some of these roads I'm hitting my head on the cab ceiling. Not just annoying, but dangerous.)
KPIG really needs to get a reliable transmitter in the Santa Clara Valley. I lose the 107.5 FM signal when I come back over the mountain from Santa Cruz, and the AM signal is pretty weak down here.
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Date: 17 Jan 2006 05:07 (UTC)no subject
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Date: 17 Jan 2006 20:17 (UTC)I thought the Imaginos version was a bit to poppy for my taste.
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Date: 18 Jan 2006 03:30 (UTC)I'm sure the members of Metallica will rest easier now. ;)
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Date: 18 Jan 2006 19:16 (UTC)You might want to check out Garage, Inc. (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000FCBC/qid=1137611590/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-6931433-3806555?n=507846&s=music&v=glance) Nothing but covers; everything from big name bands to the unknown metal acts that inspired them.
The cover of Tuesday's Gone features Les Claypool and John Popper.
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Date: 18 Jan 2006 23:47 (UTC)Thanks for the link.
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Date: 17 Jan 2006 16:22 (UTC)