Changing times at work

[09CTSV]

About a week ago our Maintenance Superintendent took another job at a different company and left. Talk about a chaotic time at work. The area maintenance coordinator is filling his position on an interim basis and has tasked me with running our crew leaders, day to day operations and labor for our area. Of course I don't get any compensation and I still do the 100 other things I'm responsible for. After the first week of dealing with labor issues, manning issues, crewing issues, downtime on the production lines, management issues and still trying to do my job it makes for a very long work week.
Just to add a little more stress to everything, we are switching over our CMMS system preparing for the company separation in November. Add in a tour by the upper management and all the preparations, a planned outage which had to be shifted to accommodate the tour and starting up late because the plan fell apart. It is great to have the weekend off and recharge.....
:hurray::hurray::hurray:

[Jeff '79]

I took a day this past Wednesday and went fishing.
Sounds like you need one of those days.
It was so nice to be over the wall for a day, mid-week.

8495

[OddBall]

About a week ago our Maintenance Superintendent took another job at a different company and left. Talk about a chaotic time at work. The area maintenance coordinator is filling his position on an interim basis and has tasked me with running our crew leaders, day to day operations and labor for our area. Of course I don't get any compensation and I still do the 100 other things I'm responsible for. After the first week of dealing with labor issues, manning issues, crewing issues, downtime on the production lines, management issues and still trying to do my job it makes for a very long work week.
Just to add a little more stress to everything, we are switching over our CMMS system preparing for the company separation in November. Add in a tour by the upper management and all the preparations, a planned outage which had to be shifted to accommodate the tour and starting up late because the plan fell apart. It is great to have the weekend off and recharge.....
:hurray::hurray::hurray:



I don't mind putting in the hours when something is getting accomplished. But I really hate when it's just to recover losses because of the fallout of a piss-poor plan and decision that was doomed to failure to start with. I've seen conversions done without any "back-out" or contingency plans in place whatsoever. What really bites, what really pisses me off, is when you have screamed "This will blow up"; and after it does, those that pulled the trigger offer no sweat whatsoever in cleaning up the mess that they made.

[Bill]

I took a day this past Wednesday and went fishing.
Sounds like you need one of those days.
It was so nice to be over the wall for a day, mid-week.

8495

While you are standing around for your photo op, you had the really big monster fish on the line and weren't available to set the hook.

:D

[Iron Chef]

I took a day this past Wednesday and went fishing.
Sounds like you need one of those days.
It was so nice to be over the wall for a day, mid-week.

I like to take those every now and then. Nice fish!!! :cert:

It is great to have the weekend off and recharge.....
:hurray::hurray::hurray:

The company I'm at has a 4 1/2 day workweek. We work M-Th 9 hours, then 4 hours on Friday, which is really at low speed. Feels like every weekend is a 3-day weekend!

[Black94lt1]

The company I'm at has a 4 1/2 day workweek. We work M-Th 9 hours, then 4 hours on Friday, which is really at low speed. Feels like every weekend is a 3-day weekend!

We have the option to do that on the summer, it's really nice if you have weekend plans, can get ahead of traffic

[Black94lt1]

we are switching over our CMMS system

What are you switching from and to?

[Jeff '79]

While you are standing around for your photo op, you had the really big monster fish on the line and weren't available to set the hook.

:D

If you click on the pic, and zoom in so that you're looking under that bent rod, you'll see Toronto in the back ground.
We could see Toronto, the buildings at Niagara Falls and Old Fort Niagara at the mouth of the Niagara River where it dumps into Lake Ontario, from where we were trolling. It was a glorious day out there.

Same with this one. Zoom to the right past the freighter and there is Toronto.

8499

[mrvette]

Seen the entire Great Lakes region some decades ago.....

and it was FUN!!!! from Great Falls West through them all....

family vacations with the folks/family.....everything there attracted me to the auto industry.....from the Messabi iron mines down the RR tracks/tressals to the cities along the lakes to the then newly created St. Lawrence Seaway.....

been a while.....amazing what FREEDOM could accomplish.....

:seasix::hurray:

[09CTSV]

What are you switching from and to?

We use Oracle. Our company is separating into two different companies. The original plan had our business unit going with the new company. About a month later they decided to keep us with the smelting, energy, cast house and mining side. This really screwed the system because our systems are so intertwined with our sister plant in TN.
They have to switch our entire Oracle and SAP system over to a different instance to be able to separate the two companies. In doing so we need to also separate the financial, procurement and HR systems. It has been a hard on our plant because all of our stuff was initially moving with the new company and then switched back to the old company.
You flip a coin if the system will work day to day anymore. Our vendors are really getting aggravated trying to get PO's straight. I probably get 5-6 emails a week from vendors looking for a PO. Right now we have two different email addresses and seeing as the switch for us didn't happen, most of procurement thinks we are on the new email and send stuff wrong.
Just months of stress and it doesn't look like it will get any better.

[Jeff '79]

Ughh... what a mess that you didn't need.
Here, have some salmon.

8502

So what did you end up doing to de-stress?

[mrvette]

Ughh... what a mess that you didn't need.
Here, have some salmon.

8502

So what did you end up doing to de-stress?

OH man, a couple weeks ago some friends BBQ'd up a whole ton of Salmon they got on a trip to Alaska.....gave us a chunk, they packed it up frozen in a cooler full of ice and flew it home with them at ~40k feet the luggage area is COLD so no sweat.....that was a GOOD party...oink.....

:seasix::hurray:

[Black94lt1]

We use Oracle. Our company is separating into two different companies. The original plan had our business unit going with the new company. About a month later they decided to keep us with the smelting, energy, cast house and mining side. This really screwed the system because our systems are so intertwined with our sister plant in TN.
They have to switch our entire Oracle and SAP system over to a different instance to be able to separate the two companies. In doing so we need to also separate the financial, procurement and HR systems. It has been a hard on our plant because all of our stuff was initially moving with the new company and then switched back to the old company.
You flip a coin if the system will work day to day anymore. Our vendors are really getting aggravated trying to get PO's straight. I probably get 5-6 emails a week from vendors looking for a PO. Right now we have two different email addresses and seeing as the switch for us didn't happen, most of procurement thinks we are on the new email and send stuff wrong.
Just months of stress and it doesn't look like it will get any better.

I know your pain, my facility was sold 7 years ago and we had to switch everything over, seemed like it took the better part of a year or more to straighten things out. My wife's company was just bought up do they are going through it now, need to transition all systems by the end of the year

[09CTSV]

Ughh... what a mess that you didn't need.
Here, have some salmon.

8502

So what did you end up doing to de-stress?

Cleaned up the Denali, mowed the yard and spent the weekend with my wonderful wife. The dogs helped with the de-stress as well.

[Jeff '79]

Cleaned up the Denali, mowed the yard and spent the weekend with my wonderful wife. The dogs helped with the de-stress as well.

:seasix: :cert: