Saturday, May 12, 2007

Kaizen

My company is instituting "Lean" training. So for the past week I have been involved in an 8 hour a day class. Joining me in this mandatory training has been Sal (my boss), Richard (my lead electrician), and Juan (one of my lead mechanics). Who has been running maintenance, you might ask? No one!

We've all snuck off to work at every opportunity, but it was too little. We had 4 major break downs this week, that I had to manage while in this training. I ended up working three 13 hour days and a 12 hour day. I think my mechanics were in shock to see me on the floor in coveralls working beside them. We had to fix the problem. The training is a good training for the company as a whole, but it made for a very rough work week.

Oh, and did I forget to mention that my brothers wife and kids have landed back at my house again.

So the weekend is finally here and I'm exhausted. On a brighter note, I enjoyed a really nice evening of coffee and cigarrettes with a good friend last night. It was good to vent and relax and just do nothing.

Off to breakfast with the familia.