The title. I finished watching the training videos yesterday. The only way I can continue is to get an email for more training. My email isn’t set up. The only one who can set it up is my manager. But my manager isn’t the section manager. It isn’t the department manager. It is the regional manager. For some reason. Someone who isn’t even working at our plant. The other managers contacted him to set up a ticket which he did. And they sent in their own ticket. It still isn’t done. I’m really happy I got hired through like a 4th or 5th party company instead of Amazon.
So I’m just sitting there. Waiting. I re watched the training videos, but they were boring the first time around so I extra didn’t pay attention. There’s no signal in the plant so being on my phone isn’t really an option either. Which I shouldn’t be doing on work hours anyways. I can’t follow around a technician until I’ve done my training. For the last hour or so I read robotics manuals because at least they were about robotics. My mangers walk into the work area in between whatever they are doing and just see me sitting there and continue their work on their computer. I got paid $200 for doing absolutely nothing. Which sounds great until you actually do it. Would you watch paint dry for 8 hours for $200? You would not.
For some reason I feel bad about it. Even though it’s completely out of my control. I could be offering to do something like sorting parts like my manager initially tried to get me to do. Except there was no parts for me to sort. Or at least the lady in charge of inventory said so. Probably didn’t want to bother with me either. But when I asked the 2 or 3 times during the day what I could do, they just said they put in the ticket and to wait I guess. Or something like that. It’s hard to hear what anyone is saying on the floor. I should’ve insisted more. Whatever. Like I said there was literally nothing I could do.
After tomorrow I have 25 weeks left. That is 4,200 hours. Assuming I work a minimum of 40 hours, which is unlikely since techs apparently work long long hours, out of those 4,200 hours I would be spending 1,000 hours at the plant. At minimum and not factoring holidays if they even give me them. That’s 3,600,000 seconds. That’s also not counting my 30 minute lunch brake so technically it’s 42.5 hours a week minimum I’d be stuck at the plant. That is 1,062.5 hours or 3,825,000 seconds. This one week felt longer than that.