I could see this... I was helping a co-worker yesterday and sitting at her desk; open family sized bags and wrappers of pretzels, cheetos, a micro waved meal for lunch, microwave popcorn, chips, coffee with cream and sugar, three empty soda bottles and lots of different kinds of candy etc. and fresh crumbs and yuck all over the place including inside the keyboard... while she talked to her brother about giving him some of her prescription pain pills for his back and how he should not take the steroids the doctor gave him for more than a week or two cause it would make him fat (she is twice my size and I am not tiny).

It was everything I could do to keep myself from standing up and giving her a 2 hour lecture on how she was killing herself. I run into this time and time again every day at work and I can hardly stand to be in the same room due to the smells... and we didn't even get to the lighting and ventalation.

I would visit the forum from time to time just to vent and have someone to talk to about the trials and tribulations of day to day living.

Makes me want to go live in a cave somewhere.

grz

I work a 12 hour shift, overnight... Work in a clean room (HA) Wear a bunny suit with a mask... Which is probably a good idea actually, dut to the toxic gasses we deal with... I do maintenance work so have 34 tools to keep running....

Within the first 6 months I found out tha coffee wasn't my friend.... Just too tired all the time...

I have this moron operator that drinks his lunch at midnight, so I have his irrational behavior to begin with.... Last night his carelessness put 7 tools down at one time with jobs in progress... Then he had the gall to tell me he had to take his break... 3 hours of my time trying to figure out what he did (kicked the connection to the modem) just started rebooting the separate tools, screwed up things royaly... Took me 3 hours to straighten out his mess and his boss said "about time you got those tools up, we lost a lot of production .....

I wrote my crossover of what happened exactly what happened,

My boss paged me and told me that was the best and most honest crossover he had read, thanked me and now we are going to wait for upper management to read it... My boss likes the concept that Maintenance doesn't put and keep tools down the irisponsibility of operators is a big majority of our down time....

Guess I'll have to watch my back tonight.....

~~PEACE~~ and Good humor.....

HippeeSandeee

Ami -

I know what you mean. Even though I was part of the group pushing for the Oil Pulling forum, there were a few of us on there every day trying to get some participation. You know your forum is on it's way when others start answering the questions of the newbies. It's gratifying to see it take off like that.

I'm bummed no one is on the beauty tips forum. I just discovered it and have started to post frequently to keep it on top of the pile.

Heck, right now I've got the time and the energy....I'm there if you care to join me for at least a moment...:-)

Peace, Molly

Yes I am

Molly is right there are things about our job that suck... I think these days our jobs are taking their toll on all of us.... So maybe we can come up with a name that would cover more than just the night shift, like unhealthy coworkers, what we can and do to stay healthy... what we do to unwind after work...

How we deal with backstabbers... I have so many ideas but at the moment cna't think of a good title... I just came off a 12 hour shift (8 am morning) the second day and I am afraid a little "brain dead" cats taking turns in my lap....

What do you think of "Jobs stressful and staying healthy"

Yea I can commit.....

HippeeSandee

i truly think that a person should have an interest in forum they request.
I could ask for a butterfly forum. or komodo dragons and poison frogs,
maybe a killer bee forum? and say lots of folks might post there,
even if I never would.
I see a mess of nonactive ASK so and so forums that are completely
neglected... one has to wonder WHY?

so I guess we just have to agree to disagree.

My honest opinion.
Love,
Ami Joi Benton

I also think it is the responsibility of the originator to be a big contributor... After all why start something you don't want to commit to....

The Webmaster is has given us this site, that in itself is a lot, he has given us a place where we can go and find answers and question that we never thought to ask... He does a lot just giving us the space..... It is up to us to keep it going forward....


HippeeSandee