Today was my Friday. I'm not working tomorrow, just traveling home. My time at the Houston Plant, codename Work Camp, was fun. I was able to interact with the demo crew (read: joke around), and learn about heavy machinery (read: drive a Bobcat and observe 80,000lb an forklift that transforms).
An interesting fact was the upper level management was working and getting dirty right alongside the workers. The manager of the project works 5 doors down from the CEO and he was working with me loading gaylords (palette boxes) and dumping trash hoppers. My boss and I were even cleaning up the bathroom at one point. It was awesome to see everyone working together to get that place cleaned up.
I also disclosed my feelings about how I felt about the entire onboarding process. My boss wanted to assure me that they didn't want to just "throw me under the bus, as my manager did when I started".
He said he would "selfishly shield me from the rest of the company". That means he will pretty much engineer vicariously through me. I'll do all the stuff that he wants done but doesn't have time to do it. This way I'll be able to "set some roots and get a feel about how the company operates". I received it as "I can focus on just doing what he needs instead of what the entire company needs".
The week went great. Next week I'll be off to Chicago for plant tours and an energy savings meeting.
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