Well, my first day was exhausting !
Yes I know... it's not even noon, my day is not even finished yet... but yes it is !
No, have not been fired just yet, didn't even get that opportunity.
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Well, that story sounded like quite the misadventure. Hope the rest of your week is better.
Day #2 today was much better ! Managed to get my badge done and could get into the site. Met a couple colleagues, very friendly. Did lots of admin stuff with the boss, still much to do.
Got given a brand new, NIB laptop worth 2,000 Euros she said. Almost twice the price of my car. I told her are you crazy or what ? I only need to do basic office work, not run CATIA v5, any 200 Euro laptop will be plenty good enough for the job ! What a waste of money !
Good news : I won't be fired this week, because the girl I am supposed to replace / train with, is still on vacation, she will be back on Monday next week. So this week will be just admin stuff and babysitting.
Boss gave me a 30 seconds glimpse on what the job will be like concretely. Looks like it might be doable, but still unsure. I will only know next week when that girl comes back and I start training.
So I told my boss that I still considered it was a suicide mission and that she should be prepared to start looking for a new guy already. She said no you will be just fine, and you can't possibly be worse than the girl currently on that job anyway !!!
I said that's not very nice of you to speak of your people like this.... tell me, is she a pretty girl ? She said YES she is ! Ahhh.... see, I said, she is not ALL bad ! There is something good in everybody, you just need to open your eyes and be open minded !
Got given a tour of the workshop, because I didn't know that particular one. They assemble the air frame of the A320 in there, and I have never worked on the 320, only the 350 and A400M.
Was interesting, I see they recently (2 years ago I am told) starting using a brand new type of fastener for the skin. That's quite something. They call it "ErgoTech" (tm). This thing is fascinating.
The idea is that you need less workforce to install it, as well as being suitable for robot installation. This way you can fire lots of people, increase productivity and improve your margins quite a bit because labour is the expensive thing in the price of an A/C.
So overall it's going pretty well. Colleagues are cool and I most definitely won't be fired this week, and might even possibly survive the next week or two, if just because I won't have access to the required IT resources of Airbus, before a little while... these things take time. To begin with Airbus requires me to give them my corporate e-mail address before they can consider giving me access to any of their IT resources. Problem is that this e-mail, I won't get it before... maybe 2 or 3 weeks because our own IT guys are on vacation and we don't know when they will be back... oh joy.
Did squat at home today. Left work at 13H00 as expected, was so tired (couldn't find sleep last night) that I went straight to bed, naked over it of course, with the fan blowing on me. Woke up 19H30 with a headache as a consequence, stupid me. 30 minutes to reply to a mail from mum who had the clutch on her car let go today, great. Then watching the news while cooking some pasta, 9PM. Now 21H30 and finishing up this very message.
I was supposed to go to sleep at 20H00 so I can wake up at 03H00 tomorrow to start work at 04H45.... so I failed already miserably !
But I guess doesn't matter because I won't be able to sleep tonight anyway... heat wave again this week... this evening it's 27.5°C inside the house, but I can't even open the windows to cool down at night of course because I have to go to bed long before the outside temp has dropped sufficiently. Can't open the windows in the morning when I leave for work either, because animals and thieves could get in and ruin my day. Plus by the time I get back from work at 13H00, the outside temp would be already crazy high and turn the inside into a furnace.
So basically we have a heat wave and I have to keep the windows closed 24/7 and endure 27/28 °C inside the house !!! GREAT !!!
I HATE SUMMER IT SUCKS BIG TIME !!!! Sorry didn't read TEA today... 6 pages of stuff since I last looked at it last evening, just don't have the time nor energy, sorry. Taking a shower and straight to bed.
Have a good evening, or day, or morning, wherever you happen to live...