Happy Halloween!

It is Halloween and the leaves are really falling! We had about 1" of rain the other day and they really fell after that.

We haven't done much since going to Bartelsville on Wednesday and doing some shopping. It has a nice shopping area and of course we checked our the mall! It was a nice mall...very clean and stores where I shop! yea!!!! It is about 30 miles from here so its not too far.

Thursday was the rainy day of the week so we stayed home and watched it rain most of the day. I finally called the dr. office and had her prescribed some antibiotics for my coughing... they have finally helped and it isn't bothering me as much at all now..... just dealing with taking antibiotics and how they react to me! (No more needs to be said! :)

Friday I made some homemade sloppy joes for our "dinner" at 3.... we cleaned here again for the weekend. We just hung out until it was time to head out to the plant to work. Everyone leaves about the same time so it is like a mass exodus to go to the plant.
When we arrived, we were early so we were greeted by our "leader" and went to a room to wait until the others arrived. We were then showed how to check in and go through the turnstile and check in. We had been given our badges last Sat. at the meeting.
Everything we do is connected with our badges....they keep track of all transactions or anything with the badge. From my understanding we will scan our badge using a hand scanner before putting anything in bins we will use. Last night was basically orientation concerning safety, loss prevention, sexual harassment for about 4 1/2 hrs. We then walked to an area and did some safety school excerises. Then we walked to another breakroom and had a break. We will be having a break around 8 PM and then "lunch" -half hr.-at 10PM and another break at 1:30 AM I think. Everyone breaks and lunches at the same time and everyone is on the hussle to get there and leave at the same time.
That plant is huge ..... just huge! I have never done factory work and to me it was just amazing what all the items they have! We are allowed to walk the "green mile" area..... where it is taped green on the floor is our walkway....think safety.
After we took a short tour of the area around us we were checked out and left.

We only worked 5 hrs. last night arriving home about 10:20..... We went to bed around 11 as I was beginning to fall asleep in my chair and decided I was going to bed. I slept until about 8:30 this am Bill was up about 7 he said. So we will see how tonite goes. We will work our full 10 hrs. tonite and we are going to have "stow school" and then work on the floor. Stow school is stowing items that have been checked in in bins so the "pickers" --people who use scanners to find the items you have ordered and put them in a bin to send on down to finish the order. They have thousands and thousands of what I would call a library bin/shelving and that is where the items are in. So that is all I know right now.

There have been people leave already who for some reason or another didn't like what they were doing or what..... so if you don't like it you can leave but you may ruin your chance of working at this temp. agency again.

They have about 700 employed in the plant now and there is about 350 of us workkampers there with more to come. We have already been told after Thanksgiving be prepared to work longer time. That is when everything will really gear up until the week before Christmas.


We may not work too hard tonite either ...our "ambassador" told us last night he was dressing up for tonite so it may not be much going on tonite! could be interesting!
So that is about all I know for today and how our first evening went.

Stay tuned and have a Happy Halloween!
BJ