Watched

There wasn't much training to be done. This guy has been in the plant, but he was just unsure of himself. I left him on his own today, and went to check out this project. Met some people from the other office. We discussed some of the differences between the offices. The north office is more disciplined/strict. They don't have people milking the overtime clock. I'd figure it would be more strict since the metro engineer is in that office and they have an actual construction engineer. It sounds like a place where I would want to work, but I'm going to tough it out here.

I was given a heads up that I'm being watched, and should be truthful with my hours. Of course I should naturally assume I'm being watched, I'm a new employee. I've always been truthful with my hours, except yesterday when I left an hour early. We finished an hour early today too, but I figured I will actually be in the office for that hour, that's why I'm writing this post right now. Gotta kill some time. I wonder if they're just watching me, or are they watching everyone else, because they need to be. It's 1am and no one should know that I left early, but people from the other project wander into the office at random times to waste time and gas, so they would notice, and most likely tell on me. This office has no sense of unity.

Training

I was supposed to start on a striping project yesterday, but they put me on different project from the north office. Since I've spent a little over a month working in the concrete plant, and because I like the night, I get to train someone. I will be training a Russian engineer, but since his degree came from an non-accredited university, he's just an ET. He apparently took the FE test, but it wasn't graded, because he tore out one of the blank pages in the back for scratch paper. Odd that they can't find someone else with more experience.

Since this really isn't my project, I don't have to be out on the road. Just be at the plant when needed, which is usually around 9-10pm. So I've been sitting in the office since 4pm reading stuff online and watching TV shows. This project is also running Mon-Thurs, so I'll probably have to come in everyday at 4pm, and kill time for 5 hours. I'll probably be the only person in the office after 7pm, so I'll probably start watching some anime, which I avoided because I felt it might be inappropriate. Too bad this training is only temporary. Working four 10 hour days seems great.

Night shifted

I spent the last week on a bridge on the dayshift. It was very informative. The person running the project is very intent on teaching me everything that goes on. There wasn't much that went on besides watching the contractor work. Once or twice a day they'll be a concrete pour, then I'll help with the testing. There were 3-4 of us on the job, and only one has be on the job watching them. I'd go out sit on the bridge and watch them for an hour, then I'll go back to my truck, and nap or read some manga.

I was supposed to work on this project for two weeks until the striping projected started, but they needed me back on the old project for some reason. So I kinda get screwed hours-wise. As far as i know, we're only working two days this but I need 24 hours to get a full 40 hours for the week. We don't work Friday's and Sunday doesn't count as a holiday. Maybe I'll try to get some hours working on the bridge project on Friday