Last place had a safety coordinator who doled out and would keep track of safety glasses, ear plugs etc and would let everyone know that those ear plugs cost $1.20 a pair.
This place has a mass dispenser of 3M ear plugs. Grab them when you need some. They have a vending machine with Sharpies, highlighters, rubber palmed gloves, safety glasses etc. No cost or tracking who gets what. Just hit a couple of generic keys and the item number.
No notes hanging everywhere like the last place bitching about little petty things like "To reduce costs, use only two sheets of paper towel to dry your hands". It really takes three and they're a GFSI participant so hand washing, and drying, is a major thing. Besides, who wants to grab a wet door handle because people can't get their hands fully dry?
PTO rules changed three times while I was there. So many little things to drive a person crazy and then they wonder why there's a high turnover rate. Well gee, when the owner says in a newsletter that "people change jobs more often than their underwear", I can't imagine. There was one girl who worked one day and up and died. He mentioned her as being hired "with the expectation that they would work here for some time". He was upset that she had cost him money with the hiring process and lack of ROI. The nerve of her dying like that. I almost walked out that day when I read that. Cold hearted bastard.
I've been remembering all kinds of things like that this week that I must have mentally blocked out. Recovering from Stockholm Syndrome.
My boss here, at least while I'm on the weekday shift training, seemed like a hard nosed old redneck, my way or the highway, type at first but is actually open minded and has humility and humor. The guy who will be my boss on the weekend shift is kinda wired but other than that, seems easy going.
I understand the process, math and mechanics of it all and just need to learn X, Y and Z(plus and minus) and the keypads and various screens on this thing. Then they'll stick me on a different model to learn that one and then probably another and so on. :)
They're also handing me training literature that they're in the process of writing and want feedback from someone that's going through the learning process and has no preconceptions. Problem is, I do have preconceptions on copy writing and formatting. "It looks great - only thing I would do different is completely change it". That'll go over well. :~) I'll just make one suggestion at a time every other day or three.