The Rollercoaster, Part 2!

WOWZERS! That was a MAJOR lurch! In my last post I mentioned that I had registered with a temporary staffing agency to fill in the times my contract business is stopped. Sunday night I get a call from them asking me to take on a 12 hour shift the next day (Monday) at a "creamery" in a nearby city. I accepted it and EARLY the next morning, off I went. Wow, I tell you what, WOW! The work itself wasn't hard - dump boxes of 12 empty salad dressing bottles into a big hopper and put the empty cases on a conveyor. The boxes were light and the conveyor was right next to the hopper. No sweat, right? WRONG!!! They neglected to tell me the line runs at 200 bottles per MINUTE! I haven't moved that fast since high school track & field meets! I was fortunate enough that the day was a "multi-run day" which meant that they had to shut down the line twice to wash it out to change product. I also was able to benefit from a much larger than normal frequency of jams in the line, which allowed me and my other temporary co-worker to keep up to the voracious appetite of the machinery! Oh, btw, the jams were NOT my fault! LMAO!!! Twelve hours though.... who came up with THAT idea? That person should be taken out and lobotomized!!! My muscles hurt so bad, I could barely move this morning! I looked (and felt) like an old man as I struggled to move around the house! Incredible how much the human body can hurt!

Tonight I start a 3 week placement at another manufacturing plant working the night shift - 11:00 pm to 7:10 am. I am naturally something of a "nighthawk", so we'll see how well I can adapt to this new schedule. I think, however, that for the next few nights, caffiene will be my new bestest friend! LOL! I'll "file a report" here tomorrow after I find out what it is I'm supposed to be doing!

Lurch! WHOOSH! The rollercoaster is off again!