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Survivor
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I'm a huge survivor fan and the thing I notice about that show is that the one that wins the million dollars is usually the one that slithers by quietly and doesn't make himself or herself known to everyone. When you become well liked you are a threat and will eventually be eliminated. If you win reward challenges you are also a threat. In fact,anything good about you in this game is considered a threat and with some exceptions usually the person that wins is the person most watching would not have wanted to win.
I feel like I'm at a point of my life when I can look back at some of the choices that I've made. From the time I was 12 years old I had a paper route and I always strive to do well. The people in the neighborhood seems to have liked me usually tipped me well because I would take that extra step to ensure they always had a dry paper. No I wasn't the paperboy that would just throw the paper at their driveway. I would take it up to their doorstep and put it inside a special box that I suggested to some to have and they loved me for it. Even the ones that never tipped I would still do this for.
I was raised to respect my elders so it didn't matter. I was getting payed to do this job at 12 and I strived to do this well.
I've always been like this. In every job that I have had I strived to do better and better.
Another job in particular I had was at a plastic injection plant where they made plastic and medical parts. There was this machine that bagged spoons,forks and knives. You had three cardboard boxes in front of you and stacks of other boxes next to you that you had to open when your boxes ran out. Then you pull a knife,fork and spoon and put it in it's little pocket on the machine. Then this machine would move it every second and it would bag it,seal it and drop it in an empty box that was originally the box the individual parts were in. You can turn off the machine to catch up or move the boxes around and stuff.
So the factory record in production in this machine for a 12 hour shift was 21 boxes. This record was held by a long time staff there and it stood for many years.
So looking at this machine I figured out that I can use both my hands to pick up the knife fork and spoon. With the knives on the left,the spoons in the middle box and the forks on the right I would with my left hand pick up and twirl the utensils so it's upright in order,knife,spoon fork and with my right hand it would be fork,knives on the left then spoon in the middle.
So at the same speed as everyone else when I did it this way I had two sets on each hand to put in two pockets to their one so essentially I was going twice as fast as everyone else at this machine.
So on one shift I had this machine for the full 12 hours and the time to beat this record was today.
When that 12 hour shift ended I ended up with 32 boxes.
So you think breaking a record like this would be a cool thing?
Hell no.
Soon afterwards I was getting blamed for mistakes the break people made when I would take my breaks to the point that a month later I was let go.
Voted out.
And my previous 15 year job goddamnit I truly went above and beyond and cared a whole lot about the people I served man took them to places the newer staff stressed about even the thought of them doing the same so bye bye me.
Fuck it.
Nothing I can do about it now.
So.
Reason for this blog?
Some advice to all.
If you want to keep a job that you like,
Stay invisible.
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