February 15, 2013 - J

[5:35 ; I arrive]
7:00 ; J arrives
7:05ish-7:19 ; see NOTE 1
7:20-7:25 ; wandering
8:09 ; first material on table.
8:30 ; actually starts working! see Order 1.
9:25-9:49 ; wandering
9:50-9:52 ; wandering
9:52-10:21 ; phone, yakking, sitting, and internet 10:02-10:05, see NOTE 2
10:22-10:31 ; wandering, see NOTE 3
[11:05-11:30 ; lunch, I am not in area to observe]
12:07ish-12:09 ; yakking, see NOTE 4
12:09-12:14 ; sitting, phone
12:30- ? ; phone
12:33-12:35 ; wandering
+12:39-12:47 ; sitting, phone
12:47-12:54 ; wandering
1:07-1:47 ; wandering
1:47-1:51 ; wandering
[2:00-2:15 ; break, I am not in area to observe]
2:34-2:48 ; wandering
2:55ish ; working!
[3:28 ; I leave work]


J and the Trainee's Accomplishments for the Day:

Order 1: 7:19-8:45 ; around 6 pcs (10x20ish) of 060 styrene - finished @ 8:30
pause to dig out material: 8:45-9:00
Order 2: 9:00-9:14 ; around 6 pcs (10x20ish) of 24pt board
Order 3: banner; appears on table at around 9:40, disappears around 10:49. I assume it was finished.
Order 4: after long discussion about the machine, sometime after noon a single 8x10 piece of plex is made (while Trainee is at lunch). Cutting finally resumes at 2:55 and is finished and cleaned up before I leave (approximately 25-30 pcs, though possibly as many as 40). Sometime after 11 is when the head came off, and at 11:55 the routing board was in place.


If the terms used seem confusing, you might read this.

NOTE 1: J is on his second day of training a new guy. Said Trainee is on his fifth day of training overall. For some reason, he and J spent an hour talking about who knows what, a significant part of it by the order bags(7:05ish-7:19), rather than the far more effective method of demonstrating the work by actually doing it. This is the pattern for the rest of the day.

NOTE 2: J took his "break" (9:25-9:49, 24 minutes long) while the Trainee killed time, then the Trainee took a break (9:50-10:15, 25 minutes long) while J killed time rather than working.

NOTE 3: Left carrying an order bag, stood talking to PT the entire time, then returned to work on unrelated job.

NOTE 4: Trainee takes lunch (12:00-12:57) separately from J (1:07-1:47).


Finally, just because I like graphics, here's a clock graph of the day: