listing to the side: March 8, 2013

[6:15 ; I arrive at work]
[6:30-7:00 ; I do 10 pieces of the same job, on the same machine, that J will do all day long]
6:54 ; J arrives
7:45 ; J has done 2 pieces
7:56-8:01 ; phone - see NOTE 1
8:10 ; J has done 4 pieces
8:20-8:22 ; wandering
+8:55-8:58 ; wandering
[9:15-9:23 ; I am not in area to observe]
9:29 ; J has done 21 pieces
+9:29-9:48 ; wandering, in his car (returns with Subway)
9:48- ? ; eating
9:59-10:14 ; wandering
+10:49-10:52 ; phone
+10:53-10:55 ; phone
10:59-11:00 ; phone
[11:20-11:55 ; lunch, I am not in area to observe]
+12:17-12:20 ; phone
12:20-12:24 ; wandering
? - 12:32ish ; wandering
+12:49-12:58 ; wandering
12:59 ; J has done 61 pieces
12:59-1:29 ; wandering (with a pass-thru at 1:15 - see NOTE 2)
1:47-2:00 ; wandering
2:10ish-2:33 ; see NOTE 3
2:33-2:38 ; wandering
2:49-3:03 ; wandering
3:05-3:06 ; phone
3:30 ; J has done 68 pieces - see NOTE 4
[3:40 ; I go home]

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

NOTE 1: it should be noted here that J was caught on his phone the other day and warned that any further use would be grounds for termination. This has merely slowed him down. A bit.

NOTE 2: J went somewhere in his car at this time, because it was not in the parking lot. I looked.

NOTE 3: J spent this time helping some guy load the cardboard compactor. Again. While, of course, his machine sat idle, even though his machine sits right next to the compactor. If I had the power, I'd transfer him to the warehouse, because he's obviously not interested in running his machine nearly as much as he is in doing this other stuff. Sadly, I do not.

NOTE 4: It should be noted that, based on my numbers from early this morning, and figuring on only seven hours of actual work time, J should have been able to have made at least 140 pieces. He made less than half that. Notice that between 8:10 and 9:30 he made 17 pieces, for a rate of 4.7 minutes per piece. Between 9:30 and 1:00 he did 40 more, or about 5.25 minutes per piece. Between 1:00 and 3:30 he did 7 pieces, which, even when removing a half an hour for lunch, is still an absurd 17 minutes for each piece. My rather leisurely rate this morning was 3 minutes each. J's full day average was 6.18 minutes for each, or, as usual, about half as productive as myself.

And, because I like to make charts from time to time, I've made a kind of visual guide to J's goofing off, using clock-faces in the manner of pie-graphs to illustrate.