I'm filling in over in Recaust for two weeks. The operator doesn't trust me, he thinks i'm an idiot and treats me like i am a hunchback retarded child with a load of shit in my pants and spaghetti-O's all over my shirt while singing the Barney theme song! What did I do to deserve this shit!

and that concludes my bitch fest for the hour of 3pm.

Now you know how I feel, even when I have repeatedly demonstrated to management that I'm capable above and beyond what they've asked of me.

My coworkers are a different story. If they have a problem, I'm the first person they ask. Even the guy that trained me on the rewinder. The other day, he asked me if I would look at something. Mostly it was a "would you send this shit out?" question. Another operator royally screwed something up by not using the brakes on the machine to keep tension up on the paper during operation and the cut was incredibly bad on the edge of the roll. It wasn't just the tension that was bad though, someone chewed up a slitter...and it wasn't me. I got bitched at during training by the other operator, not my trainer, that I was chewing up slitters when it was actually something she had done herself with her trainee at the time.

The winder work was so bad that it ended up producing something called "Chatter Marks", which isn't a clean straight edge down the side of the roll. So, it was fuzzy and didn't wind well.

Usually it's stupid stuff like that and questions about the computer system they ask me about.

Shael

What did you burn yourself on Sam?

And that's why "Covering your ass" is one of the most important skills in the work place.

Sam, sounds like the operator is an idiotic asshole who has nothing better to do than to dump crap on you. As for what you did, you were in the wrong place at the wrong time which really sucks.

Too many of these slobbering morons treat other people like shit and dump the blame on someone else just to cover up their own incompetence. I've been getting this crap my entire working life and if I got a dollar every time someone threatened to fire me because of someone else's screw up, I would be a very rich man.

Cover your ass. If necessary, keep short notes as to where you were working and when.