Hey everyone its bee awhile but Im back with another workplace narrative. I know I have been away but I have been giving this job some time to sink in and within two and a half moths it has already started to go downhill. So I think we are all aware of the disclosure notice? Names and things will be changed to protect the privacy of the actual people. Although I don't think this will be using any names....All right here goes!
This job has been quite the rollercoaster and somewhere within this I don't actually know where to begin. Let us start with the company, Minghua, a little automobile company located in Fremont Ca. I don't have anything truly positive to say about the company and no that's not me just being a hater thats literally me analyzing the entire warehouse in them last two and a half months. These are the things that Ive seen and experienced forehand so there's no fiction. The work is tedious the people are terrible and there's nothing within it that makes me want to even remotely stay there.
I am a quality control inspector and the entire point of my job is take Tesla bumpers and make sure that the production team is following their process. Sounds easy right? Well It should be but its the management that makes it so difficult to work there. No to mention that the turnover rate in that place is crazy. I see new faces everyday and its incredible how fast you can move up and how much of a snake you turn into in that type of environment. I think of the people they're not much as robots but more like idiots in their own right. A bunch of people who have nothing going on at home, so they come to work and project that. It is bad and it does a lot of good people a negative. It definitely doesn't want to make anyone want to stay any longer then three months I guess you could say.
Of course when I first got there the vibe was great and I wasn't feeling too bad about the place, however that's how it starts in any new place or thing you do. Everything is always great at first but it takes time for the bad the things to set in and it takes time for you to truly understand the environment around you and how some people move in the workplace and how their actions affect others. My lead for example short girl who thinks she knows the job inside and out. I will leave her race out of this as I don't want certain types of opinions formed about her. She was hard to get around and she followed me everywhere so I always felt watched but I made it through the day and usually I have no problems with her but lately it seems that she has been out to get me. Since I guess you could say I am no longer her little lackey to go around and do the things she didn't want to do.
Ever since she came on its been like I have to do her job and mine even though she gets a good bulk of the work done but its that thing where she is over complicating the job and working herself into stress over simple errors of other human beings. I try to turn a blind eye and let it go but it gets annoying because she finds some way to drag me back in. She has me baby sitting other workers. Whenever something goes wrong I get blamed first hand even though there are so any of us. When I make a single mistake I have to get a 10 min lecture every time while the other workers she lets stands there and brushes off. I felt accepted and picked on and it was weird. I was doing my best to conform to it and deal with it but each day gets harder and harder and I honestly feel like one day I am just not going to show up anymore. I have better things I could be doing with my life.
Let me take you to the actual situation that happened tonight so you can get straight to the idea about what I mean. I get there at work and everything is cool, for the most part I am not in the best of moods so I have been kind of keeping to myself most of the night. I was very stand of is and I wasn't going out of my way to talk to anyone. The energy in the workplace was bad not including the fact that we had a previous issue but I will be taking a different time to discuss that. Everything was fine and I was minding my business, my team gathers too the table and we are instructed where to go. I was sent what we call after polish. What I do there is basically inspect the bumpers that the after polish people put out. Its very tedious and its very boring but I do it. Today in particular already started off weird. There were no after polish pairs put out so my lead literally had me standing around waiting for more. As I did let her know they were out.
First she runs around and talks to another associate after that she runs to back and takes a defective bumper too the back. Once she come up front I stop her and let her know that I am still waiting for the paperwork. She looks at me and says okay and walks off again, this time into the direction of the computers up in the from of the warehouse. That was fine because that's where we usually print them. I wait there another few minuets just for her to come back and tell me that there was nothing to print and that there was nothing she could do. So after telling me just to adjust another sheet, I walk to the back and I start standing there. By this time there were a few bumpers sitting there so I write them down, the pace was slow so there wasn't a whole lot going on and there wasn't anything to really do. Within I get approached by my co worker who has once again decided to annoy me with conversation even after I told him several times that I dint want to talk. Next thing you know I take off and I go to the bathroom.
Wasn't in there any longer then 5 minuet as the janitor who so conveniently standing there in the break room eating chips told me to hurry up as he has to take his lunch break, so I am in and out. On my way out of the bathroom I notice that the annoying coworker and now my lead were standing there by my station, once I get in close enough range for my coworker to notice me he whispers something in her ear and promptly walks off. Next thing you know my lead is chewing me out over why I went to the bathroom without informing my peers. For the most part I ignored her because I felt like I had too. I felt that if I told her that he wasn't there to tell and that she was too far away she wouldn't have believed me and that shew would have still in some way found some way to fault me.
I still continue to stand there and I guess you could say I ignore her. Once again I explain to her that there was nothing on the racks and that me leaving didn't hurt anything but of course once again I was faulted. She takes my sheet and hands me an actual photocopy of the original after polish sheet that she had told me earlier that she didn't have. I was increasingly frustrated and I wasn't sure what to do about it. By this time I do my rounds and it took no more to 5 to 10 min as I said there was no actual pace to go by. Next thing you know I see my lead come back to me and she tells me that she needed to speak with me upfront and by the time we are making our way there, the production manager buts in and starts walking to the office with us. I look at my lead and ask her what's going on and she told me that are all needed to have a meeting.
The bring me into the office and sit me down, by this time I am not saying anything because I was already upset at the fact that we ended up in the office in the first place. They sit me down and start explaining me that everything I wrote down was somehow incorrect. For the most part of it I wasn't actually saying anything and I just let them go on. It wasn't by the time they starting accusing me of doing it before did I feel the need to finally speak and defend myself. I also sat there and pointed out the fabrications in their story as they didn't have any proof to bring to to the meeting and they kept deflecting when I kept asking how they verified such information. After getting the run around and dicing that I am no longer going to engage in the discourse with these people I shut up and let then hear themselves talk. Within that the supervisor got frustrated and he pulls out his phone and he clocks me at 8:30 and tells me how insubordinate I am being and that I need to leave for the night.
So after being absolutely irritated I decide to give them what they want. Stand up and I freak out and scream that one of my relatives died and I storm out, and I go to the car and leave. Sitting there I ran back the entire situation and went over just fucked up it was. I then sent my lead a long text about how much her and Ali were being assholes to me and they should sit and re-evaluate how they handled that particular situation, I told her not to respond and to actually think about what she did.
So what's the moral of the story boys and girls? Its time to quit and move on to the next job lol was that too vague? C'mon guys I can't keep trying to come up with good morals some of these situations don't have any!!
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