A c h u b l u e http://www.achublue.com Another place for random thoughts... Sat, 03 Sep 2011 00:02:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 life as i know it now… will be no more… http://www.achublue.com/2011/09/life-as-i-know-it-now-will-be-no-more/ http://www.achublue.com/2011/09/life-as-i-know-it-now-will-be-no-more/#comments Thu, 01 Sep 2011 23:28:33 +0000 Enosh http://www.achublue.com/?p=366 well if you don’t see me around it will be due to shift work… my company has decided to start 24/7 shifts (as mentioned in my last post). planning was a headache… who know that implementing it would be such a bigger headache… the plan was for 12 people to start this 24/7 shifts… had to fire one cause his work was not up to standard… an other staff simply did not want to do shift work (even though when being hired and through many months of warning that shift work was coming…) sigh… well the show had to go on… i’m stepping in so that we can this show on the road…

tonight will be my first shift… and it is a graveyard shift… man i haven’t pulled an all nighter since i was college.

wish me luck and see you all in the morning…

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Well last week my manager set a deadline :( He want us to be ready and running 24/7 by September. I’m sure you can all image to change the work schedules of a team of 12 members (not big, but no small either) from normal 8-5 to rotating 24/7 shifts is not easy task in itself. Tack on some more conditions (i.e. schedule has to work for 12 people and room to grow, x number of people per shift, keeping with an 8 hour work day with one hour break, no crazy 10 or 12 hour shifts, no long term evening or graveyard shifts, no 6 or 7 day weeks, no regular OT allowed, save money, etc.) This task sounded almost impossible… Last week I found a scheduled that meet most of the items. My manager liked it… So the plan was to present it to my CEO on Monday… well trying to keep this short… my CEO did not like the schedule…

Well the next day (after cell group), I took some time in the morning and typed out the prayers we got… knowing that with all the papers on and around my desk, I’m surely going to lose the prayers sheets. So as I was typing the both prayers, I prayed it as well…

One of the big problems was OT pay… with the last schedule everyone would need to be paid over time which adds up to a lot of $$$$. So I started doing research on the BC Ministry of Labour website to see if there is a comprehensible solution which could be used in my situation. None was found even after talking to a specialist. There was either too much other planning and contract writing/adjusting or too much government red tape to go through. Well after a quick meeting with my manager, apparently my deadline to come up with a schedule was this Friday… (@$%$$###%)

But eventually a schedule did form in my head and was drafted into Excel… and my Manager did not like but that being said, he says “it was up to me to figure it out as it is my team.” So near the end of my day, I went with my drafted schedule to my CEO and presented the schedule. Not only did he LIKE it, but he even made BETTER by allowing more “flexibilities” to the schedule…

PTL!

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]]> http://www.achublue.com/2011/07/awesome-weekend/feed/ 0 Ultimate High to Ultimate Low and Back http://www.achublue.com/2011/06/ultimate-high-to-ultimate-low-and-back/ http://www.achublue.com/2011/06/ultimate-high-to-ultimate-low-and-back/#comments Fri, 17 Jun 2011 03:07:20 +0000 Enosh http://www.achublue.com/?p=351 *SIGH*

What a ride in the last 24 hours…

Yesterday Jun 15th, 2011 was Game 7 of the Vancouver Canucks vs Boston Bruins Stanley Cup Final. The build up to this moment was also a very emotional… win 2… lost 2… win 1… lost 1… My personal expectations could not have been higher for the Canucks. I felt like many others that this was THE year we would finally get to lift the Stanley Cup above our heads. The game started with a blast… but like with any fire, the Canucks seem fade…  Boston Scores… C0-1B… No worries… its only one goal… Boston Scores… C0-2B… we can still come back… Boston Scores… C0-3B… wtf!!! WTF!!! COME ON GUYS!!! *Breathe* 3rd period come back kids… 20 minute to pull the ultimate come back in NHL history… YAY BABY!!! 15 mins left… Come on… 10 mins left… I Believe… 5 mins left…  *sigh*

But the ultimate low did not come from the lost by the Vancouver Canucks…

The ultimate low is watching the stupid idiots in Downtown Vancouver rioting… Breaking and burning cars… smashing and grabbing from stores like the Bay, London Drugs, Future Shop… The total destruction of what was the most beautiful place on earth…

but there was a glimmer of hope as the night wore on with social media came to the rescue…

groups starting popping where people were encourage  to post pictures of the riot so the police can use the pictures to put those involved in jail where they belong. later… an event was created for the TRUE Canucks Fans to come out and truly show who we are by helping those affected clean up what was left of city…

even though I could not be among those Fans… seeing pictures of their efforts and team work gave me the warm fuzzies…

take a look… i’m sure you will get the warm fuzzies too…

www.saynotovancouverriot.com

so Proud of the REAL Canucks Fans!!!

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Christmas weekend I had the flu.

New Years weekend a sore throat which developed into an ear infection.

Blah!!! Hopefull this is it for the rest of the year.

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