Something interesting just happened on the floor, some foolish ass shop floor worker tired to tell me how to do my job. Here is what happened:

There’s a floor supervisor who is somewhat new, and doesn’t know all the workings of the plant yet. So whenever he calls for support he doesn’t say what the problem is or where the problem is located. Also when you try to contact him over the radio he never answers. But I digress because he is not the issue, at this moment. He this supervisor calls me out to the line, but never says why. I get to the line and he’s not there. So there’s no much I can do until I get word from him. As I stand there waiting, an line operator tells me that he asked the supervisor to call me to change a printer ribbon, which was okay, but then some other nigga who has no business on that station or area comes and says, “Well, instead of jus standin’ der, U could haf ass sumbody what da problem was.”

I was looked at him, and said “Nigga, why are you even in this. One, you’re not the line supervisor and two this isn’t your station so go do your job before you slow seat-building ass will keep us here until 6am.

He gets pissed that I called him out like that in front of the other line operators and tries to read me, “You jus a intern, ain’t like you got clout”

I had to let this nigga have it then. I made it clear “That even though my badge saids intern, I’m technically contract to hire, I have a set of keys to the plant and my own security codes, my interview didn’t involve pissing into a cup and why his ass going bound to be laid off… I’m sorry taking a mandatory 2 month non-paid vacation, my black ass will be working and getting paid.”

He didn’t have a response and I walked away to do my job. Which brings me to my point, if you are working somewhere and you know that your position is flaky and that you can be fired at any time, don’t front. I mean a big sign that you don’t matter at your job is if the interview process involves pissing into a cup. Becasue we all know that you don’t need to be on drugs to be crazy.

On a positive note, in April I’ll be going back to working 8 hours shifts and probably going back to days shortly after that.