Quality Weenie

There's No Crying In Baseball

Nor in Manufacturing either.

Christ almighty I feel a little like Contagion.

We have a huge defect with our parts right now, affecting all parts for a specific line. So we are having the operators test with an Ohm meter the voltage coming from the part to make sure it's not to high.

I go out to let the person testing know that if they get one that doesn't register or tests to high to give it to me right away, while I am standing there they had tested 3 parts without the Ohm meter moving nor moving the part correctly.

So into my boss I go to make sure exactly how they are to be testing (for verification), nope they are not doing it right so I tell my boss they are not doing it right. We go out and I tell their supervisor that theyare not doing it correctly and all the parts made that morning needs to be re-tested just in case, which I tell the inspector to put aside all the parts made that morning. So that is 3 people I have told this to. (this will be important to remember later in the story).

I show them how to test and move the part correctly and go back to my office.

A couple hours later I find out this employee broke down and started crying on the line and said I was going around to everyone in the plant telling them what a bad employee she is and she is passing bad parts. She then went to the HR manager and said I was harrasing her and maligning her.

I was floored. I don't know how "your not testing correctly" became "your passing bad parts and are a bad employee".

So I just let it roll off my back because this employee is a huge whiner.

This afternoon (the next day) my inspectors tell me she broke down again, started screaming she was going to quit and it's all my fault because I am spreading rumors about her. The HR manager comes out with the production manager and she starts telling this story to them. Then later she's telling everyone on the floor that this whole thing is going to blow up tomorrow and I am getting in trouble.

I talk to my boss, he has heard none of this except what I told him yesterday. He says he believes me over her because she has done this before. I also told my boss that if she doesn't stop spreading these rumors and going to the HR manager about this petty thing I am going to file a harrassement complaint against her, my boss agrees with this also.

Tomorrow should be interesting to say the least.

Posted by Quality Weenie at June 2, 2005 03:38 PM