Merry-Go-Round

Wednesday will mark my first anniversary at my current job. Yes I have been the "Quality Engineer" at a North Carolina manufacturing company for fifty-two weeks!

How did I last this long?

As I have previously documented here:

They fired Quality Manager #1 at the end of my first week.

They fired Quality Manager #2 four months later. ("We're not hiring another manager," I was told. "You'll have to pick up the slack!")

Well, as of Thursday, they fired my most recent boss, as well.

I was out of the plant that day and was briefed on this new development Friday morning.

So now I'm on my fourth boss in 12 months. (Possibly this is the fifth boss, as I may have temporarily been reporting to the Plant Manager for a week or two somewhere in there.)

The turnover at the plant has been dizzying. Managers and supervisors have been wished into the cornfield. Temps come and go. Shift patterns mutate and re-mutate.

But, by the grace of God, I'm still there.

What a week.

I hear we even elected a new president...