I Added a hit Counter to My Blog

Tuesday December 18, 2007

I added a hit counter to my blog. Now I can keep count of the thousands of hits that I get each day. So far it doesn’t seem to be working.

This is the last week before Christmas Vacation. I had stayed with this job till the end of the year to get my vacation and year end bonus and to get my house finished. The company has done so poorly I don’t expect a bonus and I haven’t got the house finished.

I haven’t gotten into Tennessee Tech @ Nashville for the January 2 class. I may still get in if some don’t show at the beginning of class. I hope that I can get into it but if not then I will have another 8 weeks to get prepared. I hope this job holds out till then.

The company is down 2 ½ million dollars this year from a 4 million dollars year before the family took over the business. They keep quoting jobs but not getting anything substantial. Most of the work we do is for automotive companies for handling parts in their plants and for shipping them between plants. Each job we do is run in days or weeks. If a new supply of jobs are not constantly added then we get slow. We are down from 30-40 employees in the plant to 10 and they work 4 days a week half the time. The office (including me) is still full staff. The ratio of the overhead personal to the workers in the plant that are actually producing product is way out. Since most of the management is family I become the most expendable one. The only problem with that is they don’t know how to do what I do. If they get rid of the people that do the work then they will have to get in here before 10 AM and do it themselves. That is going to suck (for them). Life can be cruel.