Car Clutch: Whole Process

So, it looks like the organic restaurant wasn't ready to aim that part-time. Looks like I'm not a vegetarian again! Hey, I know that makes me sound like I have no integrity and like I'm whoring my values based on environment but... Hey! That's.... Not a nice thing to say....

Today I learned how to do the more high-tech job. You know how I said there were three jobs: rocking, springing, and high-tech? Well, today things were pretty slow, to the point where, people were producing at a rate that was just making things congested. So, the woman I was working with decided to train me on the third job, because we basically had some time to kill.

It goes: Put on metal ring. Put big cog over little cog. Spin. Pop out different kind of metal ring. Mark. Put on a third kind of metal ring. Mark, mark, mark.

There you go. A little more complex than the other two jobs. Now I can do the whole process by myself.

We have to wear earplugs, but there isn't all that much noise. I feel it just makes it more difficult to communicate.

I wonder if my steel-toed boots are too small. They're the same size as my regular shoes, but maybe the steel takes away some space, so you should go a size larger. The first day I wore them, they blistered up my feet pretty bad, but I kept wearing them anyway, because I didn't have much else in the way of options. I've been doing okay recently. I don't know if that's because of the shoe getting worn in (is it likely to wear in steel?) or because my foot got tougher. Also, these stupid shoes wear in my socks at the heels.

Today, my boss and the person I was working with complained that I was too quite. Aw, man. It's my fourth day. I'm feeling out the environment. I don't know how to communicate with you guys.

...Now I have to concentrate on not just being a good worker, but also a good companion. What a pain...

At lest that means they want more of me, not less, which is kind of positive.

There was another two temps today. They seem to be flowing in two per day. One of them asked me to get more material, then asked me for advice with springing, then she asked my name, then she asked how long I'd been working there.

I told her three-and-a-half days. I wonder if this can be interpreted positively, meaning I seem at home in the environment, or competent. Probably over-analyzing.