So, been at this job nearly a year now. My training wasn't focused on because the guy I got hired in with had some days he needed off, we still got moved at the same time though. I got on a shift with a guy who'd only been there a couple months longer than I had, who felt he had seniority over me and was a douche about it, he got moved to a different shift (by the time this happened I was the most experienced person on the shift, still am) I felt I knew the line I was on well enough, but I didn't know the other two lines very well (there are three and they're similar, but different enough that if you try a fix that works on one line you'll burn out every control board on the circuit). Because I was the most senior on the shift I had to learn the other lines pretty much on my own and there are things I'm NOT confident doing and thus I take longer than the other shifts. They also had supervisors come down to check out our numbers (but not the other shifts) every day. I get questioned every time we take longer than usual to do something, and when something gets screwed up, even if my guys had nothing to do with it, I get questioned. For example, a material was mixed in to a batch that it wasn't supposed to be in costing the company somewhere upwards of twenty grand. I was questioned about it, told them we had nothing to do with it and gave them a very strong reason we couldn't have been involved. I was questioned on this three more times. Since I started we have worked 12 hr shifts and are the only three lines in our plant that do so. Which given that we all worked 6-6 isn't that bad, they decided to switch to 8-8 (which everyone on these shifts hated) and the union voted it down (that [u] was[/u] the Union's right at the time). When the union contract came up, they put it in that contract that our (the 12 shifts) hours would be changed to 8-8 the union passed the contract screwing us over. Now they are switching the shifts to 8hr shifts but after almost a full year of this crap fest, I'm all out of shits to give. So, I've contacted an old friend about getting hired in somewhere else. That's all I got, just massive sense of -blam!- you I'm done. I probably seem like a whiny little shit, but as I have no friends now (mainly owing to my inability to be awake during the day now, thus I don't get to go visit my old friends), I figured I'd talk to you folks. By the way, if you work in a factory, you have my utmost respect. This shit sucks. The work isn't even that hard, I just hate it here now. My hatred for this place is such that I don't even enjoy my food anymore, and I'm a fat -blam!-, food is one of the things in life I actually enjoy. Feel free to say whatever. Edit: I guess I was a little more jaded than I thought, I expected more criticism. These forums are nowhere near as toxic as some here would have us believe. Keep on keeping on folks, and thanks for the support.