A day in the life

I don't think I've ever really explained what a typical day around here is like. So here you go. We start our day with a morning meeting at 7:30 It starts with a drum roll, literally. A guy has a snare drum and does a nice little drum roll with a cymbal crash to start the day off.After that we find out if anything happened over night, catch up on the latest town gossip and figure out what's going on in the shop for the day stuff like that. After that we put all our chairs in corner and do some stretching exercises. They really are quite helpful as it's so easy to sprain or strain something here. We then break off into our own little zone groups and discuss what we're going to specifically accomplish for the day.
After that most people do rounds on their equipment just making sure that everything is up and running. That takes anywhere from 2-4 hours depending on how big the zone you're working in is. The rest of the time up until lunch is spent taking care of preventative or corrective maintenance.
Since I'm in the lab building and we have to have someone here at the scientists beck and call my group takes lunch in turns. I normally go between 11-12 sit with about 7 other people around a big table and chat most of the time. It's also a chance to catch up on errands most days if you need it.
After lunch it's normally more of the same continue knocking out work until the end of the day. the only difference to that is we try and take things a little easier on Saturdays just so we don't run into a chance of getting knee deep in a project and then having to work on Sunday to finish it up. There are occasional meetings to attend such as the bi-weekly town hall which is more rumor control than anything else. Then there are the obligatory safety meetings and such.
To give you an idea of the type of work that I'm doing I spent most of the day today wiggling through a really narrow crawl space making sure all the under floor heaters are working. It wasn't exactly the most comfortable job and It seemed like I was taking my pants off a tiny bit at a time as they snagged on corners non-skid tape etc and shredded. It is a little drafty in here this afternoon.
Evenings start off with dinner (on Saturdays we can have wine with our meals the rest of the time no booze in the dining room) People normally linger a while and figure out what to do on their day off or that evening. The recreation options are pretty broad. There are 2 bars (smoking and non) and a coffee house. Some nights they'll have either karaoke or a live band at one of the bars, and the coffee house is a good place to sit and play board games or the occasional acoustic jam session. Then we have a weight room and cardio gym as well as the big gym which is where we can play volleyball, indoor soccer, basketball, and dodge ball as well as have the larger town parties. We had a bowling alley too up until New year's day when the building became unfit for occupancy thanks to the floors starting to collapse. Actually that took out not just the bowling alley but also the ceramics room and bouldering cave. Luckily the climbers still have an indoor rock wall in the big gym.
There are plenty of other activities to keep people occupied. Since there are so many talented people there are all sorts of classes everything from knitting to jewelry making to dance lessons.
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