New Job, Part II

B has been working at his current job fora month now and it's time for an update.

He was told that it could be a couple YEARS before he knows all that his job entails.  To say it's a huge job is an understatement, I am still amazed when he talks about his job and all that it covers and just how much there is to do and learn.  Even though he is a white collar employee he is working in one of the auto plants and it's truly amazing to think about what is going on inside there all the time.  Currently, approximately 1124 cars are completed in that one plant every single day - that is amazing to think about!  Oh yeah, and did I mention that the plant is MASSIVE?!?  I hope to one day get the opportunity to go inside and have a tour, but I won't hold my breath and wait for it to happen.

He is enjoying the job but there are parts that frustrate him, mostly the fact that he doesn't know what he's doing part of the time.  But he says it's getting better each week.

He had the opportunity to learn more about how he was chosen for the position, one of his coworkers (the manager's right hand man, so to speak) told him that he was lucky.  We know that luck had little, if anything, to do with it.  Heavenly Father had a huge role in B getting this job.  It turns our that the position B was hired for is mostly filled by contractors.  They are not Chrysler employees, they work for outside companies and thus they do not get all the perks and benefits of Chrysler employees.  Needless to say, when a position opens up such as the one B was applying for, they are the ones applying for that job and they are typically the ones who get it.  I mean they want the job so that they can have more job security and better benefits plus they've been doing the job for X amount of years and so they know what they're doing.  These are the 4 other guys that B was up against in the interview process, he was the only non-contractor to apply.  Logic says that one of those four guys should have gotten the job, they already know how to do the job.  But the manager chose B, knowing that it would be a two year investment to train him over choosing someone who already knew the job.  For B to get this job, was unheard of and completely unprecedented but it happened and we must give Heavenly Father all the credit.