From Information Services to Quality Control/Manufacturing (the examples so far are from medical device manufacturing).

Thursday

• "Hi Pomela" "Hi Dave. You can clock in up to 15 minutes before shift." "OK.  Thank you."
• Pomela checks in with me about every 15-20 minutes throughout the night to make sure that I don't have any questions etc.  It's nice to know that someone is trying to keep the new guy out of trouble.  A couple times she asks "Have you finished your training?" "No, I'm too busy trying to inspect these pouches." "Go ahead and do it now.  Just don't let it take you 2 weeks even though it should take you 2 weeks to do it."  Right...  What does that mean?
• A little bit later "How is that training coming?  It seems like it is taking 2 weeks..."  Oh, I get it now.  UGH!  This is not quite how I was expecting a Quality Control thing to go.  Seems more like RAD software development...
• I did meet a couple other folks from my temp agency though.  There are quite a few folks with less than 1 year experience here...Including my mentor Pom... 
• Oh, did I mention that it isn't sample testing?  No, it's 100% pass/fail but without the option to fail and also without the option to communicate really well because of a language barrier...