Happy New Year!

And with the new year comes new stories from The Production Manager.....

For the next 3 days the production floor will be embroiled in the ever twisting audits and surveillance for our FDA / ISO re certifications.

The tension is thick, nerves are on edge. People we never see on the production floor are everywhere.

I was in the midst of the receiving department segment of the audit when Hedda appeared, fresh from jury duty, milk jug in one hand, the jury slip in another. A normal person would have bypassed me, knowing I was in the midst of important business, choosing instead to wait until I was not surrounded by the Director of Operations and the auditor.

Not Hedda....

Hedda walks right up to me, shoves the jury duty paper in my face, and stands there, staring at me.

I had no idea what to do.

Deciding to play it cool, I say to Hedda "Hey, you made it. No jury today?" I then looked at both the DO and the auditor and explained to them Hedda had been called upon to perform her civic duty.

Thankfully, jury duty jokes and anecdotes followed the interruption. To be honest, I was a bit perturbed by the whole production.