My new skills

So I haven't written much at all, but here are some of the skills I have learned and/or processes I've done!

I can:

• remove the skin and debone a chicken thigh :)
• tell the difference between thigh meat and leg meat
• check tubs of meat for bones, and operate the belt and sensors that move the chicken tubs
  
• operate the bagging machine to create 4 ten pound bags of meat to put in a box (I can do the 70 lb tubs and 40 lbs chipotle boxes too, but they're easier).
  
• open and close the "gates" that dump chicken to my stations on my line using the weigh tech scale
• Assign a person's badge to a station number
• Manually clock people in and out if needed
  
• clear the weights on the scales (only with Donna's permission since I erased hers once, lol)
• dump chicken onto my line! I maneuver (not lift) the 70 lb cases onto the roller bars and dump onto the belt. I never do the last of the pallet that has to be lifted.
  
• make about 200 labels a night to put on the 70 lb cases
• explain the date/lot/hour codes on our labels
  
• Write-up someone who lies to me about being sick just to go home
• Suspend someone who refuses to do a job they're asked to do
• Fire someone who misses too many days, and have him escorted from the building
• rattle off and understand what most of the 0016-001, 750-141, 0314-928, 8134-207 kind of codes mean :)
• Do the *magic* that makes the raw and finished weights on my production reports add up and balance out
• adjust the raw weights for girls who have stolen chicken from somewhere and have a strangely high yield over the rest of their line.
• verify temperatures for the QC girls (HACCP stuff)
• remember my function codes to do my reports and line sheets
• Enable or Disable lines on the tub return
  

I cannot:

• Debone a whole leg, or anything in the coneline room
• Set up the distribution system that sends the tubs to each of the lines
• remember when I do and don't need to clear the lines (unless I'm going to an older kill date)
• Operate the cryovac packaging machine
• operate the device that tests the CO2 to O2 concentration in the cryovac packages
• Operate the strapper machine that puts the hard plastic straps around boxes to keep them closed
  
• drive one of the jacks loaded with a pallet
• understand how in the world they figure out payroll!