PIPE DREAMS

First off, this post does not have anything to do with MJ and MJ pipes and me dreaming about MJ in my pipes.

It actually has to do with my job. More and more I realize that my job at times is a lot like a video game. Recently, there has been a lot of cool construction going on at the SBUX Plant. There are more pack lines, box conveyors and big robots being installed. This place is so automated and pretty fun to be around and work with.

Basically, my part (my job) in this process of providing for all you SBUX consumers is to control a coffee roast to perfection on a computer while controling coffee flow through the system. Todays post is about the coffee flow part. I use to play this game at my cousins house (Dave H.) called Pipe Dreams. Basically, it was one of those mixed up slide puzzled (similar to the picture above) where you slide the pieces around to align the picture only this was a bunch of piping. I loved this game because you had to align it really fast because about 30 seconds later the ooze at the begining of the piping would start pouring through the path that the player was creating. That's my job in a nutshell a lot of the times. At my work I have to account that I have the coffee available to roast, I have to roast it and then get it to the proper pack line. In between all the coffee loading equipment, the coffee roasting equipment and the pack lines is a sea of pipes that direct where the coffee is going. So basically I am playing playing Pipe Dreams throughout my shift and each day I have to beat the game and then pass it off to another roaster to try and beat the game. Basically a vidoe game is about control and getting past situations in the environment that the game puts you in. My job acually has a similar feel and environment which makes it a neat place to be because I have always been around video games growing up.

The thing that makes it even more of a challenge is that it's real life and if you make mistakes which can happen it causes all sort of additional fun:).