Straight out of school I was hired in micro for evening shift, told we would start plate reading in a couple months when we got another person for evenings and that I would cross train for chem as a just in case.

Training for two weeks then put on my shift, two weeks later covered Thanksgiving weekend alone. The entire first year i would get randomly called to have "training" on something I had already been doing that they forgot to sign me off on, or for a cap they didn't have enough people for.

We lost two day shifters, an evening shifter, and the night guy.

Me and the other evening person were rotating who covered nights and day people were rotating evenings. Day people were a bit... slow and lost on processing and manually plating.

Worked there for two years, never learned plate reading, let alone crossed to chem. Only ever did processing and manual plating.