National Ironworkers

The largest conference of the summer is in-house. A huge checkin on Saturday of 384 followed by more on Sunday. As we checked in guests one after another the line continued to flow. National Ironworkers had their own check in and then they would flow into our room for housing. They were being housed all over campus including Maher, Alcala Vista Apartments, San Buenaventura, and even Manchester. I have been in charge of CWI, Certified Welding Instructors, since their arrival. National Ironworkers have come to the University of San Diego for the past 22 years. Students come from all different Locals around the country to learn new skills to bring back to their local unions. We had to set classrooms, catering events, the “PIT” (where actual welding occurs and the annual PIT party), and much more…

As check-in started to get really busy Jonnie and Michelle realized that the excel file that was sent to us for housing was incorrect. Michelle, the conference contact, had completed the housing chart in a different version of excel than ours. For the regular participants this wasn’t an issue, but all the spouses were lined up with different partners than they were supposed to be with. This glitch in the spreadsheet had us re-arranging housing assignments for the rest of the afternoon. Pretty crazy and intense…but you have to do what makes the customer happy.