Not much to report.
The film crew arrived first then surveyed the factory. John arrived a short time later and after a briefing with his team and my boss came up to engineering, were he greeted everyone. He then interviewed our two top engineers (not me). Our factory manager instructed me to wait in my own department, tooling, as John would be going from department to department and talking with the supervisors. I'm thinking "perfect", so I went down to the factory and got to work. The rest of the day I caught glimpses of him escorted by my boss, at other departments, but they never came to mine.
I just talked to my boss about it and he apologized, as he simply forgot, to visit tooling. Though I got to meet John, I'm dissapointed that my team and my department didn't get the recognition it deserved. Sorry if I got anybodys hopes up.
John Ratzenberger; friendly guy, no Boston accent.
If anybodys interested "U.S. Pole and Archetectural Lighting" will be featured on the first episode of the next season of John Ratzenbergers Made in America.