smoke03 Posted December 12, 2007 Report Share Posted December 12, 2007 I know, another useless post but im kinda curious: How many people here work in factories? Ill start: Factory: Halton Company, USA Branch Job: Maintenance Tech Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kim Posted December 12, 2007 Report Share Posted December 12, 2007 (edited) I used to work in a factory. This summer I realized it wasnt worth it anymore. I'm glad I quit...**** em. They're probably lost without me. I was a stocker, orderfiller, back-up shorts clerk, and back up sign-out clerk. They're kevlar gloves sucked...they didn't block the blade. I shouldve been a f'n manager. Edited December 12, 2007 by usabodyguard (see edit history) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smoke03 Posted December 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 12, 2007 boy...arent we hostile in the mornings...lol jus kiddin kim...factories can be a PAIN sometimes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kim Posted December 12, 2007 Report Share Posted December 12, 2007 sorry... jose cuevro is talkin. It really did suck though...don't work for family dollar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockHead Posted December 12, 2007 Report Share Posted December 12, 2007 Time, I got out of High school I use to work a in a weld shop .I still do welding on side for some $$$$$. Now I keep my hands clean , Im alarm tech (alarm Progremer) . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fireman31 Posted December 12, 2007 Report Share Posted December 12, 2007 Not really in a factory, but I work for a large NY Metro area alarm & security company, started here when I was 15 years old working in the stock room during the summer. I have been here for just about 10 years, now I am the fleet manager, field supervisor/purchasing agent/parts guru, and asst. facilities manager(needless to say my plate is full here). My Dad has been working here for almost 25 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomp62301 Posted December 12, 2007 Report Share Posted December 12, 2007 used to work in a factory for goodyear tire, pretty much sucked. now i work in an office all day as a service manager. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChevyMan23 Posted December 12, 2007 Report Share Posted December 12, 2007 Unforunately I do. Hunter Douglas Components. Process Technician Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOB47 Posted December 12, 2007 Report Share Posted December 12, 2007 11.8 years at GM Hydra-matic in Ypsilanti MI. Repaired transmission assembly line mistakes on transmissions. 12 years as a machinist at Sidley Diamond Tool. Making diamond tipped wheel dressers. Now I'm working in retail. Managing a small camera store. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stitches040 Posted December 12, 2007 Report Share Posted December 12, 2007 sorry... jose cuevro is talkin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krambo Posted December 12, 2007 Report Share Posted December 12, 2007 I love factory work. 1. Out of Highschool I worked as a maintenance mechanic for M&M Mars for the summer. 2. I worked off and on as a Flex Fill associate during my fresh and soph years in college at M&M Mars, doing everything form melting Cocoa butter to loading trucks with forktrucks to actually coating M&M's. 3. I had to get serious about my edumacation so I took an internship between my Jr - Sr years at MOPAC (beef division) as a QA inspector. I worked on the kill floor ensuring SOP adhearance and later worked on the grind floor prepping beef samples for E-coli 0157:H7 testing. The product I was working on was Wendy's ground beef. They supplied the east coast with the square patties. 4. I got even more serious and landed a Co-Op with M&M Mars as a Cocoa raw material scientist. I was working on a replacement for Brazilian supplied cocoa by basically buying crappy quality beans and altering the mfg. process to yield the same end result flavor components. I personally roasted, winnowed, milled and atrited the cocoa on the manufacturing floor. 5. I landed my first "real" job with Johnson & Johnson (pharmaceuticals) as a Sterile filling Technician working in class 100 clean rooms. I pushed my way through the ranks to Supervisor of Sterile fill and Labeling before leaving. All pharma factory work. 6. I left J&J and worked for Chiron (biopharma) as a contract manufacturing supervisor overseeing a few plants in the U.S. Still did the hands on stuff! 7. left Chiron to work at Pfizer as a Group Leader for Global Manufacturing. Glorified manufacturing manager. In charge of several product lines (manufacturing). 8. Left Pfizer to work for a start-up biptech company as the manager of manufacturing. Since it is a small company, I do it all. From sweeping the floors to conducting an FDA audit. This is my niche. I only work in a "Factory". Most likely will till the day I retire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireRescueSS Posted December 12, 2007 Report Share Posted December 12, 2007 I work at a factory/manufractureing facility, where me make plastic sheets for other companies to make their products, some examples would be auto ventshades, and lund bugshields to name a few. 12-hour shifts, and I usually end up bleeding some how by the end of the shift. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gixxerrider Posted December 12, 2007 Report Share Posted December 12, 2007 Does the military count as a factory job? little pay, no time offf, and messed up hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evallejo Posted December 12, 2007 Report Share Posted December 12, 2007 I work at a beef packaging plant, Cargill Meat Solutions, I don't know if it's considered a factory, but it sure reminds me of one. In the summer time I work full time, last summer I was working in distribution, loading trailers on a forklift, stacking pallets of meat, etc. I have worked out a part time schedule for the semesters I'm in college to do light work on the weekends, so I still work there. 2 summers ago I was on the production floor. I was packaging meat rather than working with knifes(cutting up cattle) but after that, I think production sucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chevcup47 Posted December 13, 2007 Report Share Posted December 13, 2007 I work for Atomized powder coatings. we make powder for industral powder coating. i do any thing from weighing up the raws ,extruding it in to a solid mass or milling it into the finished powder. its alot of work each mix weighs 550 lbs and we usually run about 15-25 in a 10 hour day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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