On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 22:10:36 -0500, Terrible Tom <SilverEightynine@aol.com> wrote:
> Oh - and I will ask hehehe. What dead end job do you currently occupy?
>
I'm working at a place called MC Pac in Victor, making $8/hr from 0600-0430 (unless machines break....) repackaging Mott's applesauce (they also assemble ice packs for Ace and blister package something, but the applesauce has 4 complete production lines doing 3 different things, whereas the ice packs have one large dedicated line and the blister packaging has a hovel in a corner)
All applesauce is in 4oz single serve plastic cups.
Two lines deal with Mott's "magic mixins", which is in a specially labelled cup and has a small packet of pop rocks glued to the top. we dump out 72 individual cups from many, many cases, run them down a line where they are mechanically squirted with hot glue and have a person place the packet on top (proper side up, centered) and then repacked in the same case by hand, and re-palletized. I worked on that my first day (last thursday) and we haven't done anything with them since.
One line repackages sauce for commercial use - KFC and Jack In The Box specifically. We open cases of retail 6-packs of sauce, and make them into cases of individual cups. original boxes (and *damn* are there a lot of them) are crushed and baled along with the sleves. 88 cases per skid, and we did 15 skids monday and 14 yesterday. I wasn't on that line today, and they had box cutting machine problems that ate a lot of time, so I'm sure they were off....
The remaining line repacks cases of sleved 6 packs into retail variety packs of 4 original (plain) and 2 cinimon in one case. the line is insanely fast.... our fastest skid of the day was 3 minutes, and thats 120 of those variety packs. we also had machine trouble (the opening, folding and gluing of the large sleves is automated) that slowed us down after lunch, but we were on track to shatter the old record of 86 skids in a day. we had 62 before lunch, but only made it to I think 80 (conveyor failure, so we had to have a guy pushing product down the line to the filler).
I was on cardboard all day today, and that was great. Made 4 full bales, and was busy all the time with a non-repedative task. I hope I get to spend lots of time on cardboard cleanup. It beats lining up sauce in layers in a box, or ripping open sleves, or making boxes. By a *lot*.
So that's a half-assed summary of where I work. I find I'm falling into the 'telling stories about the factory' mode. It makes me roll my eyes and feel somehow more mature at the same time. Probably because I always heard my dad talk about what happened at work while I was growing up (he was a supervisor in a beverage can plant while I was growing up).
Just to keep this tangentally on topic - if I keep driving the RamCharger I'll roll it over 200,000 in just over a month with my 40+ miles per day commute.
-- Mike Maskalans <http://mike.tepidcola.com/dodge/> '98 Dakota SLT CC, 318/46RE/231, D44/Sterling 10.25, 4.10s, 35s on Humvee rims '84 RamCharger Royale SE, 360/727/208, stock, 3.21s, 32s
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