And here I thought I had it rough, with no College EDU only U.S.M.C., Dakota
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I print on plastic, that eventually becomes your ice bags for beer, bread/
bun bags for cookouts.. That new mattress you got with the big plastic bag
over it, likely came from the place I work at. Them Rural King trash bags
with the silver print, me. Also, that Playboy or Penthouse you got the
other day in the mail with the plastic cover and the blacked out areas..
that was prolly mine as well.. Can't forget the frozen green beans and corn
from green giant, Pillsbury biscuits, premade pie crusts etc.. with all
that said, they don't pay me that bad.. to sweat at 125+ degrees in the
summer.. for 12 hour days(night shift now).
DAKOTA Content
To keep on the topic list as well.. My '95 is at 172k as of today, and jsut
went through a load of sh*t witht he ford dealership that done my alignment
in May(dodge stealer here has no alignment tech). Anyway, my tires were
making hideous noises vibrations in the turns(left and right) come to find
out camber and toe on both fronts were out 0.3 deg.(for those of you who
know these issues) for 11k miles. Needless to say the inner edge of both
front MT are thrashed badly from my highway driving witht hem out of
alignment
Bill Day
billday@comwares.net
A rich man isn't always wealthy, he just has all the love he wants and can
give..
AIM - BadManD73 (Catch me if you can!)
'95 Ext Cab 3.9L Mag 4x4 Flame Red 3.55 LSD turning 30x9.50x15's
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Maskalans" <dml@tepidcola.com>
To: <dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 6:53 PM
Subject: DML: Mike's College EDU at work
>
> 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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