Factories coming back

Yeah I had dreams. I wanted to be a paid moderator on Anon Babble, but I have too many red flags in my file. I’m 31 and a white guy, college was never for me. If anything, I’d like to operate the robots at some point and learn to fix them, so I can have more job security. They’re not that great right now, but I’m not sure about ten to twenty years from now

I did, I actually bought a pair on the third day because the pain was building up

Keep an eye on that, maybe buy yourself an "Anti Fatigue Mat" or whatever they're called. A lot of people will tell you to just 'work through it, it'll get better once you get used to it', but I took that advice and ended up with tendinitis and now I literally can't do jobs that involve standing anymore cause it flares back up and it becomes hard to stand or walk after only a few days.
If you notice the pain continues to get worse, bring it up with a supervisor or speak with a doctor about it so you don't end up with damage that doesn't heal like I did

No, really, I'm not trying to be a dick, I'm just curious. You never had big dreams for the future? There wasn't something you really wanted to do.

Checked. They give us mats to stand on, but I noticed if I move my feet slightly while working, they don’t flare up much. I also bought inserts for my boots. Let me tell you, the line boss is a woman and she has some fat tits and a huge dumper. Makes the view more pleasant, plus I’m just grateful to be working again.

Not really, unless an interdimensional portal opened and I could explore some new world or land. I’m hard of hearing so most jobs with interpersonal skills can be a drag. I just want to keep my head down and work the line until I die. Inspiring I’m sure..

What state anon?
24 an hour isn't half bad

Washington State. It’s not that great once you factor in the cost of living.

i feel like at the very least they could make these jobs more comfortable, we have the technology

”if you got time to lean or sit, you got time to clean or put on plastic bits.”

No one sits. You can’t rest on an assembly line, you have to keep pace or the whole thing fucks up and you don’t want the plant manager storming over to raise a ruckus

Become an ATC. They’re in high demand and don’t require degrees.

Didn't Mack Truks just decide to build their new plant in Mexico to avoid American tarrifs?

but if everyone is doing the same work while sitting what is the issue? at least give the workers something to lean on, its just inhumane

I just want to keep my head down and work the line until I die

Actually, if you can find happiness with that, you're doing good, better than most. I always had big dreams, but being comfy where you are is just as good if not better. Good for you, anon.

I have no clue. I don’t work in automotive manufacturing, I work with chemicals and cleaning agents. Autos should be kept in this country though IMO

only a small number of men can succeed in entertainment since you have to constantly be funny and interesting. nobody will watch your content even if you have something valuable to say.

He can't hear well. Just like you can't read well. So no he isn't being an ATC.

i agree bro i absolutely destroyed my feet standing 10 hours a day at a job for no fucking reason at all. in all seriousness we need to think about real shit like space travel and colonizing mars and how we need to improve on earth first, standing is a prime example

The work varies, but I think most factories just expect you to stand. Whether you’re putting bottles on the assembly line, monitoring the chemical dispensing, putting on caps (my job) or putting the bottles into the package. Hard for everyone to sit when there’s constant reshuffling and robots destroying packages because they weren’t programmed right. Coworkers are cool though and it’s cohesive enough.

Boomers have a crabs in a bucket mentality and think everyone needs to suffer at work because they remember work being shit as well, while not acknowledging that they got paid enough to buy 3 houses, 2 cars, get married, and raise 4 children with the first job they got out of highschool

Afthhole

You’ll have great opportunities to move up from bottle capper. My parents both were machine operators in manufacturing plants and met there. I have worked like that many times. It can and will suck. But all work sucks. You’ll have steady money, maybe some health insurance and you might meet a cute little guy to slam his benis into your anus. Never know! But seriously, you can use this job to get into another industry making parts for jets or whatever. Companies like that have the plant floor and the office. Maybe you find something you like in the office, but understand the plight of the bottle cappers.

you have to constantly be funny and interesting

It's easy if that's just your natural disposition.

Work chill factory job with your bros where you can just do your own thing every day

Never have to deal with a stupid customer

Never have to say a stupid slogan

Never have to wear a stupid uniform

Everyone I've ever met that works a factory job loves it. No "we gotta fire you over your Twitter posts because muh customers" and you shit talk with your coworkers all day so it's easy to organize a mass effort to fuck with the owners. The factory my Mom worked at got the owners to give them weekly paychecks, install a Monster vending machine, play Family Guy DVDs on the loudspeaker while everyone was working, and give them a one hour lunch break so everyone could smoke weed in the parking lot (before weed was even legal.)

Yeah I would eventually just randomly snap one day and blackout and berzerk killing myself on the belt and end up here in some webm and you would all laugh and debate about my whiteness then confirm I was a chink or a jeet or a nigger

What bottles? I don’t want to drink anything out of bottles produced in America.

Nah. You’d make friends and have a reason to live. Sometimes just making a product that you know will be useful to someone, in whatever way, is incredibly satisfying and even the smallest feeling of accomplishment can change your life.

OP's job is a monument to inefficiency. It only exists to justify the Overlords.

You wouldn’t want to drink them anyways, it’s chemical manufacturing you retard

Bottles for what kind of chemicals? I don’t want any American chemical being part of my bombs!

Soaps, detergents, laundry sheets, cleaning agents, etc. We mix up the solutions in huge tanks and down the line the chemicals are poured into bottles. Then I cap them and the nigger down the line packages them. (He’s alright for a nigger)

I now work in a chemical factory next to a conveyer belt and put caps on bottles.

Wow, imagine being such a sheltered child that your best factory LARP imagines you doing a job that you could automate for around $10,000.

you don't have any bombs
you gave them all to ukraine and now they're selling it on saudi temu to jihadis

You’re surviving on presumption and not perspective.

You didn’t read any of my thread but thanks for not believing me and shitting up the page

Is the factory owner retarded or just old fashioned? Even if you worked for free just the liability of another worker seems more of a hassle than a machine doing it ten times faster. Can probably buy one off the shelf and have it integrated into the process for less than $50k.

you doing a job that you could automate for around $10,000

You can, but that shitty 10k machine breaks down all the time and OP is needed. Nothing EVER runs correctly all the time. Even OP.

We have machines that are supposed to do the capping and palletising of our packages, but as I’ve reiterated they’re costing breaking down. Formica robots suck ass

constantly breaking down*

Can probably buy one off the shelf and have it integrated into the process for less than $50k.

You would think it’s that easy, but it absolutely never is.

Half the time you end up building your own machine so that all of the work can be completed with your own maintenance people on staff who built the thing.

REEEEE why don't you believe my shitty LARP?

Because I go to the packaging and automation expo every year and this is one of the easiest tasks to automate and add into a bottling line.
Link related can do 200 caps per minute and can be had for what your imaginary employer would pay in a year's payroll taxes and workers comp to hire some monkey to do 5 a minute by hand.
paxiom.com/bottle-capping-machine/
They don't even have humans doing this shit in China where the cost of labor is $3 an hour.

be the guy that fixes it

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You voted for this, now put the caps

My pay stub and feet and hands beg to differ, but I won’t argue with you since you’re determined to run the narrative of every single factory in America. I put caps on bottles and it’s as simple as that. Believe me or not, I honestly don’t care at this point; I’m just grateful to work.

I really urge anyone who wants to or needs to work to give it a shot. Places are always looking for floor workers. You’re able to build relationships with coworkers if you want, or you just get left alone to slave away. Work 4/10s and get three days off. Paid vacation. You’ll have money to finally pay mom that back rent for the basement. And always satisfying to make a product.

German "humor" everyone. Just stick to the antisemitism hahns

I will cut your heart out, too. I rather much prefer to threaten than indulge you fucking idiots. All systems exist with degrees of liability. Needing people at all is an enormous liability. There exists factories which can screw on lids. His does not because or a lack of attentiveness. You are all whores and deserve worse, but nevertheless I must advocate for your betterment because it raises my tide as well. Be grateful I don't have an easy way to just remove you from existence, because I would.

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I had a thought today this is why they built all these 1000’ sqft tilt ups.

Hey I love my career and totally recommend it. I drive for UPS, you have to work in the hub for a while to get the chance to drive but we make good money and we have amazing benefits. Importantly you're out on your own all day, don't get scared of management, the union has your back as long as you report and are honest. Even if you don't many get back after fired. Not sure what else to say just it's worth the investment if you don't want college and you want a future proof job.

Figure out a way to cap bottles more efficiently, put together a presentation, schedule a meeting with the CEO to tell him about it, and then blackmail him with harassment allegations. That's pretty much what everyone else does.

How much money are you making?

$24 an hour

I'm sorry, anon, I didn't fully read the OP. It'll be okay. Maybe you can get a promotion eventually.