#factory life

[stone-cold-groove]

Dream crusher...

[lifewithdream]

There is a peaceful corner in the factory.

[vampirepuppygirl]

Here's some shit

This factory feels like it's falling apart a lot, holes in the roof that leak every time it rains, random pot holes in the concrete floor, tape machines and veriply machines that barely work and are zip tied and duct taped together, huge plastic tubs that are broken in various different ways and held together literally with tape and cardboard

But instead of spending any money at all on preventative maintenance or replacing any of the machines that we actually use on a daily basis so that they actually run better and smoother and don't have to be patched up with fucking tape and glue like once a week

They decided to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a new robot system to replace two workers per shift on a single line

It barely works, fucks up constantly, and it's probably going to be broken in like 5 years at most because no one ever does any fucking preventive maintenance on any of the machines in this goddamn factory and these robots are a lot more delicate than the big arms that work on the presses that don't need a whole lot of maintenance (and yet still need regular maintenance because preventative maintenance is a foreign fucking concept to these people)

That money could have been used to upgrade literally any of the constantly failing machines in this factory, or to replace literally any of the falling apart tubs and carts and everything else

Fucking shelves sometimes even

Or repair the goddamn roof so it doesn't leak directly onto hardware that we use and assemble and ship out as finished product

Or maybe I don't know upgrade the AC so that people aren't burning in a giant oven during the summer time

But no. They wanted shiny new robots. That barely work. That constantly need like two or three people hovering over them at all times because they fuck up like once an hour at least.

This isn't growth. This isn't progress. It's just an attempt to cut out 6 employees total over 3 shifts with something that costs more than like two or three years wages for all of them combined.

That doesn't really solve anything because they had to hire new people specifically to take care of the robots that get paid more because they are robotics technicians

So like

They aren't saving money, they're just making everyone's lives worse because it looked good on paper like 2 years ago

What kind of hell would I be living in if this factory wasn't unionized?

How fucking incompetent was the management before, that this is how they're acting with a union?

[fuckmydestiny]

Soo this 12 hour night shift is starting to kick my ass…

[gregador]

Boredom relief

[hagleyvault]

Today is the 2018 winter solstice, the shortest, darkest day of the year, and I know what I want Santa to bring me this Christmas. The 'Industrial Ultraviolet Ray Solarium'  was a merry-go-round system of artificial sunlight irradiation created by the Hanovia Chemical & Mfg. Co. of Newark, New Jersey for the purposes of reducing workplace absenteeism. This model was an American adaptation of British methods, which were used to reduce absenteeism in blacked-out English factories during World War II. This image is from the Hagley Library’s Chamber of Commerce of the United States photographs and audiovisual materials, Series II. Nation's Business photographs (Acc. 1993.230.II) collection. To view more photographs from this collection, check out the Chamber of Commerce of the United States photographs and videos  page in our Digital Archives.

[thornsuprising]

Hagen - Freilichtmuseum Hagen - Sensenschmiede 12 by Daniel Mennerich

[tiphares]

@mbalball everyone irl always asks about these whenever i wear them~~~~ they r my new fave for work :3