No.772
Working at a plant, mill, rig, refinery, factory and any type of converting facility will literally kill you.
Not just physically, mentally, spiritually, it will grind you down into literal dust until you just give up. Completely.
Sure the "money is good" but at what cost? It's not even just the face value money you make. 25+ dollars an hour is great, but, it's really the over time. That is how all these people walking around at these big factories and big jobs in your towns make so much money. They work themselves to death. Myself included.
In the last 2 months I have had around 4 days off. The money is amazing, but, that is the cost; The trade off, if you will.
I exchange not just my time, but, my literal, physical, mental and spiritual essence and receive cash. I don't really have a choice either because you don't have to work over time but it isn't looked at as "being a dedicated employee" otherwise. I don't know how much more of this shit I can take, man.
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No.773
That's really shit. They could just hire more folks to cover more shifts, but of course they don't.
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No.774
>>773That's another thing. The turn over is crazy at places like these. Mills and Rigs specifically have a much higher mortality rate than normal jobs. Refiniers take a lot of experience in the industry and some college education so there's that, but, these places are just not jobs everyone can do. Everyone wants to work at them, but, the general public has a misunderstanding of how these places operate because they are on the outside looking in. I work at a paper mill and, me too, It was nothing like I thought it would be when I first got to it. Dangerous, hot, gruling labor with little room for error. many people just can't do it and realize that and either quit, make it until they find a place to go in the facility that isn't as intense, or, get hurt, or, worse. We had an 18 year old get his finger cut off on the winder once because a gate was off that MGMT had known about for 2 years that guarded a spring where the rolls of paper board were set to cushion them to get prepped and put into the winder. Well, he put his finger somewhere he shouldn't have because he just didn't have the expierience and understanding but it's a feedback loop: They can't keep anyone cause no one can do the work so they can't keep anyone…..etc etc. In my orientation class there was 10 people that went to the machines with me and me and three other people made it out of our probation period.