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Time for some Cheerios & a cup of tea with 20mg valium and then to watch Doctors on BBC1.Getting used to crap daytime TV now.
 
maxalfie said:
True, I've mostly done different types of factory work since I left school. Some factories paid very well indeed but I hated working there where I've also worked in smaller factories where the pay wasn't great but the place and people were great.
Sometimes it's better to enjoy your work for less money than hate where you work but have better pay.
Money isn't everything,as long as I could get by I was happy enough.
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I can honestly say I only know of two factories in Scotland. There's the Marshall's Chicken place at Newbridge and the Cadbury's chocolate place in Dalry, Ayrshire. I fixed a laptop for Marshall's and a PC for Cadbury's.

The smell at Cadbury's was amazing but I suppose the novelty wouldn't last if I was there every day.

Just remembered I do know of a couple of biscuit factories in Edinburgh but I've not been in either one. One of them I only know from the smell which somehow got into the car even though I couldn't see the place. Doesn't smell any more so it's probably closed. Anyway I presume they use slide rules to do biscuit calculations as I never had to fix any biscuit factory computers.

So I'm wondering what sort of factories you've worked in, max?

Although I should really be speaking to my solicitor. Totally unprepared for tomorrow :(
 
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The last factory I worked at employed around 400 staff. We had several depts making different types of plastic and foam food packaging,a lot of stuff in Tescos was made by us.
I worked in the papercup dept where we made cups for Starbucks,Costa coffee, Caffe Nero all the main coffee shops.Each machine could make around 300 cups a minute and there was 7 of them running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week so was a lot of cups made each week.
Before that I worked in a factory of about 50 staff where we produced printed circuit boards.
 
Do you work in an office job Sammy? If so do you enjoy it or would you prefer to be doing something else?
 
Sammy G said:
Two factories in Scotland?

What about Tunnocks? Irn Bru?
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Of course, Tunnocks was the factory I used to smell in the car! But it doesn't smell any more, so I don't know if it's still there.

Turns out Irn Bru is indeed made in a factory, there is one in Cumbernauld, I've never seen it though.

I lied I did work in factory once, an arms factory :| But I didn't make any armaments, we just sat in a room listening to music, chatting. Such is modern warfare. I think I've just broken the official secrets act.
 
Tunnocks are bloody lovely but I bet being surrounded by them every day could become boring pretty quickly,same as most factory work really.
 
I have a job in an office, aye. I don't tend to actually work all that much, as you can probably tell. :)

I've been with this company for the best part of ten years, I get on with 99% of my colleagues and it's a pretty friendly place to work.

I sometimes think I'd rather do something else but I'm pretty comfortable here. Some things could be better (money, attractive female colleagues etc.) but all in all it's okay. I'm not a person who thinks that what you do for a living is at all important, unless you're doing something like saving lives.
 
The people you work with can make all the difference to the workplace. I don't particularly like factory work but on the other hand I don't think I could enjoy working in an office.
I wouldn't be happy sat at a desk in a quiet office in front of a computer as I think my days would seem really long that way.
I do like the banter on the factory floor but it's the repitition of factory work that kills the brain dead.
 
I know what you mean about that repetition. I worked on the end of a conveyor belt at one end of a bandsaw for a while, stacking pieces of timber. It was so mind-numbing that you struggled to stay awake even if you'd taken speed. Which a lot of people did.

There's quite a lot going on in my workplace, so it's definitely not a quiet office environment. the banter's pretty good too. Though it'd be a hell of a lot more boring if I didn't have the chance to break off from what I'm doing and piss about on the internet.
 
Sammy G said:
I'm not a person who thinks that what
you do for a living is at all important,
unless you're doing something like
saving lives.
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Agreed, as long as you can be as happy as possible in the work that you do and you can earn enough to get by on then I think most folk would be happy with that.
It would be great though to have a job where you can actually make a difference to someones life and get a real sense of job satisfaction.
 
Agreed. and yeah being in a job where time drags is pretty shite. Thankfully my last one used to fly

Check this out... amazing

http://www.videolous.com/index.php/every-second-compilation-perfect/#.Utf0wNJ_vSm
 
maxalfie said:
The people you work with can make all the difference to the workplace. I don't particularly like factory work but on the other hand I don't think I could enjoy working in an office.
I wouldn't be happy sat at a desk in a quiet office in front of a computer as I think my days would seem really long that way.
I do like the banter on the factory floor but it's the repitition of factory work that kills the brain dead.
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Oh for a quiet office! I used to take ear plugs in to work if I had a project of some kind on. But that was only some of the time, the rest of the time involved planning trips to the pub.
 
The PCB factory I worked in was awash with drugs. All the staff were in their 20's and we would have speed for early morning starts,smoke spliffs on our breaks and on Fridays one guy would come round everyone selling them the E's they wanted for the weekend,was great being able to do all my scoring in the workplace.
I could even sneak out the back gate on my tea break to the housing estate behind the factory and score my gear and then have a quick toot in the toilet.
 
there can still be the same banter in an office Max, it all depends on the people, some people literally came in said goodmorning, worked non stop all day, said good bye and went home, every day. Sometimes i was seated amongst great people and they made the days fun, at other times i was seated amongst people i didnt get along with and it was hell, having no one to talk to all day, and just looking at a computer screen is so depressing. Thats quite simillar to what i do most days now ironically enough, but the difference is is that its my own default choice to do this.
 
Yeah I guess it could be a laugh as well. It's just having never worked in an office it's just the impression I got of office work whenever I had to go into one for one reason or another.
If the banter is good it doesn't matter where you are I guess.
 
what would you good folk like to do if you could do any job you could choose to do?
Personally I would love to do some sort of work with animals. I expect the wages wouldn't be great but as long as I could get by then the pleasure of working with animals would more than make up for the money.
 
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