Posted by KublaKhan I thought so.

KK is just fishing for pornographic pictures. That's all.

Anyway, right now...they don't know how long they're going to shut down for, it could be two weeks, it could be two months, it could be indefinitely.

Also the company has gotten wind of the possible union merger and they're pushing for it, but not in so many words. What a merger would do is allow the old farts that are in charge of local 5 to push for something they've wanted for years, 12 hour shifts. What this would do is open the door for the company to get rid of one of the four crews on all of it's machines. Possibly indefinitely laying off up to 120 people. Laying off that many people because idiots voted to work 12 hour shifts instead of 8 hour shifts is something the company would love.

What this means is that anybody with less than 5 years would lose their job. Samurai and me included.

My coworker Bill is attempting to get the message that this is a bad idea to people who believe a union merger is a good idea. If we can stop the merger, we can stop this, it's just a matter of making certain people understand that they are in essence voting themselves out of a job by voting for the merger.

Shael

the layoff fairy has arrived and now I am out of work for two weeks... i go back, get this, on Memorial Day... Monday May 25th for a back to back twelve hour episode of misery and pain as we try to start all this shit back up.


i can tell you this, i am fucking bored already.

Sam, if you smoked more weed, you wouldn't even notice the time.

Posted by KublaKhan Sam, if you smoked more weed, you wouldn't even notice the time.

some of us have mandatory drug testing at our jobs, KK.

Posted by Samurai some of us have mandatory drug testing at our jobs, KK.

Mandatory drug testing? For making squish?

Sorry...this is the sort of shit that isn't down with KK. Just say NO to mandatory drug testing. Whatever I do after punch-out time is none of my boss's business.

Posted by KublaKhan Mandatory drug testing? For making squish? Sorry...this is the sort of shit that isn't down with KK. Just say NO to mandatory drug testing. Whatever I do after punch-out time is none of my boss's business.

well, you wouldn't have a job where i work.

I just went through this with an accident that happened on my line a couple weeks ago.

I'm qualified to operate the line when the need arises. They gave me someone that wasn't very experienced as an assistant. There's different "safe" techniques to do every size roll. We were wrapping a size that she wasn't accustomed to and as she was putting the headers against the sides of the roll, her finger was crushed by the machine. She was hit with a mandatory drug test when she went to the hospital for treatment of two avulsions and a broken middle phalange of the index finger of her right hand.

My record is spotless, I've been on the line for almost four years and able to do the operator job on paper (as in qualified in documentation) for almost 2 years, in that time, there's not much that I haven't seen. The company knows that if there were something I could have done to prevent the accident, I would have. I'm just waiting for them to want to hit me with a drug test too.

Every time there's an accident where I work, they drug test everybody.

There's supposed to be a no tolerance policy if you test positive, but the union might be able to get you out of it now, with the precedents the company's set.

KK, where we work is no joke. Where Sam works is seriously more dangerous than where I work, with the chemicals, but I work with objects that can be moving up to 2500 to 3000 feet per second, have blades that are razor sharp and moving rolls of up to five tons. Sam gets poisoned or burned, I get cut or crushed. So I can understand why the company wants drug tests.

Shael