Just wanted to see if we had any other box factory personnel on this site relatively new to the position and plant altogether actually would love to see what machines ya use and pretty much just shot the shit with other familiar with the process. Would love to hear back with some end2end down/up remedies!

So I work in a factory making corrugated cardboard and boxes. I know some of the other machines but I'm full time on the corrugator. The machine is about as old as I am (30+ years).

3 main sections to the machine.

The wet end which has one or more single-facers/module-facers and a double-facer (that we call double backer for some reason). This is where the reels of paper get fed in, bonded, go through the cutoff and come out on the stackers are corrugated board.

The dry end which consists of 2 or more stackers (one per cutoff knife) usually referred to as top and bottom. Our configuration has 3 knives so top bottom and middle stackers. Here we check that the size and scores measure up as per the job specs and board gets pushed out on pallets or blocks for forklifts to pickup and store.

The cutoff is kinda like the interface between dry and wet ends. Consists of the slitter/scorer, cutoff knives, and control room. Here we deal with controlling the height of stacks, under and over running, controlling the warp/quality.

I'm 110% proficient as a stacker operator and also double backer operator. 90% as a cutoff operator and maybe 70% on the module-facers.

Why 110%? This machine is old. I was trained up on the stackers and double backer when it was relatively well maintained. Over time sensors stop working properly, belts and conveyors degrade, hydraulics can't hand the load, etc... But I can still run the stackers and double backer with my eyes closed. I can run things manual. I can handle catastrophic events.

I only work sporadically on the module, and never at a time when the machine was well maintained. I can do the job but my repertoire for dealing with things going wrong is minimal.

Cutoff is a similar situation, I work there sporadically but the operator usually takes about 6 weeks off during the year of which about 3-4 weeks are continuous.

Not sure what else to say. Don't let your kids put corrugated board in their mouth because the starch mixture used to bond the layers contains various chemicals, acids, and poisonous stuff.

I don't see a specific format that these are supposed to take, so I'll wing it.

I'm an EDI Specialist. It's not my title, but my company is weird about titles and my title wouldn't cross over to any other company, so that's close enough. In other companies I might be called a "business analyst" or "subject matter expert" or something. I've been doing this job for about 18 years, tho' not always for the same company, and not always in the same industry.

So what's EDI you ask? (you didn't, but if you did...)

EDI is a method for computers to send data to each other for business purposes. Yeah, that's really vague. To get a little more specific, it's a way to take a variety of common business transactions and turn them into files that computers can readily take in, and make use of.

Some examples:

"I want to buy 2000 of this thing" - "Ok, I will sell them to you, here's your cost"

"I saw your patient today, she is sick" - "Ok, we will pay you $270, and she owes you $20"

"I want to know if you reviewed my transmission yet" - "Yes, we reviewed it, and we hate it and you should feel bad"

There's a bunch more, of course, but they're watered down to stuff that simple.

In my case, I work for a health insurance company, so all of the transactions have something to do with people getting healthcare, and providers getting paid for said healthcare. But that includes a lot of things you might not think about: like employers sending lists of their employees who signed up for the insurance package; or hospitals checking their list of patients to all the insurance companies to see if anyone recognizes them and will pay for them; or a doctor telling the insurance company that the patient needs an expensive treatment and that they should cover it.

All of those transactions and more start off as paperwork or data entry in some office. And they're almost always on different software. So when they need to send that data to a different company, a standardized method of transmission is critical (and also now required by law.) EDI is that standard.

At the doc's office, someone set it up so that their billing software spits out an EDI document in the correct format that can be securely sent to the insurance company (via SFTP, SOAP, MIME, whatevs) Their counterpart at the insurance company takes that document and translates it into something the insurance company can use. The info is chewed up and digested, and some form of response is farted out which is then sent back by the same method.

My job is to make sure that works. Now, most of it is automated. Millions of these transactions are flying past me unmolested and doing just fine. But sometimes things go wrong. When that happens, I have to crack open these files and peek at the data. Was it formatted correctly? Did the other office forget to do something? Did the transmission get garbled? Did our software fail to do something it was supposed to do? I have to answer these questions. i know how our own business works (well, to a degree anyway) and I know what we're expecting, so I can usually tell if something was sent in a way we wouldn't like. And, because of standardization, I can easily tell if something is just plain broken.

Where it gets interesting is when they're sending correctly, we're receiving correctly, no flags are raised, and yet it still breaks.

In those instances I may be opening tickets with our developers to tell us if there's a bug in the code that's producing incorrect results. Or, perhaps worse, if our code works as intended, but we missed an important thing in the design (hopefully that's not my fault)

When we figure out the cause, it's then up to me to either send a request to the devs to fix something minor; start a project to fix something major; figure out a work-around; or change what we're hoping to do. Sometimes I have to go back to our trading partners and tell them they need to change what they're doing too (they usually don't like that)

I've got about 30 things on my proverbial plate on any given day. And perhaps 4-6 projects I'm working on. Some of those I'm in charge of, others I am just along to answer questions. It's about 5-10 meetings a week maybe.

I don't often work overtime, which is nice. While I do work with the IT guys (my department falls under IT) I don't have their unenviable task of working a lot of nights and weekends. Granted, they probably make a fair amount more than me.

My salary at this point is in the mid 90s, which I used to think was a lot.

Anyway, that's it in a nutshell.

Hello,

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Best,

Taewon Kim

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

Counseling Psychology Ph.D Student

College of Education | Purdue University

Hello, I am a Ph.D. student at Purdue University and I am interested in examining U.S. working adults’ experiences of being employed, including those employed under their expectation, need, or desire, and how they perceive their working environments.

Please contribute to research regarding work experience. I truly believe that your help will make meaningful contribution to make working environment more decent!

This survey is for adults who (a) age 18 years or older, (b) work at least part-time, (c) are not a full-time student. Select the link below to access more information about the study and to complete the 5-10 minute survey.

https://purdue.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3PeclAAXD14vHaB

Best, Taewon Kim Pronouns: She/Her/Hers Counseling Psychology Ph.D Student College of Education | Purdue University

And I think this will be incredibly healthy for societies, as I'm sure many of you here know very well the social pains of unemployment which only makes the financial struggle worse. The innovative new industries which in previous generations created jobs are now destroying them much faster. Netflix VS Blockbuster, the new internet era company is able to make much more profit with a small fraction of the employees. It's not just low skill work that's being automated either, office jobs are being rapidly replaced by software and AI. Now even very complicated tasks can be done faster and more efficiently by machines. I think our only hope is universal basic income. I have been on https://www.reddit.com/r/BasicIncome/ a lot recently doing research and it seems pretty fantastic. I'm just so done with the rat race of job searching, we as a species are more productive than ever, there is no reason why Americans should not share the wealth created by advancing automation. It seems essential, the alternative where we uphold the current system in developed countries where most work is done by machines and people fight like animals for shitty gig jobs is not one I want. This is already where we are going. What are your thoughts on automation and UBI?

Pretty much says it all. Its a great job. Lots of fun. I tend to work/collaborate on medium to large size projects.

I teach English over a platform that is like Skype. I use props and lesson plans to keep the Chinese child engaged and help them to read, write and speak English.

Is a lot of fun! I basically play with a ukulele and a puppet for 3 hours a day.

Here it is if you want to check it out: https://www.DaDaABC.com/teacher/job/s8Y2e7s009/

(referral link)

I work for https://www.orlandojobs.com/ and https://www.greatinsurancejobs.com/ and funny enough I got this job by looking on their job board. We post job listings all over our social media accounts ranging from accounting to sports/fitness and anything in between. Our jobs is to get the word out on these great job opportunities to qualified candidates to help make life a little more comfortable :)

Hi, and thank you for reading I would like to tell everyone about my job and what I did for cinemark, Tinseltown.

I started working there in December of 2016 and it was/is an amazing place to work at! I loved it however the environment was rather toxic

I was timed on how fast I made food and was given unreasonable times for doing certain tasks.

They only gave me 2 hours to close and less time to close in the restaurant. It involved cleaning every dish that was used (which could account for nearly 1000 dishes on some days) and expected me to complete certain management tasks despite not being a manager.

Also I had to go everyday an clean the sinks with bleach because the janitors were not allowed in certain areas. Also we constantly ran out of insect killing agents leaving large amounts of ants flies and nats to run amok.

I've had to change more than 200 customers drinks or food out with better more fresh ones because of insects in drinks and food

The floor staff was always friendly as was I however if one person had made a large mistake (wrong orders or incorrect change) everyone in that department was punished aside from management

Also management was highly judgemental when they weren't timing you on cleaning out the bug traps and cleaning. They would refuse to help one employee or another due to personal bias. When I was trained in a certain area a lot of the management refused to help me because they did not see me as a valuable employee and even refused to give customers I had dealt with refunds making other managers do so because I was the one asking

All the managers that have been there over 10 years were pretty much calling the shots even to the point of causing intentional shortages of promotional items or buying sometimes even taking extra stock home with them for personal use.

They didn't pass any of the 8 health inspections they had received while I was there mainly failing do to mold bugs or having a lot of poorly rotated stock

We also failed employee inspection because of lack of discipline and they yell at us for their neglect to enforce rules

I loved working here however I quit just recently actually just because I don't want to work in an environment where you are given unrealistic or unreasonable expectations

I just want to get this out there because of the things they did. If you want pizza pretzels or any other item that costs 10$ for half an adult serving and has been deemed unsafe for human consumption cinemark is a great place to go.

They have awesome theatres but please do not eat there. The cleaning chemicals are toxic poorly handled by most and everything's subpar for the price anyways

I am researching what I hope is my next career. I know that I want to work with otters, but that's it, just a general thought.

I live in the United States and can move for work. Asian Small Clawed otters are my favorites and they are the ones that I really want to work with, but I'm open to all otters. I don't know if I want to work outside or in a zoo or in a lab. I don't know if I want to study their ecosystem or count them or feed them or study their ecosystem, etc. and so on. So I'm taking my time and I'm researching.

What otter/s do you work with? In what capacity? How did you get the job? Pay/bennies? What sort of schooling did you need or have? What sort of schooling would have been better (if applicable)? Anything else you think might be of note.

Thank you in advance for what I'm hoping will be some interesting responses!

I have been a chiropractor for 15 years.

I have a doctorate of chiropractic, which is required in the US. I’ve completed 4 years in undergrad and 4 years in chiropractic school. It’s a very demanding program; 8 hours a day in class, then studying numerous hours at night. To become licensed, you must pass 4 different national board exams, then your state exams to be licensed. Coursework includes neurology, biochemistry, microbiology, and lots of anatomy and physiology.

As a chiropractor I examine a patient, looking for evidence of neurological dysfunction coming from the spine. This dysfunction can be pain, numbness, tingling, loss of hot/cold sensation, and muscle weakness. Exams include basic education about the body, testing the patient’s motion, testing using orthopedic tests, and feeling muscle and joints with my hands. If further testing is needed or if I suspect the cause of dysfunction is out of my scope of practice, the patient is referred to the appropriate specialist. If I believe I can help, the patient will be adjusted.

Adjusting is different for all chiropractors, as each specializes in a different technique. My technique includes finding a joint that is dysfunctional then using my hands to add a fast, controlled force into that joint. The goal is to force it apart and restore normal function to the nerves, joints, and muscles. This is a very physically aggressive job. You must be in good physical condition to perform the required movements.

All patients must have a specific care plan designed to reach the goals agreed upon on the first exam. This plan includes home stretches/exercises and visit frequency. Regular check-ups are performed to ensure progress is being made as anticipated. If not, the treatment must be reevaluated.

Treatment notes must be complete and thorough for each visit. Diagnosis codes and billing codes must be accurate.

Some chiropractors work for other people.

I currently own my own business. That means, hiring, training, firing, payroll, marketing, sales, money handling, website development, creation of forms, creating of standard operating procedures, insurance billing, etc... in addition to all of the patient management and treating. Continuing education is required in each state, typically around 16 hours each year.

Overall it’s a very gratifying job. It is stressful, physically demanding, and most other health care providers think we’re hacks. But that’s ok, because when I get to help a patient that has lost all hope, it’s pretty much the greatest feeling ever.

I'm the owner of SkipTheDrive.com. I do most everything within the business, including marketing, a bit of coding, some of the content, etc. On occasion I will outsource, but using WordPress makes running an online business easy. On a daily basis I spend time on social media creating awareness of my service, an occasional email campaign, and answering questions people might have.