Factory Workers Beware

I can tell you from personal experience that there is definitely a catch in those statements and they are not accurately stated at all. It might have been true many years ago but not in today’s factory world. I’ve also been told that most factories have gone to this method to hire workers for cost effectiveness. Sure it’s cost effective to the companies because they don’t pay you the agency does, no benefits and they don’t need much of a reason to fire you and hire others to take your place.

What am I talking about?  Most factories now hire through a temporary agency where you are told you will work eight hours a day five days a week and if they like you it could become permanent but look out, in the factory I had worked at there are several catches to those words.

Within three weeks after I was hired they went to twelve hours a day seven days a week. People with excessive time off or that come in late I’m told will be the first to be laid off when they scale down in size, so I figured that I would be among the first to go since I refuse to be misused like that and take at least two days off a week, and the supervisors there refuses to allow us to work eight hours a day for which we were hired.

The work is not hard, but try to get someone, anyone there to accurately train you? It won’t happen, they will point you to a machine and tell you that all you have to do is to make sure the items are turned a certain way. They don’t bother to explain to you that you also have to look for and pull bad labels and dented items as you turn the items that come down the line. They also don’t show you that there are buttons or levers to push or pull much less where to find them, to make the line stop or run again that can make your work easier, instead you feel as though you should be an Octopus with all suction cups at full throttle. I’d been there for one month and three weeks and I was still just learning about the buttons and levers as others bother to show me.