Just pooped myself at work............

[studio1087]

That's what I wanna know. I think I can see streetlight in the picture. Also; if it's that high up, why is the guy not wearing a safety harness?

3rd floor. I mentioned up above that it's the third floor.

I've been in the office for three years and there has never been a face or a body in my window. No one can just walk past my windows.

I wasn't trying to imply that I work in a 30 story building. I work in a nice office building that is attached to a 200,000 square foot factory.

It would be like being home on the second floor and turning and having a face right in your window near your face. Face to face He really got me. It's funny now. When it happened it wasn't funny.

It's an industrial park. Everything is three stories and sprawling over the ground.

I don't know why he wasn't harnessed. My buddy works in safety. I should ask him.

 

[Colo Springs E]

Are you a plant manager or something like that John? I 'grew up' in manufacturing, I really like it.

 

[studio1087]

I'm not a plant manager; I'm a sales manager/sales engineer and we have a large plant here.

The plant makes corrugated boxes, inserts, trays, die cuts and point of purchase displays. We design and build many point of purchase (end of isle) displays that you see at Wagreens, Wal-Mart, GNC health stores, Liquor stores (Sam Adams is a big customer)...we do lots of POP (point of purchase) work.

I integrate equipment and help sell the consumable goods that run on the equipment. Pretend that you own a pizza factory and you need conveyor, a metal detector, a check weigher, an automatic shrink wrapper, labeler and box erector and packer. I integrate all the Willy-Wonka equipment and help the sales people close the film and tape and labels after we sell the hardware.

The next time that you are swearing at the guy who puts the DVD in the plastic....think of me. I'm the evil &*%^$E^ who does that.

I mowed lawn for a large packaging company when I was in junior high. I drove a fork lift for them in highschool and I worked in the shop prepping machines during college summers. Sales came after college. My packaging career started with lawn mowing and sweeping the sidewalk.

I'm getting old. My job is like watching the TV show "How is it made". I've been in electronics, automobile, food and even pet casket manufacturers. It's fun to get six 25+ year packaging guys together for beer and ask "What's the strangest plant you've ever been in?" It's fun. That's the scoop.

 

[Colo Springs E]

I'm not a plant manager; I'm a sales manager/sales engineer and we have a large plant here.

The plant makes corrugated boxes, inserts, trays, die cuts and point of purchase displays. We design and build many point of purchase (end of isle) displays that you see at Wagreens, Wal-Mart, GNC health stores, Liquor stores (Sam Adams is a big customer)...we do lots of POP (point of purchase) work.

I integrate equipment and help sell the consumable goods that run on the equipment. Pretend that you own a pizza factory and you need conveyor, a metal detector, a check weigher, an automatic shrink wrapper, labeler and box erector and packer. I integrate all the Willy-Wonka equipment and help the sales people close the film and tape and labels after we sell the hardware.

The next time that you are swearing at the guy who puts the DVD in the plastic....think of me. I'm the evil &*%^$E^ who does that.

I mowed lawn for a large packaging company when I was in junior high. I drove a fork lift for them in highschool and I worked in the shop prepping machines during college summers. Sales came after college. My packaging career started with lawn mowing and sweeping the sidewalk.

I'm getting old. My job is like watching the TV show "How is it made". I've been in electronics, automobile, food and even pet casket manufacturers. It's fun to get six 25+ year packaging guys together for beer and ask "What's the strangest plant you've ever been in?" It's fun. That's the scoop.

Cool! I used to be the guy who loaded the steel 'billets' (rods) into a hopper that fed them onto a conveyor that led them to a dealio (can't recall the name... induction furnace maybe?) that heated them up red hot... then the die forge operator (the "hammer" man!) would grab that red hot piece of metal with a set of tongs and use a die forger to begin shaping it into a wrench.

Later sold as Craftsman hand tools-- I love manufacturing!

 

[Larry F]

In Chicago, thieves are always looking for an in, it seems. I was working on the second floor of a university building and had a window open. I happened to turn around and see a guy staring right at me. He had climbed up a drain pipe. I said, "hey." And he just gave me the dumbest smile. I picket up the phone as obviously as I could, and he got the message and split. I called campus security, and they rounded up all the night cleaning crew (dozens of people) and had them stand around in front of a patrol car that I was in. There had been some break-ins where people were assaulted, so it was a big deal. I didn't see the guy.

I'm just sitting here reflecting on all of the break-ins and even a mugging and a rescue that I've been involved in. The problem is that you become inured to it and don't watch what you are doing and where you are doing it (and when).

 

[gypsy jim]

surprises can often involve poop

 

[Strat62]

It happened to Shatner. He shat himself too.

This made me think of that one as well..

 

[Mad Kiwi]

Jeez Nick, you have me again today. Good Movie, Pretty sure thats the one with Brian Brown in it. funny as.

I could never close my bedroom door as a kid either, Had a nightmare about Doctor Who when I was a bout 5 and then my step father used to dress up as the Halloween guy, and various other horror movie characters to scare us!!! The bedroom door was a catch 22, it let the monsters in but it could also let little ol me out!

Took me years to get over being scared of the dark!!! I wonder why