Factory Work

Wanderer78

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118071389#Comment_118071389

id say retail is off the walls, absolutely sh1te pay, and even worse treatment, from both employers and customers

c.p.w.g.w

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118071398#Comment_118071398

Genuinely, after leaving retail and working on a factory floor...I only just realized how sh!t retail really was...and they pay was awful... currently earning 47% more with health insurance and a pension a top...and I just listen to music or podcasts and do my work and typically finished with 2 hours to spare most evenings

Mister Vain

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118071200#Comment_118071200

I know what you mean about getting good workers. I used to train the new guys in my last job and most of them wouldn't work in a convulsion. One guy could hardly move and kept checking his phone all day. Another yahoo decided to go into the label store, print off a load of "No Parking" sheets and put them on peoples car windows outside. We got one Polish guy who was a great worker but had a bit of a temper and would often lash out at people so they had to let him go.

blueser

Factory work is tough. I've been in the same place for over 20 years now. Doing two mens' work, not even on a good wage for one man (11:50 ph). 9 hour day with two unpaid breaks (20 minutes in the morning and 30 minutes at lunch. On my feet all day. Bosses that don't give a toss about their workers. No union, the company won't recognise them. I must have applied for 50 or 60 jobs in the last year, one return call and one interview. That's what you get when you're in your late fifties with the UK equivalent of a junior cert education. Seems that being a hard grafter isn't enough these days. And it's not like I'm applying for jobs where you need to be academically top drawer. It gets you down, a lot.

SharpshooterTom

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118071789#Comment_118071789

Feel for you man. My breaks are unpaid as well.

I worked in production for two weeks, got injured after the first week and decided to work through the injury for the second week, which made a muscle pull into a minor muscle tear and put me out for three weeks, got called up a few times by hr demanding why I was taking so long to return "we really need you down here were struggling!" Im like yeah well Ive got grade 1 tear on my right side how do you expect me to return only after a few days? I got no sympathy though, just disappointment. I work in a different department now which is less physically intense but equally stressful.