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To: tejek who wrote (266238)	12/28/2005 2:56:52 PM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575119

Has anyone on this thread ever worked in a factory? One summer, I got a job working in a tv factory. I lasted a month. It is the most mind numbing, frustrating, degrading work. All day you move one component from one belt to another belt. Forget the fumes and crap they breathe into their lungs.......its a wonder they don't go insane. I did for a month, in Toyota in Japan in about 1989. I did bumper pre-installation, and aside from the word 'degrading' I agree completely- it sucked! Toyota worked us 9.5 hours per day (1.5 hours overtime pay - woo hoo!), one week dayshift followed by one week nightshift, so we were jetlagged 2-3 days every week. I did it for a month, the Japanese new employees had to do it for three months (every new Toyota employee works in the factory for some period to understand that Toyota is a manufacturing company), and I was amazed that some humans can do that for a career. But it wasn't degrading - it was honorable, hard, unstimulating work.