We had the wrong product and I called previously mentioned old timer to see if we had the correct part to put on back order and deliver the next day. So we get loaded, I'm driving to our first stop almost an hour away from the shop. Boss asks me to show him my route, that he would be taking mine and I would start working in the shop mixing and warehousing because the old timer was set to retire. Come in on a Monday and there's a new guy there. Did my three months, boss told me he would get me on company within a few weeks. Years ago I was a temp doing deliveries for an auto body supplies company. Several people have died there, and many others have had skin burned of, lost limbs, etc. I walked out right there with no one to operate the machine. I tell him what happened and show him the broken weld. 10-15 minutes go by and a foreman comes over and yells at me for not making enough pulp. I decided to see how long it would take for someone to notice. With all my strength I just barely pulled myself out and laid there, trying to calm down. I freaked and yelled for help but no one heard me. One day I slipped and one of the welds on the fence broke, dropping me farther into the blender to the point that my feet were touching the top of the cardboard milkshake below me. I had slipped several times before but the harness saved me. I wore a harness in case I slipped and fell i the blender that was connected to a rickety old rusty fence. I had to climb up on a platform to cut the wires holding the bales together. I almost got evicted because I literally didn’t have time to drop off a check to my landlord ( pre internet) I made good money but I barely had time to spend it. I was working 7 days a week and 12 hours a day, sometimes 16 hours a day. It was hard work and little to no downtime ever, no lunch no breaks. By the time I was trained there were only 2of us working it. I worked at a paper mill running a hydropulper, basically a giant blender that chopped up bales of cardboard from grocery store to be recycled into new cardboard.
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