I'm posting this just to let everybody know that Hadrain Manufacturing Inc, doesn't like their employees to read operating manuals for the machines they operate. I worked for them a couple of weeks through a placement agency and this is exactly the reason why they let me go (oh and some bs cover excuse like the equipment operator has returned so they don't need me anymore but we shall see later on tonight when I get told what really is happening around there).
A lot of their staff are temps, and it's funny because a lot of things can get screwed up with the products you are purchasing. Let us first start with then the fact that their kitchen in building 1 is infested with ants; my it was lovely to come home with a backpack full of ants.
Many of their staff provide bad examples of safety for the temps, especially those on paint lines using air hoses to spray themselves off or even sometimes engaging in horseplay. This of course being a completely dangerous activity; which I'll be more than pleased to report to the wsib.
A note about the piece of equipment I was operating, the aries 245 (I think). It is a punch press for sheet metal and during my time reading the operations manual I'd learned what the programming code which I could see being executed I was doing and I specifically would like to point out that the twitt that made those programs, and the twitt that runs that line who loads them all the time (Ric), should have used their heads and designed proper programs. 1) They are not as efficient as can be, instead relying on more complicated grid punching patterns which are not efficient. 2) Certain commands, like the reposition command for this machine are necessary, but near end of cycle and you have a piece of sheet metal swinging out beyond the edge of the mat, it becomes a horizontal guillitine of death (expecially when it does this while both x and y movement is taking place, turning it into a half-slicing, half-stabbing movement.
They neglected to inform me about ear plugs in building 2, and their safety overview involves signing a piece of paper that says you've been instructed on safety.
The design of their products is such that they are made to be easily dented so that replacement for cosmetic reasons occurs frequently. In fact I ought to mention to the board of education that perhaps the reason why they are spending so much money on locker doors (that seems to be about all we even end up making) is perhaps because of the cheap, thin, cardboard supporting inside the locker doors. The same thing applies to bathroom stalls.
They do have the option of increasing the guage of sheet used, but not to the point that they will be indestructable. The heaviest guage they use still dents easy enough. They fail to supply adequate fans for all employees. The bandages in their first aid kits are useless, working with sheet metal means that there are lots of cuts and their bandaids last about 2 minutes.
They have the nerve to complain about me reading the operating manual? I ought to have nerve to send the wsib after them with regards to their countless safety violations.
I would say it's funny how the safety equipment is locked up even in building 2, ear plugs are so cheap they ought to just leave a box out, let alone perhaps put a couple of boxes strategically throughout the factory.
Furthermore while they are fairly good with keeping us supplied with cold water, I have noted on a couple of occasions where an empty cooler has sat. Forcing me to use the emergency eye wash station, and even that didn't work one day.
Sometimes they are generous and hand out freezies or give an extra 5 minutes of break; but I would rather be working and would rather have an employer that can spend a couple of dollars on having fountains and fans. It is a hot factory with a hot oven for fast curing powder paint, what on earth consumes them to not do this and install airconditioning in the supervisors office in the middle of the factory floor?
Are there any good employers out there anymore that appreciate smart hardworking people, or are all they want nowadays are mindless automatons. They may as well pay engineers to make what remaining jobs there are in there completely redundant because they pretty much are.
What a disgusting immoral business, I think it's good that I got let go.
Ryan
Burlington, Ontario
Canada
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