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At my old plant, we had to give 48 hours notice to take a vacation day. We had forms we had to fill in, those had to be sent to payroll to verify we still had vacation days available, then the supervisors asked/forced people to cover. Originally it required 72 hours notice. As always, there...

Extra pay for vacations only, Christmas bonus consisted of a $50 gift certificate and a frozen turkey. It was a union shop so there were no performance bonuses or the like. Does anyone give performance bonuses these days?

Vacation time was based on years of service, but pay was based on the amount of money you earned the year before. The basic assumption is that one week is approximately equal to 1/50th or 2% of a year. So if you worked a lot of overtime and made say $50,000 in the previous year, you would be...

RO water and an alcohol substitute? Do you measure your conductivity?

If you are running a 5 day per week schedule, it means 10 paid days off, but generally most employees expect to get the entire week off with the weekend being unpaid. Depending on your work week, that's Sunday through Saturday or Monday through Sunday. If you happen to schedule work for the...

Storm Storm Management closed my plant for 24 hours. I was supposed to work 12 of that and had actually rented a hotel room so I would be able to work. I ended up getting a 2.5 hour nap before getting the word bout the shut-down and headed on home for the joy of clearing the drive and sidewalk...

I don't have an article, but the reason for discarding any sheet is because it is defective. That defect should be visible and measurable. Show the defects to the person in question and that should be all the explanation needed.

There ya go. Another totally unnecessary piece of highway that is being pushed by politically connected people who own property along the right of way. I'm sure that a lot of them are friends of the old wrestling coach.

I'd be tempted to hire you!

And it doesn't matter what political party or governing body they belong to. You've got crooks everywhere. I guess it shouldn't surprise me that one political party in Illinois basically sat on the sidelines during the whole thing. They all cast their no votes, but I didn't see them suggest any...

Isn't there a function for changing the followup profiles by a percentage? Maybe I'm misremembering. But if one color is consistently light or heavy from followups, that would be one way to move it closer. I'm working in a plant now with '94 and older CD machines and they don't have the CPC2...

Of course, if they lowered their prices just a wee bit, then maybe they wouldn't need to be paying so many salesmen. I hope Heidelberg survives the current economic situation.

Maybe they can build one of those gigantic factory barges and they can print the work while it's enroute to the States?

Bars and pressrooms Bars and pressrooms Well, we didn't have any fellows go missing as we worked two man crews, but there was a bar next door to a print shop in La Crosse.

Sometimes. And there are plenty of mergers that end in bankruptcies and failed companies. Just look at the mess that resulted from Smurfit buying/merging with Stone Container.

Check the timing on your feeder with all the automatic stuff set to zero. Also check for wear in the automatic timing mechanism. We had some servo motors get out of whack on our CD102's. We also had wear in the gears for the drive chain that threw everything off.

Do the newer Heidelbergs still have the air curtains or fans for the roller train? In theory, when running a smaller sheet, you would open the air nozzles or turn on the fans outside the sheets length to prevent the build of excessive dampening solution on the roller ends.

Are these machines using some kind of epic or delta dampening system? Or were the sheet cleaners that good? Because hickies were always par for the course in my old shop.

Boy, it sounds like Wal-Mart is involved in this.

Do you have any targets where you can check things like dot gain and ink trap?