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Take the damn job, man. At least it's something coming in. Are you kidding me? You'd pay a daycare $13.00 an hour, but not yourself? Go to social services, and ask about daycare. Or a church. Catholic Social Services. Just. Do. It. Then count your blessings. I was made JANITOR by my...

Well when I posted, I could not have forseen what was coming. My employer's still driving his new car, my old job is still occupied by a pressman (who lost his press job for lack of quality work). When I see the editions I used to plate, I kind of have to laugh. Clearly these jobs are not...

Are the magnets where they should be? Any loose magnets? I have experience on a Trendsetter, and when I got messages like that I would roll the drum around and check the magnets.

Discrimination is always gonna happen, but that's why they made the EEOC. Discrimination didn't start with any president, but it is perpetrated by those who choose to ignore it when they see it happening. Last thoughts: bad managers don't die, they just float away on their magical floating...

Thanks Ronnie. Update: I'm out, replaced by a pressman, a guy who's been bounced around THAT department due to his ineptitude and attitude, by a guy who's been written up for making harassing comments towards women (including me) and minorities, who once said homeless people deserved to die...

What's weirder? What's weirder? They just gave this doofis my job, based on part on this incident. Oh, and the press room just lost us 3 commercial jobs due to quality so poor the customer copy looked like start-up waste. Yeesh. Fries anyone?

As of 5 hours ago i report to the bucket brigade. The general manager put a pressman in my job...after he is trained. The claim is, they want somebody who knows press and prepress. But they made no offer to train me on the press, which I would have (and been good at)...they offered only to...

Think about Madoff and his stolen billions...walking around free...that should get the heat going

Grateful for my job, my friends, my health! Blessings to all in the New Year!!

That's a great question and one that confuses the heck outta probably a LOT of platemakers. Who DO we report to?? As a platemaker, I'm not always really sure who the he!! I report to, because I feel like I have to report to EVERYONE. Doesn't help that we have only one platemaker here at a...

I think it will improve slightly at the end of 2009, get worse spring 2010, then improve very very slowly. The worldwide economy is the worst since the Great Depression, and in ways worse, so I'm not looking to see any massive gains anytime soon..if ever again, certainly not in time to save...

Erik, thank you for that very informative comment. Wow! Some of it went over my head but I did get the jist of it. When the head pressman comes in I might just show it to him, and the others too. JamieZ, if I can borrow just one more minute of your time, can you expound on what conditions in...

Thank you. I hugely suspected that but it's good to have confirmation, especially if this issue is brought up by the production manager (who has neither prepress nor press experience). "Magical jumping pdf", indeed!

Hello, we had a job today, a tabloid, that had issues and one pressman is on my back about it being the pdf's fault and got the production manager on for the ride. Registration was off. I mean, not so that it could be adjusted. The black on only the one side seemed stretched, is how I'd...

Wouldn't this work? We use WEB:$Web $[SN] This shows up as 1 Front, 1 Back, 2 Front, 2 Back, etc.

I work for a newspaper and sales seem down. A lot of last minute sales...seriously, they're still selling ads even as we go to press. Just printed a Saturday edition with--get this--20 pages (6-4-6-4). This time last year this particular paper's editions averaged 8-8-8-8. Never a good sign...

Yes Yes We use southern lithoplate in our Trendsetter. Fair quality--good for runs of about 50-60,000.

Quickish question: what's the deal with non chemical plates--my place is thinking of perhaps switching over, and I really don't know very much about this type of plate. Right now we use thermal plates, which means they have to go through a heater and plate scrubber. Are chem free plates...

Re Photoshop files Re Photoshop files Lukas, you are so totally right--the whole thing is about the customers! We are a service industry, after all. There's a lot to complain about, and a lot to laugh about, too, but at the end of the day, a happy customer is a repeat customer--which means...

Re everything Re everything Jbbbar and GinSu, many thanks, and apologies if I missed somebody. I will certainly try to suggest Pitstop and Creative suites to--hell, yell it out--get this--our CSR, as he's actually a whole lot more into positive changes than is our plant manager, a crusty old...