"Starlord" wrote in
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Before my mom had me and my 3 brothers, she worked at one time for the
PaperMate Pen company and the pay was low, 2cents per pen made and
their was only ONE restroom for some 50 lady workers and No Brakes of
anykind, lunch was a 10min deal if you got it at all. All this for a
10 hour work day 6 days of the week. Where was this? Right down in Los
Angeles after the war. Wonder where they are made now?


Plus I've never been Rich, and now I live on a fixed disabilty income
that's just enough to keep me going.

No kidding about factory work sucking. When I was in high school (1988)
we went on this field trip to a factory or assembly plant for kitchen
appliances (blenders, egg beaters, etc) right here in southern Virginia.
Not a big place at all. I seem to remember being told the pay was good,
but hourly, but you should have seen how fast some of the worker's
fingers moved ... grab part, twist, drop in bin. Must have had some sort
of incentive to keep output high (might have been just keeping the job).

-- ST