Poser's Coffee House, All Bullshit Accepted, Part VIII
#4363
10-24-2017, 06:38 AM
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#4366
10-24-2017, 12:15 PM
Bad news just released today. Paper mill were I retired from 5 years ago. And had wurked at for 37 years. Is permanently shutting down one of its production lines. Which will result in layoff of 150 employees. About 400 employees now. Shutdown to be completed by end of 1st quarter of 2018. Our small town population of about 10,000 will be hit very hard by this.
#4368
10-24-2017, 03:36 PM
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Changing technologies, Tick. If it wasn't for junk mail and grocery receipts, the bulk of the paper coming into my house would be the occasional Amazon cardboard box. I don't subscribe to anything paper, and whenever possible (just about everything now) I do all the financial statements online and by email. I suspect the majority of people will be doing this, if they aren't already. I don't jump onto every new tech bandwagon, though. I still don't have anything financial on my phone, and don't intend to. Someday we won't have credit cards, will have to use a smartphone, and I'll start carrying cash again.
#4369
10-24-2017, 03:53 PM
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When you're still working and a bunch of the guys you work with are let go, it's a bad feeling. Most of the guys I expected to work with till I retired, and expected to visit at retirement and Christmas parties, were gone from around 2000 to 2005, and I think there were less than 20 guys that had a little retirement party for me. Used to be over 100 just in my shop. Felt strange sometimes the last few years when I often worked by myself with no one else in sight, just empty rooms, empty chairs, lots of equipment laying around unused. Late '05, I got to ride a bicycle through one of the biggest buildings, had a few thousand people working in it shortly before. Empty. No one. A few years later it was torn down.
#4370
10-24-2017, 04:36 PM
Handwriting on the wall for many years. As the country keep heading into the Digital world the need for paper became less and less. We made coated high gloss paper for magazines and catalogs.