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Is There Any Promotion to Make from BG to CG Specialist?

07/18/2010 12:52 AM

I started as BG (Bubble Gummer) ten years ago and made it to all FPE (floor production engineer) in two years. The General manager Blazer gave me a golden watch and I became Assistant Factory manager in the Bubble Gum Industry. (very big company) All floor means 3 floors, 1 from the gum base up to the 2 mixing, forming, coating and 3 polishing division. The chalk and sugar was always separated. I started to improve all the types, colors and formats to peel like big bubbles, before bubble blown after chewing. We increased our sales with 200% and only needed 60% of the ingredients to make this happen. At night I don't sleep well anymore and see bubble gum everywhere and more, it is just a tiny peel around a big encapsulated air bubble and I am afraid the elasticity will suffer. Bubble gum, I don't have to explain is a very high tech process product and making big bubbles, from almost nothing is an arth of craft. I would like to explain more but this is as far as the non enclosure document lets me talk. My efforts must have been noticed, because I have an offer to start up a Chewing Gum Company. I am a proud man and know that chewing gum is a much more inferior product and I don't know if it still has future. Please advise me about your chewing perspectives and what the friends and family think about it. Against all odds, my wife prefers Bubble instead of Chewing gum, while the salary is very tempting. I know I can handle both. If someone has ammo mixers, please let me know. Thank you all so much.

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07/18/2010 1:00 AM

Get a life!

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07/18/2010 1:40 AM

Too much sugar in both and bad for the stomach. Google it maybe? GA for Lynlynch

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07/18/2010 3:54 AM

How hard to push one's self is one of those tricky life questions which only you can answer. At sometimes it is right to push hard when maybe you have a young family to support.
I would say your mental health should be your prime concern.
I have slowly moved to smaller and smaller companies where I've had more control of my own destiny.
Good luck with your life choices.
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07/18/2010 3:13 PM

Thank you Sir. I understand it is a decision for me to make. Just wanted some advise from the old school. I have seen people committed to their first job for life and when the company shuts down, they are lost. Bubble gum is merely sold in automatic dispensers that work with a coin. That is dangerous in time because inflation is killing this. People want the same ball. but the skin gets thinner until the minimum has been reached. With the balls collapses also the company. With warm weather I see already dents in the surface, due to softening.

Are you pro changing jobs frequently?

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07/18/2010 7:43 PM

Great advice Del.

Guest, If you have a non disclosure agreement, you should assure that it does not prohibit you from working in the Chewing gum factory.

Also, is it a non disclosure or Non compete agreement.?

I probably overstayed my welcome a couple of times, and the symptoms of that kind of stress are the wake up at 4:00 am panic attacks over "nothing."

When You can see that the company is doing things to reduce quality that will harm them in the long run, You would be wise to make your move.

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07/18/2010 7:58 PM

That part is safe. The agreement says Bubble Gum. This is also the most difficult type to manufacture. The technology of forming and make it into a finished product is not the same approach. Chewing gum is a lot easier, that is why I have no fear of starting up a complete new factory. It is non disclosure and also a non competition agreement limited for 3 years.

I try to find mixers for badges of about 3000 lbs. These need each about 80 HP. Ammo mixers are very good for it. The company who wants the new plant is already existing.

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07/18/2010 7:48 AM

Your life sounds like the story line of an Avril Levigne song. Why don't you contact her agent. You could, like, become famous or something.

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07/18/2010 11:09 AM

"Can Bazooka Joe Wrigley out of this alive?"

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07/18/2010 3:26 PM

That is the point. These chewing gum manufacturers make only something chewable and most of the time their products don't last very long in the mouth. Once the likeners have dissolved, nothing more than a tasteless rubber mass remains. That is why the Bubble gum is so different. Also the marketing and sales are completely different.

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07/18/2010 3:38 PM

I didn't want to be rude but being a specialist only will not comfort you forever.

All products have a "life cycle". After this has passed it is for the industrious companies to show that they also adapt to new technologies.

BP and others have invested already in other technologies to make a transformation easier.

I don't know for sure, but IMO the chewing gum era has passed?

Just like photo copies with wet baths.

And the peak of cellulose film.

Like the Cat says, moving around doesn't harm. I did it my whole life.

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07/24/2010 9:46 AM

Chew on this - If I had a dollar for every time I came across this same problem........I'de have one dollar.

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