Have you Ever

V. Falling into his trap

The tour around the factory with Stephy continues. So ATLE Industries, Inc. is a sister company of one of the famous and largest pharmaceutical company in the Philippines. They are supplying them different bottles or containers for muriatic acid, petroleum jelly and other stuff that can be found in that pharmacy. No wonder, their products seems so familiar.

Seeing these machines producing these different bottles and containers is amusing. I never imagined I would be working in this kind of company. It's far different from the companies that I was imagining. It may be different but I like it better than being on sales, rushing to achieve the quota or being on marketing, brainstorming how to make the product more appealing to the public. As expected, I like being on production side.

"Now were done with the factory so let's visit the offices of other departments." Stephy said.

"Sure."

"Within the factory premises, you can found the Warehouse & Raw Materials Department, Quality Control Department and the Packaging Department." Stephy discussed.

And we proceed to the Warehouse & Raw Materials Department where you can find all the materials needed in producing the plastic products. They are tons of sacks of plastic pellets stacked accordingly and there's another small room within for colorant. It is air-conditioned unlike any other room because the powdered colorant needs to maintain low humidity to avoid them from moistening.

"Hi~ So you are the new coordinator? Nice meeting you." A girl at her early twenties like me greeted me as if she knew me. She has nice figure and quite tall, around 5'7" I guess. But I think I've seen her before. I just can't remember where.

"Good morning." I greeted back and smiled at her.

"You two came from the same school. She also came from TUP." Stephy said.

"Ah~~~ No wonder you look so familiar. You were at the Ms. CLA 2015." I remember. On the talent portion, she dances a contemporary number like a mad person. She danced wearing a long golden dress with that kind of choreography. Though we beat her and got the Best in Talent. I was one of the back-up dancers of my friend who represents our class.

"Shhhh! That's a secret!" She covered my mouth to stop me from talking about that pageant. So it was a nightmare for you ha?

"So you joined a pageant Rhia?!" Stephy said while teasing her. "If ever you have any video for that pageant or any picture of Rhia, share it with me okay?" She added and laughed out.

"Sure. I'll ask one of my friend for the clip." And I start joining Stephy on teasing the poor little girl. I don't know why but I feel so relax laughing and joking around with them as if it's not my first day today.

After the warehouse, we proceed to the Quality Control Department. It is just a small room with full of different sizes and shapes of bottles. Its kind a bit messy though.

"I'm so sorry if it looks messy. I just have to test every bottle every shift if there has been no problem with the products that runs over the night that's why it is all over the place but once I'm done checking them after a few hours, I'll just clean it up." Stephy explained.

So that's how they check and test the quality of the bottles. They put some water then lock it with plugs and caps to see if there will be any leak. They also do drop test to check the durability of the product. No wonder their company lasted for over four decades. I thought they will just gonna look at the shape if there will be some deformities or what but they are checking it that way diligently.

Then we proceed to the next area which is the Packaging Department where the bottles and other products were brought for the finishing touches and packing it by specific quantity per polybag. They are also in-charge of loading the products to the truck for delivery. While looking around, I found this petite young lady with a wavy shoulder length hair who looks so tired though it's just 10:30am. I know that she's just hard working but I guess it won't take much of your time if you will tie your hair, right? At least put some powder on your face to freshen up, my dear.