Worked an evening shift for West Canadian Printing fresh out of SAIT. I was interviewed to run a press, but they stuck me on a lamination machine instead. Not a very involved job, just stand here and feed sheets through the machine one by one, and cut them off one by one at the end.

It was very monotonous, but the machine had it's quarks and would occasionally overheat. Being a different piece of equipment than anything else I had run before, I didn't know how to troubleshoot it and asked for more training. More training never happened.

One evening the machine starts overheating, so I walk away to take a break while it cools down. 15 minutes later I come back and the machine hasn't cooled at all, in fact it did the opposite and now there's molten plastic fused to the roller and I have no idea how to get it off. Nothing working, and I'm panicking that I'm going to get in crap for ruining the machine. As a last ditch effort, I take an x-acto knife and try to gently cut the plastic off the roller.

The knife worked too well and took some of the silicon coating off the roller with the plastic effectively ruining the roller.