On Take your kids to work day, I decided to go with my dad to his workplace. My dad works in Burnaby at a company called Mail O Matic as a printing press operator. During this time, I got the opportunity to look at all the different departments there. I visited the department that uses UV to print the envelopes, the department that uses Laser to print the envelopes, the design department, and the meeting/office area.

When I walked around the building, I visited different parts of the company that smelled and sounded all different. In the department that uses UV to print the envelopes, there was a faint scent of paper; however, in the department that uses Laser to print the envelopes, there was a very heavy and overwhelming scent of ink and paper. The department that uses UV to print the envelopes is very loud, so everyone had to wear earplugs. It was the opposite for the department that uses Laser to print envelopes because it was very quiet in that department. All I could see in these departments were big, tall machines since I wasn’t allowed to get near the machines. Because of safety reasons, I was only allowed to stand behind a blue line; therefore, I couldn’t get an up-close look at the actual mechanism of all the machines that I saw. There’s an office upstairs that houses the offices of the president, vice president, and the people that work on the design part of the envelope. The office area is very quiet, and I couldn’t detect any scent from there. In the office area, there’s a fish tank with all types of GloFish.

I would feel motivated to wake up every day to attend work because of the people and the welcoming environment at my place of work. Everyone there was very welcoming, and they were very helpful when I needed help or had any questions. 

I would feel discouraged to wake up every day to attend work because of the overwhelming scent of ink and paper. When I was there, the smell was very overwhelming and almost intoxicating, so I could not spend more than a few hours there. 

One thing that I found interesting about my workplace visit was when I got to look at the design progress of the envelopes. The reason why it was interesting to find out about the design progress of the envelopes was because I really like to design and to see how other professionals design their work; therefore, it was an eye-opener because I was able to see the design progress of the envelopes.