sales representative

The Toronto Star

Responsible part of a team to run a 6-10 unit printing press producing the Toronto Star Newspaper. Plating presses, ensuring ink cassettes are full of proper ink, taping kites onto rolls of paper, feeding the paper through the press to the folders, printing paper, quality checks on colour and black and white. Post production clean-up, plate removal, blanket washing. General cleaning of presses and folders. On the day crew, the hardest part was being on the roller crew responsible for setting up the rollers. Lifting, with a 3 man crew, a 200 lb rubber roller over head into position for locking into position.
The most enjoyable part of the job were the people I worked with. The management was always happy with me because I work hard with little supervision.

I usually worked 9 to 5 p.m. and learned several necessary and relevant skills. Able to type 80 wpm, Excel, Power Point, Microsoft Word, Email, etc. Took various sales courses and normally worked inside sales but did back up very busy switchboard. Was able to work work with minimum supervision and obtain sales quotas assigned to me. The hardest part of the job would have been keeping track of extensive different deadlines, prices, etc. The most enjoyable part was the interaction of many different clients in one single day and of course my co-workers.

The Toronto Star is one of Canada's great journalism brands and remains committed to its cause. But it has struggled to transition to the new media landscape and has made costly missteps that has cost it an enormous amount of money and valuable time. It has one last chance to turn the corner. Time is running out. The current corporate regime is much more professional and savvy than the previous, but I don't know if they have enough time to fix the mess and turn the corner.

I spent a lot of my time at the Star trying to find something to do.  Because of the union environment, that wasn't easy.  When I was a clerk I was usually busy, collecting artwork and dropping off mail.  When I was a coordinator, I was only busy for about two hours a day, which I despised.  I like being busy.  I found a little bit of a sense of entitlement from many of my coworkers due to the union environment, but we usually had a good time.

learned team work, cooperation
Working for professional, competent managers
Working with a group of nice, warm co-workers, feeling the work place like home.
Hardest part of the job, was leaving the company because of down sizing.
The most enjoyable part of the job was when our department completed an important project successfully.

Working to deadlines every day.
Constant quality control.
Over 20 years I was trained in many new skills.
Great bosses and co-workers.
I worked many different shifts, which I didn't mind.
Basically I had a wonderful experience at my time with The Star.

A seven hour work day with flex hours. A fast paced and pressure filled newsroom that challenge you with tight deadlines. Great coworkers but an increasing difficult industry to be working in.

I loved my job at the Toronto Star. It was very enjoyable and was a great environment to be a part of. I am sad that my job position was removed. If it had not been for my position being terminated I would still be working there now.

clean environment 
wonderful co-workers

hardest part of working will having to keep up workplace overall , stories are published everyday .

enjoyed meeting new people 

Great place to work but a lot of driving back and forth. Overall I had fun and was able to meet a lot of interesting people. Sales tactics were taught through day to day shadowing and classes.

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