We have two new additions to our Twenty Year Club! Jean Gray and Dave Bottom both started working at Confer Plastics on the same day, December 10th, 1990. They become the 19th and 20th members of this select group.
We really appreciate their 2 decades of service with CPI. Think about that…20 years; nowadays, most marriages don’t last that long. It means a lot to us!
Jean Gray came here after having worked for 7 years at Airlock Plastics in Tonawanda. Looking at this place as a family environment, she’s had 2 of her sisters and a nephew work here and she married one of her coworkers, Dave Gray. Her daughter, Christine, works in our inventory department.
Jean has spent time on all three shifts seeing stints as quality inspector and material handler. She’s currently a machine operator on our first shift.
Dave Bottom basically came here fresh out of high school, having worked at Burger King and Frontier Foundries after graduating in ‘90. Dave was here when Bob Confer, as a 19-year-old, started at the plant in 1993. He was one of the guys who first trained Bob as a machine operator and he did a great job. He has been a machine operator, systems cleaner and is currently a material handler on the 3rd shift.
How long ago was 1990? Here’s what happened that year…
• The Buffalo Bills actually knew how to win football games. They were 13-3 in the ’90 season and where heading into their first Super Bowl
• A stamp cost 25 cents
• The Simpsons debuted on Fox
• Seinfeld debuted on NBC
• Dances With Wolves and Goodfellas were the hot movies
• Bette Midler’s “Wind Beneath My Wings” was the song and album of the year
• The Hubble Telescope was launched
• The communists gave up power in the USSR
• George W Bush’s dad was the President of the USA
