LARRY BRUDZYNSKI Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 I guess we should be proud of American Assembled, Built in other countries. http://www.freep.com/article/20090429/BUSINESS01/904290303 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Warman Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 Larry, I really hate to play the devils advocate, but we should have seen so much of this coming... The western world has been very affluent for many years.... a car in every garage - a chicken in every pot.... We've been fucking each other over for so many years that we can't tell the fuckers from the fuckees.... Look around... The unions... oh, those lovable little union rascals... have been overinflating wages and benefits for years... in every walk of life they have infiltrated... They spend much of their time protecting under-achievers in the name of solidarity..... Being good doesn't matter... mediocrity with tenure... now THAT is "stock in trade". Locally, we are paying burger flippers about $13/hour.... floor sweepers (when "THEY" were hiring for the position) were make over $20 per hour in the lumber mills... Certainly, the employees of American Axle do not deserve what is heading their way, but at some point we have to wonder what our jobs are really worth.... If we were writing the cheques.... what would we pay for "this" service or "that" operation... UAW members.... they cheer like mad bastuhds when they get concessions... But putting tab A in slot B is only worth so much.... If these people were really all that much better than trained primates, a Pre-delivery inspection would consist of looking for shipping damage only. Instead, we are that final step in quality control... the trained apes get pay and benefits that surpasses the earning power of most of us... yet we are entrusted with that very last step in quality control... UAW members slept comfortably knowing that we will do our best to make them look good. A discussion on this topic wouldn't be complete without discussing the third world.... That worker in another country that doesn't care about satellite TV or haviong a car less than 4 years old or having a second car or having any of the numerous toys that we have grown to consider "necessities". The guy whose only desire is to put a ready supply of grub on his families table... shoes on his kids feet so they can walk to school.... Look around your house (look around MY house)... look at the shit we bought on sale.... shit that we paid much more for that the third world artisan/craftsman/sweatshop worker got paid for. People that would love to make in a week what we make in an hour... The third world is waking up.... and it is going to be an enormous monster.... It is going to sap the life out of so many production line jobs because, for so very long, North America was upside down... Upside down - people that require little training, average skill sets and below average problem solving skills get paid more than those that have to undergo extensive, regular training - possess better than average mechanical aptitude - possess better than average logic and problem solving skills. While I feel sympathy for the plight of the people whose jobs are being revised in terms of earning power and such, I find it hard to generate tears for people that have been part of the problem for so long... At this point. someone should feel free to step in and tell me why trade unions are unlike schoolyard bullies - trying to grab everyones lunch money... The world has entered an age of equalization... I think we are going to see some remarkable changes.... but, at the same time, I think we will see more "fast food" auto repair shops.... The world (and this trade) is in a state of great flux... "Be afwaid.... be vewy, vewy afwaid" - Elmer Fudd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DwayneGorniak Posted May 1, 2009 Share Posted May 1, 2009 Larry, I really hate to play the devils advocate Hahahahahahahahahahah. Now if that isn't a load of Bullshit, I don't know what is. You know, I don't think you will ever have to worry about going to Hell Old Timer, because I don't think the Devil would ever be able to put up with the competition. That would be in the philosophical sarcastic areas though, right? I can see the Devil begging God now: Please take him, I don't want him. God, PLEAEEEEEAAAAAAASSSSE TAKE HIM! Ooops, Highjack! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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