🚀 go-pugleaf

Ronald E. Kushner wrote:

> Josh Turner wrote:
>
> > flintoid wrote:
> > >
> > > Look, if we justify exorbitant exec salaries, why not, just this once,
> > > justify exorbitant workforce salaries?
> >
> > We've been justifying exorbitant workforce salaries for many, many years
> > now. Not that there's anything wrong with that--labor has a value, and I
> > certainly wouldn't work on the line for less than $25 an hour or so. But
> > don't pretend that the workforce is somehow underpaid.
>
> Oh god,  you know, I read people bitch about what people make in the fucking
> rat life, but damn, you couldn't pay me that and expect me to come to work
> each and every day. Not to bitch at you Josh, I think you understand the
> situation, but Flintoid doesn't. I go into a factory, with a bunch of people
> who probably are stuck in their dead-end job, working so hard that they
> can't wipe the sweat from their eyes, that have to come to work because they
> have a house payment, a car payment, 3 kids and $50,000 in credit card debt,
> and I don't want to fall into that trap.
>
> Some of these people have such miserable jobs, I can't imagine doing them. I
> make what they make, but I don't work anywhere near as hard as these guys
> do. I work hard, very damn hard, but I do not put up with the miserable jobs
> the factory rats have. I have lunch when I want., I go home when I want, and
> have a company vehicle. I refused a job with GM a few years ago, in what is
> now Delphi Saginaw Gear. After seeing how these people work, I just couldn't
> get caught in the trap - NO WAY! These jobs will leave the country, because
> people down the food chain will refuse to do these jobs - in Metro Detroit
> you can be a dumbshit working at Tim Horton's for $9 an hour, and probably
> be happy. I don't regret not working for GM, actually I think one day I'll
> stand proud, with my own business, and show people what can be done when you
> put your mind to something other than a car payment, a house payment, 3 kids
> and $50,000 in credit card debt..
>
> -Ron

Another excellent post....