🚀 go-pugleaf

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