Did you ever work on a 106 degree factory floor with constant 90 db noise levels? It really saps the life out of you. If they paid factory workers the pittance you claim to have raised two kids on, no one would work in them unless you used slave labor.
Taking a pay cut to get out of a factory was the happiest day of my life. There is no job more dehumanizing than working an assembly line. I didn’t even work the line (I was the shift electrician), but I always felt bad for those guys who spent the whole shift out there in front of a machine.
“Did you ever work on a 106 degree factory floor with constant 90 db noise levels? It really saps the life out of you.”
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I worked assembly before as temp job right after college as extra money for my university tuition. I 100% agree with you. You go brain-dead like a liberal at an Obama rally after 2 hours. The only time I told myself I have to get an education or else was at that point and when I worked at McDonald’s in high school and the chick I had a crush at school saw me mopping the floors.
Changing the hours on a week's notice is probably against the law.
Why, actully yes. I have.
I never said I made a pittance, just a whole lot less tham the union people, and with no bennies.
And yes...I worked in a bearing factory for a year, right next to the heat treat. member of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. Made cam follower bearings for Sikorsky and others.
I had a choice and I also chose to get out of there. I've spent the last 40 years working outside in all kinds of temperatures. Wouldn't have had it any other way.
Nobody forces anyone to work at an auto plant., and I know a whole lot of people who work in whole lots worse conditions for a whole lot less than UAW members make.
I worked in a paper mill in So Cal (LA area) in the late 70s and early 80s after my discharge from the USMC. Hot, dirty, smelly, boring, backbreaking work. But I did it the best I could while I was there.
I never thought to make a career out of it, it was a stepping stone. If you don't like your job look for something else. That's the beauty of our system when it's allowed to work. There are opportunities to improve.
Unions stagnate and cripple industries and make members dependent on them. A perfect symbiosis with the DemocRATS.
Just my two cents.
try spending 12 hour days with a screaming GM diesel engine running at 180 degrees just 5 feet behind your head and 150 degree clutches and brakes just inches from you. I spent close to 30 years doing that very thing.
In 100 degree weather and 10 degree weather. breeze or no breeze. grease, dust and constant danger.
I just couldn’t bring myself to be just another one of the union collective.
And I can see a lot of my lifes work on Google Earth. Not everyone can say that.
No...I worked in a ONE HUNDRED THIRTY DEGREE WAREHOUSE IN THE SUMMER AND MINUS ZERO IN THE WINTER LOADING AND UNLOADING SEMI TRUCKS ONE BOX AT A TIME WITH MY BARE HANDS.
>>Did you ever work on a 106 degree factory floor with constant 90 db noise levels?<<
Worked many summers in Texas mowing yards. Many days I wished it was 106 and the decibel level was only 90. Because of fair skin, I wore hot, long sleeved shirts in a time when the lightweight poly, UV protection shirts (and pants) didn’t exist. One summer I ended up with 30 yards — many more than I wanted — because idiots got in and out of the business and couldn’t work it. That was with a 4 HP mower and bag, and manual edger and hedge clippers. Today’s equipment makes that job look silly easy.