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X ^ | Aug 26 | @ThinkAppraiser

Posted on 08/26/2024 12:15:41 AM PDT by RandFan

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My buddy just went to Home Depot to get a guy for unskilled day labor and the guy wanted $32 an hour

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This has blown up a bit with 9 million views on the post!

The gentleman is saying this is way too much especially for someone with no tools or truck in the parking lot.

1 posted on 08/26/2024 12:15:41 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

You know what they say about wanting in one hand and crapping in the other...

Which one gets fuller faster.


2 posted on 08/26/2024 12:21:01 AM PDT by Boomer (The dems and rinos (rat crap) have pegged the evil needle so hard, Satan now answers to them.)
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He should shop around. Must be a zillion high school kids around who would be happy to get some hours.

José is getting lazy on food stamps. Next time mess with his head and ask to see his green card.

3 posted on 08/26/2024 1:53:31 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: RandFan

Where, in LA?


4 posted on 08/26/2024 1:55:53 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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If you want a light house cleaning right now the going rate is $25.

So it wouldn’t surprise me.


5 posted on 08/26/2024 2:13:15 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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61,000 a year. Barely enough to live in the United States. But, the person would have to be hired every day for 8 hours, 5 days a week. Highly unlikely.


6 posted on 08/26/2024 2:19:46 AM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: Governor Dinwiddie; Chode; SkyDancer; Salamander; Carriage Hill; Lockbox; MtnClimber; ...

Pull into the parking lot in a Crown Vic painted in the funky green paint and get out of the car wearing one of these and watch them scatter.

Then You can be left with U.S. Citizens.


7 posted on 08/26/2024 2:59:42 AM PDT by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
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To: RandFan

Lately, I don’t care what it is around your house you want done, some illegal (or his American born son translating for him) will tell you $300 even for most any quick job that can be knocked out in a couple hours (trimming your hedges, for example).

I just tell them “you want way too much and a no thanks.”

The one thing I won’t do is go look for labor at a corner lot or Home Depot. You have no way to track/identify who these people are at all.


8 posted on 08/26/2024 3:14:41 AM PDT by Gaffer
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Going to a parking lot picking up probably illegal unskilled labor is the problem. No worse than picking up a hooker.


9 posted on 08/26/2024 4:08:20 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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“when a hooker costs less than unskilled construction labor you just know the end is near” L.Star


10 posted on 08/26/2024 4:11:34 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star)
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To: piasa
If you want a light house cleaning right now the going rate is $25.

Regards,

11 posted on 08/26/2024 4:19:34 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Gaffer

Offer him $50 per hour then drive off. Show him the real price for his labor.

EC


12 posted on 08/26/2024 4:36:29 AM PDT by Ex-Con777
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To: alexander_busek

LOL, I read it that way at first also.


13 posted on 08/26/2024 4:39:46 AM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Polls are designed to sell more ads & polls only. If it's not a horse race the money dries up.)
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To: Boomer

A place where I once worked(a mechanic shop) had a guy come in, claimed he had 20 yrs. experience & wanted a job. When he showed up for work with his tools, he had them all in a small canvas bag. As I recall, he didn’t remain employed there for very long. This was many years ago, & I think pay then amounted to about $4 /hr. which was not too bad for the times.


14 posted on 08/26/2024 5:21:36 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

>> Next time mess with his head and ask to see his green card.

LOL! I like the way you think.


15 posted on 08/26/2024 5:42:08 AM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: RandFan

Agree to it. Then at the end of the day give him $20/hr and say you sent the rest to the government for fica,ssi,unemployment insur., union dues, one day of home owners medical coverage...


16 posted on 08/26/2024 6:05:01 AM PDT by Farmerbob
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To: RandFan

Well, he does have to pay taxes and SS on it.

;)


17 posted on 08/26/2024 6:53:24 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Kamala Harris loves to give wet Willys)
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To: Ex-Con777

You really don’t know what you’re doing with them at HD or other corner lot standing around. Definitely illegals, not even hooked up enough to get on with others on a build crew or something. No background checks, health checks or any of that stuff. And you’re driving them to your house so they can do what? Case it for a robbery?

The one piece of advice I’d give anyone, though, is that if you’re gonna do it and hire one, make sure they don’t have any tats if you can.


18 posted on 08/26/2024 7:01:45 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: RandFan

I charge 300.

Ebay advertises a price. It is only worth that price if a schlep will pay it.


19 posted on 08/26/2024 7:31:38 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: RandFan

Free market. If he don’t want to pay it then he won’t. If that’s what the guy thinks he’s worth, then he’ll find out. Not really much of a reason to bitch about it. Pay or don’t, then move on.


20 posted on 08/26/2024 7:38:27 AM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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