Posted on 03/21/2020 5:32:03 PM PDT by Hojczyk
As the Chinese coronavirus shuts down our economy and locks in our homes, we are discovering stock boys matter and Hollywood celebrities do not.
Out there in the shit, out there in the danger, out there touching countless surfaces that could be infected, out there working punishing hours for low wages are the people we too often overlook and take for granted — even though they are the ones who keep our world turning.
Away from their families, risking illness, America’s farm workers, truck drivers, grocery store workers, sanitation workers, and delivery people, are holding together the slender thread that keeps our supply chains moving, and those supply chains are the literal difference between civilization and anarchy.
Meanwhile, here’s how America’s elite, America’s royalty, America’s fabulously wealthy and fawned over are “contributing” during these serious and scary times…
e this is all over, we all know the stupid American pecking order will return; a pecking order where the working class who took all the risks and did all the dangerous grunt work to keep our civilization civilized, will at best be forgotten and taken for granted again, and at worst return to being the only class of people you can safely ridicule … because Orange Man Bad.
And those in Hollywood, who proved to be the most disposable and annoying people in the history of the world, will return to being celebrated and hailed as “brave” for silly fashion choices and standing
But at least for now, we are rid of them, and at least for now, we are reminded of how unnecessary they are.
The people who matter in this country, who really matter, who will always matter, are not scribblers like myself, and are certainly not the performers in Hollywood and the news media…
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Lord loves a working man.
I walked out of there with everything I needed for the coming quarantine. Including toilet paper. Trucks were lined up outside for their turn at the loading docks.
So yes, stockboys and truckers way more important than Hollywood "stars".
Thank you for your service!
We are with you!!!!
Thank you for this info!
And thank your b-i-l for his service!
We are all in this war together!
in my county in sf bay, one needs a letter (specifying the business is essential) to continue to operate a business. i wonder if hollywood studios are in operation, and if so then do they have letters from the state that they are essential...
So a McDonald's teenager wants the same as my pay, and my schooling starts at 5K and takes no less than 2 years experience......and I don't get to see my family but twice a month.
Yay justice!
+1
Ditto. Aldi’s delivery is awesome.
My husband is a Tech II. Diagnoses all the issues with the tractors, trailers, refrigerated units, etc. and tells the young guys what needs to be fixed.
His toolbox is so big, it takes 3 men to move it (even on casters). He has thousands of dollars in tools to fix just about anything that hauls produce.
Unlike Cher, Babs, and Whoopie, he is essential.
My son was working part-time at Market Street when a customer, who was impressed with his performance and dedication, offered him a part-time position for an oil investment company. He liked going to work in a suit and making good money part-time, but when things started shutting down, the office closed and only the senior execs were able to work from home.
Now he’s back at the supermarket and they are thrilled to have him.
I manage a high rise condominium. I cannot work from home. My board considers me essential.
Thankfully, we are all still employed.
Yeah, but apparently it’s cheaper to replace them than protect them.
That’s why Amazon and Kroger have raised wages by 2 bucks an hour, and are advertising to hire thousands more employees, but literally nothing is being done to protect these workers.
Don’t forget the Fork Lift Operators and warehouse workers who pick the orders and load the trucks!
2010 version of true grit is excellent
I once was a “Bundle Boy” in a sewing factory in rural PA., keeping the ladies on the sewing machines supplied with work in progress. Years later, as a Mfg. Engr. at a Fortune 500 Co., I conversed with the V.P. of Sales who was of Italian origin. He said, “Never be ashamed of where you came from. My father, fresh off the boat from Italy, worked in a sewing factory in Chicago, sewing pockets into overcoats. God Bless America!”
Grew up in Pittsburgh which was very blue collar at the time. Grandfather was a pharmacist who owned his own store. Worked 70+ hour weeks. Had a heart attack and died when my dad was 13. Grandmother had a stroke and died soon afterwards. My dad came up hard.
Many of us are thankful that we were raised by parents who were of the “Greatest Generation”. ( father-US Navy Pacific Theater 4 yrs, mother-stateside trauma nurse, and at 97 still thinks she is) I just pray I have instilled the values in my son they beat into my head and I thank them for it.
While we need truckers, if they're taking Chinese products to stores, they can't claim as much.
“...I just pray I have instilled the values in my son they beat into my head and I thank them for it....”
You did. They listen. Even when you think they didn’t, they did.
Mine sure did.
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