I know. Where’s their sense of humor when you need it most?I know this one to well {Parts spilling over into multiple places). The wife is not at all thrilled!
The great resignation—where is the hired help?
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My only saving grace is I convinced her early that she can do whatever she wants in the house, but the garage and basement were mine. She was okay with that until parts found their way into the spare bedroom, in the basement. Then, I got the look!I know. Where’s their sense of humor when you need it most?
Best wishes on that one, sounds like the absentee ballot shuffle is being played again. Then tally the votes with Dominion machines and presto....4 more years of democratic debauchery.
Not Jeep parts yet, but dish washers are the best for Cadillac wire wheel hubcaps. Also, the oven is great for curing freshly painted wheels, and other assorted car parts. I do think I crossed the line, however, when I used her turkey roasting pan on an oil change, washed it, and then cooked our Thanksgiving turkey in it. I still hear about that one every year…
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Ahhh, “The Look”. Every woman has it, and knows how to use it!
The answers to the above questions is simple - "when the market demanded it"...
^fucking this right here!
For years, capitalist "doers" and corporatist simps that back them up (ironically, those that are often the most affected by their behavior!) have been feeding lie after lie to the working class. This is of course after the biggest lie of them all - that economics, and particularly economic freedom and prosperity, would "trickle down"...
The "work hard" mentality has been deeply ingrained into what it means to be an American and the "American Dream". It's bullshit. Once the worker got an inkling that something wasn't right, that's when the threats started. When the coal miners said "hey fuck this shit, I don't want my 9 year old dying over here", shit went down. When women were like "hey, maybe you shouldn't lock us up in a shirtwaist factory during our shift?", shit went down. In the early 80's, when Real Wages dropped and people started realizing that they were working harder and harder for less and less purchasing power, there were threats of "your job will move overseas" or "robots will take over". Hell, I remember when I was in my early 20's working my first professional job during a huge layoff. The VP of the North American branch literally told us that "we should feel lucky to be employed" after watching 35 people escorted out with nothing more than 15 minutes to clean up their work areas and grab their personal belongings.
Funny how we just watched Squid Game and the entire show reminded me of that 18 month period where our staff went from winning the Intel Preferred Quality Supplier Award with a big company wide BBQ, to being worried on Friday if that was going to be the last one with the company. It was such a hostile environment that people would literally clean up their desks on Thursday and organize all their belongings for a "quick departure". Young workers, old workers, long-timers - didn't matter.
Fuck that...
This current market, and even the pandemic, has done wonders for labor IMO. There is no labor shortage, just a labor reassignment. People aren't "so terrible", they just don't want to work for asshole bosses who shit on them for not having the means, skills or ability to do something where the deck has been stacked against them for their entire life. For others, they have stopped looking at the "cost" of things and started to look at the value of things, including the value of their time (aka labor).
The problem is that it really isn't a simple point...
While in theory, increases to labor costs will have a proportionate impact to inflation. Turns out, a lot of empirical data over the past 30 years has shown otherwise. I will have to find the study, but I believe the largest wage-price elasticity study that was done (from the 70's-10's IIRC) showed a remarkably high elasticity. I will dig for it when I get back to my computer but I think it was a 10% increase in min-wage resulted in <1% price increase. I believe this research has been backed up in numerous other studies (albeit at different elasticity points), but generally all the major studies showed that labor costs aren't the major contributing factor to consumer pricing.
If you want to see someone really get radical about the value of their time.....Watch someone that realizes time is what life is made of.
As a contractor people tell me all the time that time is money- Well that’s a cute saying and it’s sort of an excuse for being in a hurry-But money doesn’t come close to being as valuable as time is
100% correct! I think people tend to come to this realization far too late in life, though the past ~20 months or so has done a good job of accelerating that for many. My company (and industry as a whole) are mostly specialized, high-paying positions, and even we are struggling to keep people. The same for my wife's company (pharmaceutical industry). Of the folks that I got to speak to before they left (or keep in contact with otherwise), the overwhelming majority of them have said "a better position", or alternatively "a better company". Not a single person has talked about more money, even when the ability to be completely candid is offered.
This mentality isn't just for the six-figure folk and is why places like McD's throwing $19/hr at people isn't doing shit...
Amen to that! I wish I had learned this a lot earlier in life! Time is NOT money. Time is TIME and you can't buy any more than what you're allotted by you particular higher power.
I am damn sure not wasting another minute on people who don't deserve my TIME. There's about a dozen people on this entire planet I would lay down my life for without hesitation. The rest of you fuckers gotta get in line and wait your turn.
Shifted focus from having enough money to retire to having enough TIME to enjoy the people in my life.
But that is my personal mantra and has little to do with the seeming lack of ability to find entry level workers that show up when they're supposed to and perform at a reasonable level of competence. There is a serious dearth of willing laborers and many that you can find have unreasonable expectations about their value to the boss. Of course, continued shortages will swing the pendulum as always.
I literally just had an interview for a position this past Monday that would have been a $30K pay cut and this is after I already took a $30K pay cut 3 years ago for where I am now. Sadly the position was offered to the other candidate. For my wife and I it's about what is going to give us more time to enjoy what we want to do, not be a slave for someone else's dream. Right now I come home stressed out every single day from my current position and its not worth it mentally or physically.
My wife is in the same boat and I have been encouraging her to find the right job, not necessarily the highest paying job (which classic capitalism-centric advice has always pushed). We both do very well from a salary standpoint and could easily live a normal "middle class life" on my salary alone, but she's afraid that if she takes a position that isn't pushing well into the six figure range that we will somehow stop being able to save and pay our bills. I think a lot of this stems back to the story I mentioned earlier about the VP telling us we should be happy to be employed (we worked for the same company back then).
It is tough to give up that income, My wife has been at her company 29 years and still says "better the devil you do know than the one you don't". She is very busy during the open enrollment time (Q3-4) in the health insurance industry. But, now working permanantly from home we take off to the PA house Thursday afternoon and stay to Sunday almost every other weekend.
Yeah, sadly most of the position's I am looking for pay almost nothing, but they would be in the area we want to live and would be more in line with my interests. Trying to get into the conservation / forestry field and I would be leaving the construction estimator field. Out of college I took the highest paying job I could find at a nuclear power plant and was make almost six figures when I left. I worked 60-80 hours a week for 5 years and then realized that there's more to life than money...
I’d like you to tell them we said you can have 3 weeks off with pay. Just show HR this post. They might do it.
Damn I miss In N Out!! And Mexican food made with real Mexicans!
And fresh grilled seafood that doesn't come drenched in half a gallon of some New England cream sauce...not enough to move back there though.
Their answer to everything in here is work more hours. I have coworkers that work till 8 in the evening and come in on Saturdays and are full on dedicated to the company. That's what they expect out of everyone. And yeah those guys will get higher salary increases over the years, but they are missing out on life. I have other things I do with my time and am trying to get my own leather goods business off the ground. Extra time spent in the office means less time to devote to my craft.