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Originally Posted by silent_jay
I watched a guy on TV today who worked at a GM plant in Southern Ontario, his job on the line was to put in 10 screws on the firewall to attach the console, you want to tell me that isn't Ikea? Brainless labour, it may not all be like that, but too many people are making more money for doing mindless unskilled labour than they should be.
No my complaint is that saying 'they have a dangerous job' to justify their pay is funny to me, plenty of other people have more dangerous jobs and make far less, so the argument it's dangerous makes no sense. Ummmm raising my pay when I was a miner would have caused me to no longer be employed as a miner, so it wouldn't have helped me out in the least, may help out the autoworkers, though I have no clue how. Raising peoples pay doesn't always make things better, sometimes it means the job you have goes up in fuckin smoke.
No shit $28 isn't a whole lot of money, but for putting 10 screws into 10 holes it sure as fuck is.
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Let see if I can address a couple of your points. If your job goes up in fucking smoke there's not much you can fucking do about it but find a new fucking job.
Everything is relative. 10 screws in 10 holes doesn't sound too bad. But how many times an hour is he scheduled to fucking do that? When I was a kid I worked on farms a lot in the summer for extra cash and $ for school clothes. Picking berries was easy enough. All you had to do was pick it off the vine and put it in a bucket or flat. But to make any money you had to fucking do that about 5,000 times a day, give or take. I also did something called "picking chickens," no it had nothing to do with jacking off. All you had to do there was take two live chickens out of a cage and put them in a larger cage. If you did that at least 800 times a day you got paid $15. You also got covered in fucking chicken shit.
I know jack about working in a mine, a furniture factory or a auto plant. But I have a feeling when you say it's just 10 fucking screws there's a good chance you're down playing the amount of fucking work involved.
But I don't really fucking know.