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No Jobs
Mar 26, 2022, 4:07 PM
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When the Military let me go, came home to few chances at employment of any type.
As an ex Army officer I believed the job market would be eager to see me back in the USA.
I was wrong.
I finally got a job stocking shelves at a supermarket. My roommate (ex Green Beret) got one selling peanuts. We were soon living large, life was very good!
This week saw a Burger King sign saying they pay "daily" for workers. I have not eaten in one for years due to ~~~. I would have taken that job or any job. Now folks don't want a job, even for one day.
For decades to support my Bride --> worked a job and many, many, many part time jobs as my Bride took care of my boy. She worked also after it was just the two of us. We have done OK.
I don't think we have a shortage of labor, we have a shortage of folks who are willing to support themselves.
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Re: No Jobs
Mar 26, 2022, 4:15 PM
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I think companies like Burger King would have an easier time retaining and hiring workers if they paid a better wage.
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pay a better wage
Mar 26, 2022, 4:25 PM
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Even on Wall Street that is true.
The deal for any business is to make a profit. A job at Burger King is a job if you can't get on at Chick-fil-A. Work hard, gain experience and things will happen.
It is not about a business being a sweat shop, but making a profit so it can survive.
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Re: No Jobs
Mar 26, 2022, 4:41 PM
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Increase wages, increase prices, price BK or any restaurant out of low-end market, decrease customers, and go bankrupt. Robotics and more homeless are on the way.
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Re: No Jobs
Mar 26, 2022, 4:51 PM
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Agree. I’m not sure who will pay 15 an hour to cook French fries. Pretty sure the Whopper and fries would soon be priced out of business seeing you can get a burger at a better restaurant for 8-10 dollars and a lot better as well. Another thing I have noticed at a fast food that I used to frequent was that their food quality has went way down. Used to love these burritos they had and for the price was great but now I rarely go anymore because it just is not good.
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Re: No Jobs
Mar 27, 2022, 1:42 PM
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where's dan gentry now that we need him?
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I went thru the drive thru at Wendy's last week for me and
Mar 27, 2022, 3:47 PM
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Mrs. Spud. $17 plus.....I think they are about to price themselves out.....
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Re: I went thru the drive thru at Wendy's last week for me and
Mar 27, 2022, 4:08 PM
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2 Jr Cheeseburger deluxe is $4, bring your own water. That is a decent sandwich.
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In 1975 we would slip under the chain link fence behind
Mar 27, 2022, 6:11 PM
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Wade Hampton and scoot across to McDonalds to grab a small coke,fries and a cheeseburger for 99 cents...
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Yep. These jobs will be automated in the future.
Mar 26, 2022, 4:56 PM
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A smart kid would do well to learn PLCs and robotics.
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Re: Yep. These jobs will be automated in the future.
Mar 27, 2022, 1:54 PM
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you're right,but unfortunately it's a very limited pool of candidates.
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Re: No Jobs
Mar 26, 2022, 5:07 PM
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What if CEO compensation was lowered and distributed amongst the workers? Why is that not on the table?
If people don't want to work for a company, it's the companies problem to figure out and resolve.
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I agree that CEOs are paid entirely too much but
Mar 26, 2022, 5:11 PM
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that doesn’t change the fact that too many people are lazy and don’t want to work.
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Re: I agree that CEOs are paid entirely too much but
Mar 27, 2022, 1:51 PM
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a few years ago one of my friend's sons was graduating from college,so i asked him what the young lad was going to do going forward. friend said he wanted to get a job that paid 100,000/yr. essentially doing nothing.i said that when he found that job,would he sign me up for one too.so far i haven't heard anything,but i'm still hopeful.
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sadly enough
Mar 27, 2022, 7:30 PM
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I know a few people from college that got their "business degrees" and partied right through college making C's. Most of them now make well over 100,000 dollars a year to basically do nothing except sit in an office all day. And they wonder why the people who work in the 100 degree warehouse heat call out and don't work their ### off 24/7. I sat in meeting once where they were talking about how they told them they were "looking into" getting heat/ac for the warehouses. but they were never going to do it. they took that money and built a hunting lodge for the higher ups to spend their work days. Oh, and did I mention the starting pay for most of the positions is roughly $12 an hour? while right down the rode there are plants paying at least $20 an hour. Why would someone work there???? lol
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CEO compensation
Mar 26, 2022, 5:19 PM
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Business with a bad plan will go broke. CEOs who make all they can are not unlike football coaches. The market will determine their value.
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Re: No Jobs
Mar 26, 2022, 5:35 PM
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I agree
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I've thought about that, but it is the same as
Mar 26, 2022, 5:38 PM
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many other fields. Reducing corporate salary wouldn't do much for low end employees. The CEO of the company that owns BK made $37M in a recent year. Distribute his entire salary to the 20,000 employees, and you get about $150 a month. They need more of a boost than that.
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Let's use Burger King as an example
Mar 26, 2022, 6:07 PM
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Burger King has 20,000 employees
The CEO makes 20,000,000 per year.
He should give up the 20,000,000 and work for free.
Each employee would receive a 50 cents an hour wage. Then you could let one of them run the company.
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Re: No Jobs
Mar 26, 2022, 4:42 PM
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How high should it be to fry fries?
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How high
Mar 26, 2022, 5:21 PM
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I am guessing in the UpState around $50.
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Idk how much fast food places pay
Mar 27, 2022, 7:34 PM
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but I'd say around $15 an hour???? but at the same time I know people who work in hot/cold warehouses that barely make $20, so idk
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Re: No Jobs
Mar 26, 2022, 4:44 PM
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No I’m having the same trouble hiring at my work as well. Not many applicants. 3 years ago I would have 5 plus great choices. Now it’s a contractor or nothing. Burger King probably pays fair based on the job. Those jobs used to be young people jobs when I was in school. Not many kids are applying and older folks need to much money to take that level of pay. Not thinking unless you are in management that a fast food job was created to support a family. People ask me how they can make more money and I tell them to make your self more valuable. If that is working your way up or gaining more education do what it takes and don’t sit around waiting for people to give it to you.
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That's not always the case
Mar 27, 2022, 7:38 PM
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I worked at a plant years ago and learned multiple jobs there, eventually becoming a manager. I showed up everyday, and never complained, but the company took advantage of that and kept beating around the bush when I would ask about a raise. Put it this way, I could barely support myself, much less a family on what they were paying me. I eventually left and went back to school to get my degree, and I am much happier now. Im not saying that's what you do of course, just saying that it does happen at places.
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I work for a large company that pays well and has good benefits.
Mar 26, 2022, 4:52 PM
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Many people, especially younger people do not want to work. I have no idea how the ones who show up late, lay out and eventually get fired are being supported but whoever is doing it (government, family or whoever) needs to stop. They aren’t helping these kids. This younger generation is on a path to poverty individually and collectively as a society. Many of them are not being taught responsibility and accountability by anyone.
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Re: I work for a large company that pays well and has good benefits.
Mar 26, 2022, 4:59 PM
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Got a friend of my sons that is probably 20 years old and I kid you not has had at least 7-10 jobs. I’m trying to tell him employers don’t care to look at a resume that has that many jobs worked in 2-3 years. I’m not sure what they are taught but it’s not how I was brought up. One of my sons is 20 and he will work 7 days a week if they let him. Extremely proud of the young man and feel like with his work ethic he will make it in this world.
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Your son will do well.
Mar 26, 2022, 5:18 PM
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Good attitude, good work ethic and smarts are still the best way to progress in life.
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Re: I work for a large company that pays well and has good benefits.
Mar 26, 2022, 9:21 PM
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Well done you! Raised your son well.
I retired last year, partially due to the horrible work force coming in. I probably missed work 15 times in 40 years. I had salary engineers and other professionals miss that much in a year. For no real illness. My HR dept started not firing them due to not being able to find replacements. Coming in late, bad attitudes, etc. I finally gave up when an entry level engineer 1 year out of school - who we paid $80k - told one of my location engineering managers that he did not want to work more than 40 hours and if he did, he thought he should get paid for it.
These kids are crazy, they are “woke”, they are snowflakes, have no work ethic, no accountability, and simply want everything given to them. There are exceptions of course, but those are becoming more rare.
Schools have bred a lot of this into them. Dummying down to the lowest common denominator, no longer having kids compete and given participation trophies.
It’s sad. I would have worked a bit longer, but was not worth it to deal with their crap.
Ahhhhhhh
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Re: No Jobs
Mar 26, 2022, 9:02 PM
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The woke snowflakes have no work ethic and have now taught that to their children. These children are now at the age where they should be filling the fast food part time jobs. In my era, they were prized jobs. Now in St. Petersburg, they pay $13-15 per hour and either cannot get people to come to work or get some amazingly horrible employees. Fast food here has had to reduce hours, close the dining area and make it drive thru only, etc.
this has little to do with pay and more about people who want everything and care about nothing.
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Ah yes, the good old days.
Mar 26, 2022, 4:22 PM
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“Things sure aren’t like they were in my day”… said every generation that has ever existed. lol Meanwhile, the decade you’re referring to is objectively one of the worst in modern us history.
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Re: Ah yes, the good old days.
Mar 26, 2022, 4:30 PM
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Don't think it is the wages. Some of the younger generation seem to be allergic to work. I recently discussed this with someone in the medical field. He said the new doctors are very lazy and don't go out of their way to do something for someone. Wages certainly is not the case here. Our government helped with a lot of this attitude. Stimulus checks, not having to pay rent, food stamps, food giveaways, feeding of children at schools year round, free child care, and free heating fuel. Why would anyone want to work ?
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Re: Ah yes, the good old days.
Mar 26, 2022, 7:17 PM
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Unemployment is extremely low, we have high GDP growth, and high inflation (expected since people had built up demand from Covid restrictions, supply issues, increased wages, and high employment)
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Re: Ah yes, the good old days.
Mar 26, 2022, 8:57 PM
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I don't think the younger generation is "allergic to work." They just can't work for less than $15/hour anymore due to the high cost of everything now.
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Re: Ah yes, the good old days.
Mar 26, 2022, 9:25 PM
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Very true. My wife works in hospital. Try looking at the drs names and photos and realize that a huge number and growing are people who did not grow up in the USA. They are the ones taking advantage of the American dream.
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I've actually noticed the opposite.
Mar 27, 2022, 7:42 PM
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from my experience the older doctors have been very rude and dismissive. While younger doctors seem to be more energetic and genuinely seem to care. I mean that could all be an act, but it does make you feel better.
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Re: Ah yes, the good old days.
Mar 26, 2022, 5:02 PM
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What decade are you referring to? Obviously you are a young person or you would understand exactly what we are talking about. It ‘s called work ethic. Not many in the last generation has any.
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Re: No Jobs
Mar 26, 2022, 4:25 PM
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You got that right Tugaloo. Stopped by Enviro Mulch in Liberty yesterday to get some organic dirt to fill in the new garden addition. I had to wait a while because the only person working was out delivering a dump truck load and when he's not doing that he is loading trucks and trailers on site. They have a big "We Are Hiring" sign out front but he said no one has even applied. For part of the day they have 2 people working. Almost everywhere I go I see "We Are Hiring" signs and all they talk about on the news is the big job exodus continues. I'll stop there before I get mad enough to kick something and hurt my big toe.
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Easy work
Mar 26, 2022, 4:32 PM
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I have worked part time at Hardees and McDonalds. In high crime areas they would pay me to just sit in the dinning room or parking lot and scare off the bozos. It was a good job. All I could eat was free.
I was doing that the night I heard on my radio that Elvis had died.
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I remember exactly where I was when Elvis died and it hit
Mar 26, 2022, 5:06 PM
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the news. I was sitting at the redlight in my Nova, at the intersection of White Horse Rd & Old Anderson Rd in Gville. Probably listening to WQOK, AM radio. One of those things you remember...
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Re: I remember exactly where I was when Elvis died and it hit
Mar 26, 2022, 5:59 PM
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Dark side...I got broad sided on old Anderson Road in 1972 in my 1967 Mercury
Cougar and was coming home from a night shift at Fiber Industries. The fat
gal that hit me had no insurance and i let her go. I left with with a tore up
quarter panel.
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I worked at Fiber a couple of summers... either 2nd or 3rd
Mar 26, 2022, 6:43 PM
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shift, can't remember, probably 1978-79. It was a big upgrade from prior jobs at Abney Mills & JP Stevens - those were old school textile jobs. Tough manual labor, cotton & asbestos dust everywhere with no breathing protection, and loud... but those little orange ear plugs hurt your ears so nobody wore em. We thought working at Fiber Industries was a huge move up... it was so clean. LOL
I started a mini-shift at Abney Mills in 10th grade (1973)... $1.65/hour.
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shift work
Mar 26, 2022, 6:48 PM
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I one time had a shift of 2 days 7am-3pm, 2 days 3pm-11pm, 2 days 11pm to 7am.
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My first job out of college was at a huge Amoco Fabrics
Mar 26, 2022, 7:06 PM
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plant in Bainbridge GA. I had a math degree from CU with a minor in Computer Science, but the only programming jobs were at Liberty Life, for $15K a year. Amoco offered $16.5K for management trainees, so I jumped on it and moved there. Big surprise... swing shift! Best I recall, it was a week on 1st shift, couple of days off, a week on 2nd, couple days off, then a week on 3rd shift and 4 days off. You were always a walking zombie... your body cannot adjust that quickly.
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Re: I worked at Fiber a couple of summers... either 2nd or 3rd
Mar 27, 2022, 12:47 PM
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Spent my summer vacations from Clemson working in a carpet yarn plant for $1.25/hr. Of course gas was $0.25/gal if a gas war wasn't going on and then you could find it for $0.15
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I was walking back from cooper to Johnstone (c-5).
Mar 26, 2022, 9:29 PM
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Bad day.
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Re: No Jobs
Mar 26, 2022, 4:48 PM
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My story may be better than yours...I was a Major in the Army and I am
old but I ended up cooking burgers like you and then I got on the window
at MacDonald and all I had too say was, welcome to MacDonald can i take
your order. That was hard so i quit and went on welfare but they found
out that I was white and gray headed...they cut me off.
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Well Boys (& Girls) as a Clemson History Grad & understanding why Empires crumble..
Mar 26, 2022, 5:07 PM
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we’re looking in the headlights of another one going under IF we “citizens” don’t get rid of OR change the thinking of people in America that don’t care for or love their Country..as well as get back some morals and/or work ethics.
Can’t see it happening even with a Lincoln or Reagan-like Leader since it goes back to what you’re made of from the beginning and that took parenting and grandparents and religion and following laws that were expected to be followed so Society wouldn’t break down..
But it has broken down and thus I see no way back but an intervention of Nature (GOD if that works for you) and a people who are humble & forgiving.
Good-bye!
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IF we “citizens”
Mar 26, 2022, 5:41 PM
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Major in the Arm
Mar 26, 2022, 5:09 PM
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Fun post. Being kinda innocent, I wonder if you are being sarcastic.
My family had medical bills I could never hope to pay. No one could pay all that.
The deal was for me to keep making payments so the best available would be there for us.
I was kinda blessed. I had a good job, and more part time jobs than I could work. I might go a couple days from job to job before making it back home. I had some where I could catch a nap. The Charlotte Civic center had a guard who would wake me if needed.
Guys at Pikes' Drug on Graham St took me in as one of theirs and got in all the medicines we needed at cost.
I was blessed.
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Re: Major in the Arm
Mar 26, 2022, 5:14 PM
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Bill and Tug well said. I am beyond blessed myself and very thankful.
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Re: Major in the Arm
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If you are responding to me, I was a Spec4 81mm gunner in the Army and I'm not
making a joke about you. I thought you were being funny.I hope all is well..I
mean no harm.
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81mm gunner
Mar 26, 2022, 5:43 PM
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Just us here. Thanks for taking the time to post as to my crap.
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Try to get a teenager to mow your lawn or work
Mar 26, 2022, 6:02 PM
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in your yard. 30-40 years ago it was easy to find one willing to work.
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All-In [38396]
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mow your lawn
Mar 26, 2022, 6:14 PM
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That brings back memories.
As a kid knocked on doors to cut grass -> dollar a yard included trimming. I carried extra gas in a glass jug.
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My mom owned a restaurant so I was always working there from
Mar 26, 2022, 8:30 PM
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a little kid on up, until I started working in the textile mills at 16. But my good friend Roy cut yards for extra money. I can still picture him taking that crappy old push mower down the streets, going door-to-door and asking people if they needed their grass cut. Carrying extra gas in an old milk carton. SC summer, of course... 90 degrees and humid. He'd cut the front & back, and then they'd tell him to run over it again, to chop it up better... no mulching blades or baggers back then.
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All-TigerNet [10822]
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Re: No Jobs
Mar 26, 2022, 7:40 PM
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You mean back when rent was $300 and gas was $.75
Ok boomer
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Re: No Jobs
Mar 26, 2022, 7:47 PM
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No, that was back when folks owned their home and gas was 19cents.
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All-TigerNet [10822]
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What a time to be alive***
Mar 27, 2022, 2:08 PM
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Re: No Jobs
Mar 26, 2022, 9:33 PM
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Another snowflake I see.
it was back when wage was $2.35 and we were glad to get it.
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All-TigerNet [10822]
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I’m a fortunate millennial with homes and cars
Mar 27, 2022, 5:27 PM
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I’m kinda concerned for the people about to get wrecked by inflation.
The people who serve me need to be able to live too. I don’t feel good about people having no chance to retire or own anything.
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All-In [38396]
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I’m kinda concerned
Mar 27, 2022, 5:55 PM
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I am too, as are most Americans. No group of folks has ever been as generous to their brothers than folks in the USA.
I don't see it as a generational thing as that is words. The greatest generation remains the WWII folks.
Every generation since has had an easier go of it due to them. They completely spoiled their kids -- the next generation.
During Carter a bank account was drawing 15%. Mortgages were high got over 15%.
I (and most in my crowd) could not make it on one job of 40 hours a week, so we found ways to add to that. We were not thinking retirement, but making it week to week.
Now government gives out endless $$ to buy votes. It is that simple. No way in hell would I have ever worked a day except I like to eat and there was no way to eat but work.
I could not be the CEO, so took any and all jobs. Now many folks are happy with free money and see most honest labor as below their station.
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Heisman Winner [111188]
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just stop with the BS already
Mar 27, 2022, 7:36 PM
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mortgages rates peaked at 17.8% in 1982, they were 11% in 1979.
Unemployment is currently at a 52 year low
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Hall of Famer [22257]
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deleted, not going to drag this thread into a generational debate...
Mar 26, 2022, 10:13 PM
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those tend to get ugly.
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Legend [19865]
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1957 was a very good year!
Mar 27, 2022, 1:17 AM
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And my 1st job was on my granpa Oz's farm handing tobacco to the stringers for $3/day.
Had to stand on a crate to reach the leaves when they dropped the sides on the drag.
I was glad to get it too and looked forward to granpa waking me up to go with him and check the barns at night to clean leaves that fell onto the flues off so they wouldn't catch fire.
Mom, me & my sister lived on the farm while Dad was overseas with the Air Force in Nam.
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Re: No Jobs
Mar 26, 2022, 10:39 PM
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Perhaps its time to have a discussion about immigration. More specifically can we talk H1-B visas and how they have impoverished Washington DC?
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110%er [5926]
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immigrants
Mar 27, 2022, 7:49 PM
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are some of the hardest working people I have ever met. we could learn a thing or two from them. I worked with this lady who sent almost all of her check back to mexico every week so her family could come over (legally)
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Heisman Winner [111188]
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With the War in Ukraine
Mar 27, 2022, 1:46 AM
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Approximately 10-15% of the foreign labor force in areas related to my industry are either being sanctioned or too busy defending their cities to steal American jobs. It does not make me happy that people are systematically destroying each other on another continent, but I am thankful that our business model relies on domestic labor only. Our competitors are raising prices, while ours have remained constant. The invisible hand has made up for this shortage in labor and steered it toward our company.
It is because of Tigerbalm1's innovations and outright theft of more efficient production techniques that we provide jobs to Americans only, go home by 5:30, pay our poeple well, and can outcompete those who do not. We've had several clients drive up to 4 hours to visit us and verify that we are a real company, and not some guy brokering work to Eastern Europe and the Baltic regions. They always shake my hand and thank me for proving that good old-fashioned American ingenuity is still alive.
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Back in my 20's, I sold Krispy Kreme donuts and chocolate
Mar 27, 2022, 7:02 AM
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chip cookies door to door on Fridays to pay my bills. I sold about 200 dozen every Friday. They were not pre-sold, so I had to hump it every Friday until they were all gone. I did that until I was about 30 years old. I would go to Blacksburg,Clover,Saluda,Edgefield,Abbeville,Honea Path,and finish up in Belton. I had a little Clemson Orange VW crammed to the gills with boces of donuts. I would make about 400.00 every Friday and that is how I got into real estate. It was sometiems a little embarassing when I ran into a bank or doctor's office wearing shorts and a tshirt with me Clemson hat on and I bumped into someone I knew. But, it was honest work and it allowed me to pay my bills while learning how to make it in real estate at 22 years old. By the way, the first subdivision I ever developed, one of my donut customers gave me 400,000 dollars to do it with......My second subdivision was financed by another donut customer in Williamston...
Hard work never hurt anyone...
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Re: Back in my 20's, I sold Krispy Kreme donuts and chocolate
Mar 27, 2022, 2:02 PM
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i couldn't sell krispy kremes,simply because i'd eat them all.
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Re: No Jobs
Mar 27, 2022, 8:31 AM
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Nail on the head, well deserving of POTD!!!
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I see a member of the non-working party gave you a TD..LOL.***
Mar 27, 2022, 8:39 AM
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Re: No Jobs
Mar 27, 2022, 9:04 AM
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I don't believe a word of this. We can't find anyone that will even bother to interview for a job right now. Since Covid, people decided they didn't want to work anymore and we can't find anyone.
I don't believe there's no jobs available because everyone I know that's in my position is having the same problem. WE can't find people to work.
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Re: No Jobs
Mar 27, 2022, 1:48 PM
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I think it's a lot more complex than just passing it off to " laziness" or willingness .
Think these last 2 generations simply have a different world view than you or I , and not to take liberty with what I think you or I would think about it but I think the way things look today versus what they'll look like at the end of the decade is going to really shock a lot of us who aren't paying attention to the why's and the who's.
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Re: No Jobs
Mar 27, 2022, 3:13 PM
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I tend to agree with much of your post. There are more complicated reasons than running down the last 2 generations as lazy or sitting around waiting on a check from the government. Things will look different for sure in the next few years. Maybe for worse, but I am hoping that perhaps some better will come out of it too.
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Thank you for your service.***
Mar 27, 2022, 3:50 PM
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