Quote Originally Posted by mhall View Post
When that is ALL that applies for work....what do you do braniac.

Look this is construction work, we start them at 9.50 per hour green as a gourd. If experienced much more than that. I have a good fellow here that I think the world of, he is a Caucasian male and can barely read and write. He can however drive a forklift very well and call out a piece of lumber from 50 feet away amongst other skills mechanically that help me greatly. He has been here many years and makes around 34 to 38 a year counting his overtime...does that sound like he's being abused to you.

Guess what Union man he worked to get there and didn't **** on the Guvment tit. I have respect for the man and I will go to bat for him anyday and he would run through fire if I asked him to. It didn't take a Union to build that relationship, it took time honered hard work and dedication.

Anything that requires a lot of paper for administration HR stuff like Health Insurance changes, retirement materials, life insurance policies I help him with secretly so he won't be embarrased in front of the guys.
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Look this is construction work, we start them at 9.50 per hour green as a gourd. If experienced much more than that. I have a good fellow here that I think the world of, he is a Caucasian male and can barely read and write. He can however drive a forklift very well and call out a piece of lumber from 50 feet away amongst other skills mechanically that help me greatly. He has been here many years and makes around 34 to 38 a year counting his overtime...does that sound like he's being abused to you.

He has been here many years and makes around 34 to 38 a year counting his overtime...does that sound like he's being abused to you.

No sir it does not, I suspect he does not have to feed his family with food stamps, ask the 9.50 guy how many kids he has and how many food stamps he has to have to do feed them... How much of that wage did he acquire during the many many years he has been with the company, I suspect a good bit of that came when unions were stronger and your company had to pay a better scale to keep employees... If your company has many folks working there for less than 13 dollars an hour it is part of the problem and not part of the solution.. If it pays above food stamp wages to employees that have been there 3 or 4 years then it is part of the solution..