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Originally Posted by Sideways
Illegal immigrants. The same ones who do it now because American workers demand too much and deliver too little. I wonder if that waitress that got the 1% tip was an illegal immigrant or not?
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I've never met an illegal immigrant who owned a business and hired other illegal immigrants.
I don't understand how you blame people for trying to better their lives when the people that do the hiring are doing so in pursuit of higher profits.
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Originally Posted by Sideways
Nope, not forgotten. Just an outdated concept in a culture where the blue collar worker takes their job for granted. As if they have a right to work. No one has a "right" to work. Find that in the Constitution, that you have a right to work. You work to get a job then you work harder to keep it. Being in Texas you know that Texas is not a right to work state. That means that your employeer can walk in say good morning, nice tie and by the way you're fired and doesn't need to give you a reason. Does it happen? No, but it can and you have few if any options if it does.
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What jobs? You need a job to take it for granted. The sins of the past generations are being taken out on the current. Instead of regulating, we ship jobs over seas eliminating the American Middle Class. It's happening all over the US.
Yes Texas is a right to work state, and I'm not saying I agree with what the unions did, but it seems like people in the younger generations are going to be the ones to suffer and that makes no sense to me.
I didn't negotiate exorbitant benefits before I was born. Alternately I cannot find a job in manufacturing even if I needed to.
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Originally Posted by Sideways
Huh? Want to run that by me again? Ship what jobs overseas? Washing dishes? Waiting tables? OK. I get it and agree. Up to a point. Blaming someone else for your own bad attitude, apathy and lack of interest in doing the job right hardly seems prudent. Think I will keep giving out 1% tips when needed and 10% when called for. I have two words going through my mind that I find an outdated concept and past it's time. Probably doing more harm than good in the current economic climate. The words are "Labor Union".
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Factories, manufacturing. Those are the jobs I mean.
We're basing the assumption of the lack of tip on the available evidence. "Get a real Job" in this case.
Labor unions are like all things. In moderation they serve to protect workers from unreasonable demands, they have changed substantially from that though.
I'm not advocating their return, but there has to be a system in place to ensure the future of the American middle class or we slip further into the Oligarchy we already are.
As for the apathy. I understand it.
My father put himself through college flipping burgers.
Now you can't even pay your rent doing that. To quote am acquaintance "Why should I work for things I don't want and will never attain?".
I don't see it as a reasonable work ethic as it contrary to my own, but I understand his sense of frustration in that even with solid employment the chances of getting ahead are still minimal when in consideration to blue color jobs.
I don't live to work, I work to live. If I can't live by working, where is the logic in having that job?
Before you say find another job, there are none. Texas was one of the states that managed to create jobs during the recession.
Most where bellow minimum wage and given to immigrants. Can't blame them though, they are not hiring themselves.
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