Lots of guys still here from day 1. One is on year 49. Lots of guys retire after 35 - 40. years. Most that stay have moved to the less intensive areas. Most workers get the mechanical ailments. 62-70 ages. That guy that’s on year 49 is drawing full social security and still works 50-60 hrs a week. 🤣
It’s getting harder to find kids. A lot of the good ones went back to underground coal. We just hired a bunch of Mexicans and translators. Going to be interesting safety wise not work wise.
Perfect. Mexicans are very hard workers. They absorb the son better too
I posted a while back our ports cannot handle the number of containers carried by ships today.
Lot of those guys take a month of paternity leave after their first few months on the job?
There was a Mexican crew dredging the lake at the end of our cove. The guy could have brought in a machine but the Mexican crew using buckets - literally scooping mud with buckets and passing them up - was cheaper. Those guys worked like dogs for very little money.
And crazy polite. I'm with you. These people are willing to run on top of a train, cross rivers, and march through deserts while carrying a baby sign them up and get them a work permit. I actually have a meeting tomorrow to contract our first mexican factory
Yes and thank you for posting that info.I posted a while back our ports cannot handle the number of containers carried by ships today.
Thats why we should trade. Send liberal America-hating Socialism-loving Democrats south, and let hard working America-loving immigrants in. Hell, I’d go 3-for-1.
Second that motion. It's going to be 103 tomorrow. There's an exactly zero percent chance Jose and his boys won't be here to deal with the yard
Well I guess when you can’t work a mower this is your only option.
Bitch!!! I'm in prime heart attack age with a toddler. No more shoveling snow either
Just had a deck built around my pool, the guy I knew brought a crew of Mexican's that finished the entire job in 2 days. I had two other quotes from local guys that did not employ Mexican's and one was a friend of mine for 40 years they both were around 6k higher than what I paid.
Heart attack age but have a toddler...as South Park would say niccccce....
They will have a couple of gas station jalapeño hot dogs before doing your yard work.
That made me literally laugh out loud. And so true. The owner is a real neat old guy who sometimes wears a Mexican National team jersey. When he does I go out there to give him shit. Mexico's best days are over. USA better now. USA is the future of the region. Mexico is old.
Yeah, but when its 55 they are bundled up to where they can hardly move!
I know way too many UPS lifers who are crippled by the time they hit 50. Blown back or knee or hip and they're sunk. They make a killing but pay the price.
Oh for sure. Seems great when you are young. No tuition lost income. But risky and the back end can be rough
You just may have come up a new term: Hot lite. A descriptive term for women in 8.0 +/- range
The House passed the Ocean Shipping Reform Act.I posted a while back our ports cannot handle the number of containers carried by ships today.
Looks like one of many changes is to try to use inland ports since land around coastal ports is very expensive. But I haven't seen how to do that, how to get material from the ocean inland without using the overcrowded coastal ports.
Aren't you supposed to pay it forward and now his grass, maybe 3 tomorrow?
Outstanding! Great story. Need to leave a six pack on his porch
My buddy dropped off his wood splitter yesterday so I decided to split a little tonight. Dumb. Sitting here an hour later and I still feel like crap.
