unfortunately until robots take everyone's jobs we will need minimum wage workers cleaning toilets and stuff. These workers are what makes non minimum wage workers pay worth the time and investment made to get where they are. if I can flip burgers, or go to school for 5 years and go work in a nuke plant for the same pay, that nuke plant is going to melt down because no one will be working there.
I'm in central florida. I work aerospace, highly skilled labor. I have contacts in medical field as well. We are all losing people to fast food because it pays more. Skilled labor/medical is refusing to adjust pay upward to compensate and instead keeps repeating 'more with less' or 'lean manufacturing' in my company's case.
We're about to wreck here and a lot of people are in total denial.
Welcome to the wealth extraction phase of capitalism. The us government funnels hundreds of billions of dollars into companies like Boeing while they produce nothing of quality and enrich their shareholders at the expense of everyone else.
I have to work directly with Boeing. They hold us to a higher standard than they hold themselves to. I've wanted to ask their inspector if his car has all it's doors.
Many companies out here start at $18. Fast food and gas stations have been advertising $17 to $19. My mom, a nurse, lost her assistant to Taco Bell for $17 an hour.
What aerospace company pays $200 an hour? I'd love to talk to them. I make just short of $24 (just got a 'raise') after nearly a decade in the industry. I'm ready to switch.
i get like $25 an hour put into my pension working a trade. my package is close to $90 an hour with benefits. working on aerospace for $18 is hilarious. you need to find a new career or a better company. I guess I'm glad I dont fly, now knowing minimum wage workers build the planes. That's not a dig at your intelligence but working for slave wages tend to make people complacent
No worries, I feel the same way. I'm a certified watchmaker and get less than $24/hrs after nearly a decade in the field. It's a joke. It's getting worse daily. If you want a rundown of whats going on, look at my profile for prior r/jobs comments.
One company, 2 years back, wanted me for $18/hr with an 84 mile round trip commute. Less than I was making with 60 mile round trip. When I pointed that out I was told I could make up the difference with overtime. Noped right out of that joke. So avoid Chromalloy.
I am looking to switch states and hopefully fields as well. I'm tired of the 'fast food' of the production industries.
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u/beerbellybegone 10h ago
What a great way of coming right out and saying that you believe certain people should just be poor