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Gearheadgrrrl
| | Posted on Friday, April 20, 2018 - 01:44 pm: | 
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While I won't doubt the existence of that redneck RV, immigrant day laborers have been in short supply at Homer's and Lowe's lately. I winter down by Naples in southwest Florida and the immigrant laborers have bailed and the Haitian health care and restaurant workers whose Visas are running out are next to bail. Thus it's taking forever to get hurricane damage repaired and I know a 70 year old who's providing in home care to 80 year olds, and she just had a stroke. Up here in Minnesota I run my small town's water system because there's no young folks available and the plumbers we rely on are getting close to retirement age. I'm pretty much convinced I'm gonna be working a least part time even though I retired 13 years ago simply because no one else is available, and I sure as hell don't need the money. Best I can do is tool up so I can physically do the job and hope some young folks develop an interest in maintaining the infrastructure they rely on. |
86129squids
| | Posted on Friday, April 20, 2018 - 02:43 pm: |
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Ebeattch, GAWD I love lots of your pics! Dang if I wouldn't pimp that truck and camper "top"... and honestly, those guys reclining in the wheelbarrows are just brilliant. I've worked with countless Hispanics, and marveled at how hard they push to giterduun.
Given that I'm in the restaurant biz, I know all too well how the work ethic is fading... BUT- there ARE a good number of young kids I see that do know what it means, and they do care to push harder. Those are the ones I focus on, and I try to lead by my own example. That's the way my parents and grandparents raised me... I simply CANNOT NOT do my job, to MY standards. |
Natexlh1000
| | Posted on Friday, April 20, 2018 - 03:43 pm: |
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I agree with the Mexican thing. I worked loading docks in high school and UPS afterwards.
The Mexicans were hardcore machines of productivity.
I never had any idea where the Mexicans = Lazy thing came from. |
Sifo
| | Posted on Friday, April 20, 2018 - 06:13 pm: |
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I never had any idea where the Mexicans = Lazy thing came from.
They are the ones not working. Both stereotypes have truth behind them. |
Strokizator
| | Posted on Friday, April 20, 2018 - 11:12 pm: |
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If you look closer at the wheelbarrow picture, those guys are geared up to pour concrete. They're waiting on the truck to show up.
Reminds me of a joke: Davey Crockett is looking over the wall of the Alamo and sees 3000 Mexicans running his way. He turns to Jim Bowie and asks, "Are we pouring concrete today?"
Back to the original question, Court has discovered a recent phenomenon that's sweeping the country: nobody wants to work. I can't even get contractors to return my calls to at least tell me "no". Apparently they have to lock their doors at night to keep people from driving by and throwing money inside. Consequently, I've assembled a rather large assortment of saws, tile cutters, drywall knives, plumbing and electrical tools, zero turn mower and 30" snowblower. YouTube is my friend. |
Pwnzor
| | Posted on Saturday, April 21, 2018 - 12:17 pm: |
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Yeah, Mexicans are awesome.
Only time I ever saw a 5'6" man dig a hole 8 feet deep... Mexican straight out of Oaxaca.
Paisanos aint no joke when it comes to getting a job done.
Chicanos, another story. |
Rick_a
| | Posted on Sunday, April 22, 2018 - 10:50 am: |
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I just spent a few days pulling weeds...at least the big ones...no way I'd try to get someone to do that...though I did force my son to help me one day...he flat out said "no."
"Oh well, buddy...let's go, you're pulling weeds..."
The flooding from the last hurricane turned the backyard into a baby forest. |
Aesquire
| | Posted on Sunday, April 22, 2018 - 11:47 am: |
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Mexican laziness is a myth from Hollywood.
Bad westerns that depict a war torn Mexico.
Few remember that before the U.S. Went to fight Pancho Villa, the Spanish, then the French invaded Mexico.
To collect debts? Ran out of Cities of Gold to steal? The reasons are weird & European, and Mexico was the loser.
All those towns in the movies were not the result of poor lazy people. Those people are poor because the French Army came through, stole everything, and shelled the church and police station on the way through.
Modern Mexico would be fine except for two factors.
Socialist government. The U.S. Drug prohibition policy that feeds organized crime.
In the near century since the U.S. Banned recreational alcohol, then a decade later unbanned alcohol and turned it's excess of corrupt beer cops to take on "drugs", we've fed organized crime there.
Remember the Columbian drug Lord who stayed in the Lincoln Bedroom when Clinton was renting it out to big donors? He bribed Bill to keep drugs illegal to keep his business rich. ( and yeah, it was an illegal foreign campaign contribution ) |
Aesquire
| | Posted on Sunday, April 22, 2018 - 11:59 am: |
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As far as domestic labor market and kids not working, that's what happens when you don't have to work to buy your own luxuries.
Kids aren't expected to feed themselves. That's their parent's job. Buying video games or comic books or cars ( depending on age and era ) used to be on the kids dime.
Curmudgeon voice on.
My parents never gave me a car. I was allowed to borrow Dad's or Mom's for a specific purpose, fairly often. If I wanted to drive to anywhere else, I had to work, save, and buy my own.
I never got sent to Cabo San Lucas for Spring Break either. It never even occurred to my folk to send me on a luxury vacation in the islands or Mexico. Never crossed their minds that was responsible parenting.
End rant. |
Ebutch
| | Posted on Sunday, April 22, 2018 - 09:42 pm: |
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Well the Snakes see my post Different as I posted.I did not say Mexicans are lazy.Go back and look!!!!!!
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Natexlh1000
| | Posted on Monday, April 23, 2018 - 09:58 am: |
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I don't think anyone was accusing Ebutch of anti-Mexican-ism.
I was just observing that stereotype exists and perplexes me. |
86129squids
| | Posted on Monday, April 23, 2018 - 12:07 pm: |
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You're all good, Ebeattch, as are about all the Hispanics I've known.
Spent yesterday doing my yardwork, trying to get ahead of a week's rain here- mowed, weedeated EVERYTHING, mowed the garden to beat back the weeds and clover prior to turning/planting, then makde my first attack on my junkpile next to the shed. All the while my sweetie's brother is laying a nice new landscaping brick border around several areas... he's a newly naturalized Dominican, just attained full U.S. citizenship about a month ago.
He works for a mulch/stone/landscaping supply company, a key worker for them. Once he went to take the oath, everyone decorated the office to celebrate, red/white/blue all over, and a US flag giant cookie cake! Dude works his buttocks off, either at work or for us on occasion- we make sure we feed him all kinds of good stuff. Heck, I really need to take him for some Fleming's prime rib soon...  |
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