How is the economy where you are?

:hello: Here in FL things are worse than what are Politicization's say it is. The Them Parks are booming. They do not pay much mostly minimum wage. Over all FL being a right to work State pay is much lower than most other States. More like right to screw you State. People for the most part have quit looking for work. Obama has put more people on Welfare than than any other President. 47% of our population gets a Government check. 11 million on SSD, around 15 million are on SS & some 40 million are on SSI, food stamps, PIC & what ever else they can get. Did you all see that guy on the News that owns two Porsche & he is on food stamps. What a joke. It seems like one out of 3 shoppers at Walmart pull out a Welfare card. Most are White with 3 kids. & under the age of 25. Also some lady was on Wheel of Fortune. She spun the big wheel So they took her SSD off of her. On the other hand my wife's job is going to do her in. She works between 64 & 72 hours a week. 12 hrs a day & 8 on SAT & SUN.
 
Not sure what the numbers are around Lancaster PA but I am making the most I have ever made. In sales. I will take it as long as it last. Eyeballin a Vmax for the collection.:headbang:
 
1 year wonder said:
that's what the powers to be want, break it down and rebuild it where everyone is making crap money and work long hrs. if you don't like it there's 10 other people to fill that spot. socialism here we come, slowly but surely.
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BIG +1 on that.....Financial collapse will do us in and turn us into not the walking dead but the walking dying.......:pistols:
 
1yearwonder - my hours did not increase - we went from 40 hours a week to 32 hours a week and there is no overtime or weekend work. I was just curious if it was just our industry, or our area, or if it was this way everywhere in all the different industries. Later.
 
At the plant where I work, we have quite a few long-term contractors. They are given 1-week "furloughs" (without pay) twice a year. One of those is at Christmas, which is kinda tough on them.

No lay-offs of permanent people, we have an "aging workforce", so retirements take care of that.

The CEO is trying to cut expenses here and there, including OT for some folks. One thing kind of funny - we can't have KimWipes in the break room any more, just the rolls of brown paper towels.
 
Its gotten better here, a lot of it is probably a spillover from the high tech companies in the bay area which is about 60 miles away.
 
Same here - an aging workforce - everyone has 20 + years in at this point. We also do without some things to try and save money - like lights!!!! Hahahaha - No kidding, years ago they installed motion sensors - that don't work right - so on the night shift we wind up working in the dark half the time - hahahaha. Later.
 
^^^ That's why he gets the big bucks.
 
:hello: Sort of like one of my jobs. They refused to stock spare parts for our machines & always had us do jury rig bandage type of fixes. We had a robot that kept plowing fuses. The manager said put a bigger fuse holder in it & put the largest fuse that we have in it. I said that will blow something other than the fuse. He said just do it. It took out the whole micro processor. We was down for 4 days & $17,000 on repairs.
 
Yeah, it snows/rains inside sometimes. Big bucks - yeah right - you guys are a riot - let me tell you.........hahaha.........Good thing too, all you can do is laugh about this sort of thing. It will get better someday, just gotta wait it out for now. I spent my shift last night using a bottle of 409 - cleaning one of the lifters we use to carry the steel - no steel to run - kind of a nice break though - hahahaha.


R.J. - consider yourself lucky - we don't even keep fuses in stock - I've been shut down from a job before for that specific reason - no fuses...........Later.
 
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