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kleinbl00  ·  1571 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Inflationary Angst

I knew a guy who used to work at a foundry outside Chicago back in the early '80s. Molten metal everywhere. Nothing that couldn't kill you before you knew you were dead. Puddles of liquid cyanide big enough to slip in. He said he and most of his buddies got through the day by being stoned out of their minds.

Also a union gig paying $80k a year.

I don't know anyone at foundries now. I've seen some sketchy machine shops. And I know they aren't doing union work and I know they aren't making $80k a year and I know that things aren't appreciably safer since the early '80s. And I know that if something goes wrong, it's a lot more perilous.

    That or convincing an Engineer to take on a ton of responsibility for not a ton of money. shrug.





ButterflyEffect  ·  1571 days ago  ·  link  ·  

yeah, 3rd party fabs and 3rd party warehousing is terrifying and i would be very interested in how the % of work allocated to those places away from in-house “1st party” had changed since the 80s.

l o l “hey why’s your automation engineer position open and posted for 6 months” “see this graph - see the far right side of it. fuck you”. that graph is also why i am going to move to mazama or twisp once i can afford a cabin up there.

kleinbl00  ·  1571 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    yeah, 3rd party fabs and 3rd party warehousing is terrifying and i would be very interested in how the % of work allocated to those places away from in-house “1st party” had changed since the 80s.

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    that graph is also why i am going to move to mazama or twisp once i can afford a cabin up there.

A rational market participant recognizes that when the market cannot be participated in rationally, the rational move is to exit the market. I solemnly swore to never work in a cubicle ever again in 2007 and so far? So good. But then, I'm one of the lucky ones. I think that the current workforce is self-selecting for people who either don't mind what a raw deal it is or don't have the resources or opportunities to leave; if you're spending 50 hours a week shuttling chinese crap for Amazon so that you can afford Happy Meals after daycare you've got every reason in the world to lodge a few protest votes. I mean, your world is ((((((((((((((((((thisbig.)))))))))))))))))))