The Random Thought Thread

sdandrea1

Par4QC See, that's the mentality of union workers.....'how much is someone else is making'!! None of their business, nor should it be a concern to them/for them.

How much a corporate big wig is making is not justification for the value of the work being performed. You wanna get rich? Start or buy a car company.

sdandrea1

Typhoon If the plants stay closed Bruce Springsteen will write a song about it.

Or Billy Joel.

Typhoon

sdandrea1 Or Billy Joel

F Billy Joel. He’s an asshole.

Par4QC

propman In the long run, they will be farther behind that CEO pay, if they strike.
$30/hr. x 40= $1200/wk.

Strike lasts 8 weeks= $9600 lost wages
Strikers win the 9% raise they 'need'.
$2.70/hr/ x 40=$108/wk. x 52wks.=$5616.
Almost 2 years to get back to even!!!

Take the damn 5% and be ahead, idiots.

Either way, the price of new vehicles will go up 12%.
You will never beat the company.

johnnydoom

Par4QC The prices of cars are so high right now that only doctors and auto workers can realistically afford to buy most of them.

sdandrea1

Par4QC You will never beat the company.

Sad, but true. Free enterprise.

Par4QC

johnnydoom Price a new John Deere combine!!! Or even just a tractor. Those guys make less than $30. And the company has billions in profit. Every quarter!!

propman

Avg price of a car is supposedly $48,000. A uaw worker ( on high end) makes $6x,xxx.

garyt1957

propman A uaw worker ( on high end) makes $6x,xxx.

My two BIL's that worked for Ford and GM made way more than that. both had multiple years of over $100K. Overtime adds up at $45-$60 an hour.

propman

Every avg Joe needs a combine, almost like a $60,000 pickup truck.😂

Par4QC

propman Noticed yesterday the fella across the street got a new pickup. Has a motorcycle, a newish Mustang(never drives), wife has a car, they live in FL in the winter now. (retired)
He was a school teacher. iirc, a lower paid band instructor.

UAW gotta have $50/hr. just to make ends meet!!

Fella about 3 blocks from has a few JD tractors in his garage. 😄

propman

Par4QC likes living in a material world. Whatever makes people happy.
It's almost like the little league trophy one got. Nice to look at, not much else, imo.

Bravopilot

Par4QC So, you live in rich-people neighborhood🙃😁

azgreg

Par4QC
That can be done on a modest income if you handle your retirement investments right.

sdandrea1

Bravopilot So, you live in debt-laden neighborhood

Fixed it......😉

Par4QC

Bravopilot Apparently, yes.

raggmann54

Strike lasts too long companies will just open up some shuttered facility in Mexico and ramp up…CEO will still have his mansion and the UAW can fight over who mows his lawn…Has anyone looked to see how many cars/trucks are sitting around waiting to be shipped??? Some models have 100+ days of inventory sitting on lots not shipped. Auto companies are not stupid…they built up a large inventory for this. They won’t have to shut down and pay workers to do nothing, they will just them strike and let the union deplete their funds on strike “pay”…

Bravopilot

azgreg Maybe, hard to agree on "modest income". Going through this now in trying to convince myself to retire.

johnnydoom

Other than a slow starting Georgia team, the SEC kind of looks like garbage so far this year.

garyt1957

johnnydoom Other than a slow starting Georgia team, the SEC kind of looks like garbage so far this year.

Glad to see Bama have a down year, or three. No offense to any Bama fans here.

Rickochet

Ask most UAW people walking the picket line details of what they are striking for and most don't have a clue just that the union told them to.

propman

Rickochet what else did you find out?

Bravopilot

Rickochet Works best this way for unions.

sdandrea1

Bravopilot Maybe, hard to agree on "modest income". Going through this now in trying to convince myself to retire.

Depends on lifestyle choices. You're smart enough to know what you can afford. 👍😉

johnnydoom

Bravopilot Going through this now in trying to convince myself to retire.

I'm not retiring until some employee approaches my boss and asks who the senile old man in the corner cube is that keeps mumbling that Reagan would bomb them into a new time zone. 🤪

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