[quote=CONCHO]….organized labor and all they’ve proved over the years is their ability to get $70k per year for a job a trained monkey could do (and probably do better).

There are an awful lot of posts on this thread made during normal working hours (8-5 M-F). Say what you want about the overpaid spoiled stupid TRAINED MONKEY American autoworker, but one thing I’m pretty confident is that they don’t get paid to sit around making grade school insults at people they don’t even know on internet blogs.

I really, really, really hope none of the posters on this thread are using company resources for this. Jobs are hard to come by right now and it’s time to buckle down and help the companies we work for. Let’s do our best to make this country great again, and we can start by just working a little harder.

And for those of you who own your own companies, I really, really, really hope you’re not billing your clients for the time and trouble of playing “I’m smarter than you” with people you don’t even know on the internet. ESPECIALLY if your client is the US government or the government of California. Because both are in big trouble and need our help right now.

I guess that’s all I have to say. This thread makes me sad.[/quote]

CONCHO: Point taken. And, you’re right. No, I don’t bill my clients for any time not spent on their projects. I never have, though.

The “trained monkey” remark had nothing to do with work ethic. Rather, it had to do with the fact that organized labor was successful in acquiring substantial wages for workers who, for the most part, weren’t even fully able to properly thread a bolt through a hole (and before anyone blows a gasket over this, check out the quality reporting on GM vehicles from the 1970s through the mid-1990s).