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   Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 00:33:15 JST Bread up, Bro
   $25/hr for welding in 2025 is some fucking retarded bullshit
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     ElJewpacabra (jewpacabra@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 00:38:35 JST ElJewpacabra

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     @sickburnbro Here’s what you have to look forward to if you want to use their public transportation
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 00:38:35 JST Bread up, Bro

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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 00:46:12 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @Jewpacabra What these people aren't liking is that if they want to offer a salary and aren't getting takers, that means they need to offer more.

     They have an amount they want to pay, and just want to FORCE people to take it.

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     ElJewpacabra (jewpacabra@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 00:46:13 JST ElJewpacabra

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     @sickburnbro yeah. they won’t get anyone worth a fuck with that pay (and not even a blanket offer of per diem). Last I recall, there’s multiple shipyards right there there and Norfolk poached a lot of their workers because they ran them into the ground during Covid. pretty sure one of the CEO’s complained to Congress about it and then continued to implement shit policies that led to higher attrition rates.
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     ElJewpacabra (jewpacabra@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 00:53:13 JST ElJewpacabra

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     @sickburnbro when you collapse your work force with DEI policies and communist unions that ensure a race to the bottom, you’re gonna have to beg the specialists to come save you. that means the specialists make their offers instead of the other way around, I look forward to seeing that.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 00:54:02 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • DMA
     @DMA who in their right mind is going to do construction for $12/hr when they pay more for slinging fried at mcdonalds
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     DMA (dma@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 00:54:03 JST DMA

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     $12-15 for construction jobs.
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     H. A. Copington (h_a_copington@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 00:54:56 JST H. A. Copington

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     @sickburnbro Bro I make 30 an hour welding after 5 years and I have no choice but to stay in this shitty fume-breathing job or I can't afford to live in Vancouver. Fuck this country.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 00:54:56 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • H. A. Copington
     @H_A_Copington you should at least force them to get you some proper ventilation.
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     kc (kc-poast@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 01:13:04 JST kc

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     @sickburnbro isn't this the same argument that has been going on for 200 years regarding the "destruction of US shipbuilding"? That worker pay is too high?
     
     Where the fuck is all the money going then? I know some people are getting rich off this shit, and it isn't the workers.
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     DocHolliday (docholliday@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 01:14:53 JST DocHolliday

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     @sickburnbro Koreans probably do pay somewhere around there but their base cost of living is way less, they get free healthcare, and doing shipbuilding there doesn't mean you have to go live in Hampton Groids
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 01:15:04 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @DocHolliday honestly who cares, they aren't going to have men to build ships in 10 years
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 01:17:46 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • kc
     @kc-poast follow the money always applies.
     
     But it's pretty simple, if you want quality work, pay quality money. It seems like they just want to slap together ships that suck ass. So why don't they just come out and say that.