Posted on 08/11/2013 7:55:26 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
There are two kinds of men that this article will necessarily offend. The first, and most obvious, is the kind of man who honestly believes in an exceptional Mexican work ethic -- the man who attempts to befriend or utilize the Mexican population to prove himself not to be a racist, to acquire their votes, or to unfairly associate himself with qualities belonging to others.
But the second kind of man, in my opinion, deserves to be offended far more than the rest, for, hoping to find an essay about the laziness of Mexicans, what he is actually going to find is an essay about the foolishness of white Americans.
Being half-Hispanic, I have always heard, since as far back as I can remember, that Mexicans have a superior work ethic -- that they move quickly, and do much, and complain never. I do not necessarily debate these claims concerning the migrant laborer, but if I were to assert that these characteristics belonged to Mexicans as a whole, I believe I would do both Mexicans and Americans a disfavor.
In a sense, the claim is correct: Mexicans can be said to do the jobs avoided by whites, for less pay, and at a faster pace. Anyone at least remotely familiar with agricultural labor knows that whites largely avoid it, and that they avoid it because it is too difficult for the pay given. If we begin with this premise, that the pay is not enough to attract white people into this brand of heavy labor, we begin with a very sensible observation: that what is preferable to one man is not preferable to another.
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Yeah. What you said.
By all means then move to Mexico.
One reason that Mexico is so grubby and unfinished, is because of the Mexican work ethic, what until recently was always known as the “manana” attitude.
Until PC took over, Mexico was always rightfully known as a nation of lazy and indifferent people.
folk off
You hypocrites think these “hard” woking Mexicans are great running around on your roof with a hammer, but let one of them try to date your teenage daughter...
Excuse me?
Sounds like you were pretty fast, I can do the job myself but I have never done enough to develop any speed at all. My father was an old time carpenter, born 100 years ago this coming November four. He could do it all from the sill to the roof and build custom cabinets in the kitchen. He could nail on four squares an hour with a hammer. He could make a hammer sound like a nail gun. He actually preferred driving nailes overhead to driving them in flooring and I could never figure that out, trying to hammer straight over my head is nearly impossible for me. I can lift a weight over my head but I can’t get enough speed on a hammer to drive a tack over my head. I guess that’s why I took up electromechanical repair rather than carpentry.
I will go a long way to avoid roofing work-not because I’m averse to it, but I’m afraid of heights-climbing a ladder higher than 6-8 ft. gives me vertigo...
I am not a hypocrite, you moron, I am stating that I watched the Mexicans roof my neighbors’ house in record time. I have also had my house cleaned by Mexicans way better than anyone else (I also had a really slow one who was Mexican too).
Do I think people should come in legally to the US? Hell yes. now go take a long walk off a short pier, you are ridiculous
I am getting too old to climb but at age twenty I repaired antennas at the top of the antenna mast on the USS Saratoga, that is the highest point on the ship. Normally that was done in port but once I repaired an antenna up there while the ship was at sea in large waves. That was quite an experience.
I admire your fortitude-just the thought of such a thing would make me puke in technicolor-just no, no, no....
Lessse..If you could hypothetically sneak into Mexico illegally and get paid 20x more money, would you work a bit harder?
wow...some of you people just don’t quite get it.
“How did the Mexican Mafia get started?.”
The cousin of one of my friends started it in Hawaiian Gardens, CA back in the late 1950s. It began as a prison gang inside of the California Youth Authority.
One of the many benefits of diversity, brought to you by the Treason Lobby and other amnesty promoters.
I learned to make my self faster from the get go since I was paid by the piece. I could make $20 an hour and pay my overhead with that or I could get $75 by going faster. I timed everything and eliminated wasted movements. Something as simple as shingling from left to right instead of right to left can make a huge difference in speed. I chose different tools based on the one or two seconds I could save.
Sounds like your dad figured out how to tweak his work habits as well.
They are a proud people, descended from the Anasazi, who resisted attempts by the Aztec and later the Spaniards to enslave them and destroy their culture. By the time we Americans encountered, they were a nomadic people launching occasional raids on the Pueblo to survive. But this was a relatively brief lifestyle of necessity, not of choice and they quickly embraced a lifestyle of farming and ranching once their oppressors no longer occupied what is now Arizona. The Apache, their close cousins, simply took a little longer. Like your people, they have never owed allegiance to Mexico and have always been near the front of the line to serve in the U.S. Military.
The libtard notion that they somehow share a common interest with the more recent crop of illegal aliens in ludicrous and couldn't be further from the truth.
What you describe is now known as “industrial engineering”, in the days described in “Cheaper By The Dozen” it was called being an “efficiency expert”. My father was naturally fast and he used some little tricks he figured out. At least once he paid a price for one of those tricks. He was a 6’2”, 165 pound string bean, leaner than any bodybuilder and very strong with huge hands. When nailing boards with finishing nails he would hold several finish nails between his index finger and thumb and roll one out to the tip of his thumb and tap it once to set the point and then release it with his left hand, drive it home and roll another out to the tip. Once he had gripped the nail too close to the point and drove the nail through his finger into a board. He had to use his clawhammer to pull the nail out before he could free his left hand from the board.
Things were certainly different then, the housing contractor my father worked for could send four to six men to a site and they could build the house from start to finish, everyone was at least a framing carpenter and all were roofers and one was a mason, one an electrician, one a plumber, my father was the master carpenter and cabinet maker. Now it takes a whole big crew for each phase of construction, a framing crew, a roofing crew, a plumbing crew and on and on and with all that they need factory made cabinets.
Amnesty promoters are scum that hate the laws of the land.
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