What's the difference. In your eyes we are all just mindless losers.
I'm going to guess that the fact that you have your own shop off the floor means that you are not a lineworker, but actually have a significantly different job title.
Yes. I am an electrician in a factory that prints catalogs. What does that have to do with the disdain you carry for all of us "factory" workers?
The issue was poorly framed in my post--apologies.
The issue should be: "what do we do with those individuals who are NOT capable of being an MD, a lawyer, an RN, (etc., etc.) but who are willing to do the hard and (sometimes) challenging work in a factory?"
Put them in some other country? Ignore them? Create Gummint jobs for them?
Most people who "work in a factory" actually learn a great deal about the production process--some begin in QC, others begin in maintenance, some start 'on the line.'
Over time, those with ambition and some talents progress within the factory environment--but the "training" they acquire in each position simply enhances their knowledge of the product(s) and the processes--making them more and more valuable to the employer.
In general terms, Wide's understanding of "factory work" is as myopic and stone-headed as Wide's understanding of the dictum that 'work is made for man, not man for work.'
And Raybbr: there is NO print operation in Ct. that compares with the print ops here in Wisconsin....
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