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What Americans Lose When We Refuse to Do Crap Jobs
The Federalist ^ | 07/14/2015 | Peter Cook

Posted on 07/14/2015 11:28:53 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 07/14/2015 11:28:53 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m watching Fury-”best job I ever had.”


2 posted on 07/14/2015 11:31:07 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: SeekAndFind

I recently told someone who said that illegals are “doing the jobs that Americans won’t do...”

“Because we pay Americans NOT to do those jobs! Cut off the welfare gravy train and watch Americans demand the illegals get kicked out so they can take those jobs!”

People are stupid.


3 posted on 07/14/2015 11:33:30 AM PDT by bolobaby
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To: SeekAndFind

You would honestly expect this crowd to accept a crap job?

http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2015/07/08/3-on-your-side-many-millennials-would-quit-if-not-allowed-to-do-personal-tasks-at-work/


4 posted on 07/14/2015 11:35:43 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: SeekAndFind

MY first job was working midnights in a steel mill... when I came home after my shift, my mother made me undress in the basement... I was SO filthy she didn’t want the dirt in the house.

I guess it was just me and my ‘white privilege’ that got me that job and kept me going back for two years so I could get the money for a car and college....(while all my friends were OUT having a ball)


5 posted on 07/14/2015 11:37:02 AM PDT by SMARTY ("What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self. "M. Stirner)
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My grandmother told stories of being a student nurse and her mother would not allow her “to come inside my house wearing those clothes that are all full of germs”. Hence she had to strip on the back porch before being allowed inside. Pretty racy stuff for the 1920’s!

Here in Pittsburgh many older homes have “Pittsburgh Toilets” set out in the middle of the basement floor, and open shower heads in the basement for similar reasons. Men would come home from mills and mines so full of grime the lady of the house would never let them in the front door. Went straight to the basement to wash up.


6 posted on 07/14/2015 11:40:00 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: SeekAndFind

I can’t even get a crap job.

Shows how great the Obama economy really is.


7 posted on 07/14/2015 11:47:33 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Biology is biology. Everything else is imagination.)
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From the time I was 5 until I was 14 I and my 2 sisters, my mother(sometimes) and my Father worked in our 20,000 bird Chicken House(19,000 or so eggs a day) so when the kids today complain I “politely” tell them to STFU!


8 posted on 07/14/2015 11:47:48 AM PDT by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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Dishwasher at a popular Chinese restaurant. Long hours, horrible pay, no tips, but a plate of great food to start the evening, a paper bag of leftovers after the kitchen floor was cleaned, and once or twice a week a chance to moon over the owner’s daughter.

Ah youth...


9 posted on 07/14/2015 11:47:52 AM PDT by Ronin (Blackface or bolt-ons, it's the same fraud. - Norm Lenhart)
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I started working for a guy who owned a furniture factory. Cleaned out his warehouses before I could legally work there (paid cash). Then I would work summer days at his ranch outside town. The first job was clearing a concrete irrigation ditch that had filled completely with mud from an overflow of the canal that fed it. It took me three days to completely clear it by hand, it was over a mile long.

Then I dug post holes for his fence (again by hand, until he garnered some sympathy and brought out his tractor with a post-hole auger on it - we broke three safety pins dealing with rocks). It was hard work, it was good work, and it was a learning experience I never forgot.

10 posted on 07/14/2015 11:50:07 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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I worked at McDonald’s, Taco Bell and Arby’s.

I was the maintenance man at McDonald’s. Funny, because I was 15 and in college.

Anyway, I used that early morning time to make grilled cheese sandwiches and omelets.

To this day I can’t stand ketchup. Not the smell or taste.


11 posted on 07/14/2015 11:50:30 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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Try working in the Lethal Room (where they electrocuted stray dogs and cats) at the Animal Rescue League. We had to shove the crying, terrified dogs in and then remove their smoking, burnt corpses. I refused to work there and was happy to just clean cages.


12 posted on 07/14/2015 11:50:49 AM PDT by pabianice (LINE)
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Ya go into places like LA, and the people in McWhopper don’t even speak English..They have to hire bilingual managers to communicate with their low wage help, most of which are illegal. The franchises are owned mostly by foreign nationals, cartel bosses, Muslims etc.

Who would send your teenage daughter into that to work with some 40 year old low wage illegals from Mexico? Not going to happen.


13 posted on 07/14/2015 11:53:38 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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I shoveled crap from horse stalls and worked on sale barn alley ways. Did it for 2 years daylight to dark on weekends and sale days.


14 posted on 07/14/2015 11:54:54 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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You’re not trying hard enough!/

Just kidding.

Same here.

I took an awful job last year that almost put me in traction.


15 posted on 07/14/2015 11:57:37 AM PDT by Califreak (Hope and Che'nge is killing U.S. Feel the Trump-mentum!)
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Ever wonder where all the dirt and smelly grim goes when you go thru the car wash? Unfortunately I know.....


16 posted on 07/14/2015 11:57:54 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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I know what that’s like, having worked in a doughnut shop in high school for a year. The fryers were emptied, the oil (liquified shortening) was pumped through the thing and what was left was smelly, dirty and got all over the place if I wasn’t careful wheeling it out into the back parking lot. Once I had it sitting there, I used hot water to chase the residue out and down the sewer drain. The best part about that job was delivering the doughnuts in the company van to another shop that didn’t have its own fryers...and boy did the cops ever love to see us show up on Saturday and Sunday mornings before 6! Plus, it was almost always party time on the way back to the main store. It was my 2nd job ever and it paid $2.20/hour in 1975. I had just gotten my drivers license two weeks before getting the job and one of my best friends helped get me in but it was the quality of my work in the restrooms, especially the Ladies Room, where I demonstrated to the manager that I was good enough to start work ASAP!


17 posted on 07/14/2015 12:00:38 PM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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Spent a summer working nights in a zinc plating factory.

Stripped the steel in a vat with 400,000 gals of sulfuric acid, plated antennae towers in a large vat of 900 degree zinc.

It actually looked like hell and felt like it.


18 posted on 07/14/2015 12:01:29 PM PDT by buffaloguy
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Your experience was similar to mine. One summer, I worked in a shipyard from 4 pm to midnight, and often overtime until 4:00 am. I was told to enter the house quietly, strip down to my underwear, and leave the dirty outerwear in the laundry room before coming upstairs.

Those work hours didn’t enhance my social life, but I soon learned to value the educational opportunities my parents gave me.


19 posted on 07/14/2015 12:02:18 PM PDT by riverdawg
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My worst jobs were:
Laying sod.
Technical writing.
Sales cold calls.

20 posted on 07/14/2015 12:03:05 PM PDT by DungeonMaster (Of those born of women there is not risen one greater than John The Baptist.)
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