rc_subreme

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   by rc_subreme 4y ago

   Americans are living in a world with a land war in Europe with an old foe on one side, and the increasing pressure exerted on Asian trade and policy partners by a Pacific rim empire we've not seen eye to eye with in the past 100 years.
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   by rc_subreme 4y ago

   Rudolph the Red strikes again.
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   by rc_subreme 4y ago

   It looks like Europe has reached a far more sustainable labor market in general, with lower peaks and higher valleys. As well as much better time off, and benefits like health and pension secured by public institutions instead of employers
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   by rc_subreme 4y ago

   Yes. I am paid time and a half past 40 hours as mandated by US law. At time and a half, I am still falling short of the salaried spreadsheet operators who are the lower tier of the non-labor workforce. If you take all the overtime, 12 ho
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   by rc_subreme 4y ago

   >"Stretched thin" means there are few of you. Yes, there's less participation from young people in manufacturing. The pay doesn't go up, the plants go to Mexico or China. During covid when a bunch of old timers left
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   by rc_subreme 4y ago

   The view from outside tech: I'm an hourly laborer who thinks computers are fun and free software unixen are most fun, which is how I ended up finding HN. I've worked a number of manufacturing and agricultural jobs. Right now I ma