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Originally Posted by AndyAMG
My boss does not care about skilled labor. That's why
I was there, to make things as simple as possible so button pushers could get $18/hr and love the place. That way they didn't have to hire the $25-35/hr guys.
My engineering degree and being an former AF officer is my real bargaining power to get good job. Machining is going to die a slow and painful death over the next 10 years as old timers get out of the trade, small shops fold and companies do their best to automate and simplify so they don't ever have to pay more than $20/hr. The days of the machinist are numbered.
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If the machinist's days are numbered today, than they were numbered 100 years ago. The free market is simply regulating the number of workers needed. Not many people fighting for those dwindling machinist opportunities these days anyhow. A real problem for your former boss, and a problem that will only get worse.
Machinists used to be paid better, and they used to be treated with respect. Without that, why should anybody want to be a machinist? Hard to keep all those expensive financed spindles turning when there aren't enough people that know what they are doing. And then, all those $18/hr button pushers will be nothing but another liability to part ways with.
Don't be such a Debbie Downer.
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