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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (4 children)

There's a startling lack of quality a lot of the time now, it's gonna get hella bad when the trades-boomers go.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

True enough. I can only hear "NoBoDy WaNtS tO WoRk AnYmOrE" so many times before i figure who's to blame for that

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Exactly. Nobody wants to work for unliveable wages. It's a wage shortage, not a labour shortage.

Or, after being tired of being lowballed for work and offers to be paid in exposure, "fuck you, pay me."

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

A local (and very well off) welding company wanted me to pay for my own courses and equipment when I applied. It would have been hundreds of dollars out of my pocket, for MAYBE a chance to be taken on as an apprentice, if I withstand being the shop bítch for long enough.
PART TIME.

yea,

FUCK OFF

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Those “small business” owners:

“Buying my third luxury car is so expensive, why are prices going up? Must be the government”

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Unreal. What do they expect you to live off?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is so crazy to me. I got into a low voltage trade and everything was paid for. I brought minor hand tools, but everything over 100$ was provided. And that is like standard around me (for new guys). Also amazing wages once you're a well experienced worker. (Talking 5 years or so).

Maybe not welding, or electrician, but pipefitters, plumberd, fire guys, all great trades.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What kind of work is that if I were to go looking? I really enjoyed control wiring for HVAC systems, didn't enjoy lugging boilers up flights of stairs or brazing compressors in place in Manhattan with 1/2sqft of space to work in...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

My work specifically i very company dependant, but data wire, access control, fire, cameras, all the fun "low voltage" stuff. Normally you'll find Access, Security, and Cameras bundled. Sometimes with Fire, sometimes Data. All depends on who ya look for!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sorry, it’s just that in Italy it’s the exact, same thing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I wasn't aware, that truly blows...
I wonder what generation that kind of attitude will end at. There's nothing to gain by not even letting people get their foot in the door

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Most trade jobs don't pay enough. As an auto tech The offerings are not good, because most dealers keep most of the profits. Nurses are getting screwed left and right too. I tried switching over to being a truck driver and they actually pay less now than they used to, this is after the supposed shortage and I was out 14hrs a day.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

???? How can they have a shortage of workers, but try to justify paying people less???

I swear to fucking god, the mental gymnastics these fuckers do is phenomenal

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or in my case: "cool no one wants to pay me, I guess I'm taking the $1000 out of savings and starting my own businesses." It's way more stress, but I'm making enough money that I can think about buying a house and retiring before I die.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Waiting for Lemmy anti-capitalists in 3… 2…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

He started a business with a grand and got lucky. How many people wouldn't be successful with that grand? How many people don't even have that money to spare?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Skill shortage probably comes the same way as bankruptcy: gradually, then suddenly. We are probably in the slowly running out of tradesmen phase of the craftocalypse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Things are built to spec. Everybody wants that 4500sf house but most people don't know what quality looks like. When I was house shopping, the new construction homes homes already made me very disappointed and leary. I eventually bought an older home with a Stablok panel and felt better about that. 😂 Swapped the panel out after close, I'm not nuts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I eventually bought an older home with a Stablok panel and felt better about that.

My house had a Bulldog panel with the original 1960s inspection sticker still attached to it. Swapped it for a modern 200 amp panel when I had my solar panels installed.

It's hard to buy a new house in my area... They're so expensive, and the quality just isn't there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Leery is a synonym of wary. Leary is an angry man named Dennis that we thought was funny for a year or two.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also a tenured Harvard psychologist turned spiritual guru through drug experimentation.

RIP Timothy Leary.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

And apart from that, he'll be so kind, and consenting to blow your mind

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I doubled up on homes too. \o/