manning5 wrote:
So my post about what Holland did brought out the evil in you! Sad. Work on your comprehension skills.
The issue was clearly one of attempted coercion by the unions using the threat of a nationwide strike to get far,far higher pay for their members than they were getting, which was already very substantial. It backfired!
I have been a member of unions & as a self employed individual.
I had nightmares of one factory job for quite some time after I left that job.
Just let me say that there was no end to seeing that time study person with the stop watch timing every move. Ever hundredth of a second had to be spent of a task.
I had more that my share of tasks that were timed badly.
You can do many task quickly for a while.
But you can not keep that pace up for as long as they would wish you too.
It is like seeing a person ruing a 1 minute mile & asking that person to run at that rate for eight hours.
Well you did get a 5 minute break each hour.
If you have never had a factory job you can never understand the humility you face as a human.
The lesson I got from that was if you break a task down in to small pieces you can do almost any thing.
I created in my self a working machine able to do most tasks in maintenance of rental housing.
Only to have those who I helped get rich while I only asked for what I needed to survive.
Called me not to long ago looking for thanks for what they did for me.
What I created was to be free to do things my way & ask for what I deemed fair.
I had a family to support.
There was so much needing doing that I was able to work as many hours as I wanted.
Calling me a while back looking for thanks from me for what they did for me.
It all ended when the person they hired to tell me what needed doing started doing many of those things. The things I had pointed out how simple most of them were to do.
He quit & took a job paying 3 times as much while just directing others.
In life there are givers & takers.
The takers seem to be rewarded better.
You can only get away with simple repairs for so long.
Then professional people are needed.
My advice at that time was not what they wanted to hear.
So the person I showed how simple most repairs are stop asking me to do what I was good at.
Then he started doing them.
I had hoped that they would keep me around s a consultant. They choose not to.
So I have chosen to advise a son in shaping his adventure in rental properties.
He has learned all I could teach him & advanced far beyond that.
What I have now for the most part has come from working till 78, inheritance & investing in a rental property. (That all I have to show for that is I paid off the mortgage.)
I depreciated it & the money I received for that was lost when I paid takes on that money where I sold the building.
I have no regrets.
I an neither proud or a shamed of what I am or have done.
Just some what content.