120k a year isn’t enough

#27
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VolStrom said:
Did you actually read this? He plainly states what I suspected, that the people making $120k are doing so at the expense of working 12-16 hours a day 7 days a week. I witnessed this same thing and someone working max overtime and 7 days a week is not worth having around as an employee, they're exhausted all of the time.
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I’m not seeing the problem. Do you believe most doctors, lawyers, ceos, business owners, anyone who does well, do you believe they work 40 hour weeks?

My gf also made over 100k this year at 30 an hour as a nurse (RN) and I was making that at 15 an hour as an EMT.

If you want money, you have to work for it. That’s how this works
 
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VolStrom said:
What math, I just repeated what the union president stated.
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Then his math is wrong.

12-16 hours x 7 days per week = 98 hours.

40 hours x $30 + 48 hours x $45 = $3,360 per week. 176k per year.
 
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VolStrom said:
Did you actually read this? He plainly states what I suspected, that the people making $120k are doing so at the expense of working 12-16 hours a day 7 days a week. I witnessed this same thing and someone working max overtime and 7 days a week is not worth having around as an employee, they're exhausted all of the time.
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It’s 64.6 hours a week (feel free to check my math). I’m not impressed.
 
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Vol8188 said:
It’s 64.6 hours a week (feel free to check my math). I’m not impressed.
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What is 64.6 hours per week? Not everyone that works in a union plant makes the same wages. Production workers usually make the least, and crafts like mechanics and electricians make the most. Someone that is in the crafts might work 1/2 as much overtime to make the same as someone in production.
 
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McDad said:
Then his math is wrong.

12-16 hours x 7 days per week = 98 hours.

40 hours x $30 + 48 hours x $45 = $3,360 per week. 176k per year.
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Your reading comprehension sucks. Go back and read the local union president's statement and report back.
 
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VolStrom said:
Your reading comprehension sucks. Go back and read the local union president's statement and report back.
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I read your post. Perhaps you're old, demented and more confused than Biden.
 
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VolStrom said:
Your reading comprehension sucks. Go back and read the local union president's statement and report back.
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"He plainly states what I suspected, that the people making $120k are doing so at the expense of working 12-16 hours a day 7 days a week"
 
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VolStrom said:
What is 64.6 hours per week? Not everyone that works in a union plant makes the same wages. Production workers usually make the least, and crafts like mechanics and electricians make the most. Someone that is in the crafts might work 1/2 as much overtime to make the same as someone in production.
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64.6 hours at 30 an hour comes out to 120k.
 
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Open Q for the board, does The Curmudgeon's math check out?
 
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McDad said:
I read your post. Perhaps you're old, demented and more confused than Biden.
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That would be me McDad...I am exhausted from work. Feel like a car with 200K miles on it...Leaks, creaky noises, malfunctioning computer, several knobs missing, and lack of acceleration..yet still in a race.
 
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VolStrom said:
I've heard these "stats" from my own employer when they were trying to discredit union employees. First, anyone making $30/hour isn't making $120k a year without working a bunch of overtime. Secondly, the company is probably including their inflated cost of benefits in that number. If Kellogg's doesn't want to pay any more money, let them move their plant to China and make their cereal there. Unions don't usually go on strike for no reason.
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China will put coronavirus in the cereal…and lead paint on the plastic toy in the box.
 
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McDad said:
"He plainly states what I suspected, that the people making $120k are doing so at the expense of working 12-16 hours a day 7 days a week"
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Here let me just post it for you.

Dan Osborn, a plant mechanic and president of the local in Omaha, Nebraska, said legacy employees do make good money, and he doesn't doubt many earn $120,000 or more. But a huge share of that haul comes from overtime racked up working 12- or 16-hour days, often 7 days a week.
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VolStrom said:
I've heard these "stats" from my own employer when they were trying to discredit union employees. First, anyone making $30/hour isn't making $120k a year without working a bunch of overtime. Secondly, the company is probably including their inflated cost of benefits in that number. If Kellogg's doesn't want to pay any more money, let them move their plant to China and make their cereal there. Unions don't usually go on strike for no reason.
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that’s the type of insane elitist view that’s destroying this country. The “I would rather see people unemployed and more jobs in China, than allow others to make $1 less than The arbitrary amount I believe they should make”
 
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Vol8188 said:
that’s the type of insane elitist view that’s destroying this country. The “I would rather see people unemployed and more jobs in China, than allow others to make $1 less than The arbitrary amount I believe they should make”
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WTF are you talking about? I'm defending people making more money and you're trashing me for making a jab at Kellogg's for not wanting to pay more?
 
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